Learning Resources
Lesson
Previous lessons gave you an overview/introduction to forms to digital multimedia that are suitable for inclusion in the web. Many other forms are available. Each as particular strengths and weaknesses, and each has specific purposes.
Three of the most widely used are
- Dynamic Hypertext Mark-up Language (DHTML)
- Virtual Reality Mark-up Language (VRML)
- Macromedia Flash
DHTML is HTML 4.0 and is used to provide more control over elements in a web page, particularly text. It provides some animation functions.
VRML is an HTML extension that allows real-time creation of 3D graphics and animation from text files. A browser plug-in is used to interpret the file and animate it on your screen. It allows the creation of quite sophisticated interactive 3D worlds involving people in different locations simultaneously manipulating the environment.
Macromedia Flash is a commercial application that is designed for producing sophisticated, complex, interactive multimedia for the web.
Activity
Assigned Activities
The purpose of this activity is to develop understanding of alternate forma of digital multimedia for use in the web
Please complete all activities
- conduct research on
- DHTML
- VRML
- Macromedia Flash
and
- develop a profile of each that
- defines or describes the technology
- gives examples of use of the technology
- describes several pros and cons for each technology
- Select one technology and use it to develop a small piece of multimedia content
- Create an entry in your course portfolio and include your research and multimedia
- Publish the entry to your course web portfolio
Test Yourself
There is no self test for this lesson.