Chapter 5

Interactivity is one of the vital features of digital media applications. It allows for individualized instruction and exploration. Digital media is those technologies that allow users to create new forms of interaction, expression, communication, and entertainment in a digital format.Multimedia simply means "more than one media", but they do not necessarily have to be digital. The text and graphics found within digital media software is a great asset to those who are visual learners. Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is the standard for how digital musical devices represent sound electronically, allowing the the composition and editing of music! Similarly, the Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) is that standard for video compression and decompression.

Computer-based training (CBT), also referred to as individual lead training (ILT), is a tool that allows you to learn by using and completing exercises using instructional software. This is popular with employers in many fields of business. E-books are a popular way to reference certain parts of books by a click of the mouse.Project Gutenberg is working to make thousands of e-books free to everyone! Virtual reality is also based off of digital media. It also makes online classes and distance learning possible! Computer-assisted instruction (CAI), tutorials, and educational simulations are among the many educational software applications that exist today!

Since out last blog, I learned about Google Scholar as an easy and excellent way to search for scholarly journals and articles. By conducting our web hunt, I learned that there are free, easy to use online websites that allow you to convert to different units of the metric system, and to convert American dollars into any other type of currency! How cool! Chapter 5 also enlightened me on some of digital media software that exist today. I have had previous exposure and experience with quite a bit of it, but I did not know all the technical terms and jargon for all of it. Now i feel like I could speak about it in a more professional, informed way. I also was not aware of all the applications that were directly related to education, so it is comforting to know there are so many options as a student and a soon -to-be teacher!