So? Multimedia courseware? What is this? What kind of multimedia production software is more suitable for teachers in our school? Now on these two issues, do the following analysis and comparison.
What is this? Multimedia courseware? ?
Multimedia courseware? Simply put, it is a tool used by teachers to assist teaching. Creators classify and organize information as a whole according to their own creativity, and then integrate media materials such as words, graphics, images, sounds, animations and images in time and space, so that they can be integrated and endowed with interactive characteristics, thus making various colorful multimedia application software products.
Multimedia courseware should have the following characteristics:
1, rich expressive force: multimedia courseware can not only show the rich and colorful audio-visual world more naturally and realistically; It can also simulate macro and micro things, and visually express abstract and intangible things; Simplify and copy complex processes and so on. In this way, the original difficult teaching activities are full of charm.
2. Good interactivity: Multimedia courseware can not only provide good interactive control in the learning and use of content, but also use appropriate teaching strategies to guide students to learn and better reflect? Personalized mathematics teaching in accordance with students' aptitude?
3. Enjoy: The development of network technology and the free transmission of multimedia information make it possible for education to communicate and enjoy all over the world. Multimedia courseware based on network provides the enjoyment of teaching resources. The use of multimedia courseware in teaching has improved the expressive force and interactivity of teaching media, promoted the comprehensive optimization of classroom teaching content, teaching methods and teaching process, and improved the teaching effect.
Common courseware making software
An interactive multimedia integration software
Authorware is a professional multimedia integration tool, which uses icon-based method to realize multimedia editing. The icon determines the function of the program, and the process determines the direction of the program.
The main advantages of AuthorWare are as follows:
1. Based on the process, it can express specific algorithms.
2. Be able to have a very rich interaction.
3. Good openness.
The main disadvantages are:
1. The concept of icon-based process design is not easy to understand, and it is difficult for ordinary users to master. Recommended for computer professionals. For school teachers, most teachers can't master software to make courseware. Such investment is unscientific and uneconomical in terms of manpower and material resources.
2. Based on the process, it is easy to complicate the structure, which is not conducive to the organization and management of the overall content, and it is also complicated and inconvenient to modify.
3. Lack of multimedia synchronization mechanism. ]
4. Images cannot be played without windows.
5. There are regulations on multimedia creation tools and databases abroad, that is, multimedia creation tools themselves cannot have database functions, only have interfaces with databases, and their support for databases is weak.
6. Up to now, there is no official Chinese version, which has caused great inconvenience to teachers' study and use.
glitter
Flash is not a professional multimedia courseware making tool! It should be said that it is an excellent vector drawing software, which can produce animation effects with good sound and high interactivity, but its production requires higher professional knowledge of artists. Generally speaking, flash is more suitable as animation material making software.
The main advantages are as follows:
1. can make rich animations.
The main disadvantages are:
1. Teachers are required to have a good computer foundation and a high requirement for teachers' art foundation.
2. The concept based on time frame complicates the structure and brings great inconvenience to modification and management.
3. The realization of interactive function is complicated and requires ActionScript scripting language.
4. It doesn't support images. Few multimedia support formats.
5. The production time is too long.
powerpoint
Powerpoint can't be called a real courseware making tool, but an electronic document. Very studious, but not interactive. Today, with the increasing demand for multimedia technology, we find that powerpoint is far from meeting the needs of making courseware. According to our previous requirements for multimedia courseware, the courseware made by PowerPoint can not be regarded as real multimedia courseware, and such works were not recognized in previous competitions. Of course, we can't deny the role of PowerPoint, which belongs to the software that makes presentations and is more suitable for making speeches.
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Director is a new generation of interactive multimedia application software development tool launched by macromedia company, which has strong object-oriented development ability. Users can integrate pictures, sounds, 3D animation, video movies, database access, Internet links and other technologies into a work according to their needs, thus making a shocking multimedia interactive program. Director allows you to create the richest high-performance content for CD/DVD and kiosk presentations and the Internet. Director provides comprehensive functions for multimedia creation. Different from other products, it can integrate and control a wide range of multimedia files, create simple and convenient deployment of content and applications, and provide the best cross-platform playback effect.
Advantages: powerful function, strong integration, support for three-dimensional animation, and the ability to make synthetic discs.
Disadvantages: graphics processing is not good enough, and network communication is not as good as FLASH.