FREE ESSAY ON MULTIMEDIA

MULTIMEDIA

Graphics & Multimedia
What is graphics and multimedia? First of all, graphics software pertains to any computer
device or program that makes a computer capable of displaying and manipulating pictures.
For example, laser printers and plotters are graphics devices because they permit
computer to output pictures. Software like word processors support graphics because they
let you draw or import pictures. Spreadsheet programs support graphics because they let
you display data in the form of graphs and charts. Such applications are often referred
to as business graphics.
Multimedia has many definitions depending upon whom you ask. A standard definition
follows: Multimedia is any combination of text, graphic art, sound, animation, and video
delivered to you by computer or other electronic means. Multimedia can help to gain and
hold attention, make points clearer, stimulate discussion, and in general, enhance the
learning process, if it also includes the appropriate human elements. With the advent of
the computer and other electronic devices, multimedia is now being used a number of ways
in the classroom including PowerPoint lectures, digital slides, digital videos, case
studies, newsgroups, mailing lists, MOOS, MUDS and more. 
As a student I can be able to use multimedia and graphics as learning materials like
learning interactively with software's made for a certain subject. It will also allow me
to experience a subject from many angles, giving me deeper understanding of the subject
matter. Using various forms of multimedia and graphics in the classroom also helps to
keep my interest level high when it comes to learning. For work, being a business major,
I think multimedia and graphics will be very useful for me when I make presentations
through PowerPoint or when I make a report and I want to present it with charts and
graphs, which I wouldn't of been able to do without multimedia and graphics. I can also
perform research on the web and without multimedia and graphics I don't think that would
be possible for me to do and it would probably take me more time and effort to research
it in the library rather than from my computer. 
In conclusion I feel that multimedia and graphics is the way to go, it can be a very
effective tool to communicate, educate, compel, and convince you and/or your audience