Multimedia and Digital Media Notes

Activity 1
Investigate the following

• the role of creative commons in the protection of graphics and multimedia
• the role of DRM in the management of graphics and multimedia online
• Importance of Watermarking of online graphics, digital media and multimedia creations.

Activity 2

Graphics, digital media and Multimedia PowerPoint summary notes.

Use the power-point link below and other resources to answer the question assigned.

Graphics and Multimedia Notes

Quiz and Answers
Quiz and Answers

You can use Digital Planet book online resource also for reference

Digital Planet Graphics,digital media and Multimedia activities

Write brief notes on any of the following;

Text
• Text-processing software
• Formatting: for example, page layout, fonts, headers and footers
• File formats: for example, PDF, RTF, TXT
• Typography

Graphics, images and animations
• Software types: for example, albums, animated, 3D, bitmapped, vector, photo editing, photo casting,
simulation
• Bit depth, colour depth (grayscale, shades of gray, millions of colours)
• Layers, grouping, divisions, alignment
• Resolution, pixels, dots per inch (dpi)
• File formats: for example, JPG, GIF, TIF
• Computer-generated imagery (CGI)

Audio
• Audio-editing software, podcasts
• Digital audio: for example, MIDI (musical instrument digital interface), MP3 (MPEG-1 audio layer 3), MP4 (MPEG-4 part 14), WAV (waveform audio format)
• File formats: for example, MP3, MP4, WAV

Video
• Video-editing software, vidcasts and special effects (for example, morphing, transitions)
• Digital video: for example, AVI (audio video interleave), MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group), video CODECs (coder-decoders)
• File formats: for example, AVI, MOV

Read the common social and ethical considerations in the link below and provide your own examples are you write brief notes.
https://multimediachsitgs.weebly.com/social-and-ethical-issues.html

TOK questions  Related to this Topic

http://itgsopedia.wikispaces.com/TOK

Students will explore in class over the issue of manipulated digital images and information on the media. To what extent they can trust such information and how it is shaping our perception of reality. Students will address the command term “to what extend “by researching on the following articles and critically analyzing the information presented. Articles to be used are:

1. “Can you believe your eyes in a digital world?” http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-10558258

2. “Manipulated Images throughout the history “ http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/category/1800s

3. Video that shows evidence on Video manipulation “ http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2011/02/14/manipulated-foxnews-video-shows-why-ebooks-are-the-wrong-choice-for-k-12-11-environments/

4. “How fake images can give people real memories “ http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121213-fake-pictures-make-real-memories

5.Social media and manipulation of people's perception - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/03/facebook-voter-experiment_n_6094690.html?ir=Technology&utm_campaign=110314&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-technology&utm_content=Title

Write down two TOK questions on ONENOTE that related to this topic that can be explored.