Week 12 Reflection

Advanced Features of MMB:

1. Text to Speech functions in MMb were hilarious and interesting to use! Had a good time laughing at the funny pronounciations! One feature I liked about today's lesson was the text input function where the user is able to type in whatever text that he would like to input and read it later.

2. Trayicon functions and the process of getting it to work was a tad confusing and difficult as we have to embed the file and do the scripting. It was difficult for me to achieve the correct sequence of the steps and I had difficulty handling scripts.

It was also a challenging lesson as I had to input script such as 'mytext$' etc. This is lingo which I have always had difficulty understanding.

Week 11 Reflection

Media Control - Today we learnt control of media in MMB. It was fun and interesting to se the various flash animations and sound files and import it into the programme. Music - we can play, pause, stop, loop. We could also design our own MP3 list as well as incorporate various audio visual clips in the programme directly from the internet. I still have some difficulties remembering all the steps but after a while I got used to the sequences. I cannot wait to rock and roll am I'm sure students will love this as much as I do.

Week 10 Reflection

Navigation - On the last lesson, we learnt how important it is to plan how users of the multimedia programme moves through the system and not get lost because of too many hyperlinks or branches. With navigational tools, they will not get 'lost' and will always return to previously visited sites. It is important to have 1. linear 2. non-linear navigation tools. Linear gives control Poor navigational tools - with 2 Linear navigation buttons with a large number of pages, say 200 pages, users will have to click the forward buttons again and again to locate a certain page. This is definitely ineffective, something I encounter when using the Yahoo search (images image) for example. What they have failed to include is navigational buttons with a scroll bar to facilitate ease of use to locate pg 159, for example.

An important feature learnt today is the use of menu, table of contents and concept map. It may not be necessary to include all these navigational tools in a programme as these may have similar features. Too many tools may also confuse the user. Screens should contain only necessary navigational tools and buttons for users to progress through screens in a logical path to find information.