Different Types of media including text, video, sound, graphics and animations.

A computer based, interactive experience that incorporates text, graphics, sound, video, and virtual reality.

Ensures that the author's rights of images and sounds used in multimedia products are protected and acknowledged.  Copyrighted material cannot be used without the owner's permission.

Allows others to use copyright material without infringing on the rights of the owner. 

An effect applied to text aht makes it appear on a slide in increments of one letter, word or section at a time; keeps the audience's attention dand does not allow the audience to read or see past what the speaker is explaining.

"Hot spots" or "jumps" to locate another file or page; represented by a graphic or colored and underlined text.

A list of options (text or images) that link to other parts of the presentation.

Allows the user to interact with a multimedia presentation.  Allows the end user to navigate between slides, additional elements (i.e. Word and Excel documents), audio, vidfeo clips, and other interactive parts of the presentation.

The visual effect of a slide as it moves on and off the screen during a slide show.

Distribution  achieved by arranging non-identical elements on both sides of an imaginary center line on the screen.

The design that users encounter as they navigate from one screen to another; provides consistency throughout a title.

How the various elements relate to oneanother on the same screen.

Author of the presentation controls the flow of information in the application

A design that has elements arranged on the screen without regard to the optical weight of elements.

Allows the user to interact with a presentation and control how the information will be viewed; allows the user to be active rather than passive during the delivery of the information.

A point slight above and to the center of the mathematical center of the screen.

Function performed as the mouse pointer rolls over and points to an object.

Distribution acheived by arranging elements as horizontal or vertical mirrored images on both sides of an imaginary center line of a screen.

How a presentation will be offered to the user; that is, the look and feel of the presentation.

Programs used to create multimedia presentations, such as simulations and tutorials; most have some point-and-click feature, but may require some knowledge of programming language concepts; i.e., Microsoft Visual Basic, Macromedia Director.

Authoring program that uses a movie metaphor with the user as the "director" of the movie.  I has a scripting language called Lingo which has made it a popular choice for creating CD-ROMs and standalone kiosks and web content.  It supports both 2D and 3D multimedia projects.

An animation program for developing 2-D animations delivered on the Web.

Programs that allow users to run multimedia applications on their computers.

Languages used to create applications and, in multimedia, to produce sophisticated features such as creating animations and searching databases.

Program that allows an Internet user to play applications created with Macromedia Director.