criteria for selecting video clips for online multimedia presentations

1 Laureate Online Education Internet and Multimedia Technology © All right reserved, 2000-2008. The Internet and Multimedia Technology module, in all its parts: syllabus, guidelines, lectures, discussion questions, technical notes, images, labs, projects and any additional material is copyrighted by Laureate Online Education B.V. Module: MSC MD (INTMMT) Seminar 6 Hypermedia, XML, Scripting Introduction In the last seminar we laid the groundwork for the production of a simple document that we could use to contain our multimedia production. This seminar we will look at how we can add value to the document by providing links to other documents and other files in general. We will look at the concept of hypertext; text with a hidden purpose, which most commonly provides links to other files, and how we can manipulate our document and its environment via scripts. Given that we accept the idea of a jump to another location using a link embedded in the text then it follows that we must be able to answer some questions about our navigation in this new world. Consider a traditional document; it can allow us to navigate from one page to the next in a linear fashion like reading a novel or we can jump from one section to another like some early self-teaching books required. (You would read a section then answer a question and, depending on your answer, you would be sent to a particular page). In either case, each move depended on the content of the previous move. In these documents you are constrained to a particular world; that of the document itself. The navigation tools are those of an index and possibly a cross reference table. Now we turn to navigation through a hypertext link. Here the world is open ended, one link leads to a page possibly in another document (in fact, perhaps not even in a textual document) located anywhere in the world which, in turn, can lead to another page and so on. In this world, even the starting point may be relatively random. (When you look up...