ICT in Language Teaching - summary of MIS,Hypertext,Hypermedia and Multimedia

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This is my very first post in my blog and I’m gonna talk about Management Information System, Hypertext, Hypermedia and Multimedia.

So...let’s get down to the business!

1.      Management Information System

Nowadays, internet is like the most important need for everyone. We use it to do many things, in every part of our live. When we study we can get many resources of information and e-books from internet for free. We can use emails to transfer our files. Getting any information that we need only by looking on a screen or even now, mobile phone, which is make it simpler. There are three primary resources involved in Management Information System (MIS), that is : Technology, Information and People.

Source: http://vincentpage.blogspot.com/

2.      Hypertext

When we open a page on a web browser, there are some words that have color (usually blue) and when we click, it will bring us to another website page that which have similar context to the previous page. That is what we call Hypertext. “Hypertext refers to the use of hyperlinks (or simply “links”) to present text and static graphics”

Source: http://faculty.washington.edu/farkas/dfpubs/Farkas-Hypertext%20And%20Hypermedia.pdf

3.      Hypermedia

The next thing more complex than hypertext is hypermedia. Hypermedia is the combination of hypertext and multimedia. It is not only contain information of several texts but also can be pictures, sounds, videos or even games.

Source: http://www.rc.au.net/papers/www-0595/wwwhype2.html

4.      Multimedia

According to http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/ISE_Multimedia/node10.html, Multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (Video), animation, audio, and any other media where every type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally.