How does multimedia enhance our messaging? Are certain multimedia techniques more effective than others? Provide examples using multimedia tools and post the links to the blog to support your thinking.
How Does Multimedia enhance our messaging?
Multimedia strengthens our messaging by allowing us to use videos, pictures, audio, and links at any time. Multimedia creates an experience for viewers by bringing words and messages to life. Many times you can view a website and just read, read, and read some more until you are falling asleep. With the impact of multimedia, you can read, create messages, follow twitter updates, watch videos, view pictures and listen to audio recordings to help keep you engaged. With multimedia, audiences can stay engaged, they can respond and they can learn while viewing any website online. The biggest thing about multimedia and how it can enhance our messaging is the fact that no one person has the same learning style. Everyone learns a different way and with multimedia being presented, people have the opportunity to learn in whatever way suits them best.
I personally do not believe that there are certain multimedia techniques that are more effective than others. As I mentioned above, everyone learns a different way so the technique that I think is most effective may be the least effective for you. As we have learned throughout this course, the role of a writer is to keep everyone engaged and keep their readers entertained. What better way to do that than to use multimedia tools. I personally find live updates and videos most appealing when I am viewing a webpage as they keep me involved and engaged, but also add extra content to what is being written. My favorite multimedia site has to be www.ESPNBOSTON.com as with this site I am able to view twitter updates, follow stories and videos about the Redsox, Celtics, Patriots and Bruins. I can view images and podcast that pertain to each team as well. ESPNBOSTON.com always peaks my interest and always keeps me engaged with their stories as their are always options to increase your experience.
I have always been fascinated with the fact that you can find information for anything that you are looking for. The other day, the battery in my lawnmower died and for someone who is not mechanically inclined, means there was a lot of time of me staring at the battery and trying to figure out what I needed to do first. After about 10-15 minutes of trying things and getting very frustrated, I decided to look up on YouTubbe.com how to change a lawn mower battery. I was presented with 100’s of how to videos that showed step by step what needed to be done. Some videos would explain in detail how to change the battery while others just showed pictures or images or each step. I decided to use the following video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pif0TMu1iLU as it walked me through how to change my battery with step by step instructions. Without YouTube and without multimedia tools, I would still be outside in the pouring rain staring at my lawnmower trying to figure out what the heck I need to do. There are so many different techniques that can help enhance our messaging platforms, but for me, being able to watch video and being able to follow tweets, and audio podcasts of sports topics, keeps me interested, engaged and eager to learn more each day. Without multimedia tools, I do not think I would follow the sports websites as much as I do and I wouldn’t really use the internet too much. So all in all, there is no right or wrong way to enhance an article, story or website and there isn’t one particular multimedia tool that is better than the rest. Everyone learns at a different pace and different style so what appeals to them, may not appeal to you. Without multimedia tools, web pages and articles would be boring and wouldn't capture our interest as easily as they do now.
