Article Review

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There is no class for authoring subject for this week like I said in my previous entry. Jadinya minggu ni kami kena submit summary untuk articles yang kami sudah baca. So, here is my understanding on my what I have read on the 3 articles.


1) What is Authoring System?

Authoring system is an application or program that allow you to create an educational material in a short period of time without having to know complex programming.


2) Multimedia Courseware vs Web Page Development?

Multimedia Courseware is an educational material in interactive way to help with students learning. The usage of multimedia in learning process will speed up or increase students understanding in a particular subjects compare to the traditional method of learning which is learning through the books. While Web page is a page that can be access through the internet. Web page usually can be found in a website developed by web developer. Web page is another alternative for students learning aside from classes, books and multimedia courseware. There are a lot of information on the internet to help with students learning. Multimedia Courseware can also be place on the web page so that students can access it anytime and anywhere.


3) Authoring vs Programming Concepts?

From the 3 articles, I can conclude that the concept of authoring is that it required minimum knowledge about programming and algorithm design to create a simple application or program in no time. While programming concepts requires you to know programming languages, software requirements specifications and many other things in order to developed an application.


4) How to select appropriate multimedia and web authoring software?

There are several aspects that we need to consider before choosing appropriate multimedia and web authoring software. Here I list some of the aspects :

i) Platform : There are many types of operating system that exists nowadays, for examples Windows, Linux, Mac-OS and others. Choose a software that can be use in your current OS platform.

ii) Media Format : Choose software that can support multiple formats so it's easier for you to use it after you're done creating the application because sometimes different medium requires you to use different format to execute your application.

iii)Extensibility : This feature usually didn't concern the people who just started to use authoring tools, but when you already know how to use the software, and you already have some programming knowledge, sometimes you will have some idea that the software features didn't allow you to make that happen. So this extensibility feature in a software will provide you with source code that you can manipulate it to your desire.


Summary untuk articles ni kami postkan ke dalam group facebook class ni jadi kami akan berbincang dengan lebih lanjut di dalam group tersebut untuk mengupas lagi mendalam mengenai authoring, courseware, authoring tools dan banyak lagi.