| dc.description.abstract | This thesis describes a PC based multimedia educational program in the forestry knowledge. The purpose of the thesis is to develop a multimedia application software to teach elementary school students forestry knowledge based on the Natural Forestry Knowledge Software Version 1.0 (NFKS 1.0). Natural Forestry Knowledge Software version 1.0 is an educational software package designed to introduce forestry knowledge to elementary school. students. Xia Chen [3] developed it using Knowledge Pro in 1995. In NFKS version 1.0, she used text, still image graphics (bitmap graphics), and hypertext to help students understand forestry knowledge. NFKS version 1.0 consists of five parts namely "Tree Facts", "Does It Comes From a Tree", "Out U.S. Forests", "Forest Products Recycling", and Urban Forestry". Each part has ten questions. Multimedia application is the incorporation of text, sound, static graphics image, animation, and video by using computing technology. With recent advances in computing, storage, and communication technology, video has becomes an important element of multimedia computing and communication environments. Especially for NFKS educational application, video not only provides the users with the more accurate information, but also it can make the information more interesting to the users. | |
