FINLANDIA SCHOOLDigital media refers to any form of media that is created, stored, and shared using digital technology. Examples include:
Types of Digital
1. Text-based digital media: This includes articles, blog posts, e-books, digital newspapers, emails, and text messages.
2. Audio digital media: This includes music, podcasts, radio streams and voice recording.
3. Visual and multimedia digital media: This covers photos, videos, animations, info graphics and interactive content e.g. a Nollywood movie on Netflix, YouTube and Facebook.
Importance of Digital media
1. It makes learning easier and more interesting.
2. It breaks down distance. It connects people and Community.
3. It creates business and career opportunities.
4. It helps spread important information quickly
5. It helps to preserve culture and history of people
Creating digital content: this means producing original materials i digital form.
Tools used to create digital content
1. For writing: MS word, Google docs, Note pad
2. For images and graphics: Canva, Adobe photoshop, PicsArt and Paint
3. For Videos: smart phones with camera
4. For Audio: audacity, voice recorder
5. For presentation: Ms PowerPoint, Google slides, Canva
How to create and edit Digital content
1. Plan your content
2. Gather your materials
3. Create your content
4. Edit and improve Your content
5. Save and share your content