ABSTRACT
Always conscious of my audience, I wondered as I wrote this chapter whether anyone would actually read it. I mean read, in the traditional sense of my generation,* as from the printed page rather than the screen. Should I be putting such a topic as this in print, or should I request that it is released on CD-ROM, or made available over the Internet, or whatever is the latest technology of the moment? The quotation above is not a modern comment on the advent of the CD-ROM or Internet, but a man named Octave Uzanne writing in 1894 in Scribners Magazine. He welcomed the advent of the wax cylinder which could record voices, and even the ‘photo-cromo’ which would project images on to white screens. There is no doubt that the technologies of that day have made impacts on learning, and few would question the benefits of the video and cassette recorder today. Yet one hundred years on the printed and written word are still the major means of communication and study.
