ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with a range of issues relating to the use of interactive educational multimedia in relation to classroom practice. The impact of multimedia on education is potentially enormous and may change forever the role of the teacher. The teacher who uses multimedia may increasingly be seen as a resource manager and facilitator rather than as the 'fount of all knowledge and wisdom'. Teachers may use computer-based multimedia applications, CDROMs or websites to support their own expertise in keeping up to date with current research. They may direct students or pupils to use forms of multimedia that have been evaluated and approved for class use to support their learning. Teachers and pupils producing multimedia using the newer integrated media software packages, for example, can choose whether to design for print, the internet or multimedia. A CD-ROM uses the same basic technology as an audio compact disk (CD). The initials CD-ROM stand for compact disk read-only memory.
