Multimedia Education Site

It is my vision is that, well within the lifetimes of today's students, it will be commonplace for almost all educated people to create multimedia, as well as use multimedia information that others prepare. This multimedia will either be for standalone play back as in a CD on a PC or for distribution over the Web. The advantages of learning or acquiring information for knowledge or entertainment by employing multiple sensory modalities hardly need restating. However, it is important to emphasize the advantages of actively creating multimedia, in addition to passively using others' creations. This means that student- prepared book reports become multimedia book reports; lab reports include video observations and audio annotation; and the traditionally written Spanish homework becomes not just text, but also includes audio, graphics, and even video. It means that business people routinely add media to their memos, E-mail, and reports. Creating and making effective use of multimedia will substantially enrich peoples' personal lives, not just school lives and business lives. Few can doubt the enjoyment that multimedia E-mail delivers to Grandparents that live remotely to their grandchildren. Many of today's students will work actively in some capacity with interactive, digital information, in jobs that promise excitement similar to the present excitement.

How do we move toward this direction? The objective of this site is to pull together the best of the Web sites, to report on information relating to multimedia education, and to discuss issues among ourselves that can be helpful in providing education on multimedia. Together, we will be working toward answering questions such as the following:

· What will be the main impacts of multimedia (interacting with text, graphics, images, audio, and video) on students, professionals, and cultures?

· How can you quickly gain some technical competence in using and creating multimedia, so you can begin to accumulate valid experiences?

· What framework helps us to understand the effects of multimedia, now and in the next decade?

· How can you approach multimedia with the right expectations?

· What are suitable road maps and time tables?

· Where should you start selecting among many choices for hardware and software, all of which tend to be somewhat hard to use?

· How can you be more creative yourself?

· How can you foster multimedia creativity in others?

· What is the state of the art in multimedia hardware?

· Do you need to keep up with a new generation every six months?

· What will major challenges and opportunities be over the next several years?

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