Multimedia presentations and software can:

Enhance your teaching by incorporating your lessons to correspond with a multimedia presentation. For example, if you were a biology teacher, NetFrog would allow you to incorporate an online graphical dissection of a frog with your dissection lab.

As a teacher, you could also use an interactive encyclopedia such as Compton's, Microsoft Encarta, or Groliers, to go along with you lesson. You talk about a topic and then use the encyclopedia to review what has been learned. For example, if your class was learning about a country such as Canada or Japan, the encyclopedia would give you some information about the country, and even pictures, sound, or movies, in some cases. This way, students can see and learn about Japan or Canada without leaving the classroom.

The Walking Tour of St. John's is an excellent example of this. You can see the sites of St. John's without leaving your computer screen. The user of the tour can learn about St. John's and its many sites.

As a teacher, you could create multimedia presentations, or modify existing ones to suit your particular lessons.

Students could create multimedia documents as part of their assigned work.

Self instructional material is the most common form of multimedia software. This type of software allows the students (or teacher) to work independently, and possibly with some individualization in their instruction.

Group work can also be supported in a multimedia environment. This means that students can integrate many kinds of information, and then collect and merge their individual contributions into a single presentation.

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