Chapter 6 - Teaching with Multimedia and Hypermedia

Chapter 6 provides a description of multimedia and hypermedia as well as how to teach with it. The chapter describes five types of multimedia and hypermedia resources that are used in education. These five types are presentation software, video production and editing systems, hypermedia design and development software, virtual reality environments, and Web 2.0 authoring tools.

I think that a really interesting one to use in the classroom is video production and editing systems. An example of this would be iMovie for Apple. Using iMovie students can create all sorts of fun projects. Students could use the program to document class field trips. Another way that student could use the video editing system is by creating a commercial for a book they just read.

Another great classroom resource is web 2.0 tools. One of these tools a teacher might choose to utilize is a blog such as blogger.com. Teachers can use blogging as a way to post information about an assignment and to let students comment with questions. Or teachers can post blogger assignments where the students respond to a reading or prompt by using blogger. YouTube is another example of a Web 2.0 software. This is a great place for teachers to find informational videos to enhance their lessons. Also if the teacher has parent permission to video tape and post the videos to YouTube, it can be a great way to share what is happening in class with the parents. Teachers could tape a lesson and post the video to their classroom website.