Back to links menu

Multimedia Projects: An Effective Use of Technology as a Tool in Elementary Education by Richard Soos

Multimedia authoring K-12 With some new multimedia tools, kids can produce text-based projects enhanced with any combination of pictures, clip art, music, movies, animation, voice recordings, and information links.

Computers as mindtools for schools: Engaging critical thinking. This website supports David H. Jonassen's book. Topic 7: Multimedia provides an overview, some lesson plans, and other resources for having students use multimedia.

Multimedia and Hypermedia as Mindtools According to David Jonassen, students probably learn more by creating hypermedia presentations than by trying to absorb material from existing hypermedia materials. This is a summary of his chapter in "Computers in the Classroom: Mindtools for Critical Thinking" (1996).

Multimedia Schools MultiMedia Schools (MMS) is a practical how-to magazine sharply focused on the needs of school practitioners. Articles, reviews, and columns address issues associated with using electronic information resources in K-12 schools-Internet, online and multimedia databases, CD-ROM technology, computer hardware and software.

Theoretical Foundations of Multimedia This site supplements Robert S. Tannenbaum's book "Theoretical Foundations of Multimedia". Here are a series of PowerPoint presentations, particularly History and Uses of Multimedia.

School Library Media Research This is an online journal of the American Association of School Librarians. It strives to emphasize research on instructional theory, teaching methods, and critical issues relevant to school library media.

Media literacy, information technology By Dr. Chris Abbott & Dr. Len Masterman. This article is an excerpt from a February 1997 advisory document that considers some of the major implications of information and media technologies for the teaching of English. It provides a framework for thinking about the links between literacy as conceived in traditional English teaching and the broader literacies called for by media and information

SIMILE (Studies in media & information literacy education) This online journal is a venue for scholarly articles that bridge the subject areas of bibliographic instruction, information literacy, and media literacy. SIMILE examines the ways in which education professionals can integrate media literacy concepts into instructional sessions about how to use print and electronic mass media sources. Check out: "Literacy in the zone of corporate development: The cultural and commercial world of Men in Black" by Margaret Mackey. From SIMILE, Vol.1 Issue 1 (February 2001).