Multimedia authoring offers a motivating and imaginative approach to curriculum subjects. Making Multimedia in the Classroom explores the process of students authoring multimedia presentations on computer using images, text, sound, animation and video, as an integrated part of their curriculum work. It offers a theoretical basis, detailed practical advice and many classroom examples.

• planning multimedia into the curriculum
• case studies and examples of student multimedia presentations
• consideration of audience, interactivity and design
• classroom managment of the project
• assessment and evaluation
• choosing software and resources

This book encourages teachers to be imaginative about their subject and gives an important strategy for student motivation. It comes with a CD ROM which can be used in the classroom as an introduction to multimedia work.

"Sometimes you find a book that's so good you want to tell everyone about it and Vivi Lachs's Making Multimedia in the Classroom is just such a book"
"Quite simply this is a joyous book because it humanises ICT, asserts its importance at the centre of learning and exalts creativity"    12/05/2000 - TES - Online Education

Vivi Lachs has been an advisory teacher for ICT in Hackney, London for the past six years. In 1997 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship for multimedia in science. She is currently creative director of Highwire, the Hackney City Learning Centre. You can contact her at vivi@highwire.org.uk

Making Multimedia in the classroom published by RoutledgeFalmer

September 2000: 246x174 228pp
Pb: 0-415-21684-2:
£25.99
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