Examines problems with incorporating performance assessment into typical university measurement courses and suggests that multimedia applications be utilized to resolve some of them and to enhance the instruction of performance assessment in preservice teacher measurement courses. Examples of art education assessment are included. (Author/LRW)

Presents a strategic evaluation of the global multimedia scenario, considering both stand-alone workstations and distributed multimedia in the worldwide interactive network, including educational databases on the Internet. Discusses 50 technological, market, environmental, and regulatory factors and estimates their impacts on each other using WISE…

Discusses Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences that addresses how students assimilate information and suggests the use of electronic portfolios to allow a broader array of learning styles and increase the effectiveness of activities by addressing more Multiple Intelligences. Explains the use of hypertext and multimedia on a CD-ROM.…

Explains the use of Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF) for school Web sites and Intranets. Explains the PDF workflow; components for Web-based PDF delivery, including the Web server, preparing content of the PDF files, and the browser; incorporating PDFs into the Web site; incorporating multimedia; and software. (LRW)

Discussion of performance support on the shop floor highlights four support systems for assembly lines that incorporate personal computer workstations in local area networks and use multimedia documents. Considers new customer-focused production paradigms; organizational learning; knowledge development; and electronic performance support systems…

Describes Bailiwick, a project at the University of Iowa library that provides Web space for faculty, staff, and graduate students to focus on particular areas of scholarly interest such as Internet bibliographies, multimedia essays, scholarly research, and collaborative research. Also explains a MOO project and a streaming video server. (LRW)

Examines the design of multimedia learning environments as a case example of the intertwined and reciprocal relation between cognition and instruction. Explores the contributions of cognitive theory to multimedia design issues and the contributions of multimedia design issues to cognitive theory. (EV)

Describes the use of presentation software such as PowerPoint with elementary school students to create electronic books that use a combination of text, audio, and graphics. Discusses introducing the concept, planning the story on paper with the help of a worksheet, creating the story on the computer, and sharing stories. (LRW)

Summarizes a study which explored the development, trial, and implementation of the Content Production Process (CPP) which was designed to assist instructional designers in eliciting and conceptualizing unfamiliar content from subject matter experts. Highlights include advance organizers, schema theory, consultation practices, knowledge…

Tailored descriptions of online educational resources can support users searching for educational resources on the World Wide Web (WWW) by helping them to assess for themselves the relevance and suitability of each resource. Suitable descriptions can be derived from the online metadata stored with each resource. The descriptions take into account…

CEPIAH is a method and a proposal for a Web-based system to be used to assist teachers in designing multimedia documents and in evaluating their prototypes. The proposed tool integrates two modules: one for the Evaluation of Multimedia Pedagogical and Interactive software (EMPI), and the other, a method for designing pedagogical hypermedia…

The Educational Object Economy (EOE) emerged from research on end-user authoring tools for multimedia software and, by 1997, developed into a library of over 2000 freely available interactive simulations for learning. The organization's original goals and its ongoing interest in alternative methods of software authoring led to continuing…

As an illustration of meaningful exploration of public art, Coutts provides a tour of a multimedia curriculum project based on art works in Glasgow, Scotland. He explores the potential of multimedia to engage students and teachers in a debate about public art for students at the interface of primary and secondary schools. Scanning the City, a…

The five educator concerns regarding cyberspace curricula identified on the Internet are teacher training, resources, attitudes. software, and reproduction rights. Several web sites are discussed that list training opportunities. Other web sites offer educators interactive multimedia materials. Self-training can be accomplished with web sites that…

This article reports research that attempts to characterize what is powerful about digital multimodal texts. Building from recent theoretical work on understanding the workings and implications of multimodal communication, the authors call for a continuing empirical investigation into the roles that digital multimodal texts play in real-world…