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In our lifetime the use of multimedia has grown at an incredible rate.  Everywhere we turn multimedia is being used to grab, engage and teach us new and unlimited information. One type of these Hypermedia Products is the Interactive or Electronic Storybooks.  These are stories that can be read off of any screen device including computers, mobile devices or from print, but they all have some kind of interactive buttons, (Roblyer & Doering, Integrating Educational Technology into Reading, p.175).  The beauty of these materials is that participants can go at their own pace moving forward or backwards in order to have material repeated as needed, (Roblyer & Doering, p.175).  These Interactive storybooks can be used with all ages and can be introduced to children at an early age, (Roblyer & Doering, p.175).  “Various studies have reported positive impact of interactive storybooks on children’s enjoyment of reading and development of reading skills,” states Roblyer and Doering, (p.175).  An example of these storybooks can be found at http://disneydigitalbooks.go.com/. I believe these formats would be a wonderful addition to a classroom and the learning curriculum.  It gives children different levels of assistance in their reading. Teachers are competing with games and activities that are stimulating with sights, sounds and motions for their students’ attention and Interactive books provide a learning choice with all the bells and whistles.

Hypermedia that once had a small role in education and our daily lives is now one of the top forms of communication methods, (Roblyer & Doering, p.178).  With the access to computers, cellphones most individuals use multimedia several times a day.  There are four main types of multimedia that are used by teachers and student including, interactive presentation media, audio/video production and editing systems, hypermedia production software and virtual environments, (Roblyer & Doering, p.179). One of the most popular is the Audio and Video Production and Editing Systems.  There is a personal interaction between those teaching and those learning when they are able to share their information visually.  The audio or video can be recorded on computers, phones or cameras and can then downloaded to be edited with titles, graphics and sound effects, (Roblyer & Doering, p.189).  An example of this Software that can be used for editing is Apple’s iMovie at http://apple.com.  It is both easy and high functioning for teachers and students to make and edit their own productions.  The one choice that I think is very beneficial for both students and teachers is the Student-Created Presentations. They are using a creative outlet, learning to do research and bettering their skills of using multimedia that will follow them throughout their lives. This example from School Tube shows how students recreated their own video to share with their classmates: http://www.schooltube.com/video/dd07655afef33ce2de96/Student-made%20BrainPOP%20video%20-%20Triangle%20Shirtwaist%20Factory.  Created and presented by a student it shows how this form of media is informative and relevant to students and their peers.

Roblyer, M.D., & Doering, Aaron H. (2013). Integrating Educational Technology Into Teaching (6th ed.).
    Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, INC.