The designers of the Macintosh computer have even tried to include all of these options within the same machine, so that their newer models offer sophisticated voice and music production, as well as high-resolution, color video images projected right on the same screen as the text. These ideas may still seem like science fiction to some of us, but there are some real programs available now or in the works that will let you find out for yourself if they can be useful to you in the classroom or not. All of these forms of help will appear automatically in labeled boxes at the bottom of the screen when a student selects a word in the text. For a greater challenge, some types of help can be restricted from appearing until requested. Audiotape voice recordings are provided to assist in pronunciation development, but they are not electronically connected to the text as hypermedia.
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The publisher is also looking for teachers who are interested in creating new modules for them. Using short text modules of 30-40 lines of text, the program provides vocabulary listings for every word in the text, as well as grammatical, literary, and historical notes. The student can either follow the guidance of the tutorial protocol or choose to move along independently. A performance record is kept on disk and can be printed out after a session or anytime later. Tutrix was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to assist students in making the transition from elementary grammar and vocabulary acquisition to the literate reading of authentic Latin.