Creating multimedia documents is a rewarding, but complex and challenging task. Giving students an opportunity to produce documents of their own provides several educational advantages. Students that experience the technical steps needed to produce effective multimedia documents become better consumers of multimedia documents produced by others. Students indicate they learn the material included in their presentation at a much greater depth than in traditional writing projects. There is another aspect to developing multimedia documents that empowers students.
Students quickly recognize that their electronic documents can be easily shared.
Because of this, students place a greater value on producing a product that is of high standard. Students quickly recognize that publishing a multimedia document that communicates effectively requires attention to both the content and the design of the document. The Web can be thought of as a digital global multimedia library. With the steadily increasing classroom use of multimedia resources, students are required to develop the skills needed to locate information contained in this format. Classroom instructors and students alike must learn the search skills previously considered the domain of library specialists.