Thanks to broad support from the community and the state, Hunterdon High has a computer network that allows students to access school resources 24 hours a day and a communications building housing the high school's own radio and cable TV stations. Gray explains that students find such resources empowering and motivating. Students who aren't naturally inclined to write term papers can create equally challenging multimedia projects that present the same content and require the same synthesis of information. Hunterdon High has had to change, both to prepare students for the workplace and to guide them through today's far more demanding curricula. The advent of multimedia does not mean that every student has to use a computer.
Multimedia offers valuable options for students in their search for information and knowledge.
To be successful, an educational publisher must recognize the power of this emerging medium and maximize its potential. Click here to access the Multimedia's Coming of Age Sidebar that accompanied this article. Click here to access biographic information for John Kerin and Charlotte Frank .