Often a given curriculum application will determine how your students con- figure your center. They begin the project before the multimedia center arrives in the class- room. They take the classroom's tape recorder around the school and interview teachers, and they visit a couple members of the community who played a role in African Americans' struggle for civil rights. Then they write up their biography using the computer lab's word processing programs. While the VCR is in pause mode the student team loads another computer graphic image from disk.
Students plug one end of the camcorder's AV cable into the side of the cam- corder.
As the students narrate the words in their re- port, their spoken words are copied onto videotape along with the colorful image they have drawn on the computer. The students use the magic of sound to make history really come alive. The adults' names appear as a computer graphic on the screen as their voices are heard on tape. Copying the adults' voices from audio tape to videotape couldn't be simpler. Test this approach with your equipment before creating your final videotape.