Community colleges have the hardware for using nonprint media, but fear of using the hardware prevents the implementation of media-oriented classrooms. In concentrating on using media in the composition class, teachers must overcome their fear of the equipment, learn to rely more on their own ingenuity and ability, and examine the actual cost of equipment and materials on a cost-per-student basis. Nonprint media can be used in the same way that print media might be used--as a way into other ideas, as thought starters, as activities that put everyone at the same beginning point, and as a means of making relationships between ideas more apparent to the students. Nonprint media offer alternative teaching strategies that are especially helpful to the nonverbal, nonprint-oriented, or even the nonlinear student. (RB)