Examines multimodal processing and its implications for listening skills development in a foreign or second language, and discusses how multimodal processing, as it relates to listening skills development, can be supported by multimedia technology. Highlights include visuals, text, video, schema, and chunking. (71 references) (Author/LRW)

Describes the content, pedagogy, organization, technical design, and evaluation of "The Five Points: A Multimedia Experience in Social History," a videodisc-based interactive program that was repurposed from a videotape that addressed group conflict and minority issues in an urban environment in the 1850s. (Contains 12 references.) (LRW)

Discussion of the analysis of video data recommends that data be layered. Theoretical issues are examined; the video methodologies of a graduate student researcher are described; and the use of a significance measure which allows users to layer or weigh the relative importance of topics with computer software is explained. (Contains 29…

As web-based courses using videos have become popular in recent years, the issue of managing audio-visual aids has become pertinent. Generally, the contents of audio-visual aids may include a lecture, an interview, a report, or an experiment, which may be transformed into a streaming format capable of making the quality of Internet-based videos…