Computers Applications: Multimedia

Could there be a better time to be a Business and Information Technology Education teacher? A recent explosion of new Web 2.0 applications allow students to create their own multimedia content and publish it to the Web. Teachers of the Computer Applications II course which includes student production of multimedia can leverage any number of tools for students to produce audio and/or video enhanced media. Almost all of these applications are FREE! This is my del.icio.us resource page with links to numerous Web 2.0 Multimedia Editors. It's hard to pick just one tool to show in this category when so many exist. Another useful thing about many of these tools is their ability to create shareable content. This feature allows students to comment on and/or peer critique one another's multimedia projects. If privacy is a concern, many tools allow student projects to be designated "private" and shared only with specified email addresses.