Environmental education of students in vocational schools in a multimedia surrounding

This is a multidisciplinary paper presenting a synthesis of IT, educational and environmental factors. The author in the paper explores interfunctional connection between above mentioned factors, elaborating a comprehensive model of IT support for environmental education of students in vocational schools in a multimedia surrounding. Multimedia education, in essence, involves a multimedia information system which, in interactive communication with the user, simultaneously uses various forms of information (text, graphics, animation, music, speech). Multimedia technologies in teaching ecology of vocational schools include input/output units that allow access to desired information, as well as the automated data acquisition from the environment for purposes of the enviromental education. These units are: TV camera, microphone, scanner, etc. They generate multimedia entities such as video or audio recording, etc.