Getting grips with multimedia

All these new multimedia tools have been great to learn about. I was really impressed with the podomatic site and I am suprised that all these tools are so accessible and easy to use. If the use of multimeadia becomes say as wide spread as mobile phone use and other widely used technology the impact on the way we learn in the future could be huge. I have been sceptical about how effective multimeadia/computer learning and always lent towards a more social learning approach. However I am starting to look at this from another perspective, once the multimeadia landscape becomes easy to navigate and widely accessable to all, ones capacity to learn will not be affected by certain face to face varibles such as not liking teacher, students or actual location. These emotional factors are effectivly removed and therefore dont impact the way we interact with new information and knowledge, learning communities could florish with the help of tecnology but be devoid of those niggly aspects of human interation. The environment in which learning takes place is controlled and shaped by the learner.