For as long as computers have served as media platforms, faculty have experimented with new instructional opportunities. What is new and remarkable now is the shift to student involvement in media development. In many cases, faculty require this expansion of student skills through the class assignments and instruction they give or arrange in conjunction with their teaching. But there is a growing trend for students to initiate the foray into audio and video, approaching faculty for permission to include them in written work and, occasionally, in place of written work.