The availability of digital media technology for consumer use has increased students' exposure to technology that was once limited primarily to educational and business environments. As students become more adept consumers and developers of digital media, their expectations in the classroom increasingly involve digital media as an instructional delivery mode. Delivering instruction using a variety of modes (visual and verbal) allows more students to receive and access information through their preferred media and can increase learning. The availability of hardware and software has allowed educators to bring flexibility into instruction. The technology not only allows one to incorporate visual and verbal information, but it allows for interactive and asynchronous delivery. Although digital technologies provide the capability to present media-rich, interactive instruction, an educator must take many items into consideration before integrating media into instruction.