Your preparatory class exercise is to do some research and define for yourself what you think multi-media is?
As a starting point browse the following links and see what some other impressions are of the nature and likely impacts of multi-media on individuals, organisations, cultures and a range of other topics. Think about the scope and development of multi-media.
Write a web essay of about 500 words (using HTML markup, or an authoring tool) that addresses the following topics:
What do you think is the popular image of multi-media now?
How will multi-media be defined to be in 5 years time?
What will be the area in which multi-media has the largest impact in the next 5 years?
What is the future of multi-media?