Abstract
The article deals with the didactic potential and the possibilities of using educational multimedia applications in the teaching process. In the study the importance of teachers' mastering the skills of using multimedia ap-plications, as well as the knowledge of their essence and capabilities, methodological and psychological-didactic foundations of their usage is stated. The authors consider the notion and types of educational multi-media applications, peculiarities of their usage in various pedagogical scenarios. The technical support for creating multimedia applications by teachers can be represented by the special authoring software tools, that is, programs that provide opportunities for independent building of effective interactive multimedia applica-tions for non-programmers, such as Macromedia Flash, iSpring Suit, Macromedia Director, Authorware Pro-fessional, etc. Multimedia applications can be recommended for usage as a communicative component of the educational environment. The effective performance of pedagogical scenarios of multimedia usage in the ed-ucational process contributes to the development of the learner’s independence and creativity, his active posi-tion as a subject of communicative interaction.