Development of Interactive Multimedia in Learning to Read Genre Text with Local Wisdom for Students Junior High School Silangkitang

Interactive multimedia is a collection of several media such as text, images, audio, video, and animation that are interactive that are used to convey information. Multimedia is the use of several media to present information. This combination can contain text, graphics, animations, images, videos and sounds. Current technology, however, allows educators and students to integrate, combine and interact with media that goes far beyond what was before. Students' understanding of a text in learning is very important in the learning outcomes that will be generated in the learning process. The relevance of reading the description text is closely related to local wisdom. The use of local wisdom themes in reading material means raising local values in students' understanding. This local value will show the identity and identity of the Indonesian people. The development of interactive multimedia is focused on reading material based on local wisdom genres. research that will be conducted by researchers reading the genre of text based on local wisdom will be raised on instructional media in the form of interactive multimedia as an independent teaching medium for students so that the basis of local skills can be raised through teaching media and can be applied in learning activities both through interactive multimedia that is developed or by the teacher.