Funciones de las herramientas multimedia interactivas para la enseñanza en educación preescolar

The development of  software systems of the last decade has consolidated the visibility of interactive multimedia tools, a fact that has positioned these tools as a didactic support in several areas. From this perspective, this article aimed to determine the roles of the Interactive Multimedia Tools (IMT) used by the preschool teachers of some educational institutions that belong to the municipality of Santa Marta – Colombia.  To achieve this, methodologically, the study does a positivist approach, with a descriptive research type and a not experimental field design. As for the population under study, it comprises 38 pre-school teachers from educational institutions belonging to the commune. As regards data collection technique, it was used the survey observation and the instrument was the questionnaire. After analyzing the data it was found that there are three roles of the HMI associated with teaching in preschool education, concluding that teachers under study were placed in the category of little used or little promoted concerning the exploration and experimentation roles, in addition to the instructive and the training roles, while the motivating role was moderately used or moderately promoted by these teachers.