Many Voices Internet Research CD-ROM

E-Learning & Web-Based Training: e-Learning, project planning, design, storyboarding, authoring, editing, programming .Pearson Education Canada hired Chinook Multimedia to create the grade 1-5 Many Voices Interactive Multimedia Internet Research CD-ROMs for use in Alberta social studies classes.

The CDs consist of a simulated web browser with simplified functionality suitable for children as young as 5 years of age. The CDs also feature our multimedia authoring software, cooleCreate, which is branded as the Presentation Tool. The GUI is fairly consistent in functionality across grade levels. The "websites" are geared to grade level. Each has its own design and includes a variety of media to broaden user appeal. Each "website" also contains one or more activities that can be completed using the Presentation Tool. The Presentation Tool includes functionality that appeals to younger users (pencil tool, stamp, shape) and older users (tools to raise or lower the level of an object, change its opacity, rotate it). Users can click the media button to include a wide variety of media in their creations. Young users can create and publish their own multimedia products using the Presentation Tool, just as if they were on a sophisticated social networking website.