An interactive music timeline was developed for Cengage Music Appreciation titles. This learning module features an expanding menu of musical periods to help students both visualize the order of time periods and events chronologically. Each period also features audio samples of key works for review of the style of each period.
A brand new interface was developed for this hybrid textbook + website and extended across premium websites for Cengage Learning titles. The website delivers media-rich learning content to accompany Gardner’s Art through the Ages 13th Enhanced Edition by Fred S. Kleiner. More than 300 bonus images that appear in the text as thumbnails are available on this premium site in … [ read more ]
The Active Listening Guide application was developed to facilitate web-based authoring of interactive learning modules for Music Appreciation courses. The visualization of the structure of the music is achieved through both the waveform and colorization of each distinct musical segment. As the music plays, annotations appear to explain exactly what to listen for along with any lyrics and translations. Glossary terms are highlighted with definitions displayed … [ read more ]
Created to accompany Gardner’s Art through the Ages: A Global History of Art 13e, ArtStudy Online is an interactive study guide for students of art history. Visual flashcards with a self-quizzing function, interactive maps, big picture reviews, architectural basics, and compare an contrast features provide a host of tools for students to best prepare for their course. Additionally, Google Earth coordinates to major landmarks, practice tests, and panoramic … [ read more ]
This flash-based multimedia CDROM was developed to accompany the introductory Spanish title published by Cengage Learning. Students are transported to plazas across the Spanish-speaking world via Google Earth. Audio and video-based activities provide students with an engaging and interactive means to practice the vocabulary and grammar they have learned in each chapter. An audio glossary aids in review.
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Design and Project Management: Wendy Constantine
Developmental Editor: Heather Bradley
Assistant Editor: Meg … [ read more ]
Clarity Technologies wanted to create an interactive guide to provide marketing and contact information to the various business units internally. Employees can find out product marketing information, white papers, demos and presentations.
The screens were designed based on the movie The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe. The menus on the left animate on rollover, and submenus at the top expand when required. Audio tracks from the movie soundtrack accompanied … [ read more ]
A series of DVDs were developed as instructor ancillaries to a number of McGraw-Hill Higher Education Health and Fitness textbooks. Over a hundred video clips were provided on each disc, with a browseable interface to select and play clips by topic, chapter, and media type.
The clips ranged from interviews with experts in the field of health and psychology, to instructional exercise clips. A number of archival … [ read more ]
A series of interactive timelines were developed for two western civilization textbooks for McGraw-Hill. In both cases, the graphic display of the timelines were dynamically generated. The dates were simply input in text, and the code optimized the display based on the selected dates. Each event was also clickable to display a pop up window with information about the event and any associated media elements including video, still images … [ read more ]
This interactive walkthrough was developed for McGraw-Hill Higher Education to communicate the functionality and benefits of a new interactive product called the Resource Presentation Manager (RPM). Video-based screen captures with a voice-over track guide the viewer through the program, demonstrating the program’s ability to organize and display video clips for a health textbook.
The walkthrough is flash-based and can be either self-running from start to end. Alternately, viewers … [ read more ]
The Friends of Wellesley College Athletics (FOWCA) web site was designed primarily for fundraising needs and to keep alumni informed of news related to the athletics program. The results of giving are detailed in the Fulfilled wishes page to let alumni know how their gifts are used.
Athletics is an important part of Wellesley culture, as all students are required to fulfill physical education requirements before graduating. The “Sound … [ read more ]
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