Writing for Multimedia and the Web, Second Edition
Provides a step-by-step explanation of how to create powerful content for interactive media.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Writing for Multimedia and the Web, Second Edition
Chapter 15: Educational Multimedia Case Study Sky High
SUMMARY
Name of production: Sky High
Writers: Maria O'Meara, Ruth Nadel, Ron McAdow, and Beth Chapman
Developer: D. C. Heath and Company
Subject: Space and flight
Audience: Elementary school children
Medium: CD-ROM
Presentation location: Schools
Coals: Inform, teach, entertain
Architecture: Hierarchical branching, worlds, simulation
The script samples and images used in this chapter are from Discoveries: Sky High CD-ROM in Heath Literacy by Alvermann, et al. 1995 D. C. Heath and Company. Reprinted by Permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All Rights Reserved.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION AND BACKGROUND
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Sky High is a CD-ROM aimed at an elementary school audience on the subject of manned flight and space exploration. Its main interface is a 360-degree panoramic landscape built along a time line from antiquity to the present. Only a portion of the landscape is visible on the screen at one time. The user accesses the hidden parts of the landscape by moving the mouse to one edge of the screen. This causes more of the landscape to appear as the viewer travels forward or backward in time.
At the bottom of the screen is a time line of dates. Above the dates are screen images and text. These hot spots can be clicked with the mouse to reveal an animation, text, video, and/or graphic on an aspect of flight during that time period. Some hot spots in a panel are grouped into explorable spaces, such as King Arthur's Castle, Leonardo DaVinci's Workshop, the Wright Brothers' House, and the Visitor's...
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