Education
Illinois State Board of Education Interactive Series for Teachers
(available on CD only)
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This set of nine multimedia titles on CD-ROM was developed in support of the Illinois Standards Achievement Tests for reading, writing, and math for students in grades 3, 5, and 8. The series brings workshop training to the desktops of each teacher through a very effective use of simulation and hands-on learning. The extensive use of samples and scenarios helps teachers learn how to assess open-ended student documents across a wide variety of topics and student examples.
The learning interactions are logical and well thought-out from an instructional design perspective, and engaging enough to keep the user learning. The rich array of resources and help available to teachers in this series—including reading samples, grading rubrics, and sample student work—anticipate a wide variety of needs, thus ensuring a more successful learning experience.
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Developed for the American Academy of Pediatrics through a joint effort by Hypix Media and The Media Lab at Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Oregon Health & Science University, this supplementary training tool on CD-ROM presents life-saving procedures to medical personnel . A series of interactive scenarios document the emergency responses necessary when a newborn child stops breathing during the labor process. Learners are taken step-by-step through each procedure through a seamless blend of 3D animations, vibrant graphics, and real emergency-room video footage.
Rarely does an interactive textbook so effectively fulfill the promise of multimedia as well as this application. The use of real-life video scenarios helps medical personnel learn the neonatal resuscitation process by showing them how to perform certain procedures under a variety of circumstances. By their very nature, these procedures cannot be simulated easily in an online environment, and the use of video enables the developers to bring a critical element of reality to the training.
