Evaluation of an Interactive Multimedia/Hypermedia Program

Due March 13, 1997

Choose one of the programs listed below. Each consists of a CD or videodisc and other materials in a folder available at the Computer Lab monitors' desk or at the Curriculum Library. If they are in the Curriculum Library, they should be under 7W:092 Reserve. Follow the directions in the folder or get help from a lab monitor if it is not obvious how to run the program.

Do a thorough review of the program and any associated materials. That means spend enough time studying it to be able to describe and evaluate all the essential features and content. Some programs have many sections. At least start all sections. Complete as many as needed to do a thorough evaluation.

Multimedia/Hypermedia programs may require more effort and perseverance to get working than the simpler tutorials and simulations you have looked at previously. Do not give up if things do not work at first. Read the instructions. Ask for help from a teaching assistant. Although your evaluation may discuss the difficulty in using a program (assuming it is difficult), you are still expected to make it work and do a thorough analysis.

Type, using any word processor, a one-page description followed by a two- or three-page evaluation of the program and any associated materials.

Clear, precise, graduate level writing is expected.

Turn in a printout of your evaluation and a diskette with the text file in a 9 by 12 campus mail envelope. Be sure your name is on the printout, the diskette, and the envelope. Alternatively, you may put your computer file in your personal folder on the network.

LESSONS FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE:

Title	Location (tentative)
Ancient Lands	Curriculum Library
Grolier's Encyclopedia	Curriculum Library
Interactive Geography	Computer Resources Lab
Ludwig Van Beethoven Symphony #9	Curriculum Library
MacBeth	Curriculum Library
Who Built America?	Curriculum Library
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Computer Resources Lab (probably reserve EDM18)

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