An Internet Multimedia Resource Guide

Prepared by Margaret Duffy

Intended Audience: Interactive Multimedia Developers and Educators.
Site:Description: This is a nifty site from the University of Technology, Sydney, filled with resources for interactive multimedia development. While the site is geared toward Australians, in this shrinking world it is always interesting to see what is being done in distant parts. And besides, on the web, nothing is really that distant. It also has links that could be great for a geography unit on Australia, including an index of Australian indexes!

Intended Audience: Webauthors and Educators
Site:Description: A great site with links to just about anything a webauthor might need. It is a commercial site, but not terribly so, specially once you get past the Apple links near the top of the page. It even has a link to the Maricopa Community College authoring home page!

Intended Audience: Webauthors, Interactive Multimedia Developers.
Site:Description: According to the author, "These links will take you to some of the most useful sites on the net dealing with multimedia authoring, tips, tricks and tools." There are sixteen links that include magazines, development tools and vendors. This is actually part of the MMWire site. MMWire bills itself as "The #1 Daily for multimedia content developers, publishers and financiers." Just click on the logo at the bottom of the page to get to the MMWire front page.

Intended Audience: Webauthors, Educators, Students
Site:Description: From the University of Illinois at Chicago, this site has links to all kinds of graphics, from clipart to fractals.

Intended Audience: Multimedia Developers
Site:Description: While it is not an extensive site, with only five links, this one is important because the links are for sound! Go back to page 4 or on to page 6 for other web tools, but not many links on any one page.

Intended Audience: Elementary Teachers and Students
Site:Description: This site provides fifteen links for some astronomy-based units, including a link to the autobiography of Jim Lovell. While you're here, go back to Walter Sanford's homepage for his earth and environmental science course. He is also connected with Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness, the planetarium for the Fairfax County Public Schools and his site is a great source for earth, environmental, and atmospheric sciences.

Intended Audience: Physicians, Educators, Webauthors
Site:Description: This is a really extensive tutorial on creating a multimedia web site. It is written with professionals in mind, but who says that teachers aren't "professionals"?

Intended Audience: Educators and Students
Site:Description: This is a very nicely done site that starts with a discussion of the pros and cons of multimedia technology, and then goes on to provide some excellent links for using multimedia both inside and outside the classroom. Check out the links to university courseware on the web!

Intended Audience: All Web Developers and Multimedia Authors
Site:Description: This is a must visit site for everyone who writes web pages, multimedia presentations or software software. I can't describe the site better than they do, so I'll let their words speak for them. "This site endeavors to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information of interest to infonauts, netsurfers, webspinners, content providers, musicians, appropriationists, activists, infringers, outlaws, and law abiding citizens. Launched on May Day 95, this site seeks to encourage discourse and invite solutions to the myriad of copyright tangles that currently permeate the Web; The Copyright Website strives to lubricate the machinations of information delivery. As spice is to Dune, information is to the Web; the spice must flow."

Intended Audience: Students of Multimedia and Design, Educators
Site:Description: While this site is really aimed at the students in a course in multimedia use and design at Montana State University, it is a bit like Alice Christie's sites for her classes. It is so filled with useful links that anyone who is interested in multimedia use and design will benefit from it. Enjoy it!

Intended Audience: Web Builders
Site:Description: Have you ever wanted a piece of clipart, an icon, a background or a font and didn't know where to go to get it. Fear not! This site will save you! With over 100 links, if you need it, you can probably find it here.

Intended Audience: Students and Educators
Site:Description: This site is a list of resources for students in Kinney Baughman's class, Navigating the Internet at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. It has some very good resources nicely listed in categories. If you are new to the Internet in general, see his site listed below.

Intended Audience: Students and Educators
Site:Description: Whether you are a net newbie or an old surfer, there are two links you will want to check out. When you get here, go to the following links, Class Toolkit and Welcome to the Internet. At the Class Toolkit link you will find programs, guides and useful files. At the Welcome to the Internet link you will find more guides, online books, tutorials and lots more useful information

Intended Audience: Multimedia Developers and Web Authors
Site:Description: This is one of those short but sweet sites. There are just five links here, but each one is a gem for anyone interested in multimedia authoring. It is a must visit spot! And after you have checked out the links, click on the link back to NLN's Homepage. It is the Navajo Learning Network website, and it has even more useful links, especially if you teach in the Southwest. And if the picture on the top of the page doesn't take your breath away I don't know what will!

Intended Audience: Educators
Site:Description: This is an eight page text essay on the effective uses of multimedia in large classrooms. Don't be put off! Read it!