Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd

 

Clients
Since it was established in 1990, Interactive Multimedia's clients included:

  • The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
  • Apple Computer Australia Pty Ltd
  • Suncorp
  • Monash University
  • University of Wollongong
  • The Australian Heritage Commission
  • Blake Dawson Waldron
  • Howard Multimedia
  • National Capital Planning Authority
  • The Australian Sports Commission
  • The Australian War Memorial
  • Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
  • New South Wales Parliament
  • National Museum of Australia
  • Blackwell Science Asia
  • The Christopher Group
  • AusAccess
  • Industrial Supplies Office
  • Curriculum Corporation
  • Federal Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
  • Independent Property Group



The major projects that we have been involved with include:

The Parliament Stack

Investigating Lake Iluka CD ROM
Peacekeeping CD ROM
CareerLink CD ROM
Senators and Members Biographical Information System - SaMIS Kiosk
Sport Search
Prime Ministers of Australia CD ROM
Exploring the Nardoo CD ROM
Parlidex CD ROM
Voices from a War CD ROM
Australia's Cultural Network gateway website
Online Australia Day Virtual Online Tradeshow
Parliament at Work CD ROM


The Parliament Stack
Client Parliamentary Education Office
Contact Brenton Holmes
Director of Parliamentary Education
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Phone 02 6277 3559
FAX 02 6277 5775
Project Description
What started out as an innovative curriculum resource for teachers is now in demand not only in classrooms around Australia but by public servants, lobbyists and public relations firms as well. The Parliament Stack is a comprehensive computer-based collection of readily accessible information about Senators, Members of the House of Representatives and Members' electorates developed by the Parliamentary Education Office in Canberra in association with Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd. The program supports parliamentary and citizenship education across a broad range of curriculum areas in primary, secondary and tertiary education, and provides those with interests in federal parliament with a convenient source of a broad range of information unavailable from any other single source.
The Parliament Stack is now being maintained and distributed commercially by Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd on behalf of the Parliamentary Education Office, with over 3,500 users throughout Australia. A post 1998 election version is now available for Power Macintosh and Windows 95 (and above) on CD ROM.

Awards
The package received two awards from the Australian Society for Educational Technology: one for most outstanding computer-based learning material, and the Society's Premier Award as the most innovative educational technology package for that year.

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Investigating Lake Iluka

Developer Interactive Multimedia Lab
Faculty of Education
University of Wollongong
Contact Associate Professor Barry Harper
Faculty of Education
University of Wollongong
Northfields Avenue
Wollongong NSW
AUSTRALIA 2522
Phone 02 4221 3465
FAX 02 4221 3892
Project Description
Investigating Lake Iluka is a full colour interactive multimedia package designed for secondary school students to help them develop investigation and problem solving skills. A simulated lake environment on CD ROM, it can be used to support the teaching of biology, geography and ecology.

Students can investigate various ecosystems of the lake, make physical, chemical and biological measurements, collect information about individual animal and plant species in and around the lake, and see and hear news reports, expert views and local opinions on a variety of issues relating to the lake and its ecology.

Investigating Lake Iluka is both published and distributed commercially in Australia by Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd on behalf of the authors. It is available on CD ROM for Macintosh and Windows 95 (and above). It is available in the United States and Canada through The Learning Team. [1800-793-TEAM]

Awards
Winner Inaugural Australian Multimedia Award, Australian Teachers of Media
"We were extremely impressed by our inaugural winner" - ATOM Awards Judge

Winner Education Category Award, Australasian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association
"Intriguing, exciting, enjoyable - simply the best product in its category" - AIMIA Awards judge

Winner, Premier Award and Computer - Category I Award (Computer-based materials designed for independent learning, open learning or guided self study), Australian Society for Educational Technology Awards
"[Investigating Lake Iluka] represents an advance in the field and is a significant and creative contribution to the national scene" ASET Awards Judges


Comments
"Congratulations on the exceptionally high standard of interaction available to users " - High School Teacher-Librarian

"A top quality Australian product for use in Science and Social Science classrooms. It not only provides information, it facilitates a style of learning based on research and problem solving" - MacNews

"It's safe to say that what you've created is the first truly educational CD ROM we've seen" Science World, Vancouver, Canada

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Peacekeeping

Client
Australian War Memorial
Contact Assistant Director
Public Programs
Australian War Memorial
GPO Box 345
Canberra ACT
AUSTRALIA 2601
Phone 02 6243 4285
FAX 02 6243 4325
Project Description
Peacekeeping is an interactive display developed by Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd to be used in conjunction with the Australian War Memorial's Peacekeeping exhibition. On display as a temporary exhibition until early 1995, the interactive display now forms part of a permanent exhibition on Australians' role in Peacekeeping. The Peacekeeping interactive display provides visitors to the Peacekeeping exhibition with more detailed information on the peacekeeping operations Australians have been or are currently involved in around the world. Text descriptions are augmented by full colour still pictures and some video footage. It is planned to continue to develop and expand the multimedia resources included in the Peacekeeping interactive display as the materials can be researched.
Peacekeeping is now available for commercial sale as a Macintosh CD ROM. The CD ROM consists of the interactive display now in use and an electronic version of the other components of the Peacekeeping exhibition.

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CareerLink

Client Howard Multimedia
Contact Howard Multimedia
62 Yurong Street
East Sydney NSW
AUSTRALIA 2010
Phone 02 9332 4111
FAX 02 9332 2944
Project Description
CareerLink is a unique computerised careers program where you can: interact with real people talking about their jobs; take a professionally-developed vocational psychology test to see what careers might match your skills and interests; see details of about 400 jobs and take advice from successful people.
CareerLink is now being distributed commercially through DataFlow, and is also available from Howard Multimedia directly.

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Senators and Members Biographical Information System - SaMIS

Client Parliamentary Education Office
Contact Rick Williams
Assistant Director of Parliamentary Education
Parliament House
Canberra ACT
AUSTRALIA 2600
Phone 02 6277 3148
FAX 02 6277 5775
Project Description
Based on The Parliament Stack, SaMIS was designed to provide visitors to Parliament House with easy access to information about their local Member of the House of Representatives, their electorate and Senators. The application was installed on three trackball based workstations for use by visitors to the new Parliament House, and on one touchscreen workstation at the Regatta Point Planning Exhibition. Over 500,000 uses of the system were recorded by the in-built tracking mechanism in the application.

SaMIS
was maintained in new Parliament House under contract to the Joint House Department. At Regatta Point, the installation continues to be maintained by Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd under contract to the National Capital Planning Authority.

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Sport Search

Client Australian Sports Commission
Contact Henny Oldenhove
Director, Participation
Australian Sports Commission
PO Box 176
Belconnen ACT
AUSTRALIA 2616
Phone 02 6252 1619
FAX 02 6252 1640
Project Description
Sport Search is a sports counselling program for students aged between 11 and 17 developed by Dr Deborah Hoare at the Australian Sports Commission. The computer application, developed by Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd for the Australian Sports Commission, is designed to match students' physical, physiological and skill attributes with sports they may enjoy. After undergoing a series of supervised tasks to establish each students' attributes, the computer program provides a fitness and skill profile for an individual student, a list of sports the student may enjoy and be suited to, a description of any sport in the program, and contact details for relevant sporting organisations.

Sport Search is now distributed commercially by the Australian Sports Commission in support of its Aussie Sports program.

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Prime Ministers of Australia

Client National Museum of Australia
Contact Greg Ebeling
National Museum of Australia
GPO Box 1901
Canberra ACT
AUSTRALIA 2601
Phone 02 6208 5109
FAX 02 6208 5149
Project Description
Prime Ministers of Australia
is a cross-platform interactive CD ROM developed for use in Australian primary and secondary schools by Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd for the National Museum of Australia and the Parliamentary Education Office. The program provides a structure to review major issues and events in Australia's political history since Federation, using the Prime Minister of a particular period as a focus for a range of contemporary sources (film, sound, photographs, cartoons, newspaper articles, and so on) to provide evidence of the history of the time.

Users of the program can select a particular Prime Minister by name or photograph and be presented with a thumbnail sound documentary outlining the major issues and events during the time (or times) in office of that Prime Minister. When the audio is finished, the user may then choose to explore the sources at greater length.

The program was distributed free to schools throughout Australia in February 1996. An updated version with search and printing routines was produced in 2000.

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Exploring the Nardoo

Developer Interactive Multimedia Learning Laboratory
University of Wollongong
Contact Associate Professor Barry Harper
Faculty of Education
University of Wollongong
Northfields Avenue
Wollongong NSW
AUSTRALIA 2522
Phone 02 4221 3465
FAX 02 4221 3892
Project Description
Exploring the Nardoo is an imaginary inland river environment on CD ROM for grade 8 to 10 school students to explore, maintain and improve. Students can explore the ecology of this imaginary environment through four physical regions and across four time zones using a captivating and comprehensive set of multimedia resources. They can visit the Water Research Centre and join the research staff in an investigation of their choice.
There are simulations to run, tools to measure the quality of the water in the river, newspapers and reports to read, audio reports to listen to and video reports to watch. Findings and solutions can be gathered and presented using the powerful features of an interactive multimedia note book.
Exploring the Nardoo was developed by the Interactive Multimedia Learning Laboratory in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong in Australia, in collaboration with the New South Wales state Department of Land and Water Conservation.

Awards
Exploring the Nardoo
has won four major awards and been nominated as Best New Educational Software by the Software Publishers Association. A tribute to its leadership over an ever-growing number of flashy and over-promoted shallow commercial titles, the Nardoo continues to impress those who take the time to review it thoroughly and understand its engagement and rich content.

Winner, Computer - Category I Award (Computer-based materials designed for independent learning, open learning or guided self study), Australian Society for Educational Technology Awards 1966. The ASET judges called it an "Excellent Package!", praising its "great depth of information, good use of metaphor for navigation, [and] excellent match between constructivist approach and learner centred control." They also though the Personal Digital Assistant was "an excellent tool ... [ for]... navigating, presenting information, and a as a way of using information."

Winner, Education 12-16 years, International EMMA Awards 1996. At the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, the Commission of the European Communities and its cosponsors the Interactive Multimedia Association, KPMG, Macromedia and Yorkshire International Thomson Multimedia gave the Nardoo its 1996 International EMMA Award for Excellence in the category of Education 12-16 Years. The Awards judges also nominated the Nardoo in the top three for their own Interactivity Award. Although not the winning nomination, the Nardoo was the only education product among the three nominations.

Rivercare 2000. The Department of Land and Water Conservation from the New South Wales State government gave the Nardoo an environmental Rivercare 2000 Gold Award - for best product developed by a Tertiary Institution. The Rivercare 2000 Accreditation and Awards Program was created to recognise and encourage community-minded individuals and groups that participate in programs dedicated to achieving clean, healthy and productive rivers by the year 2000. The Program is an initiative of the New South Wales Government and administered by the New South Wales state Department of Land and Water Conservation. The inspiration for the Rivercare 2000 Program was the need for a united and positive approach to overcoming the myriad of problems that currently endanger the health of rivers in New South Wales.

Best Tertiary Production. The Nardoo was the 1996 winner of the Australian Teachers of Media ATOM Australian International Multimedia Award for Best Tertiary Institution Production, co-sponsored by the Australasian Interactive Multimedia Association (AIMIA).

Comments
"These guys are the producers of possibly the best constructivist learning materials on CD ROM " - Dr David Dwyer, then Director of Learning Technologies, Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer, Inc.

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Parlidex

Client Land Information Centre
NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation
Contact Eamonn Clifford
Senior Researcher
Land Information Centre
Panorama Avenue
PO Box 143
Bathurst NSW
AUSTRALIA 2795
Phone 02 6333 5244
FAX 02 6332 8415
Project Description
Parlidex
is an interactive database on responsible government in the Australian state of New South Wales. It provides a fascinating way to find out more about who makes the laws and how New South Wales is governed. It is an easy to use wide-ranging reference for schools, businesses, media, publicists, families, and anyone with interest in public affairs and matters of government.
The database provides
- clear historical and current detail on the Parliament of New South Wales
- biographical details on the Members of Parliament
- maps, election results, and details on all state electorates
- a directory of all government ministries, departments and organisations
- a complete list of all current NSW legislation
- an overview of the judicial system, including annotated floor plans of all courts
- ideas for ways people can lobby for change, use the legal and administrative systems, make informed decisions about voting
Parlidex is a standalone application using Oracle Media Objects and Quicktime(tm) 2.0 (or later) (QuickTime is required only for the CD ROM version). QuickTime installers for Macintosh and Windows are included on the CD ROM.
Standard Requirements CD ROM Version: Parlidex can be run directly from the CD ROM, but to optimise performance copy all the data to your hard disc. Parlidex has not been designed to run across networks. In our experience Parlidex has run with diminished quality and response times from servers. The following specification should be met:
- Colour screen with a minimum of 640*480 pixels and 256 colours (thousands recommended).
- CD ROM drive (double speed or better) for the CD version
- 8 megabytes of free RAM
- 80 megabytes of free disc space or
- 20 megabytes of free disc space without the Parliament House Building movie.
- Times Roman and Helvetica fonts
- Quicktime (supplied)
Windows
Windows 3.1
Macintosh
System 7 or later

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Voices from a War

Client Department of Communications and the Arts through Ryebuck Media Pty Ltd and the Australian War Memorial
Contact Dr John Cook
New Media Section
Arts and Heritage Division
Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
GPO Box 2154
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Phone 02 6271 1044
FAX 02 6 271 1079
Project Description
The Voices from a War CD ROM was produced by Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd for Ryebuck Media Pty Ltd and the Australian War Memorial as a part of the federal government's Australia on CD program.
Voices is an interactive CD ROM for Windows and Macintosh that allows you to investigate four major experiences of Australians at war during World War Two. It covers the Siege of Tobruk in Libya, North Africa, from April to December 1941; The Battle of the Kokoda Track and the Battle of the Beachheads in Papua during 1942 and 1943; RAF Bomber Command and the Battle of Berlin from August 1943 until March 1944; and the Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches in Borneo in 1945.

Awards

Winner Australian Graphic Design Association 1998
Winner Australian International Multimedia Industry Award 1998

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Australia's Cultural Network gateway website

Client Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts through Icon Multimedia Pty Ltd and Apple Computer Australia Pty Ltd
Contact Dr John Cook
New Media Section
Arts and Heritage Division
Department of Communications and the Arts
GPO Box 2154
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Phone 02 6271 1044
FAX 02 6271 1079
Project Description
Australia's Cultural Network is an initiative of the federal department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. It aims to improve and develop online access to, and participation in, Australia's cultural endeavour, commerce, activities and events.
There are two main components:

1. Australia's Cultural Network gateway website: an online gateway to cultural organisations, resources, activities and events; and
2. collaborative projects demonstrating use of online services in Australia's cultural community.

Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd provided the content for Australia's Cultural Network until 25 June 1999 when the Department itself took over the responsibility for the content.

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Online Australia Day Virtual Tradeshow

Client Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
Contact Dr John Cook
New Media Section
Arts and Heritage Division
Department of Communications and the Arts
GPO Box 2154
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Phone 02 6271 1044
FAX 02 6 271 1118
Project Description
Online Australia Day was a major initiative of the National Office of the Information Economy (NOIE). As part of the Online Australia Day promotion, the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts contracted Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd to develop a website to showcase the various cultural support programs it managed. The site offers a free screen saver, samples from some of the Australia on CD CD ROMs and links to ArtsInfo and Australia's Cultural Network.

Interactive Multimedia Pty Ltd provided concept, design and layout services. It also sourced and edited content and coordinated its production.

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Parliament at Work CD ROM
Client Curriculum Corporation
Contact Sue Ferguson
Curriculum Corporation
Civics & Citizenship Education Team
PO Box 177
Carlton South VIC 3053
Phone 03 9639 0699
FAX 03 9639 0208
Project Description
Developed as a part of the Discovering Democracy Civics and Citizenship education program for the federal Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Parliament at Work is a CD ROM containing a number of modules covering activities for students from middle primary to middle secondary level. The CD ROM was distributed to schools throughout Australia in December 1999.

 

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