CHEMISTRY EDUCATION: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 2003, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 77-82 SPECIAL SECTION: 6th ECRICE / 2nd ECCE	THE PRACTICE OF CHEMISTRY EDUCATION (REPORT) New Educational Technologies (NET)

Daniel CABROL-BASS, ¹ Jean-Pierre RABINE, ¹
Oliver M. JEVONS, ² and Antony J. REST ^2
1 Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Centre de Developpement Informatique Enseignement Chimie (CDIEC)
² Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton, European Centre for Chemistry Education (ECCE)

DESIGNING AND PRODUCING MULTIPLE LANGUAGE MULTIMEDIA COURSEWARE

ABSTRACT: Multimedia courseware packages are considerably enhanced by the inclusion of moving images and animations. The cost of making such images is, however, very high. Rather than each group or country making its own images, i.e. "re-inventing the same wheel", it makes better economic sense to re-cycle existing images. The work of a dual language project team towards designing and producing multimedia resources in a number of languages is described. For example, the series of twenty dual-language CD-ROMs entitled "Le bon geste pratique en Chimie/Practical Laboratory Chemistry". The work opens up a wide range of possibilities for customizing resources from an "originating language" into any other language. [Chem. Educ. Res. Pract.: 2003, 4, 77-82]

KEY WORDS: multimedia; multiple language courseware; CD-ROMs; practical chemistry; software design

CORRESPONDENCE: Antony J. REST, European Centre for Chemistry Education (ECCE), Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton S017 1BJ, United Kingdom; tel: (+44)-(0)-2380-593595; fax: (+44)-(0)-2380-593781; e-mail: a.j.rest@soton.ac.uk

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