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Learning Innovations Golden Apple Grant Recipients
Final Reports
Fall 2003-1 through Summer B 2003-4
TITLE:

Home World: An interactive multimedia and web program that explores environmental issues and uses this theme to motivate students to write well.

GRANT RECIPIENTS:

Louis Molina, English, Kendall
lmolina@mdc.edu
ABSTRACT:

I have been teaching Enc1101 and 1102 with an environmental theme for the last five years. It has been a very successful enterprise. Student retention and performance is high. I have been using various multimedia and web tools. Now, I have created a multimedia program that follows what I am doing in class, not only could the students benefit from such a product, but other faculty could use it as well.

The purpose of this grant is to create an interactive program that analyzes 5 major environmental areas of concern: ozone depletion, global warming, deforestation, pollution, and endangered species and explore solutions to each. The environment is a high interest topic for everyone and especially students. Combining the environment theme with multimedia and web technology will provide students in ENC 1101, ENC 1102, or any other course that requires writing with the tools to develop well organized well developed and well researched papers by immersing students into a highly interactive multimedia resource that will not only contain ample information on environmental themes, but also lead students to other electronic resources. Home World is an electronic information resource, an interactive environmental library, as well as a educational game. These characteristics make this program an innovative tool that will create the spark that will produce more comprehensive and better researched papers.

PROJECT SUMMARY:

Home World analyzes 5 major environmental areas of concern: ozone depletion, global warming, deforestation, pollution, and endangered species and explore solutions to each. The environment is a high interest topic for everyone and especially students. Combining the environment theme with multimedia and web technology will provide students in ENC 1101, ENC 1102, or any other course that requires writing with the tools to develop well organized well developed and well researched papers by immersing students into a highly interactive multimedia resource that will not only contain ample information on environmental themes, but also lead students to other electronic resources. Home World is an electronic information resource, an interactive environmental library. These characteristics make this program successful. This innovative tool has allowed to produce more comprehensive and better researched papers and help them learn how to appreciate the natural world.

Home World was developed using many software programs primarily Macromedia Director MX, Adobe PhotoShop, GoLive, BoonToon, and many other packages. All graphics, animation and music are original—music recorded using Deck 3.5 and Sound Soap. Photographs were specially taken for this project using a digital camera and processed in PhotoShop. All web documents were created with GoLive and PhotoShop, and BoonToon.

Program has been evaluated by faculty and students both during the development process in the Fall 03 and Spring 04 and the first few weeks of Summer A 04.

I have shared this program with my colleagues in the English department and my colleagues throughout the college through a presentation during Professional Development Day March 04 (Evaluations attached).

 

PROJECT RESULTS:

Home World is totally in electronic format. DVD/CD for Mac OSX will be sent to your office upon request. The web component can be accessed through Explorer at the following address:

http://faculty.mdc.edu/lmolina/index.html

or through my faculty web page which I also produced as part of the grant to complement Home World:

http://faculty.mdc.edu/lmolina/englishclass/index3.html
PLANS FOR DISSEMINATION:

First – I have already contacted colleagues in North, South, and Wolfson Campuses about the program. I will be providing them with copies of the program.

I’m also planning to share the program with our Environmental Technology area and Animal Rights Program.

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