Some rich content education-oriented sites developed with Macromedia products

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/mer-year/
Check out the cool Flash instructional presentation “One Year on Mars” by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology & NASA.

http://www.leapfrog.com/do/environment?environment=leappad&bookfinder
See Leapfrog’s online interactive demos for their products using Flash MX

http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/
Showcase of 3d Interactive Projects developed for Pearson/Prentice Hall’s Science Explorer Project for middle grades children.

http://www.bmw1derland.co.uk
Odd, funky and intriguing Shockwave game to introduce a BMW product to a younger audience. Uses Director, Flash and Fireworks.

And one commercial application...

http://www.gulfstream.com/
Multimedia site with Flash to show Gulfstream’s product rollout.

http://www.alleni.com/clients/demos.asp
Allen Interactions demos of multimedia instructional products they’ve developed for adult learners

Online art – a couple of intriguing exhibit sites

http://010101.sfmoma.org/
Performance/conceptual art goes virtual – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibit

http://www.photography-museum.com/
It’s extraordinary how far web-delivered imagery has come and this site shows it clearly. Check out the fidelity of the black and white art photography at the American Museum of Photography site.

http://www.lastplace.com/
To see their VRML gallery go to: http://www.museumofwebism.com/index.htm. It can be done.

Hypermedia sites, both information and demo

http://eserver.org/multimedia/
Published by English server; a collection of multimedia and hypertext sources.

http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/
Hypermedia project/course online. This is well worth looking at for the way it is structured as an example of hypermedia instructional design.

http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/CHP/user-notes.html
User instructions from this hypermedia project/course.
http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/genchem.html
One of the indices they use – similar to the concept index here
http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/crossref/ac-mass-spec.html
One of the units from the project

http://www.weihenstephan.de/~schlind/genglos.html
Hypermedia design used for a glossary

http://www.scimedia.co.jp/english/neuro_b/index.htm
Another hypermedia course-like design. Notice the lack of user notes and compare with vt.edu – you would need to know what this is as a user. Otherwise, a good example of hypermedia organization that is intuitive enough to use immediately.

http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/theory-alpha.html
Research list from the Hypermedia Research Center, University of Westminster graduate program in hypermedia.

http://www.aace.org/pubs/jemh/default.htm
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia

http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/~NRHM/volumes.htm
Archive index for New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/prin/txt/Intro/Ch1ToC.html
Hypermedia textbook for Economics

http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/hyperbook/
Adaptive hypermedia sources