Capturing two Codie Awards for Excellent Education Content and Exceptional Multimedia Production Quality, Encyclopedia Britannica's CD 99-Multimedia Edition and CD 98 Multimedia Edition were awarded as the Best Overall Multimedia Production and the Best Education Software Upgrade, respectively. Rich in content, Britannica CD 99 is complete with 73,000 articles, over 1.5 million hypertext links and 30,000 related Internet links. The educational software also features sound and video clips, over 1,200 maps, and 9,000 photos and images. Another Codie Award winner is Houghton Mifflin Interactive's Awesome Animated Monster Maker Math CD-ROM . Developed by ImaginEngine Corporation, Awesome Animated Monster Maker covers problem solving, estimation and solution strategies.
Children embark on an adventure while learning to solve a deep range of math problems.
It also includes a Version 2.0 upgrade, featuring updated content, digitized motion and still video, direct access to Internet resources on the Web, and Internet Explorer 4.0 and FrontPage Express. Social Science 2000, adopted for grades K through 3, and 5 also features online database activities and maps.