While exploring the sea, students create electronic and printed books, interactive slides and on-screen stories. They select backgrounds, animated characters, and add text, sound effects and recorded dialogue. Excellent graphics easily manipulated by students. Finished books can be saved, edited, printed, or played.
Nice feature is the integrated Ocean Fact Book with reference information about ocean life.
Students were motivated to express their creativity and produce a multimedia project to share. Desirable student-student interaction. Good simulation of experiences that are otherwise difficult to obtain. Allows change in method of instruction.