One of the most distinct problems of a Project Leader (Art Director, Creative Manager) in an onsite development team in the arena of multimedia instructional design must be the compilation of a set of "tools" that will be available to the entire team. This writer’s career goal is to lead such a design team, in the areas of content creation, instructional design, graphic interface, and the entire process of producing learning content for computer-based delivery, primarily by Internet or company Intranet. To further define the tasks of this paper, the proposed company will be involved in the delivery of educational products — learning applications — for students across both the curriculum and also the age categories, including K-12 as well as post-secondary topics. In essence, this writing will deal with Internet web sites that serve as tools for a development team, regardless of the topic of the learning application or the age group it is intended for.

Each section of this writing will deal with a web site available on the Internet, and the logical rationale for inclusion in the writing. Each site will have a definite purpose for inclusion as a development tool, and reasons will be shown for its superiority as a reference site for a company’s multimedia instructional design team. It will clearly indicate the strengths of the site for use as a learning device in the career disposition of team management in corporate training and instructional design products.

This paper will be combined with the second assigned writing, and will provide an annotated list of twenty web sites. The particular websites chosen for this paper — and each website is such a powerful tool for designers involved in the delivery of learning products — all fall into categories such as:

1. Instructional Design,
2. Authoring Content,
3. Graphical Interface,
4. Web Design and Development,
5. Corporations involved in Distance Learning and who present

strong interactive learning modules on their web site; and
6. Excellent examples and/or models of learning products that

incorporate multimedia and all new technologies, and which
embody the essence of successful, collaborative learning
applications for the Internet.

In conjunction with the research done for the Rationale writing and the Annotated List, the research was conducted entirely in Microsoft’s Research Organizer software. The document compiled in Research Organizer will also provide a strong tool for a development team. In fact, the Research Organizer document has become literally a software unto itself, offering a completely organized array of URLs, professional contacts, ideas, methodologies, and histories . . . much more information than would be included in these writings. As a package, however, the purpose of combining these efforts has been to provide an extremely useful tool for immediate, on-the-job reference for multimedia content development teams, as well as a teaching device for Project Managers in leading the skills-development of members of the team.

Therefore, it is the objective of this paper to present twenty very mighty web sites that will not only provide a means for teaching skills to members of the multimedia team, but the learning environment is the Internet, itself. This will strengthen team members’ skills to not only use the Internet as a learning and resource tool, but also to apply that knowledge to the very products they are helping to create — learning devices and applications for delivery by Internet.

Collection of graphics, HTML coding & layout, creation of links for Figures List and References,
done by L. C. Boyd. All graphics are properties and © of the pertinent websites, individuals, or
companies, and may be found at the corresponding links.

©1998 Leanne C. Boyd