Harcourt Education "Scary Animals" eLearning activity
Harcourt Education is an international publishing group with operations in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Southern Africa and South-East Asia. Read more about this project.
Harcourt Education
Harcourt Education is an international publishing group with operations in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Southern Africa and South-East Asia. Their goal is to support teachers in their delivery of government initiatives, such as the National Literacy and Numeracy strategies.
Operating in the UK under the well known Heinemann name, Harcourt is headquartered in Oxford and employs some 900 people around the world.
Project overview
Harcourt Education approached Interactive Web Solutions with a brief to develop a Key Stage 1 interactive text called Scary Animals. The text is based on the different dangerous animals you can encounter across the world.
The application was eventually integrated into the Harcourt Multimedia Reading project.
The solution included:
- Very graphical interfaces that make extensive use of animation, video and audio
- Interactive functionality to engage the children as much as possible and make the learning experience fun
- Comprehensive teacher management system that monitors the work that each child has completed
- Capability for the children to make notes as they read a story
