Settling America covered the port of St. Augustine, Sailing the Seas, Conservation, Stories, Superstitions and Sea Monsters. It also include support material including lesson plans, games and a glossary. Visitors could spend as much as forty minutes watching and interacting with the touch screen interactive program created by Silver Image Interactive, Inc. |
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Using creative graphics, professional narration, audio, video all integrated into an exceptional interactive program.
This screen show a timeline of events that happened at the St. Augusting port. |
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When the visitor clicks on a date on the above timeline the see a screen of information related t0 that date.
User navigation is always considered and visitors can always move around through the program quickly and easily. |
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Layers of information provide a content rich program. The visitor is moved deeper into the program with easy to use sub menus. | ||||||||
Custom games are developed to enhance the experience. This game is "The Colonial Job Finder", built to look like an early newspaper. | ||||||||
The game provides a group of jobs that would have been available at that time and asks the visitor to just touch the name of the job and drag it to a job description.
When the visitor selects the "Done" button, they are told how well the did. They can try again and again to learn the differen't jobs. |
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Another game tests the nautical skills of the visitor.
Here they are asked to touch a description and drag it to where it belongs. When they touch the "How'd I do" button they are given the correct answers. |
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In this section visitors are given examples of "Sea Shanties" or songs sung on the ships to help the crew to work together and also to provide a little relaxation.
Several of the songs were provided in written form and several were provided as music and song that the visitors could listen to. |
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Another game taught conservation of artifacts.
Throughout the game visitors are asked to select the right tool for finding the treasure. Its a fun way to learn about diving and conserving artifacts for the future. |
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This is an interactive story that allows the visitor to change the outcome of a story at the touch of their finger.
They can go back and read a new story based on their selections. This is fun and informative at the same time. |
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