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Building Detroit
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit, Michigan

One family. Five generations. Countless ways to build a city.

Starting as French immigrants in 1750, players try to make a living as farmers in the feudal economy of New France. Subsequent levels span 150 years of Detroit history as the city grows into a major industrial center. In each level, players take on the role of one of their children from the previous level, deciding who to marry, how to raise their children, and what job to do, based on the career choices of that time period. Every decision has consequences, giving players a lasting memory of what it might have been like to have lived in the historic times that shaped Detroit.

eduweb's role: Concept development, game design, visual design, illustration, animation, music composition, game production, and user testing.

Silver MUSE Award
American Association of Museums


Award of Merit
American Association of State and Local History
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Role-Play Game
2011

"Building Detroit" game screenshot

"We chose Eduweb not only for their technical expertise, but because they are a leader in the field of learning through gaming. Our final product benefited not only from their creative art and programming, but also from their knowledge of learning theory and its application with our content. During the project development process, Dave and his staff immersed themselves in Detroit history, and helped us develop and write content. Eduweb is a true museum education partner."

Tobi Voigt
Director of Education
Detroit Historical Society

A Sailor's Life for Me!
USS Constitution Museum
Boston, Massachusettes

Prepare to set sail on a seafaring adventure in this role-play game! Live the life of a young sailor aboard USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides," during the War of 1812. Scrub the deck, haul on lines, steer the ship, and work the guns. Tell tall tales and perhaps sneak a game of dice during your leisure time. If you do well, you'll rise through the ranks and eventually captain your own gun crew.

Explore the ship and learn about the daily lives of the 450 sailors who lived and worked in these crowded spaces. Listen as they tell you about their lives in their own words. Vivid, detailed drawings and playful text by world-renowned artist Stephen Biesty and writer Richard Platt let you explore all of USS Constitution's nooks, from the dark hold to the top of the tallest mast and everywhere in between.

And now you can live a sailor's life wherever you are, wtih the iPad edition of the game! Haul on lines, vanquish varmints, captain your own gun crew, and more! And it's free! Download it on iTunes.

eduweb's role: Concept development, game design, visual design, animation, programming, production, and user testing.


Bronze MUSE Award
American Association of Museums

"This is an excellent research-based educational website. It's a great game site without the limit of age and fun to play and learn from."

Teaching History
"A superb example of how the web can bring history alive for young students."
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Role-Play Game
2011

Sailor game screenshot

"In my estimation Eduweb is the best of the best. Dave Schaller and his team exceeded all expectations, taking our project to heights I never imagined possible. The website they created for the USS Constitution Museum will be a signature piece for us for years to come, and I will always look back at the experience as one of the highlights of my career."

Sarah H. Watkins
Director of Collections and Learning
USS Constitution Museum, Boston

Design an Air Racer
National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian
Washington, D.C.

In the 1920s, air races pushed aviation technology forward, creating innovative and ever-faster aircraft. Your job is to design an air racer, balancing risky innovations with established techniques so your racer will win the race—or at least finish it! Design, race and review your results—then start over as you try to create the perfect racer.

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, illustration and animation, and production.

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Creative Design
Online Game

2010

Air Racing screenshot
Tuskegee Airmen Flight Leader
National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian
Washington, D.C.

Step into the flight suit of a Tuskegee Airmen—America's first black fighter pilots—. Facing discrimination at home, these men sought to serve their country—and prove themselves—high over the skies of Europe, protecting bombers from German attack. In this immersive 3D role-play game, you must escort B-24 bombers over Germany, confronting the challenges, decisions, and dangers of high-altitude combat. Lives are on the line as you make decisions on the fly.

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, video production, and Flash production.

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Role-Play
Online Game

2010

Tuskegee Flight Leader screenshot
First Flight Around the World
National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian
Washington, D.C.

In 1924, the U.S. Army undertook a daring mission—to plan and execute the first flight around the world. With aircraft only capable of 600-mile flights. With sea crossings too dangerous for flimsy stick and wire planes. And with dozens of countries along the route, very few with airports of any kind. In this activity, you're in charge: plan the route, modify the aircraft, and then face the crises erupt during the flight despite the best planning.

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, illustration, animation, and production.

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Role-Play
Web Activity

2010

First Flight screenshot
Packing for the Unknown
National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian
Washington, D.C.

Help Charles and Anne Lindbergh pack for a daring flight on their plane Tingmissartoq. Their flight will pioneer new air routes, taking them into extreme climates and unknown dangers. But you'll have to choose carefully—their airplane can only carry a limited amount of gear. Can you choose the best gear for a successful flight?

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, illustration, animation, and production.

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Role-Play
Web Activity

2010

Packing for Unknown screenshot
SpaceWalking
eduweb
St. Paul, Minnnesota

Explore the Solar System—on foot! This augmented-reality iPhone app creates a virtual model of the Solar System around you, reduced to a walkable scale.

Choose a scale and starting point and then start walking! The app places the Sun and planets around you in virtual space. Walk across the street to visit Venus, Head down the block to Jupiter, and stretch your legs to get a glimpse of Pluto. As you walk, the app tracks your location in both the real and the virtual world, so you can wander amongst the planets, visiting each one, and zooming in to inspect and learn about moons, asteroids, and comets. Adjust the distance scale to fit the solar system inside your neighborhood or across your city. Earn achievements and send reports of your journeys to Facebook and Twitter!

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Augmented Reality Mobile App
2010

Screenshot from SpaceWalking
Texas Independence
Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site and the Star of the Republic Museum
Washington, Texas

In the winter of 1836, Texas were involved in a life or death struggle for freedom from Mexico. As they fought on the battlefield, they also sent representatives from every municipality to a constitutional convention in the small town of Washington. In two tense weeks, these Texans declared independence and created a constitutional republic based on the democratic principles they all held dear.

The Texas Independence Web site offers a rich variety of activities and resources about these historic events, from dramatic animations to timeline and storytelling interactives to primary source documents and lesson plans. The centerpiece of the site is "In Washington Town," a Web-based 3D game in which players explore a virtual recreation of Washington in March 1836. Over the course of the game, players meet key figures in the independence movement while discovering why ordinary Texans came to support this risky path.

eduweb's role: Concept development, interactivity and game design, visual design, illustration, animation, 3d modeling and animation, and production.


Award of Merit
American Association of State and Local History


Silver Award, Non-Print Media
Wilder Awards Competition, Texas Association of Museums
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Role-Play
2010

"In Washington Town" game screenshot
Controlled Flight
National Air & Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution

Whether flying in air or in space, pilots must have good control of your craft—or else! In this 3D simulation, take the controls of three aircraft and one spacecraft and try to master the art of moving in three dimensions. Learn how aircraft and spacecraft controls apply physics principles to achieve controlled flight, then tackle a nerve-wracking series of aerobatic and orbital maneuvers!

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, 3d modeling, and production.

Honorable Mention MUSE Award
American Association of Museums
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Washington, D.C.
Simulation
Online Game

2009

Design an aircraft screenshot
Forces of Flight
National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian
Washington, D.C.

Just how do airplanes stay up in the air? This whimsical interactive explores the four forces of flight by putting you in the designer's seat. Build a hybrid aircraft by selecting wings, fuselage and other components from 100 years of flight, then see what happens to your aircraft (and your poor test pilot). Does it go faster, slower, higher or lower? Experiment with lift, drag, thrust and weight to reach your target speed and altitude. Then compare those forces with the forces of flight in space!

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, illustration, animation, and production.

Honorable Mention MUSE Award
American Association of Museums
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Simulation
Web Activity

2009

Design an aircraft screenshot
George Washington's World for Kids
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon, Virginia

For a stiff-lipped Founder of the United States, George Washington led an awfully exciting life. Soldier, farmer, statesman...he was even famous for his love of dancing. On this site, discover the real Washington at home and at war. Explore a 3D Mount Vernon in search of things that reveal the many facets of the man. Play the harpsichord so he can dance with his beloved Martha. And serve as gun captain at Washington's moment of greatest military achievement, the siege of Yorktown.

eduweb's role: Game design, visual design, 3D modeling and animation, production.

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Casual Learning Games
2009

George Washington's World screenshot

"Eduweb was able to help us answer the question of how to make George Washington a real person and not just the face on the quarter. By creating games that really immerse the player in Washington's life at Mount Vernon, at Yorktown, and even on the dance floor, children will learn that Washington lived an exciting life. And the experience of working with eduweb was a pleasure from day one."

Crystal McCliggott
Mount Vernon Ladies Association

Indian River Lagoon Adventures
Brevard Zoo
Melbourne, Florida

The Indian River Lagoon, along the east coast of Florida, is a remarkable ecological system, rich in plant and animal life. It also offers many ways to explore and enjoy nature. Use this Web site to learn about the lagoon, find great family outings and outdoor mysteries, and then come back and share your experiences with others.

eduweb's role: Information and interactivity design, visual design, illustration and production.

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Interactive Reference and Mystery
2008

Izzy the Investigator presents a new outdoor mystery
Touch and See Room Mysteries
Bell Museum of Natural History
Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Bell Museum was a pioneer of hands-on natural history exhibits. This online interactive brings the wonders of the museum's Touch and See room to the Web. Discover mysterious natural objects (a new one each time you visit!), identify skulls, and figure out what habitats turtles call home.

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, photography, videography, and production.

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Interactive Mystery
2008

Identifying a turtle
Life in a Diorama
Bell Museum of Natural History
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Ever wish you could get behind the glass of a diorama? Explore a Bell Museum diorama to find some surprising connections, learn how and why dioramas were made, and design your own habitat diorama.

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, visual design, illustration and production.

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Creative Play and Interactive Reference
2008

Drag and drop design a diorama activity
Betwixt Folly and fate
Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg, Virginia

Betwixt Folly and Fate is an immersive 3-D role playing game that places players in 1774 Williamsburg as one of four characters:

  • Chloe, an enslaved house servant
  • Henry, a free black carpenter
  • Mary, a midwife's assistant
  • George, a young gentleman

In each role, players face the challenges of daily life in early America while learning about the social classes and customs of the time. For example, Henry, a free black carpenter, must find enough work as a journeyman to pay his mother's rent. As Henry seeks carpentry work and other tasks that come his way, the player learns about facets of ordinary eighteenth-century life as well as the opportunities and constraints facing a free black tradesman in 1774.

As players pursue their characters' goals, they explore a large portion of eighteenth-century Williamsburg, Virginia, roaming the streets and meeting people in shops, taverns, the Courthouse, and private homes. The town is populated with dozens of characters, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry. Players may also bargain for goods with shopkeepers and try their hand at several colonial games.

eduweb's role: Concept development, game design, scriptwriting, graphic design, 3D modeling and animation, programming, and production.

Betwixt Folly and Fate game is one component of Colonial Williamsburg's A Day in the Life program, which includes an eight-episode DVD series and teacher materials. The Web site has more information, a preview video, downloadable demo, and ordering information.


Gold MUSE Award
American Association of Museums

"Colonial Williamsburg Foundation seems to have looked deeply into the essence of its mission. It has parlayed its mastery of storytelling to bring players right into some of the stories it finds most profound. And those stories are likely to stay with its players long after the game is done."
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Role-Play Game
2008

Screenshot from Betwixt Folly and Fate

"Eduweb's creativity and artistic skills, along with their expertise in student learning methods, bring new and innovative concepts to our projects. They are consistently able to take our content and assets and work collaboratively and effectively from planning to launch. We love the results, and we love working with them."

Frances Burroughs
Director of Operations, Educational Programs
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Dental Defenders
Delta Dental of New Jersey
New Jersey

Danger lurks at every meal. Ordinary foods coat teeth with sugar, attracting bacteria and acids that cause tooth decay.

But the Dental Defenders are on the job! The Defenders patrol the mouths of children everywhere, protecting their teeth from everyday meals and snacks. Join the team and begin your patrol!

eduweb's role: Concept design, interactivity design, writing, graphic design, 3D modeling and animation, and production.

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Action Game
2008

Screenshot: Brushing Teeth as a Dental Defender
WolfQuest
Minnesota Zoo
Apple Valley, Minnesota

Wolves are naturally compelling animals. The subject of folklore and legend around the world, wolves inspire excitement, fear and wonder, but never complacency. WolfQuest merges the natural mystery and charisma of wolves with the immersive, compelling drama and action of video games to create a new model for conservation education. A free downloadable game funded by the National Science Foundation, WolfQuest teaches wolf behavior and ecology through exciting 3D gameplay and intense social interactions both in the game and through the WolfQuest website.

WolfQuest: Amethyst Mountain Deluxe expands upon the initial episode of the game released last December. Learn about wolf ecology by living the life of a wild wolf in Yellowstone National Park. Playing alone or with friends in online multiplayer missions, explore the wilderness, hunt elk, and successfully encounter other wolves in your search for a mate. The Deluxe edition includes grizzly bears that steal your carcasses, multiplayer pack rallies, and over 200 other enhancements and bug fixes. In addition, when you find a mate, it now helps you hunt and harass grizzlies.

The WolfQuest experience goes beyond the game with an active, safe, on-line community where kids discuss the game with other players, chat with wolf biologists, and share artwork and stories about wolves. This forum is actively managed by educators and wolf biologists who connect the WolfQuest gameplaying experience with the real world of wolf conservation and provide opportunities for interested players to engage with real wolf issues.

eduweb's role: Initial conceptualization, grantwriting, game design and development, 3D modeling and animation, game programming, Web production, and user testing.

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Wildlife Simulation Game
2008

Your wolf avatar in WolfQuest

"The WolfQuest project required a creative, technically skilled development team with a sensitivity for scientifically accurate content and an intuitive understanding about what makes games fun. The folks at eduweb made WolfQuest howl!"

Grant Spickelmier
Assistant Director of Education
Minnesota Zoo

America by Air Online Interactives
National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian
Washington, D.C.

Explore the history of commercial air travel in this online companion to NASM's new exhibit. Navigate your way along an early airmail route. Make a newsreel about the first around-the-world flight by scheduled airlines. See if you would have qualified to be a stewardess in the 1950s. And much more!

Eduweb collaborated with museum staff to adapt gallery interactives for the Web, developing engaging and meaningful ways to explore the stories, artifacts, and experiences of air travel.

eduweb's role: Interactivity design, research and writing, graphic design, illustration, and production.

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Role-Play and
Online Activities

2007

Contact Flying activity
Great Chicago Stories Interactive History Map
Chicago History Museum
Chicago, Illinois

This series of stories for elementary and high school students bring Chicago's history alive through experiences of fictional but typical kids living in Chicago over the last century. A companion to each story is an interactive map that shows high-resolution photographs of the locations described in the story, both at the time of the story's setting and the present. Using Yahoo! Maps within the activity, users can explore the story's neighborhood and see where it is in relation to their own home or school. Artifacts from the collections of the Chicago History Museum connect the objects of everyday life to the people who might have used them.

eduweb's role: Concept development, graphic design, interface design, programming, and production for the map interactive portion of the site.


Best of the Web, Education
Museums & the Web 2008

"An exemplary educational resource for learning about history through storytelling"
"I can easily imagine teachers treasuring it."

Gold MUSE Award
American Association of Museums

"An exemplary use of new technology... Users can connect to their own history within the geography of Chicago through an engaging interactive map of the city."
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Interactive Reference
2007

Explore chicago history through maps and primary sources

"eduweb created a marvelous map-based interactive that anchored our historical fiction narratives in their respective Chicago neighborhoods, broadening the scope of our project in rich, unexpected ways. They were amazingly prompt, creative, and patient with our development process and we're thoroughly delighted with the outcome. We will most certainly work with eduweb in the future."

Heidi Moisan
School Programs Manager
Chicago History Museum

Learning Through Art
Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY

Learning Through Art encourages teachers and teaching artists to design art projects that support student learning across the curriculum. Recent research shows that this combination of activities helps students build important critical-thinking, art, and literacy skills.

This website provides two sets of tools for the classroom. The first explores how to facilitate class discussions around works of art, an approach we call "Inquiry with Art." The second is a database of selected Learning Through Art projects, or "Art Explorations," with links to additional related resources. Used individually or together, these resources can support teachers in creating an environment in which students are challenged to think, learn, and communicate.

eduweb's role: Information architecture, visual design, programming, and production.

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Teacher Resource Site
2006

Learning Through Art screenshot
Teacher Resource Center
Minnesota Zoo
Minneapolis, MN

The Minnesota Zoo's Teacher Resource Center offers many exciting resources to help teachers plan their next visit to the Minnesota Zoo, including:

  • Field trip planning materials
  • Orientation video for teachers, chaperones, and students
  • Pre-visit, on-site, and post-visit activities and worksheets
  • Multimedia resources for browsing and downloading for student powerpoints and movies

eduweb's role: Information architecture, video scriptwriting, production and editing, database programming, and Web production.

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Interactive Reference Site
2006

Teacher Resource Center screenshot
My Pop Studio
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ready to pop behind-the-scenes of the television you watch, magazines you read, music you listen to and websites you visit? Our "studios" let you take the reins. Create. Comment. Control. Explore your media, your way!

This Web site for 'tween-age girls promotes media literacy and gives girls a chance to create music, edit a TV show, publish a magazine and reflect on the role of digital media in their lives.

  • Create your own pop star and put her concert online for the world to enjoy!
  • Edit your own reality show, spinning the story the way you want!
  • Make your own celebrity magazine featuring you and your favorite actors and singers!
  • Test your multi-tasking abilities and find out how well you can do many things at the same time!

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, interactivity design, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

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Creative Play Web Site
2006

Create your own popstar, in My Pop Studio

"eduweb's talented team of creative and technical professionals exceeded our expectations in every respect. With eduweb, we were able to realize our goals for the project and benefit from the insight and guidance and wisdom that eduweb's remarkable creative team has developed as a result of their 10-year track record in online multimedia production. Throughout the production process, we were standing on the shoulders of giants with eduweb on our team!"

Renee Hobbs
Associate Professor of Communication
Director, Media Education Lab
Temple University

U-505 On-line Activities
Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago, Illinois

At the height of World War II, the U.S. Navy captured a German U-boat submarine prowling off the waters of Africa. The American efforts to capture the U-505, and the German struggle to prevail instead, illuminate the human experience of duty, courage, and survival during wartime. This site features two games and an interactive timeline about that fateful day:

  • Find the U-505: As an American sailor, use cutting-edge (for 1944) technologies to track down the U-boat.
  • Command the U-505: As skipper of the U-505, use your wits to attack the Americans and evade capture.
  • Capture! An interactive timeline featuring oral histories by the men who where there.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, interactivity design, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, production, and user testing.

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Role-play and Simulation
2005

Screenshot: Command the U-505

Screenshot: Finding the U-505

Harvest of History
The Farmers' Museum
Cooperstown, NY

The history of New York State agriculture is the story of our collective past. Harvest of History makes this story come alive. Explore an 1845 agricultural village to find out where your food comes from, how and where it grows, and compare life in 1845 with our modern world. Then turn what you've learned into a video with the online videomaker. The site also features hundreds of primary sources about agricultural and rural history, and an interdisciplinary fourth-grade curriculum for.

eduweb's role: Concept development, interactivity design, content development, visual design, video production, programming, and site production.

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Multi-activity web site
2005

An interactive historic village

"The eduweb team brought professionalism, expertise, and creativity to our project. They have a unique understanding of how museums can use the internet as an educational tool. They pushed us to think bigger and more creatively, while never losing sight of our mission and project goals. The product is a highly polished, easily navigable, and content-rich website that helps The Farmers' Museum reach students and teachers across New York State and beyond."

Hannah Weisman
Education Specialist
New York State Historical Association
and The Farmers' Museum

Architect Studio 3D
Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
Oak Park, Illinois

Architect Studio 3D offers a unique opportunity to explore architecture and the design process by designing a house online—and then touring it in 3D. With Frank Lloyd Wright as your guide, you first review the needs of your client and the particulars of the building location. Then start designing, taking your ideas from floor plan to final 3D model. Share your house design with the world in the online gallery, and discover Wright's own story and his innovative buildings.

eduweb's role: Concept development, interactivity design, content development, visual design, programming, and production.


Winner, AAM Muse Awards
"An ambitious and creative learning experience with a lighthearted tone and interactivity that fully realizes its goals with flair. Although created for ages 11 - 14, it will be useful to people of all ages."
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Creative Play Web Site
2005

Architect Studio screenshot
MouthPower Online
National Museum of Dentistry
Baltimore, Maryland

The secret of a healthy smile is simple: taking good care of your teeth. And what's the best way to find out how to do that? Let Mouthie take you into the MouthPower laboratory. Experiment to find the healthiest choices about food, tobacco, and cleaning habits. Explore the history of dentistry and the story of your own teeth! Then create your own poster about healthy mouth habits. (Children age 9-12)

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, scriptwriting, illustration, animation, programming, production, and user testing.

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Simulation/Creative Play
Web Activities

2004

Testing food, in MouthPower Online
The Renaissance Connection
Allentown Art Museum
Allentown, Pennsylvania

eduweb collaborated with Allentown museum staff on this multi-faceted Web site that explores Renaissance visual arts and innovations and their role in the making of the modern world. Applying research into learning styles and user engagement, we developed a suite of online activities and resources for middle school students and teachers: Explore a timeline of Renaissance art and innovation, commission an artwork as a patron of the arts, design your own innovation, and much more, all enhanced with quirky visuals, irreverent humor, and engaging interactivity that reveal the ways that Renaissance life and culture resemble our own.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, production, and user testing.


Winner, AAM Muse Awards
"This design clearly states that history is not boring! The Monty-Python-esque animation is particularly attention-getting and inviting and especially effective when the visitor becomes a 'Patron of the Arts.' This site hits the mark for younger teens!"

Finalist, Best of the Web
Museums & the Web 2004
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Multi-format Web Site
2004

Being a patron of the arts in the Renaissance Connection
"How do you make Renaissance art and culture relevant and meaningful to today's middle school students? We turned to eduweb, which clearly understood both the goals and the challenges of the project. eduweb helped define the big idea, establish objectives, develop the themes, and define a humorous personality for the site that would bring the Renaissance into the 21st century. We are delighted with the results and thank eduweb for their vision, creativity, and dedication to project."

Lise M. Dubé
Director of Education
Allentown Art Museum

PestWorld for Kids
National Pest Management Association
Dunn Loring, Virginia

What are pests? Think of them as animals out of place. Out in nature, they're just doing their jobs. But when they move into our homes and yards, that's when we call them pests.

Collaborating with the NPMA and its public relations agency, FCF Schmidt, eduweb developed a diverse array of offerings to meet many user needs and interests: amazing facts, in-depth information, interactive games, and curricular lesson plans that get you up close and personal with these bizarre yet all-too-familiar critters. You'll never look at an ant or cockroach in the same way again.

Designed primarily for elementary school-age kids and schoolteachers, this site has something for everyone. Who can resist sending a PestCard featuring a talking termite?

eduweb's role: Concept development, information architecture, scriptwriting, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, production, and usability testing.

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Interactive Reference with
Mystery & Role-Play Games

2004

Pest Detective screenshot

"After an exhaustive search of potential partners, eduweb surfaced as the most qualified Web developer for our client's educational children's Web site. And throughout the project's 6-month execution, they surely didn't disappoint. Working in tandem with our account team, eduweb expertly assimilated sometimes technical input to ultimately create a fun, engaging website that features innovative and interactive activities, interesting learning resources, and teacher lesson plans that adhere to national education standards."

Maribeth Roman Schmidt
President
FCF Schmidt Public Relations, Inc.

What I Did for My Summer Vacation
Montana Historical Society
Helena, Montana

Travel back in time to experience the past through artifacts from the Montana Historical Society's collections. We'll tell you about their past, but we won't tell you what to think about them Ñ that's your story to tell us!

eduweb collaborated with the staff of Montana's Museum to give Web visitors an opportunity to learn about and tell their own stories about historical artifacts. In order to add important context to selected artifacts in the museum's collection, we created an activity that casts users as visitors to real families who lived across Montana. In choosing objects to take home as souvenirs from a summer vacation visit to their host family, users learn about the objects and add their own interpretation and reaction to them. Material culture lives and breathes as these stories are shared with the wider online audience. The site is draws content directly from the museum's collection management database, allowing staff to add objects to the activity on a continuing basis.

eduweb's role: Concept and activity development, visual design, database integration, ASP programming, production.

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Role Play/Creative Play
Web Activity

2004

What I Did for My Summer Vacation

"We wanted to have a kid-friendly interactive that would also highlight our great collection of artifacts, photographs, and archival materials. eduweb's hands-on, personal approach was greatly appreciated by our team, proving to us that knowledgeable and supportive consultants are not a thing of the past!"

Sue Near
Director of Museum Services
Montana Historical Society

Shedd Educational Adventures (SEA)
John G. Shedd Aquarium
Chicago, Illinois

Shedd Educational Adventures (SEA) contains a treasure trove of aquatic science resources for K-12 teachers and students. SEA brings the Philippines to life for your students with fact sheets and multimedia interactives based on the Wild Reef exhibit at Shedd Aquarium.

  • Help Squish the Fish find lunch (a role-play story for grades K-2)
  • Build a fish and try to survive on the reef (a simulation for grades 3-6)
  • Make a movie about life on a coral reef (creative play for grades 4-6)
  • Solve a mystery in the Philippines (a puzzle/mystery for grades 6-9)
  • Solve a mystery in the Philippines (a puzzle/mystery for grades 6-9)
  • Research seahorse conservation (an interactive reference for grades 9-12)

Plus K-12 lesson plans, fact sheets about plants, animals and culture, and more! Dive into the SEA today!

eduweb's role: Information architecture, visual design, programming, and production for the entire SEA site. Also concept and content development, illustration, animation, programming and production for the interactive modules.

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Multi-format
Web Site, Web Activities & CD-ROM

2003-04

Screenshot: Build-a-Fish

Making a movie about Amazing Reef

Where in the World and What in the World is Money?
International Monetary Fund
Washington, D.C.

The IMF wanted to present some of the information in its history and evolution of money exhibit online. This interactive game goes beyond coin collecting to take the player on a fantastical time machine ride through different times and places. In trying to get home, the player learns what forms of exchange have been used as money throughout human history.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, programming, and production.

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Role Play
Web Activity

2003

Mysterious carnival, in Where & What in the World is Money?
Trading Around the World
International Monetary Fund
Washington, D.C.

The technicalities of international trade may be a snooze for middle school students, but a fast-paced game that challenges the player to buy low and sell high is just the ticket. We took an onsite activity and programmed a trading model that matches the player with computerized traders from around the world. Prices respond to the overall health of the global economy, and players can see how commodity prices change over time.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

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Role Play/Simulation
Web Activity

2003

Trading Around the World
Jefferson's West
Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg, Virginia

Join Lewis & Clark and head west in this interactive role-playing game combined with creative play. As you journey westward, you can stop along the way and explore, collecting plants and animals and trading with Indians for cultural objects. What you collect and send back to Thomas Jefferson will shape his view (and by extension the American view) of these new lands. (This is a demo version of this game, which is part of Colonial Williamsburg's Electronic Field Trip program.)

With Jefferson's West, we sought to combine engaging gameplay with personal storytelling in an adventure about the Lewis & Clark expedition. The hybrid role play/creative play approach offers various types and degrees of interactivity to allow a satisfying experience for users with differing levels of engagement.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

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Silver Medalist, 2003 AAM MUSE Awards
American Association of Museums

"I particularly like the Web game with its ability to move in different directions to explore and collect data. A good example of how integrated technology (electronic field trip and website) can bring specific content directly into classrooms."
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Role-Play/Creative Play
Web Activity

2002

Screenshot of Jefferson's West game

"eduweb has a unique ability to listen, understand, design and execute interactive web experiences that are content driven, focused on appropriate user skill sets, complement national history learning standards, and work in harmony with the other components of our Electronic Field Trips. With eduweb's rare expertise in understanding what their client's mission is all about, they continue to create engaging and dynamic experiences for our constituency. Colonial Williamsburg's Education Outreach initiatives win national awards with eduweb's creativity being an integral part of the team effort."

Dale Van Eck
Associate Producer Education Technology
Colonial Williamsburg Productions

The Artist's Toolkit
Minneapolis Institute of Arts & Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN

Artists use visual elements and principles like line, color and shape as tools to build works of art. Learn about these concepts in a variety of ways. Explore the Toolkit with animations and interactive modules. See Artists in Action as they create compositions using the visual elements and principles. Delve into the heavily illustrated Encyclopedia to learn more about the elements and principles.

eduweb's role: Concept development, site organization and visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.


Winner, 2003 MUSE Awards
American Association of Museums

"A great introduction to basic concepts in art...should be every classroom teacher's essential tool...Very nice how the producers tried to appeal to different learning styles."

Finalist, Best Educational Use
Museums & the Web 2003
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Multi-format
Web site

2002

Color animation, from The Artist's Toolkit

"Museum staff are enchanted by the imaginative—and appropriate—ways in which eduweb brings works of art to life. They are highly gifted educators with a repertoire of creative strategies that engage diverse learners."

Kate Johnson
Chair, Education Division
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Art of Crime Detection
Sanford
Bellwood, Illinois

You witness a crime, and the police ask you to help identify the culprit, using their new PDArtist tool. Learn how your left and right brain work and the best ways to use your brain as an artist. Can you create composite portraits that help identify the culprit?

Use the PDArtist tool to create composite portraits of two (innocuous) crimes—or just play around with this open-ended drawing tool! This interactive was originally developed for Sanford's "A Lifetime of Color" website, which is now defunct, so we are making it available here.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, programming, and production for the entire ArtEdventures site, including lesson plans and classroom activities, reference content, and art games.

Awards include:
Cool Site of the Day
Best Art Site of 1999
Education World A+ Reviewed Site
Ask Jeeves Silver Platter Site

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Interactive Mystery & Creative Play
1998-2004

Screenshot: The Art of Crime Detection
"Eduweb masterfully helped us make our Web goals a reality. We receive dozens of comments daily from artists, teachers, homeschooling parents, and students showinering praises."

Dina Cooper
Product Manager for Art & Education
Sanford
JerseyHistory
New Jersey Historical Society
Newark, New Jersey

JerseyHistory offers a peek at its past, present and upcoming exhibitions, a publication archive, links to valuable outside resources, immediate access to its extensive archives and finding aids, a destination listing for Newark arts, culture, and entertainment, a monthly calendar of events, news updates, as well as selected images from the museum and library collections. Teachers and students can also sample online history lessons, downloadable curriculum materials, an archive of Jersey Journeys quarterly newspaper for students, and a listing of customized educational programs for learners of all ages.

eduweb's role: Information architecture, interface design, graphic design, programming, and production for both public Web site and private content management system for museum staff.

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Institutional
Web Site

2002

New Jersey Historical Society home page
Understanding Slavery
Discovery Channel Schools
Silver Spring, Maryland

How could slavery have survived so long in American history? Our challenge with this site was to put American slavery into global context, and to explore the ways that it permeated American social and economic institutions. The result: a hybrid role play/interactive reference site that challenges the student to stop a slave auction, and then lets them explore the perspectives of the many people who had a stake in the institution.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, programming, and production.


Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 2002
Homeschooling.com

"A select group of the most informative, innovative,
and educational sites on the Internet today!"
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Role Play/Interactive Reference
Web Activity

2001

Understanding Slavery home page
Kids Design Network (KDN)
DuPage Children's Museum
Naperville, Illinois

The DuPage Children's Museum was taking their popular in-school design program to the Web—but how? Technical challenges abounded, from school-age computers to district firewalls. But after extensive development and formative testing, we had an innovative and award-winning site. At school or home, kids tackle design challenges with the help of a real engineer, who consults with each kid live, via an interactive whiteboard and chat room. Empowering for kids (and engineers), this program is available at no cost for schools and homeschoolers.

eduweb's role: Site organization and interface design, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.


Gold Medalist, 2002 MUSE Awards
American Association of Museums

"Marvelously creative. I would have loved
this project as a kid!"

Finalist, Best Educational Use
Museums & the Web 2002
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Creative Play/Two-Way Communication
Web Activity

2001

KDN
A Brush with Wildlife: Create a Composition with Carl Rungius
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Jackson, Wyoming

eduweb and NMWA staff were eager to tackle another project after our first collaboration, Art Tales, won the "Best of the Web: Educational Use" award at Museums & the Web 2001. The topic now was art elements and principles—a fundamental of art education. Museum staff wanted to focus on Carl Rungius, one of America's finest wildlife artists and a mainstay of the museum's collection. We developed an activity which, like Art Tales, is open-ended and involves creativity and personal meaning-making. A Brush with Wildlife complements Art Tales by focusing on visual rather than language creativity. Users learn how to use art principles like balance, contrast, movement, and proportion to compose a powerful art composition. They can create their own composition and submit it to the Critique Gallery for review.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, animation, programming, and production.


Silver Medalist, 2002 MUSE Awards
American Association of Museums

"The images were beautifully illustrated,
the text was clear, and the activity was creative."

Finalist, Best Educational Use
Museums & the Web 2002
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Creative Play/Reference
Web Activity

2001

Screenshot: A Brush with Wildlife

"My experience working with eduweb has been nothing but extremely positive. They combine professionalism with educational innovation. They have their thumb on the pulse of what makes online programs fun and dynamic as well as educational. Their technical and graphical skills brought our learning objectives to life in an exciting and effective manner. I highly recommend eduweb as a web consultant that can make learning fun."

Kathy Turner
Web Curriculum Coordinator
National Museum of Wildlife Art

Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art
National Museum of Wildlife Art
Jackson, Wyoming

With this project, we wanted to offer users an opportunity for thoughtful creativity using artworks from the museum's wonderful collection to tell a story. To foster motivation and an imaginative approach among users, we added a role play element—users choose to be a frontier explorer, field guide writer, or museum curator and then work with artworks to create something meaningful and original.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, programming, and production.


Best of the Web: Educational Use
Museums & the Web 2001

"Excellent activities to stimulate observation and thought. The reward of being published on the web is an added bonus."

Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 2002
Homeschooling.com

"A select group of the most informative, innovative, and educational sites on the Internet today!"
Go to Site
  Creative Play/Role Play
Web Activity

2000

Storywriting page, from Art Tales

"Working with eduweb was truly a wonderful experience. They were creative in their ideas, yet respectful of our art collection."

Charlotte Reynolds
Youth Education Coordinator
National Museum of Wildlife Art

In Search of the Ways of Knowing Trail
Brookfield Zoo
Chicago Zoological Society
Chicago, Illinois

Brookfield Zoo wanted an online game to complement their new Ituri Forest exhibit, focusing on the many "ways of knowing" the forest that stem from cultural perspectives and knowledge. We collaborated with Education staff on the story and script, creating a walk through the rainforest with four local children as your guide. Through them, users learn about the forest through their eyes. We then created full screen illustrations and animations for a rich storybook look.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.


Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 2002
Homeschooling.com

"A select group of the most informative, innovative,
and educational sites on the Internet today!"
Go to Site
Role-Play
Web Activity

2000

Screenshot of Ways of Knowing Trail

"This project was a joy to art direct: the work generally exceeded expectations and when something wasn't what we wanted, eduweb listened, they got it, they fixed it. The process was downright fun."

Hannah Jennings
Design Manager
Brookfield Zoo

Geo Mysteries
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Indiananapolis, Indiana

Rocks that float. Golden cubes. What's going on here? Join Rex the Dino Detective and solve these mysteries about rocks, fossils and minerals. Includes an interactive animated exploration of a slab of fossilized sea floor.

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Mystery
Web Activity

2000

Examining pumice in a Geo Mystery
Aboard the R/V Blue Heron
Bell LIVE! / Bell Museum of Natural History
Minneapolis, Minnesota

This interactive virtual reality tour takes visitors aboard the research vessel on Lake Superior and lets them explore the ships labs, bridge and even the engine room.

eduweb's role: Concept development, visual design, QTVR photography, programming, and production.

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QTVR/Reference
Web site

2000

Wet Room aboard the R/V Blue Heron
Build-a-Prairie
Bell LIVE! / Bell Museum of Natural History
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Working with Bell LIVE!, the Bell Museum's distance learning program, eduweb developed online activities and resources about prairie ecology and restoration. In Build-A-Prairie, players choose flora and fauna for a prairie restoration project. Correct choices are rewarded with engaging animations and, ultimately, the chance to set a controlled burn.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

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Simulation
Web Activity

1999

Screenshot of Build-a-Prairie
Project Sol
Arizona Science Center
Phoenix, Arizona

eduweb developed this Web site for the Arizona Science Center in collaboration with Arizona's power utility. The site features in-depth content about solar energy andelectricity, plus an atom-scale exploration of a solar cell. Future plans include live data from solar power stations throughout Arizona.

eduweb's role: Content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

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Interactive Reference
Web Site

2000

Atom-scale view of a PV cell
CosmicQuest
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Indiananapolis, Indiana

NASA and the Russian space agency have spent over forty years solving the problems of living in space. Can you match wits with their engineers and design a human habitat as good as the new International Space Station?

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

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Simulation/Quiz
Web Activity

1999

CosmicQuest home page
Kinetosaurs: Putting some teeth into art and science
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Indiananapolis, Indiana

This online complement to a traveling exhibition mixes art, science, and technology for a multi-faceted exploration of dinosaurs, biology, and kinetic sculpture.

eduweb's role: Content development, visual design, illustration, animation, programming, and production.

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Interactive
Web Activities

1999

Kinetosaurs home page
Be a Spacecraft Engineer
JASON Foundation for Education
Needham Heights, Massachusetts

This lab connects NASA's Stardust comet-exploration mission with the International Space Station project. Students explore the engineering choices that went into Stardust, then design a new spacecraft to protect the Space Station from orbital space junk.

eduweb's role: Concept and content development, visual design, illustration, programming, and production.

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Quiz/Creative Play
Web Activity

1999

Designing a spacecraft
Who's Out There? Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The SETI Institute
Mountain View, California

This set of interactive modules brings several middle school lesson plans to the Web, giving students some hands-on exploration of key topics in astronomy and the search for E.T.I.


Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 2002
Homeschooling.com

"A select group of the most informative, innovative,
and educational sites on the Internet today!"

"This delightful and imaginative space-science
adventure will thrill over 8's and parents are
sure to enjoy the ride too."
BBC Web Guide
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Interactive Mystery
Web Activity

1998

Screenshot from Who's Out There?
The Watershed Game
Bell LIVE! / Bell Museum of Natural History
Minneapolis, Minnesota

In our first collaboration with Bell LIVE!, eduweb developed this interactive quiz about watershed ecology and conservation.

eduweb's role: Visual design, illustration, animation, QTVR photography, programming, and production.

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Interactive Quiz
Web site

1998

The Watershed Game
Building Surprises
Weisman Art Museum
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Frank Gehry's amazing architectural designs have become world famous. This site explores a key building in his portfolio—the Weisman Art Museum. Explore the building inside and out. Learn about the design process and other remarkable buildings designed by Gehry.

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Interactive Reference
Web Activity

1998

Gehry's design, from Building Surprises
A. Pintura: Art Detective
eduweb
St. Paul, Minnnesota

Pintura was one of our first projects but remains very popular for its film noir approach to art history. Step into Pintura's shoes and try to solve the Case of Grandpa's Painting.


Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 2002
Homeschooling.com

"A select group of the most informative, innovative,
and educational sites on the Internet today!"

"Outstanding, clever, and stimulating."
The American Library Association

"One of the coolest games on the Web.
Selected for display in the Digital Experience gallery."
J. Paul Getty Museum
Go to Site
Role Play/Mystery
Web Activity

1997

The plot thickens in A. Pintura
Inside Art
eduweb
St. Paul, Minnnesota

What if you were trapped inside a painting and had to solve a mystery to get out? This site developed in-house during eduweb's early days explores a painting from the inside out.


Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 2002
Homeschooling.com
"A select group of the most informative, innovative,
and educational sites on the Internet today!"

"Great Web Sites for Kids"
The American Library Association
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Role Play/Reference
Web Activity

1997

Talking with Trish the Fish, in Inside Art
Amazon Interactive
eduweb
St. Paul, Minnnesota

eduweb founder David Schaller developed this site based on his M.A. thesis research in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Explore the cultural and natural geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. Then try your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the Río Napo.


Top 100 Educational Web Sites of 2002
Homeschooling.com

"A select group of the most informative, innovative,
and educational sites on the Internet today!"

"Great Web Sites for Kids"
The American Library Association
Go to Site
Reference/Simulation
Web Activity

1996

Planning an ecotourism project in Amazon Interactive

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