Imagine that your school or college has set up an exchange programme with a school in Uganda, and that you have recently completed a term at the school. In order to inform pupils at your school about Nyakasura School, you have been asked to put together a showcase about the pupils, the school and its environment.

The project organisers have issued a set of rules for those taking part and you must ensure that your showcase meets the requirements.

The showcase will:

•  consist of three multimedia products for young people aged 14-17 years:

• a movie of about 40–50 seconds
• a virtual tour
• an interactive quiz.

•  be no more than 15 MB

•  run in all common web browsers

•  only contain acceptable file formats:

• html
• pdf
• swf
• jpg
• gif
• wmv
• avi
• png
• mov
• wav
• mp3
• ppt

When producing these products you should constantly remind yourself of the audience and the purpose. Not everyone taking part in the project has English as a first language, so it will be inappropriate to rely too much on text or speech.

No amount of flashy graphics and interactive features will make someone want to view your products if they do not work as expected! You should use prototyping throughout the development of your products to test them with users.

If your products are effective, you will have demonstrated your ability to apply your ICT skills in the best possible way.

It is important that you read the whole project brief before you begin.

There are some symbols and buttons in the brief to help you:

Every time you see this symbol you have work to do that must be included in your eportfolio.

This button will take you to some tips on how to achieve maximum marks for the section you are working on..