Tracing our Ancestors: an Interactive CD-rom built at the University of the South Pacific

ISBN 982-01-0594-3, November 2004

Tracing our Ancestors is an interactive CD-rom on Pacific History, developed by the Media Centre of the University of the South Pacific, in Fiji. It was built as the finale of a Research and Development project funded by the Japan International Care Organisation (JICA) that looked into how educational technology can be developed according to learning approaches of the South Pacific.

The CD-rom is available in languages from each of the 12 countries served by USP - the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu - and Vanuatu, and presents educational material not only thematically, but also according to a variety of learning approaches. There is a quick outline section, a more exploratory map interface, and a "test yourself" section, all available in a dozen different regional languages.

Credits

Project head: Christopher Robbins.
Flash Developers: Vignesh Shashidhar and Thomas Rodgers.
Content developer: Maria Ronna Luna Pastorizo

For more information, or to order a copy, contact Christopher Robbins at robbins_c@usp.ac.fj / http://www.grographics.com . A research report that discusses the findings of the project this CD-rom was a part of can be downloaded as a 1.6 mb PDF file.