Makepeace Productions chose Interactive Knowledge to design and produce an educational website that highlights twelve Native American language recovery programs from around the country. The website, titled Our Mother Tongues, is funded by ITVS (Independent Television Service) as part of Project 360, a production initiative dedicated to innovative multi-platform work. The website supports the Makepeace Productions' film titled, We Still Live Here - As Nutayunean, a documentary that features the work of the Wampanoag Tribe of southeastern Massachusetts as they reclaim their mother tongue and create a new generation of native speakers. The film will air on PBS in November 2011. The website includes dozens of video clips from members of the twleve tribes who describe their goals for reclaiming their language. Other interactive features include an e-Postcard with Native language audio greetings, forty audio files with people speaking in their mother tongue, detailed descriptions of the twelve language reclamation programs including videos and photos and a blog which will be updated with current news from Cultural Survival's Endangered Language's program.
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Our Mother Tongues site launches
Nov 07, 2011
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NACCHO and IK launch Roots of Health Inequity online curriculum and community site
Nov 01, 2011A year-long project has successfully launched. The Roots of Health Inequity is a combination of several online properties including a public website, a community site and an extensive online curriculum for NACCHO members. NACCHO (National Association of County and City Health Officials) received funding from NIH to design and build an interactive educational program that addresses critical issues around health in equity and social justice. Richard Hofrichter, PhD served as NACCHO Project Director and Mikhaila Richards, MS served as the Senior Program Analyst throughout the project. Interactive Knowledge provided content strategy, visual design, interactive design and all programming and testing activities. The online curriculum and community sites were both built in Drupal and will be hosted and maintained by IK.
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American Sabor is the Communication Arts Webpick of the Week!
Aug 30, 2011Communication Arts has chosen our American Sabor website as its Webpick of the Week. We designed and produced American Sabor for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) to support the American Sabor exhibition. This bilingual site uses music, video and great design to show the pervasive influence of Latino music on American culture. Earlier this summer, Freedom Riders, a Webby-nominated site we designed and produced for WGBH and American Experience was also named Webpick of the Week.
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IK Partners with the Mint Museum on Romare Bearden Exhibition
Aug 23, 2011We are beginning a new project with one of our original clients - the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte. Over the past fourteen years, we have designed and produced seven educational websites for the Mint, including the MUSE Gold-Award winning Mesoamerican Ballgame: The Sport of Life and Death. Our latest project, Memory Train, is funded by IMLS. We will design and build three interactive kiosks that the Mint will install in the galleries of the Romare Bearden exhibition titled, Southern Recollections. The kiosks will use laptop computers to introduce the key themes of Bearden's art and then collect, store and display video-based comments and memories from exhibition visitors. The exhibition is part of the celebration of the centennial of Romare Bearden's birth. Bearden spent part of his youth visiting his grandparents near Charlotte and his art often reflects memories from his childhood.
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Communication Arts chooses Freedom Riders as Webpick of the Week!
Jul 10, 2011The Editors at Communication Arts honored our Freedom Riders website as the Webpick of the Week. This educational website was nominated for a Webby Award in the Education Category earlier this year. Freedom Riders is a documentary, directed by Stanley Nelson for WGBH and American Experience. The website was designed and produced by Interactive Knowledge. We also wrote much of the original content. The film tells the true story of over 400 men and women who organized and participated in a peaceful protest that ended the segregation in the Deep South of travelers on buses, trains and airplanes in 1961.
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Smithsonian Wins People's Voice Webby!
Jun 01, 2011
We are happy to announce that our Smithsonian "Refresh" project is the winner of the Webby People’s Voice Award in the Cultural Institutions category for the 15th Annual Webby Awards! Our President, Tim Songer, will be in New York City with our Smithsonian partners to attend the ceremony and enjoy the festivities June 12th - 13th.
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2011 Museum Expo in Houston
May 26, 2011
IK President Tim Songer traveled to Houston, Texas to attend the American Association of Museums Expo. This year's theme was "The Museum of Tomorrow." IK has attended these gatherings for a decade, and it's become something of a family reunion for us. We look forward to seeing friends, clients, contractors and fellow website designers — as well as hearing the speakers and discussion panels talk about what's new in the world of museums.
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We're nominated for TWO Webby Awards!
Apr 13, 2011We here at Interactive Knowledge were thrilled to learn that two of our websites have been nominated for Webby Awards! It's an honor to be nominated and it's very rare that a company gets two nominations in one year. We would take time to celebrate, but we're too busy working on new projects.
One nominated site in the Cultural Institution category is the Smithsonian Institution’s main online presence at si.edu. We have completed over a dozen online projects with the Smithsonian and this is the largest to date. The second nominated site in the Education category is for Freedom Riders. This site is our first partnership with the WGBH Educational Foundation. The site supports the American Experience film by the same name.
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Check out "American Sabor," our latest Smithsonian project featuring Latino music
Mar 28, 2011American Sabor is an extensive, bilingual website we designed and built for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). The website complements the American Sabor traveling exhibition and opens soon in Sacramento.
This site features a wealth of information for anyone with an interest in Latino music and its influence on American culture. Listen to dozens of songs, read musician biographies, watch interviews and interact with an online mixer that lets you learn the unique rhythms and musical instruments used in eight different musical styles.
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Meet Our New Programmer, Andrew Martin
Feb 24, 2011
We are pleased to have Andi Martin join our IK family. Andi is a skilled programmer in a number of languages. He comes with Joomla experience and is quickly acclimating to Drupal as he jumps headlong into several new projects. Andi did a BSc in Applied Computing at the University of Dundee. Did I mention that he’s Scottish? He was a Head Chef and Bartender in St. Andrews when a visiting Prince William complimented Andi on making the best chips (french fries) he had ever tasted. There was also an incident with Sean Connery that Andi won't talk about, but that's all behind him now. Here "across the pond" he loves computers and we love having him on our team.
