"Sophie's raison d'etre is to enable people to create robust, elegant rich-media, networked documents without recourse to programming. We have word processors, video, audio and photo editors but no viable options for assembling the parts into a complex whole except tools like Flash which are expensive, hard to use, and often create documents with closed proprietary file formats. Sophie promises to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of creative people." - The Institute for the Future of the Book
Currently the New Laboratory for Teaching and Learning is working with Dalton Spanish Teacher Sol Gaitan and members of The Future of The Book to investigate the use of Sophie within Dalton. Our first initiative is to update an existing Spanish project, Lorca, from TK3 into Sophie. Through this project we hope to blur the teacher and student roles into a shared authorship within a living document.
There are few programs available which allow teachers and technologists to develop multimedia projects easily and efficiently. Sophie has the potential be a breakthrough that would satisfy this important need.