Boomerang Award

Lachimie.com took the grand prize for best website in the Education category, edging out Clicfrançais and Radio-Canada.ca's Zone archives.

Produced by the Cégep@distance in conjunction with SMI, Lachimie.com is a multimedia environment made up of a website and five TV shows based on three virtual web chemistry labs.

Guillaume Aniorté, the delegated producer at SMI, was especially proud of the prize because the creation of lachimie.com posed a significant challenge: "it wasn't easy to create virtual labs that could really plunge the students into a learning environment, letting them do all the tasks normally carried out in a real lab," he explained. Alain Gervais, assistant director at the Cégep@distance, added that the goal was achieved "through the combined expertise and efforts of a very experienced multimedia team, renowned chemistry professors, and instructional designers who specialize in distance education."

The Cégep@distance has been designing, producing and distributing college-level distance education courses in print and online formats since 1991. This first collaborative project with SMI was made possible by the financial support of the Videotron Fund.