Example Projects
The following is a very small selection of projects completed by Multilocus and includes some downloadable PDF's and audio files.
Use the links below to access the different project categories.
Project Management - Recognising and Managing Risk
Plain English Help Guides
Printed Publications
Podcast and Radio Style Stories
Specialised Educational Resources
Niche events and workshops
Read some stories written by Multilocus
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Project Management - Recognising and Managing Risk
Ensuring things go the way they should!
Creative communications are constantly evolving to take advantage of new technologies which means the diversity of skill sets now required to deliver many innovative solutions requires the need to sub-contract to other individuals and organisations in both the creative and technical fields.
With more than 14 years hands-on experience Multilocus' understanding of the processes, timescales, possibilities and technical limitations make us well equipped to ensure that project outcomes are maximised. Most importantly, we provide the ability to respond to sudden unexpected events and to recognise and manage risks before they become problems.
Using the PRINCE2 project management methodology, we can offer independent project management expertise for your in-house projects or those that are being developed on your behalf by an external organisation.
Our fully documented project plans provide a repeatable methodology to organise, manage, control and deliver projects on time, within budget and to a high quality.
Plain English Help Guides
One of our specialities is the writing and design of paper based plain English help guides for a diverse range of audiences.
This has included the Australian Army using our custom designed Information Management System (IMS), science teachers learning to incorporate technology into the classroom and new computer users located in Australia's remote Indigenous communities.
Download an extract from the IMS help guide (11 pages, 1.8MB PDF)
Download the remote Indigenous computer help guide (36 pages, 6.5MB PDF)
The purpose of this project was to create a communications package that would promote the Country Education Foundation of Australia to prospective sponsors and to encourage new towns to set up their own regional foundation.
Researched, written, photographed, designed and produced by Multilocus, Sharing Their Dreams is a full colour 40 page booklet and accompanying Audio CD that tells the Foundation’s story and profiles 5 very enthusiastic young Australians who have been assisted by the Foundation.
Download the Sharing Their Dreams booklet (40 pages 6.0MB PDF)
Bush FireWise Campaign Materials
Multilocus provided the ACT Emergency Services Bureau with design, writing and photographic services to create a dynamic range of brochures, banners and signage to support the ACT Bush FireWise program.
As this was a new program there were no photographs that could be used to illustrate the brochure. Multilocus worked with the ACT Bushfire Service and the ACT Fire Brigade to “mock up” a Bush FireWise meeting so that we could take some photographs for use in the brochure. Additional images for the brochure were sourced from Multilocus’ image library.
Home Among The Plums Trees – “The Valley Homestead” Ruins
The ruins of Thomas and Catherine Gribble’s rammed earth pise and stone cottage known as 'The Valley Homestead' overlooks Gungahlin Drive and falls within the grounds of Burgmann Anglican School in Gungahlin. Classified as a heritage site the ruins form a valuable learning resource for the school. The purpose of this pamphlet is to help the students interpret the site.
Download the Home Among The Plum Trees pamphlet (530KB PDF)
Podcast and Radio Style Stories
Set in 1899 and using a script provided by the Burnie Pioneer Village Museum this audio play uses professional actors and sound effects to recreate the atmosphere in the Emu Bay Inn, Tasmania. Today Emu Bay is known as Burnie.
Listen to the first 70 seconds – (647 KB MP3)
Listen to the complete play – 7 minutes 21 seconds – (3.5MB MP3)
Mulligans Flat Reserve is a fine example of grassy Yellow Box / Red Gum woodland that in pre-European times covered approximately 100,000 square kilometres of New South Wales through Victoria and into South Australia. Today there is possibly only 0.01% of the original area in anything like the condition of pre-European times and Mulligans Flat is possibly the largest of these remaining areas at 740 hectares.
This podcast walking tour was conceived and funded by Multilocus and is narrated by local naturalist Ian Fraser. Total commentary time is 35 minutes. The tour leaves the Mulligans Flat car park and will take you approximately two and a half hours to complete.
Listen to the first 6 minutes 30 seconds – (3.1MB MP3)
This audio story was supplied as an audio CD with the Sharing Their Dreams booklet for the Country Education Foundation of Australia, see above. Narrated by Kloe Croker, a recipient of one of the Foundation’s scholarships, it uses interviews recorded in the field and over the telephone to tell the Foundation’s story.
Listen to the introduction – 55 seconds – (451KB MP3)
Listen to the complete story – 19 minutes 54 seconds – (9.6MB MP3)
Specialised Educational Resources
An Introduction to Classification in Sailing, Para-Equestrian and Adaptive Rowing
This project was an initiative of the Disability Sports Unit at the Australian Sports Commission (ASC).
Athletes competing in Paralympic sports, at both a national and international level, must undergo ‘classification’ where they are grouped with athletes of similar disability to ensure fairer competition. The process of classification is carried out by a Classifier. Following classification an athlete will be allocated a ‘class’ and a ‘classification report’ recording the Classifier’s decision is filed with the national sporting organisation. Depending on the athlete’s disability Classifications may be reviewed at a later date or given permanent status. Therefore, the role of the Classifier in disability sport is a very important one.
Multilocus was contracted by the ASC to produce self-paced learning resources for trainee classifiers in the sports of Sailing, Para-Equestrian and Adaptive Rowing. The result is three ‘world first’ DVD-ROMs that now contribute to the delivery of the theory component to trainee classifiers for the three sports. Satisfactory completion of the theory assessment tasks on the DVD-ROM are a necessary prerequisite to attend a sports specific practical training workshop and the subsequent awarding of National Classifier status.
The three resources follow the same structure and include film of athletes, from each class, completing all of the possible ‘tests’ that may be requested during a classification. One of the unique aspects of these DVD-ROMs is the extensive video coverage of athletes from each class. This is something that is not always possible to see at a practical training workshop.
Because of the critical importance of the classification report, the assessment task requires the trainee to complete the classification reports for three randomly allocated athletes. Trainees must interview the athlete, obtain a medical and sporting history and decide which tests to ‘ask’ the athlete to perform. The trainee must record the results and their decisions. Once trainees ‘submit’ and email their reports they can assess their performance by reviewing the reports completed by the Chief Classifier.
The resources have primarily been designed for trainee classifiers but a secondary audience is athletes, coaches and others seeking information about the process of classification.
Developed for the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, and accompanied by a Teachers Resource book and plush hand puppet also designed by Multilocus, Eli the Dragonfly is the first Australian developed English as a Second Language CD-ROM for lower primary school students.
Based on the Fostering English Language In Kimberley Schools (FELIKS) approach, Eli increases student awareness of English and focuses specifically on features that cause difficulty for Aboriginal students.
Eli the Dragonfly includes themes, characters, icons and colours typical of the Kimberley Region that are not only relevant to the Kimberley’s Aboriginal children for whom the CD-ROM was designed, but are attractive to all young students for whom Standard Australian English is not their first language.
The accompanying Teachers Resource Book provides ideas and ways in which teachers can extend the potential for learning from this resource; and the hand puppet of Eli the Dragonfly provides a stimulus for more creative experiences.
Download the order form for Eli the Dragonfly
Indigenous Language Teaching Resources
Winner - Best Indigenous Resource – 2006 ATOM Awards for Film, Television, Video and Multimedia
Multilocus was contracted by the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts to design and develop language resources for remote Indigenous communities to support the use and preservation of their traditional languages.
The eight CD-ROMs (Learning Adnyamathanha, Learning Arabana, Ngaanyatjarraku Nintirringkulatjaku, Learning Ngarinyman, Nganyjurruku Nyangumarta Muwarr, Learning Paakantji, Learning palawa kani, Learning Wathaurong) feature stories or songs reflecting the culture of each language group, as well as exercises and games to promote language skills. The words, sentences, pictures and audio requests used in all the activities are randomly selected. Therefore, each time an activity is played, the student will be presented with a different set, thus giving variety and preventing the student from learning that the correct answer is always in a specific order or position on the screen. The Student Tracking feature ensures that the students see all the items in an activity before they are randomised and presented again. The ‘look and feel’ of each resource links the resource to the language group’s country.
The Teacher’s Guide includes installation instructions, suggested lesson plans, and black line masters.
The learning modules are suitable for all ages and are described in the Overview of Activity Modules booklet.
Download the Overview of Activity Modules booklet (2.7MB PDF)
Winner – 2003 Australian Safer Communities Awards - Pre-Disaster Category
The purpose of the GeoInsight Resource Kit was to promote to Australian Emergency Management agencies the use of geospatial information in the prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery phases of disasters. The five topic areas are Flood, Bushfire, Storm, Data Capture and Future Directions.
To avoid duplication between the topic areas the Flood topic introduces and covers building attribute data in detail. The Storm topic demonstrates how census data can be presented in a visual form so that managers can determine where inter-agency assistance may be required. Whilst the Bushfire topic shows how both can be used in a completely different situation.
The Data Capture topic uses the Longford Gas Plant explosion to show in detail how data can be collected and then presented. These same techniques are equally applicable to collecting data for use in other emergency scenarios such as Bushfire, Storm and Flood.
Six video case studies of GIS best practice within Australian emergency management extend the five topics by showing how GIS can improve agency efficiencies.
More than 3000 copies of the Resource Kit were distributed to practitioners, universities and schools throughout Australia.
Conferences | Exhibitions | Launches | Meetings | Seminars | Workshops
Whether your event is to be run locally or interstate, we can provide you with a complete event solution that can includes:
• Personally inviting your delegates or guests
• Venue selection, management and set-up
• Installation and operation of any audio visual and technical requirements
• Table plans and seating arrangements
• Facilitation of the proceedings
• Filming of all speeches and presentations
• Photography
• Design and production of speakers' presentations
• Writing, design, printing and distribution of registration brochures, posters, program, proceedings and final reports
• Alerting and inviting the media, (writing media alerts and production of media kits).