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• OLD NEWS

  October 22, 2002: We've just updated our portfolio section to by adding a new video portfolio. This features our work with Flash MX and highlights many of the powerful new features in the popular authoring system from Macromedia.

  August 23, 2002 : The directors of the Summer ESL Program at UC Berkeley hired us to develop an online placement test for their use. The results are in, and it was deemed a huge success. See "Grow Your Own: Online Placement Testing" for some of the details on how we designed the entire project, from the Flash front-end for management of the authentication process and delivery of the test items, to the back-end data tracking system.

  April 8, 2001 : We are the proud owners of a new state-of-the-art mobile digital audio-video studio. Hardware core: Apple Powerbook G4 Titanium, Sony TRV900 Digital Video Camera, MOTU 828 Firewire Audio Interface, Maxtor 80 GB Firewire Drive, Sony ECM-44B Lavalier Microphone, AKG C 1000 S Condenser Microphone. Software core: Final Cut Pro (Video Editing), Adobe Premiere (Video Editing), QuickTime Pro (Video Editing), Media Cleaner Pro (Video Compression), Sorensen Video Pro (Video Compression), Digital Performer (Audio Editing), Peak DV (Audio Editing). See the "about us" section for the reason why we're so excited!

  December 27, 2000 : It's official. We've passed all the tests and are now recognized as "Certified WebCT Experts" in all versions of this most popular Course Managment Software. Of course, our clients have known this all along.

  October 20, 2000 : Jim Duber presents "Making the Most of WebCT 3.x" as invited keynote speaker at Sonoma State University WebCT Day Conference.

  May 15-19, 2000 : Jim Duber co-presents a poster session with Maggie Sokolik on "Building Communities of Teachers & Learners: The WebCT E-Learning Hub" at the 9th International World Wide Web Conference, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

  May 12, 2000 : Jim Duber and Maggie Sokolik are invited plenary speakers on the use of "WebCT in Higher Education" during a national conference on WebCT at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands.

  April 25, 2000 : We recently visited Tokyo, Japan to provide training at Z-Kai Publishing, Ltd. On our weekend off we shot some Travel Video, several rought cuts of which are provided here. UPDATE: We've been invited back to offer our training course to a new group of students at Z-Kai in March, 2001.

  March 17, 2000 : Jim Duber presents "Developing Streaming Multimedia Course Modules for the WWW" at TESOL 2000 in Vancouver, BC. Interactive Presentation Notes are available online as a Flash 4 movie (external link--will open in a new browser window).

  September 16, 1999: Jim Duber interviewed by David Wichner of The Arizona Daily Star for commentary on voice recognition in language learning software. See the online version of the article. (Note: For your convenience, this link will open in a new browser window.)