• Nuevos Destinos
• Migration in Modern History
• Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Essentials
• The Multidisciplinary Approach to Morbid Obesity

Nuevos Destinos

This is a Macromedia Director-based cross-platform CD-ROM that continues the story line of Destinos. Paired with a set of fifteen half-hour videotapes, it teaches a Spanish course. It is set in the form of a soap opera, with each videotape being an episode.

In the CD-ROM, you are sitting at a desk in a Los Angeles law firm, with documents, a phone, a tape recorder and a laptop computer. Your task is to examine the documents, receive and send phone calls and Email, and talk over an inheritance case with people who walk in the door of your office. The computer has a full word processor, Email application, dictionary and list of characters.

Contracting for WGBH/Boston, I created the software for the CD-ROM, writing over 31,000 lines of Lingo code to drive the user interface and media. It includes a full authoring system for building the various interactive hot spots; this greatly eased both building and revising the program.

You can find information on Nuevos Destinos at
<http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/learn/ndestinos/>. You can also find a (glowing) review at <http://calico.org/CALICO_Review/review/destinos.htm>.

Migration in Modern History

Migration in Modern History is an educational CD-ROM created for Northeastern University college and advanced high school courses on World History. The content spans thirteen units containing four hundred pieces of video, audio, image or text evidence. This evidence is supported by a thousand analysis questions, a high-speed text search engine, and an innovative three-dimensional access metaphor.

I consulted on the user interface design and the content production, wrote all of the code, and assembled the final product.

Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Essentials

This is a pair of CD-ROMs talking about various aspects of corporate entrepreneurship as related to the workplace, designed and produced by Foxfire Interactive Corporation for Babson Interactive, LLC. To get a detailed product overview, please visit: www.foxfireinteractive.com and click on "Babson" in the clients section.

The product is delivered as a pair of CD-ROMs which use QuickTime, Director executables, Shockwave, JavaScript and Flash, presented within web browser windows, to provide a rich environment for learning. The product includes a key-based licensing model; the encrypted license keys specify which of the six lessons are enabled, and when, for a licensed customer.

I designed the technical underpinnings, and built the intelligent installer (which checks for and installs Flash, Shockwave and Acrobat Reader as necessary), the license key generation and checking system, the Shockwave-based elastic menu, and many of the interactive content components.

The Multidisciplinary Approach to Morbid Obesity

This is a set of CD-ROMs discussing obesity treatment options, designed and produced by Foxfire Interactive Corporation for the Tufts University School of Medicine. To get a detailed product overview see <http://www.tuftsmorbidobesity.org>.

The product uses Macromedia Flash and Flash Video to support a series of presentations on counseling, surgery and nutrition for the morbidly obese. Configuration is done using XML-driven menu code.

I designed and implemented the technical underpinnings, provided templates to the content creators, and assembled the final CD-ROMs.