The Story

Apangea Learning, is the only instructional solution to combine tutoring technology that emulates tutoring best practices with online instruction from live certified teachers.  Mick Rose was asked to lead a team of design and technology individuals to update their Apangea Learning Math software which provides one-student-to-one-teacher differentiated math instruction through a unique integration of proprietary tutoring technology and live, online certified teachers. As a Web-based solution, Apangea Math can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection – ensuring student can learn math anytime, anywhere.Mick Rose was then tasked to continue on the success of Apangea Learning’s Math 5.0 with implementing a brand new venture for Apangea Learning.  A supplement to traditional curriculum, Apangea Learning Writing was a research-based, six-step writing process teaches students the critical steps necessary to develop strong writing skills and achieve academic success.

Other duties have included, website design and maintenance ,  multi-lingual dynamic text to speech avatar creation and implementation, and user interface design.

The Results

Mick Rose continues to help Apangea Learning with improving existing software and development of new educational software solutions.  Current Projects include Gateway to College, Tomorrow’s Healthcare, and Reading Comprehension.

Awards:

• 2009 Award of Excellence (Apangea Writing)- Tech and Learning Magazine
• 2008-2009 Best in Tech for Supplemental Math Solutions - Scholastic Administrator Magazine
• 2008 SIIA Codie Award Finalist:  Best K-12 Instructional Solution
• 2008 Reader’s Choice Award - District Administration Magazine

The Story

Philips Children’s Medical Ventures (formerly Respironics Children’s Medical Ventures) was looking for project management tools to assist sales and program managers to more efficiently compare their product costs with their competitors.   The project entailed gathering client and company representative data, then comparing various products and their associated costs.  When the comparison was completed, the sales representative could print out an invoice for the client to review for approval.

The Result

Mick has continued to work with Philips Children’s Medical Ventures to provide various other sales tools.  The latest project which was completed in Dec 2009, involved a user interface design for a quote template for the Jaundice Management product line.

The Story

OWL Training Software, was initially designed to eliminate the headaches of administering language oriented testing to large numbers of students. By using a web application, students could log onto any computer to complete assessments. Likewise, teachers could log in from any machine with access to your server to create or assess student tests. OWLTS came to Mick Rose for assistance in their web application design, quiz demonstrations, and also to integrate various flash unit tests into their system.

First, Mick worked with the OWLTS team to develop the backend design for the instructors. Mick helped them visualize the layout they desired utilizing ASP/HTML/CSS and ensured that all of the windows would appear correctly within the interface.

Mick then worked with the team to create vapor-ware mock ups for various quiz related items. Some were presentation oriented while others worked just like their application and even included scoring.

Finally Mick helped integrate flash modules into the application, by sending javascript between flash and their application. Each module was so customized that all backgrounds, fonts, and even audio/video webcam recording (using a Red5 Server) to integrate the modules into their system thus allowing them to develop future quizzes in Flash & ASP.

The Result

Unfortunately due to the dynamic nature of the project and needing inputs from the OWLTS server a full functional demo is not available at this time. But the original mockup demo, aka vaporware, is available in Spanish. You don’t really have to understand Spanish to play with the demo. Also note that many features/functionality have changed since this mockup. We now have a javascript keyboard which talks to flash for the “fill in the blank” portion of the quizzes. Also all sounds/imagery are now dynamically generated.

View the demo. And since the instructions are not included, here is a brief summary.

Listen & Find

Press Play to listen to the sound, then select the image which you believe the sound is referencing.

Read & Record

Press Record and read the phrase displayed on the screen aloud, then select stop. Next select the picture associated with the phrase. (This demo is not placed on a Red5 server so all recording/playback is disabled - Live demos on request).

Write

Fill in the blank with the name of the object. Helpful hint every phrase starts with “hay” for example “hay sandia” for watermelon.

The Story

The “El Yunque” Rainforst in Puerto Rico was dramatically affected by Hurricane Hugo back in 1989. All froms of life from Biomass of dead plant life, caterpillars, snails, and even anoles. The Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University wanted to educate middle School Students about how to predict and model and compare results utilizing the data obtained from the research of this disaster in the area. There were 3 main modules that the Center neeeded:

1. Prediction - Students could draw graphs predicting the effects over time on individual species.

2. Modeled - Students are able to adjust various controls and graphs to model behavior of individual species.

3. Modeled vs Actual - Combines actual recorded data with the Modeled modules so that the students can determine actual control values.

The Result

By clicking on each Module name you can view a live example still being utilized by the Center for Educational Technologies. In total there were 19 different modules completed, each with it’s individual scripting requirements. Note that only the flash modules were developed by Mick Rose all other design and web content was not created by him.