9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Session C:
Digital Education Meets Hollywood
The word "Hollywood" implies high production values, new uses of graphic design and sound and the emerging Internet world. Producing media software is a communications craft. The successful producer must combine the knack of thinking visually, drawing upon a myriad of techniques taken from communications arts including film, photography, writing, painting and more, so that he/she can manipulate media elements and use them in the systems engineering task of production. In Digital Education Meets Hollywood, Dr. Benard Luskin expands your understanding of new techniques, including the connected DVD (i-DVD), and explores new strategies for producers and directors interested in the latest learning developments, producing and blending Hollywood techniques with educational opportunities. With the growth of broadband, delivery limitations are being eliminated making web-enabled learning resulting in both new production and learning opportunities
Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Chief Technology Officer, GlobalLearningSystems
Jean-Pierre Isbouts is Chief Technology Officer of GlobalLearningSystems, a global corporate solutions provider based in McLean, VA. A 20-year veteran of the multimedia industry, Dr. Is
bouts was previously President of Pantheon Productions of Santa Monica, CA. At Pantheon, he was responsible for a series of educational CD-ROM titles, including the game Hamlet: A Murder Mystery (with Castle Rock Entertainment) and Inside the Cold War with David Frost (with David Paradine Television). This program also became a TV special for the History Channel. Dr. Isbouts has also produced two large encyclopedia projects for Bertelsmann and Philips Media. Isbouts entered the nascent interactive industry in 1980, when he wrote and directed the interactive laserdisc Van Gogh Revisited, starring Leonard Nimoy. The disc ranks as one of the first interactive programs ever released commercially in the United States, and is currently in its 5th print (Voyager Criterion Collection). Since then, he has developed over 50 interactive programs using laserdisc, CD-I, CD-ROM, DVD and the web. A co-founder of Advanced Image Technology in New York, he became head of Philips' Multimedia Authoring Group in 1990 and in 1992 was promoted to head Philips Media Europe, based in London. Isbouts founded Pantheon in 1994. Dr. Isbouts has previously presented papers at Microsoft CD-ROM Conferences, SALT Conferences, International Multimedia Conferences and scores of technology seminars and symposia. He is the winner of two Gold CINDY Awards, a New York Silver Screen Award and the American Golden Eagle. A published author, his most recent book is Charlton Heston's Hollywood (Good Times Publications, New York 1998).