eZedia Signs Agreement, Partnering with Francis Marion University In Multimedia Education.Business Editors & Technology Writers WINNIPEG, Manitoba--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2001 eZedia Inc., a leader in digital media software technology, today announced a research partnership agreement with Francis Marion University Francis Marion University (formerly Francis Marion College) is located seven miles east of Florence, South Carolina, USA. It is a liberal arts university named in honor of American Revolutionary War hero Brigadier General Francis Marion. (FMU FMU Florida Metropolitan University FMU Francis Marion University FMU Forest Management Unit FMU Fuel Management Unit FMU Fire Management Unit (US National Forest Service) FMU Fuel Metering Unit FMU Flexible Manufacturing Unit ) in connection with FMU's PT3 Capacity Building and Implementation Grants. The PT3 grants are part of a federal program administered by the US Department of Education to provide future teachers, nationwide, with experience in how digital technology is transforming education. Under the agreement, eZedia will supply its digital media integration software, eZediaMX, for use on workstations throughout the School of Education, as well as to faculty members across campus. Also as part of the agreement, core faculty in the School of Education will research and develop curricular applications that use eZediaMX to enhance thinking, learning, and communication. As well, the faculty will be enrolled in eZedia's Zoom-ed program allowing students and community members to purchase eZediaMX at special educational prices. A powerful, yet easy-to-learn software program for digital media integration, eZediaMX enables any computer user to receive, generate, modify, edit, recreate, reformat (1) To change the record layout of a file or database. (2) To initialize a disk over again. and re-present any and all digital media. eZediaMX has little or no learning curve, works with Windows and Mac OS and is so intuitive, teachers and students can use it to communicate ideas in visual form in every area of curriculum. "In an era where we see the convergence of media, print and the Internet, strong skills in reading, writing, speaking and thinking are critical. It is not enough to know how to "click" on something, individuals have to know when and why they will use different technological tools," said Dr. Michael Madden, Principal Investigator Noun 1. principal investigator - the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project PI scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences for the PT3 Grant. Art Monk James Arthur "Art" Monk (born December 5, 1957 in White Plains, New York) is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League. Nicknamed "Quiet Man" or simply "#81" for his humble and professional demeanor, he played collegiately at Syracuse , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of eZedia Inc. stated, "We are very pleased to have established this agreement and working rapport with a group that is taking a leadership role in exploring how multimedia authorship can support, extend, and enhance learning at all ages. By pioneering the use of multimedia in their institution, the faculty and staff at Francis Marion University are developing new paradigms for learning at the nexus of digital media and education technology." About eZediaMX eZediaMX is far more than typical presentation software. It is a new way to integrate digital media to communicate knowledge, information, and ideas. It enables users to create multimedia reports, interactive training programs, electronic image archives, voice and audio overlays, and complex media sequences that branch and flow based on user input. All of this is easily accomplished within an environment where users can drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. media objects and connect them with various control objects to create sophisticated digital media productions. About Francis Marion University Francis Marion University was founded in 1970 and named in honor of Revolutionary War hero, General Francis Marion. However, the university can trace its history to 1957 when the University of South Carolina
• • established a freshman center at the Florence County Library. In 1961, a permanent campus for USC-Florence was established seven miles east of Florence on land donated by the Wallace family, the current location of FMU. Following a Commission on Higher Education Commission on Higher Education can refer to
About eZedia Inc. Founded in 1994 by Stefan Embleton, eZedia Inc. has grown from an interactive digital media development company to a leader in digital media software technology. The company derives its name from the phrase "easy media," which emphasizes its corporate focus on the delivery of easy-to-learn and easy-to-use, digital media integration products. The management team includes industry veterans from Hewlett-Packard, PointBase, Saba, Rolls Royce, Bristol Aerospace, Boeing, and the music publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. division of Oxford University Press. The release of eZediaMX in November of 2000 launched eZedia into a leading position based on its cross-platform Java implementation and advanced use of object oriented constructs for the development and delivery of digital media productions. The software enables users at work, at home and at school to take full advantage of all the forms of digital media they come in contact with every day. . Continuing in its efforts to drive the use of multimedia in education, eZedia has established partnerships with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto is a teachers' college in Toronto, Ontario. It was founded in 1996 as a merger of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Faculty of Education in the University of Toronto (which from 1920 to of the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, (OISE/UT OISE/UT Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (Canada) ) and the Faculties of Education at Queen's University and University of Manitoba Location The main Fort Garry campus is a complex on the Red River in south Winnipeg. It has an area of 2.74 square kilometres. More than 60 major buildings support the teaching and research programs of the university. . For more information about eZedia Inc., please call 204-984-9214 or visit the Company's web site at http://www.ezedia.com. Note to Editors: Zoom-ed, eZedia, the eZedia logo, and eZediaMX are registered trademarks or trademarks of eZedia Inc. |
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