Charles Ruggiero

IVAN is a Mac and Windows case study desktop application made in iShell and developed for the College of Education.  It was designed to provide teachers with a way to help students learn from classroom video by letting them watch videos, read related teaching material, select their own clips, combine the clips into a timeline, and write about the clip sequence.

The student work can save their work to turn into the professor at the end of class, or they can export their work into a HTML web page which includes the sequence of video and their own text.

Inspiration to build this application came from looking at similar but limited case study software available at the time.  The IVAN software saved the College tens of thousands of dollars over competing products which charged not only for their application, but also a yearly license fee, and large training fee.  IVAN provided a more feature rich application and customization, for the cost of my time and the iShell development software.

As IVAN was adopted by the college’s professors I continued to enhance the application by implementing my own ideas, requested design changes, and features.  The most recent version was updated to take advantage of larger screen resolutions by making a larger video window and text area.  I also took this opportunity to modernize the interface, eliminate unnecessary or outdated features and improve responsiveness.

IVAN 2, pictured right, is the older design, shown here to give a comparison of the visual changes and also  to give an example of an actual case study loaded into the software.

The IVAN software, with case studies, has been presented at multiple educational conferences in the past six years.  A modified version of IVAN called Video Review Tool is also in use at Purdue University.

The iShell software is similar to Director in terms of development potential and learning curve. iShell’s main focus is video, and it integrates heavily with QuickTime to provide a versatile development environment where video is the cornerstone of the application.

Work Projects Application, Development, HTML, iShell, Video

Easehistory.org is a video history learning site created with Flash, XML, MSQL, ASP, HTML, Javascript, and CSS.

Ease History was a group project that started with conceptualizing the end product, designing the database structure, brainstorming and researching interface design, and ultimately building the final product.  I was involved in all states of the project life and contributed significantly to the database design, interface, and technologies used.

The Flash was developed by another programmer, but I provided most of the back-end ASP VB Script, all JavaScript, and some HTML and CSS coding including making changes to the XML delivery to the main flash Application that significantly accelerating the application’s database retrieval.

Work Projects Application, ASP, CSS, Flash, HTML, Javascript, XML