Hi everyone, For those on the list who requested (and have waited very patiently) to see our artificially intelligent adaptive instructional system called MediaMatrix (currently delivering content and testing services for the college/university Introductory Psychology market) authored in Metacard, visit us at: www.psych-ai.com Sign-up/down-load a free "evaluation copy" by following the "Evaluation Copies" link on our home page. This is our last beta version and our marketing to college instructors will start in May, so if you find problems or have any constructive feedback on design, interface, etc. for us we'd appreciate hearing from you (send off-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Actually, this is our fourth semester of testing various versions and it makes about 3,000 students total who have used it while we completed our transitional development from OMO/CD-ROM to Metacard/Internet versions over the past two years. (Just for clarification, we don't sell our MediaMatrix engine for others to do content authoring, we sell mastery-certification services for content authored by us and others that we publish via MediaMatrix). Also linked from the home page is "Product Info" describing how/why MediaMatrix works as it does, a "What's AI" white paper discussing our philosophy on replacing simple "information" with individually-sensitive "education" on the internet, and a complete "User Guide" showing you how to get to all the features of this particular product. Sorry it took so long to deliver, but we've just finally weaned ourselves from CD-ROM delivery of even the Metacard version's content (student services and modeling was the first server-database governed feature, content from the servers came last). We are currently hard at work on making a similar transition from HyperCard/Toolbook to MC for our interactive video animal-learning simulation product (CyberRat) now that more robust video tools are available in MC. That product will be a hybrid CD (for the interactive video) and internet product. By the way, we are especially interested in hearing from you if you have trouble with initial connectivity--about 1% of our student users do using our "post url" version. In this case, definitely try our "sockets" version (of course you may anyway....) which is available at from an unlinked address at: www.psych-ai.com/getSockets.html and we'd be interested in hearing whether that solves your problems or not (it has solved all but 2 such student cases tested so far, but we still don't have a bullet-proof solution for those 2. We get failures on the very first internet call (and thus any others as well) that looks for a "pointer" file on a master server that directs traffic to our other "service" servers. Even this simple file download fails in the meanest cases. We assume proxy/firewall issues are at work, but it happens from home computers mostly. Any ideas on this problem will be appreciated as well. Enjoy! Roger -- Dr. Roger D. Ray Department of Psychology Rollins College Winter Park, FL 32789 Cell (407) 234-0045 adaptive instruction at www.psych-ai.com cyberrat at www.psych-ai.com/cyberrat Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
