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»11.09.06 - Join our team - click here for more information on our Web Designer/Developer position.

»10.31.06 - In collaboration with the BC Museum of Mining, the British Columbia Institute of Technology, the University of BC and the Mineral Resources Education Program of BC, Zero One Design the latest Virtual Museum of Canada project The Mill at The Mill at Britannia Mine: Beauty in the Beast has launched. This year-long project explores the Concentrator and the community that worked within it. The Concentrator, a National Historic Site and British Columbia Provincial Landmark, is one of the most imposing structures on the Sea to Sky Highway and its size and magnitude is matched only by its historical importance. Highly innovative at the time of its construction in 1922, the Concentrator, Mill #3, was key to Britannia Mines being one of the largest copper producing mines in the British Commonwealth throughout the 1920s and a major mine into the 1970s. The site uses interview material from experts and community members, archival video and images, a fully immersible 3D tour, Quicktime VR, an interactive flow chart and original blueprints to tell the story of the building.

»10.30.06 - The 2006.07 Sponsor a Museum Program had 78 applications this year - all incredible museums and galleries from across Canada - and after lots of deliberation we have choosen the Bytown Museum in Ottawa as our 2006.07 program recipient. We look forward to working with the museum on some of the amazing ideas they have and helping celebrate their 90th anniversary next year.

»09.01.06 - The deadline for Sponsor a Museum program has now passed - we thank everyone who applied. We received a tremendous amount of applications and will be going through them with our advisory board to choose 4 or 5 museums to interview. We will get back to everyone who applied by the middle of September.

»08.02.06 - The deadline for the Sponsor a Museum program is coming up fast - August 31st - get your applications in!

»08.02.06 - The first Sponsor a Museum webpage has been launched! The Buffalo Nations Luxton Museum was the successful recipient of our Sponsor a Museum pilot project in 2005 and we are happy to announce the launch of their website - buffalonationsmuseum.ca. This will be the first of several products we created for the museum during our relationship.

»06.16.06 - Sponsor a Museum is now live! Apply by August 30, 2006. With this program, initiated in 2004, we offer a year sponsorship to a museum or gallery and assists them with their technical needs, whether that be advice, new technology, web work, assistance with proposals etc. Last years recipient was the Buffalo Nations Museum in Banff, Alberta.

»06.16.06 - Zero One is happy to announce they will be working with Richmond Museum & Heritage Services on a federally funded virtual exhibition on the BC Packers.

Using maps, audio, video, animation and text, the story will follow along as the fishing fleet makes its catch, and delivers to the processing plants and canneries and then to market. As the story unfolds the unique geographic location, the hard work, and divisions of labour among gender and ethnic lines will be highlighted. Providing viewpoints that are unique to who they were in their social and occupational perspective, the digital medium allows these ‘voices’ of the workers to be mapped together within an interface that helps conceptualize the perspectives of the different cultural groups.

»03.08.06 - Zero One Design is excited to announce that we are heading to Museums on the Web 2006 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We are looking forward to sharing, discussing, and learning more about everything that has happened this year in the cultural community.

»03.08.06 - Check out our latest article for the Round Up Magazine in our resources section. In this issue, Geek Speak talks with Dr. Mario Bucolo, a cultural experience designer and the publisher of the portal Museumland.net. Dr. Bucolo, from southern Italy, was in British Columbia in February to give a lecture on the visibility of small and medium sized museums and offered Geek Speak a preview of his lecture. We discussed how museums can improve their visibility by embracing new technologies.

» 02.20.06 - Zero One is pleased to announce that it will be working with the BC Forest Discovery Center in creating a virtual learning space which will look at the BC coastal logging industry from a global perspective. The pilot project is part of an initiative led by the Virtual Museum of Canada, an online gateway for the general public that features museum online content, such as images of artifacts, virtual exhibits, interactive games, events, and information about physical destinations. The new museum-centered virtual learning space will be integrated into the VMC's Teachers' Centre, and will be dedicated to teachers, students and lifelong learners.

Offering secure access, the virtual learning space will be equipped to serve as a meeting place where educators, learners and museum experts can share their work, ideas, and suggestions. Teachers will be able to share their own lesson plans with other teachers, and they will be able to create dedicated spaces where they can post assignments and interact with their students. Rather than engaging in linear storytelling, the space will feature highly interactive educational components that can be extensively manipulated.

The project is designed to engage students in grades 11 and 12 and will allow them to explore what is unique to the BC coastal forestry industry through examining both local and global organizations that influence the industry. Students will be able to research topics such as the history of timber extraction in BC, the role of forestry in community and in politics, how forestry affects the climate, sustainable forestry, evolutions in extraction technology, and the market of timber and how it affects the economy of coastal historical and contemporary British Columbia. We look forward to the development involved in this project, and to launching our first ever museum learning space.

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