eBay Foundation awards a CHAMPION A CHARITY grant
July 2, 2007 - San Jose, California

eBay Foundation awards a CHAMPION A CHARITY grant to Adina’s Deck: The Exclusive Detective Agency Specializing in Solving Cyber Bully Mysteries project. a 30-minute interactive "choose your own adventure" television pilot series geared towards girls 9-14. The series centers around four tech savvy characters who have either been cyber bullies or cyber bully victims and now use their experiences to help solve their peers Internet mysteries. Click here to see the production trailer. Other generous financial grants and product donations were made by Wyse computers, IKEA, Noah’s Spring Water among others. Click here to learn more.

XRI presents at ED-MEDIA World Conference
June 25 - June 29th, 2007 - Vancouver, Canada

XRI presents various collaborative projects, including our newest literacy project at the ED-MEDIA World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The conference is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Comupting in Education.

XRI presents at Unite for Sight's 4th Annual
International Health Conference
April 14-15, 2007 - Stanford Univeristy School of Medicine, California

XRI will present Interactive Teaching AIDS at the Unite for Sight's Global Health Conference: Innovation, Advancement, and Best Practicies to Achieve Global Goals. The conference will include more than 300 renowned speakers from North America, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

XRI receives a grant for HIV/AIDS education curriculum
December 2006

XRI's HIV/AIDS education curriculum - Interactive Teaching AIDS - received the 2006 grant from the Lutheran Community Foundation presented from The Lena Rufus Memorial Scholarship Fund, a charitable fund at the foundation.

XRI presents at Global e-health AIDS Education Consortium
August 2006 - Tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing, China

XRI presented at an international consortium held at Tsinghua University , China on Aug 29, 2006. In this conference, board members of XRI, Paul Kim, Piya Sorcar and Young-Sung Lee, discussed the global e-health education initiative with HIV/AIDS.

Recent Publications

For Paul: His recent publication topics include "Perspectives on a Visual-map-based Electronic Portfolio System," "Effects of 3D Virtual Reality of Plate Tectonics on Fifth Grade Students' Achievement and Attitude Toward Science".  His recent presentations include "Assessment through Digital Portfolios", EDUCAUSE, "Development of Large-Scale Stereo 3D Image DB Network for Medical Education Using KOREN", Korean Association for Educational Information & Media,"Enterprising Higher Education with ICT", APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Education Forum.