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Mohammad Riza

Creative Director New York, NY USA

Mo is an interactive designer and creative technologist with over a decade of experience investigating the field of education and formulating inventive responses to the changing needs of educators and students. He is currently a product design director at Wireless Generation, a company that pioneered the adaptation of mobile technologies, including handheld computers and digital pens, for use in managing and improving teaching and learning in grades PreK-12. The company’s commitment to listening to educators and gaining a deep understanding of their challenges has lead to the development of offerings that optimally combine mobile tools, Internet technology, and in-person services to help improve student achievement in reading and math. Wireless Generation’s mCLASS® products and services streamline collection of data about student learning needs and school operations, facilitate data analysis and interpretation, and build educators’ capacity to implement data-driven instructional programs that deliver better outcomes for children.

Previously Mohammad was a Creative Director of the Scholastic Internet Group. His responsibilities involve creating interactive multimedia activities, presentations, tools, and other content; developing e-commerce user interfaces through focus groups and usability tests; and encouraging the company-wide embrace of broadband by creating the interfaces for products such as Scholastic Teacher Radio, an interactive audio/video information source for educators. Under his direction, the Scholastic.com site was awarded a 2000 Webby for Best Kids Site.

Prior to joining Scholastic, Moriza was Design Director for Thirteen Online, the Web site of Thirteen/WNET New York, designing and producing award-winning Web companion pieces to PBS television shows. From the online course Disney Learning Ventures to the interactive galleries of American Visions to the full-length trivia game, 3-D video, and educational activities of New York: A Documentary Film, he constantly strove to adopt the most recent technology and use it in new and enlightening ways. In addition, he led a broadband research and development team and designed and produced broadband components to the forthcoming series "Cyberchase," funded by PBS and the National Science Foundation.

He has produced and directed several commercial CD-ROM titles, including the award-winning Scholastic's The Magic School Bus series. Since 1997, he has been an instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in the Toy Design Department, teaching Computer Technology for Toy Designers. In 1999, he began working with the Toy Manufacturers of America, first designing their Web site and then becoming a technology consultant who researches industrial innovations and produces a quarterly report.

Moriza specializes in interactive design, human-computer interactions, and multimedia technology. He holds degrees in Industrial Design from Trisakti University in Indonesia and Computer Graphics from Monmouth University in Monmouth, NJ.

Creative Director for the following online projects:

SCHOLASTIC.COM Designed home page; set design standards and laid out templates for future designs. Working with Marketing department to conduct research, especially with groups of teachers.

HARRY POTTER To complement Warner Bros.' entertainment-oriented Harry Potter site, created a companion that emphasizes education, including an interactive quiz, pronunciation guide, and more.

I SPY Designed site for younger children that features constantly updated interactive games.

CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS Provided design direction and guidance for site, aimed at younger kids, that promotes book series with interactive games and other enhancements.

SCHOLASTIC TEACHERS Significantly enhanced the core of the Scholastic site by creating Online Activities, Authors & Books section, grade-specific home pages, Internet field trips, book clubs and software clubs, teacher toolkits, and more.

Designer and Art Director for the following online projects:

THIRTEEN.ORG Designed overall look, including home page and secondary pages; helped create content management tool for easy home page updates.

WNETSCHOOL Designed entire interface for Thirteen's award-winning practical Web service for teachers, including home page, subsections, and iconography.

AMERICAN VISIONS WITH ROBERT HUGHES Used early incarnation of Shockwave Flash to create interactive galleries.

MOYERS ON ADDICTION: CLOSE TO HOME Created interactive presentations and a groundbreaking animated Web comic strip serial.

GREAT PERFORMANCES Oversaw design of interface for PBS's renowned performing arts series.

NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM ONLINE Oversaw concepting and design for large-scale rich-media companion to Ric Burns's acclaimed film, including: HIDDEN NEW YORK, a 3D virtual tour of New York using Flash and QuickTime VR. NEW YORK QUIZ TAXI CO., a multimedia trivia game about the history of New York that takes place in the back of an animated taxicab. LEARNING ADVENTURES IN CITIZENSHIP, a series of educational activities for kids and teachers.

INNOVATION Features Flash illustrations of groundbreaking biomedical treatments and research.

SAVAGE EARTH Interactive animations explain the science behind volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis.

STEPHEN HAWKING'S UNIVERSE Includes illustrations and animated presentations of cosmological concepts.

NATURE Created dozens of interactive companion pieces to PBS's beloved series on the natural world, including:

ALIEN EMPIRE Amazing graphics, sound and animation, enhanced video, and activities kids.

LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA The Virtual Tide Pool gives users a 3-D tour around the shoreline at both low and high tides.

NATURE: PUZZLES & FUN From scramble puzzles to interactive photo albums to trivia games to mask-making instructions, the best of NATURE's many fun activities for kids can be found here.

Designer and Art Director for the following Online Workshops:

CONCEPT TO CLASSROOM A groundbreaking series of free interactive workshops on the Web for teachers across the United States.

INTERNET IN ACTION: WEB IN THE CLASSROOM This online course offers classroom teachers an introduction to, and instruction in, basic technological applications and skills.