Web Conferencing Technology Awards

Technology Awards and Social Activities

Social Activities

WebTrain prides itself in helping, wherever it can, to make distance learning easier, in helping to assist the underprivileged or sick, and also in helping support organizations alleviate suffering in times of crisis or natural disasters.  We do this by donating Communicator™ time, by providing training and support, and by co-hosting services at cost or free when they are needed; we also assist through speaking engagements at major industry trade shows and conventions.

Organizations that have been able to take advantage of our donated services include World Vision, Red Cross, Oxfam, Training Outsourcing, CompTIA and Engineers Without Borders.

Project Lancelot

WebTrain is the major corporate sponsor of Project Lancelot.  This 2-year development project will create a certificate program documenting the qualifications required to be a live online language teacher.  The program involves 23 partners in 8 countries across Europe.

Entering a virtual classroom setting has proven to be a challenge at times for trainers and students alike - and the challenge isn't merely a technical one.  But where does an instructor or trainer learn to master online training sessions?  What are the technological pre-requisites and how can he/she acquire skills necessary to conduct interactive lessons?

These are the questions raised in an EU-funded development project called LANCELOT in the framework of LEONARDO DA VINCI, Language Competence II.  LANCELOT (LANguage learning by CErtified Live Online Trainers) aims to develop a course curriculum for language trainers who use virtual classroom technology to conduct interactive live language lessons.

The deliverables of the project are:

• Producing a manual for the live online language teacher, detailing practical guidelines
• Developing a guide for the trainer of live online language teachers, detailing a train-the-trainer program, providing guidelines on how to acquire skills necessary to teach languages in virtual classrooms (pedagogy/ methodology/ technology)
• Completion of a certificate, documenting the qualification acquired through the train-the-trainer program.

We at WebTrain are proud that our Communicator™ web conferencing solution promotes these essential skills, and we will publish further news releases updating the progress of this exciting project as they occur.

Purple Heart Foundation

This past July 2006, WebTrain was chosen as the Veteran's Business Training Center's online training technology partner.  This partnership provides American veterans the opportunity to participate in an intensive 15-week online program wherein they are trained on VoIP contact center - call center software applications and communication platforms during the course of their training.  In effect, this provides these combat wounded and disabled veterans with the skills they will need to be an active part of the global market place with confidence and success.

Within weeks of implementation, the training program and WebTrain's collaboration solution were received well by both students and teachers alike. Before long, the initial class of students increased threefold; and currently there are an additional 2000 applications for entry into the program.  With over 26 million veterans in the US, everyone feels this is just the beginning of their planned growth.  The great success of this program is in due in part to the elimination of costly and arduous traveling obstacles through the use of WebTrain's unique collaborative platform which allows students to be able to hear, to speak, to see, to share, and to learn within a special community of disabled veterans--regardless of their geographical location. For the first time, veterans who have been displaced after returning from war are now able to reconnect with their brothers and sisters within an online community.

Furthermore, Purple Heart has taken the idea of an online community to the next level in which they are offering a virtual chapel, virtual AA, and virtual NA for veterans across the world.  Mr. Zrenejad, Purple Heart Foundation Training Director said "Because of the solution WebTrain has offered, we are reaching, and communicating with disabled American veterans around the globe.  We present a beacon of hope, a light, a true second chance to the combat wounded to serve their nation again."

Web Conferencing Technology Awards

WebTrain was nominated as the Most Promising Start Up in British Columbia, Canada by the BCTIA (British Columbia Technology Industries Association) in 2006.

Doug Hallett, WebTrain's Chairman said "We are truly honoured to have been nominated for this prestigious award which confirms what we have known all along.  Technological innovation can be fostered and nurtured in a supportive Provincial environment such as British Columbia to be offered world wide as a commercial success."

WebTrain's Chief Technical Officer and company founder Gary Campbell attributed WebTrain's nomination to the Province's leadership and polices that foster a strong economic climate and the company's overall successes and achievements.  "The WebTrain team has done a fantastic job of taking a brilliant idea through a successful commercialization to the point today where we are recognized as providing world class multimedia collaboration solutions for our partners and customers on a global basis."

"This province is home to world class technology and brilliant, innovative people. We are thrilled to be able to promote and celebrate the achievements and dedication of these companies through this awards program", said Cindy Pearson, Vice-President, BC TIA.

Rob Cruickshank, President of BC TIA added "The impressive accomplishments of our finalists and winners clearly indicate the significant role they play in the continued growth and success of our industry and BC's economy."

The Technology Impact Awards is a PREMIER AWARDS PROGRAM devoted to promoting and celebrating innovation and hi-tech excellence in the province of British Columbia.  Founded in 1994, by the BC Technology Industries Association (BC TIA), the Technology Impact Awards have gained the reputation as a mark of distinction and a celebration of outstanding leadership, innovation and technical excellence.

The awards are divided into three distinct categories: Technology Awards, Company Awards and Personal Recognition Awards and are judged by a panel of twelve individuals who are recognized as experts and leaders in the technology sector.  Judges follow a rigorous process to determine the winners and finalists.

Winners and finalists of the Technology Impact Awards benefit from a full year of local and national activities and communications focused on the promotion of their company.  Additionally, the significant amount of media attention received helps to foster awareness and reinforce the important role BC's technology industry plays in driving economic growth.

Past winners have included globally recognized companies such as Creo, Xantrex, Business Objects and emerging gems with pioneering new technologies such as TIR Systems, VSM Medtech, and Blast Radius.  It is the collective efforts of all of these companies that have put British Columbia on the map as a globally competitive technology centre.  For more information, please visit www.bctia.org/awards.

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