Phil Cowcill started his career in education when he was hired by Canadore College as an Educational Technologist in 1983. In 1984, he joined a unique team that developed Canada's first Interactive Videodisc (IVD). On this project, Phil wore many hats. He created some of the 3,000 graphics, shot and edited video, applied instructional design as he wrote some of the detailed storyboards, and programmed the IVD using a C-style language called MicroNATAL.
Phil worked in a variety of roles at the college. In 1995, he took on a full-time teaching position, becoming the coordinator of the post-graduate Interactive Multimedia program. Here, he worked with non-programming students and taught them how to develop websites and interactive CD-ROM productions. It was during this time that he led his students in building one of the first news websites that had streaming video (1996). In 2011, Phil developed the curriculum and taught Canada's first dedicated mobile application...
