Don Bergland was the senior designer and producer for this large-scale educational teaching studio project. First approached in 1999 by Bodwell International Schooling executives, Don was retained as a consultant to design and implement complete curriculum, studio. and facility plans for a new school which taught multimedia concepts to professional career aspirants. Don produced a school design based on the ideas and theories he had been developing at the University of Victoria and in his work with industry and corporate studios in the Pacific Northwest. The school opened in September, 1999 in temporary facilities but with a complete curriculum. During the Fall of 1999, Don worked with his team in designing permanent school and studio facilities that had been acquired in heritage properties Bank of Montreal at Pender and Granville in the center of downtown Vancouver. Over the next several years, Don’s leadership in school and studio design would help the school make interesting transitions and changes. By 2002, Bodwell Internet school was one of the most successful Internet training schools in the Pacific Northwest generating over a million dollars a year in income.

Bodwell Multimedia/Internet School was a viable training institution providing Internet training skills to potential career professionals in the industry. Don Bergland had brought the school to a successful point in its history by developing an innovative curriculum and a supporting studio structure. As a teacher educator, however, Don determined that the school needed to have a program that provided instructional training to its staff of highly skilled instructors. These instructors were talented performers and producers in their own sphere of expertise, e.g., animation, programming, graphics, video, etc., but usually had no training in the delivery of effective education. Don created an Instructor Training Program which featured regular workshops, clinical supervision, classroom analysis and assessments, and instructor remediation. The program ran successfully for several years and was responsible for providing effective career development for many industry instructors.