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THE FUTURES OF OUR PASTS: Three-Dimensional Representations of Culturally Significant Objects and their Humanistic Implications - the Case of Sikh Cultural Artifacts
SUMMARY:
Technological innovations have brought about a sea-change in the reproduction, distribution, sharing, and manipulation of music and musical products. These innovations have raised significant social, legal, and ethical questions. New innovations in visual and digital

We propose to develop an open federation (to be called the SMETE Open Federation) to integrate and support the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education (SMETE) Digital Library (NSDL).With headquarters at UC Berkeley, the group leading the development and providing the integrative core of the SMETE Open Federation is comprised of two lead organizations:
(1) the SMETE.ORG Alliance, with over twenty participating partners covering a broad range of SMET disciplines in K-12 and higher education, and

ECAI is a part of International and Area Studies at UCB. It is an international association of scholars, librarians, and technicians who are researching ways to create, preserve, and use digital data relating to cultural studies. The research focus is on the ways to

Consistent with its role in studying economic behavior, the types of experiments that would be performed in the lab fall into three broad categories:
(1) studies of individual decision making behavior;
(2) studies of strategic behavior in groups (i.e. tests of equilibrium); and
(3) studies of how the design of institutions and markets affects welfare.

SMETE.ORG will work with Principal Investigator Gerry Hanley and the MERLOT team to meet the objectives outlined in the proposal: From Vision to Reality: NSDL PI Meeting.

The capture of sensory data in three spatial dimensions in real time from multiple physically separate spaces, the projection of the data into shared virtual environments, and the projection of the virtual environments into immersive physical environments, constitute the emerging technology of tele-immersion.

A learner-centered metathesaurus will be created by studying the transactions between learners and two learning resources - the Math Forum (mathforum.org) and www.smete.org. Three modes of interaction will be studied. Data in which many students respond to the same problem (the MathForum Problem of the Week) will be used to establish conceptual structures within each of six problem domains. The large number of participants (500-1000 per question, several hundred questions) will provide many modes of math communication. Data from transactions between learners and experts (the MathForum Ask Dr.

The Internet is an ideal vehicle for communicating ideas and information rapidly, conveniently, and cost-effectively. The University of California, Berkeley currently maintains a full featured, media rich Internet web site known as Digital Chem 1A that supplements our freshman general chemistry course. In addition to Berkeley students, our server records show that students from other universities currently use Digital Chem 1A to supplement their campus' general chemistry courses.

In collaboration with Microsoft, we have begun the TeleEducation/TeleCollaboration and Streaming Media project, which includes network protocols (including floor-control), multicasting, support for caching, and streaming media. These require extensive technology development beyond the current Internet, to effectively and affordably support quality real-time streaming media, dynamic

NEEDS agrees to work with MERLOT to meet the objectives outlined in the proposal Scaling the Peer Review Process for National STEM Education Digital Library Collections. Several of the important outcomes of this work include: community building services, leadership in developing evaluation mechanisms, and expansion and development of
courseware evaluation mechanisms.

SMETE.ORG agrees to work with MERLOT to meet the objectives outlined in the proposal "The NSDL Collaboration Finder: Connecting Projects for Effective and Efficient NSDL Development." NSDL means National Science Digital Library.

The Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) and the educational arm of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC Berkeley will test a number of models that might prove effective in applying technological solutions to problems of higher educational quality, cost, and access within the context of a major public research university.

The ATC lecture series is an internationally known forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about technology and culture. This series, free of charge and open to the public, presents artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective.

This Spring ATC celebrated its Tenth Anniversary.

Today, approximately 50% of kindergartners in the United States are from families with one or more risk factors for school failure. Lack of school readiness for children from disadvantaged backgrounds due to social, physical, or economic factors is related to inadequate language, literacy, and early math experiences in early childhood. Schools in Oakland California, with students’ diverse socioeconomic background, face such challenges.

The need for language aids is pervasive in today's world. Millions of individuals with language and speech challenges require additional support for language understanding and learning. Currently, however, these needs are not being met because there are not enough skilled teachers, interpreters, and professionals to give them the one on one attention that they need. Lipreading (speechreading because it involves more than just the lips) allows deaf and hard of hearing individuals to perceive and understand oral language and even to speak.