Project Sponsor: Professor Marc Dubin
Abstract
For many years people have been aware of a problem with medical literature designed for laymen, it is not gettings its message across. We are attempting to find better methods for presenting medical information to lower income people. We hope that this will make them more comfortable with their procedure and ultimately help them to recover. To achieve this goal we intend to use the World Wide Web to stream audio and video to the user. While audio and video is the main source of information, text will be presented secondly. We feel that this will be far more understandable and memorable than a text based report however simplified.
Project Sponsor: The Daily Camera
Abstract
Frederik Barthelme and Vannevar Bush had two separate goals in their writing. Barthelme imagined a character that had a need to share her version of the news with people she had never met. Bush described a piece of technology that would be used to organize information important to them for quick retrieval and exchange. In the newspaper trails system, I tried to create a program that would allow readers, reporters, editors, and random community members to forge "Memex" trails through different online articles.
Abstract
In our children's schools today, a significant effort is under way to integrate modern technology into classrooms. The main focus of this effort is directed towards using technology to improve the learning environment and material that our children interact with and learn from. One of the major technologies currently being researched extensively is the integration of the Internet within the classroom.
There has been little effort devoted to utilizing technology to support parents in their efforts to participate in their children's education. This paper looks at the history of parental participation, what is currently being done technically to aid parents, and the proposal to implement a project to make use of the Internet to aid in the development of parental participation.