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In prior research and development, the developers created Tyto Online, an online multiplayer sandbox game where middle school students engage in quests to apply life science learning. This project will extend the game by developing a prototype for the Earth and Space science domain, with a prototype including quests for the Climate and Weather topic aligned to Next Generation Science Standards (NG ...

In this project, the team will develop a prototype of History Maker, a virtual reality (VR) content creation tool, where students and teachers produce digital movies to be used as reports and/or presentations about particular historical topics. Within the platform, students will research primary sources documents, write scripts, and act scenes from history. Student work will be presented in VR to ...

The prototype Arlyn Arm Workstation, a robotic arm workstation, created, designed, and built by Arlyn Toolworks will be modified to makeit transportable and capable of handling items such as textbooks and lunch used in an educational setting. Then the resulting device, the Arlyn Arm Transportable will then be tested by students performing educational tasks and reviewed by teachers, occupational t ...

The Department of Vocational Rehabilitation has determined that efforts to adequately serve Deaf clients could be greatly enhanced by a voice-to-sign translation system (Shalls, 1997; Ward, 1997). It is hard for DVR to hire enough VR Counselors fluent in sign language (Shalls) and very expensive to hire interpreters to handle all communication between Counselors and Deaf clients. Very few prospect ...

Dancing Dots GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator already transcribes MIDI and Lime Notation files into standard music braille. GOODFEEL's design permits addition of a module to read Score (tm) files. Problem Definition -- Commercial publishers lave growing archives of Score files used to produce print editions. There is no automated way to interpret these Score files to produce equivalent braille ...

Interactive map animation software on CD-ROM for multimedia computers will enable students to observe nation, language, and religion boundaries on a map background. Students will be able to select a global perspective or zoom-in for a regional view. During animation they will see nations changing, watch empires growing, observe peoples migrating, and witness languages or religions spreading. Us ...

National school reform efforts are grounded in the development of close partnerships among families, communities and schools. Several initiatives have demonstrated that such partnerships can help provide community resources that support the educational achievement of at-risk students. However, many parents and teachers lack an understanding of the potential of this new movement and have not been ...

Over 500,000 hearing disabled Americans are currently excluded from communicating in their most expressive idiom over long distance communications systems. Although widespread availability of electronic mail (e-mail) and electronic facsimile (fax) provide the means for these individuals to communicate in written English, both speed of communication and the level of personal interaction are signif ...

CSMP is an exciting K-6 math program, designated as an "exemplary educational program that works¿ by the U.S. Department of Education, which funded its development, evaluation, and dissemination. Its spiral, problem solving approach uses picture languages, abaci, and technically challenging games. Simple problems subtly introduce sophisticated concepts. While class and teacher-student intera ...

THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP AN INEXPENSIVE, PORTABLE, ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH (EEG) BIOFEEDBACK UNIT THAT PROVIDES AUDIO AND VISUAL STIMULATION (AVS) AT BRAINWAVE FREQUENCIES TO AID IN THE TREATMENT OF LEARNING DISABLED (LD) SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (ADD) OR WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD). THE UNIT WILL BE EASY ENOUGH TO OPERATE, SO THAT COUNSELORS AT SCHOO ...