The Digital Learning Materials site contains a variety of teaching and learning curriculum components, created, primarily, by the Internet Learning Community Projects in IU's Phase II.
The Scholar’s Box work began in Phase II and continues today, working to implement online tools that will allow teachers, students, and researchers to gather, organize and share resources in the environment of desk-top and Internet computing.
IU/CDL collaboration, formally initiated in 2003, is a key partnership, and a source of IU support for the Scholar's Box development effort.
The City|Watershed Project, funded in Fall 2003, is gearing up—see July's lead story. It aims to bring computer technologies to the established watershed education and restoration programs of its Bay Area partners.
Finally, in the right-most column, there are new links to campus and affiliate sites. And for those who wish to make a permanent link to an IU Home page or News page (which change the first Tuesday of every month) a persistent link has now been added to each of these pages.
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 Happy New Year. This edition of the IU News looks back on some of the work done in the last 12 months, and contains a selection of representative and significant stories that provide a précis of IU work in 2004, while also providing a representation of the scope of activities and breadth of communities in which the IU continues to be involved. During 2004, IU staff and partners worked to complete, to consolidate, and to create projects on the Berkeley campus, in local school districts, and in surrounding Bay Area communities.
The year 2004 brought a number of important achievements, among the most significant, two major local school district projects, in which the IU was a vital contributing partner, came to a close. Beginning in 1999, UC Berkeley and the IU participated in school-district-wide projects in Oakland and San Francisco. The two distinct grants for systemic improvements in the Oakland and San Francisco Unified School districts were designed to improve teaching and learning in classrooms; from the beginning of each of these efforts, the IU played an important role in both projects by making UC resources available and relevant to expressed K-12 needs.
Concurrently, IU's technical and development staff continued to test, augment, and share the concepts and framework for the Scholar's Box suite of on-line tools and services--a suite conceived with the goal of supporting and enabling some of the activities implemented in projects similar to the two above; the concept of a Scholar's Box envisions allowing teachers and scholars to gather, create and share archived digital materials for use in classrooms and research. During 2004, IU's Scholar's Box developers continued to benefit from working partnerships with the UC Berkeley Library and the California Digital Library that are a cornerstone of Scholar's Box development, while also traveling throughout the year to make presentations at conferences, scholar's panels and universities.
 . . Continue on to the IU News January 2005 page to read more about the IU work in 2004.
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