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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K-12 Programs Wrap-up
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 In the second half of 1999 both the Oakland and San Francisco Unified School Districts received important five-year Federal grants to support programs for systemic improvement in teaching and learning throughout each district. Oakland received a Federal Technology Innovation Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education. San Francisco received an Urban Systemic Program Grant from the National Science Foundation. The IU and its campus partners played significant roles from start to finish in each of these programs.
Now, the work of these two district-wide, multi-million dollar efforts is coming to a close—with a number of successes and achievements. In both districts the IU collaborated with teachers, curriculum and technology specialists, and administrators to implement and achieve Federal and school district program goals. Of equal significance, several IU Internet Learning Community Projects (ILCPs) teamed UC Berkeley faculty, students and staff with K-12 teachers and students. These partnerships harnessed Internet technologies to improve student outcomes and assist learners and educators. In September 2001, Chancellor Berdahl honored the IU and all campus and K-12 ILCP participants with UC Berkeley's University/Community Partner award.
Among the outcomes of each of these grants, UC/K-12 partnerships have resulted in: a wide range of teacher professional development activities; the creation of standards-based digital learning materials; and hands-on experience and guided opportunities to integrate into classroom pedagogy emerging strategies and practices, such as web-logging and digital storytelling.
. . . Continue on to the IU News September 2004 page to read more about the IU's current and future work.
The Interactive University Project uses the Internet to open UC Berkeley's unique resources and people to California’s K-12 schools and citizens. Our goal is to use technology to democratize the content and community of the campus.
IU activities are coordinated by
UC Berkeley's IS&T
Information Systems and Technology.
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