The CIVITAS (Virtual Cities with Technologies for Learning and Simulating) project presents a research, teaching and extension approach directed to the construction of cities imagined by students in the first years of elementary school, with an emphasis to the fourth grade. The teacher ventures on a deviation from the official curriculum proposed to reflect upon the invention of cities along wi...

This paper intends to contribute some thoughts to the discussion of the utility of storage systems in the activities of the schools. After explaining the concept of SNA, its functionalities and the benefits obtained in its use, the problems of storage systems management and their application in the domain schools’ activities are focused. The need of analyzing actual trends in the field of stora...

Commercial applications of embedded systems often use flash memory so vendors can update software in customer-owned systems without physically removing and replacing ROM chips. These reflashing operations are safe because they occur under tightly controlled conditions involving updates with thoroughly validated software. We have developed a reflashing mechanism that is far more flexible and far...

Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) that support collaboration is one of the new technologies that show great interest, concerning the innovative methods that gain ground in every aspect of educational procedure. In this paper, we present ELearn, a collaborative virtual learning environment for teaching e-commerce that has been developed using Active Worlds. We have constructed a virtual schoo...

This study was designed to assess, retrospectively using dental records, the impact on the management of dental caries of new caries risk assessment (CRA) forms and procedures introduced into a predoctoral dental school clinic. Of 3,659 patients with a new patient visit (NPV) and baseline exam (BE) in the two-year period of July 2003 through June 2005, 69 percent (n= 2,516) had a baseline CRA. ...

Process improvement is difficult to teach as it requires a firm basis in terms of a welldefined process and systematic measurement. In our large-scale software development course we are teaching process improvement using an experience base. The main improvement objective of the course is to teach improvement in terms of improved effort predictability. This also forms the basis to teach process ...