Thanks Tom :) http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/lawler-award-07 Old news, but it's a new press release, whose title has now been properly changed to: "Lawler Award Goes to Digital Study Hall Team." :) On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Tom Anderson <tom@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
Old news to many of you, but in case not.
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* ACM Honors Randy Wang and Digital Study Hall Team for Using Community-Generated Video to Improve Education in India
ACM Honors Randy Wang and Digital Study Hall Team for Using Community-Generated Video to Improve Education in India AScribe Newswire (06/10/08)
Randy Wang and the Digital Study Hall (DSH) team have won ACM's Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics. Wang and Urvashi Sahni of the Study Hall Foundation founded DSH in 2005, and the project has developed a user-generated video-sharing system that local teachers in South Asia use to improve learning in their classrooms. The cost-effective digital technology allows schools and non-governmental organizations to make videos of the best teachers and to share them with teachers in underserved areas. Wang, currently with Microsoft Research India, describes DSH as "a bit like YouTube meets Netflix in a rural schoolhouse with a dirt floor." DSH currently has 30 pilot schools in five cities in India and Bangladesh. ACM will honor Wang and the DSH team at its annual ACM Awards Banquet on June 21 in San Francisco. Click Here to View Full Article <http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20080610.074304&tim e=08%2016%20PDT&year=2008&public=0> to the top
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