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j1-2k8-mtT06: Wonderland with Kids
This presentation relates to the World Wide Volunteer Week 2008 Project named "Hello Buddy/Hola Amigo" organized by Gilda and Juan Carlos. The main goal in WWVW project is bridging the digital divide among children by improving their second language. In this particular project, two primary schools, one located in the Bay Area in California and another in Santiago Chile, will be connected via Wonderland, a virtual space developed at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. By using the resources provided by this virtual space, children will communicate with their buddies and practice their second language. Gilda Garreton in the Bay Area and Juan Carlos Herrera in Sun Chile are driving this project. May. 28, 2008

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Project "Hello Buddy/Hola Amigo": The project "Hello Buddy/Hola Amigo" is a Sun Microsystems' volunteers' initiative to reduce the digital divide.The project itself is based on "Wonderland" a Sun's open-source project to create virtual 3D world. Wonderland gives us the platform to build a live virtual and 3D classroom.
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