SCHOOL'S OUT Supporting authentic learning in a community network

The Internet facilitates many human concerns and endeavors, but it tends to promote global homogeneity in values, activities, and information. We want to leverage community computing to support a complementary localization of values, activities and information. We describe a county-wide virtual school infrastructure, a town-oriented multi-user domain, and efforts to facilitate reintegration of school system and community.

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