Acknowledgements

This project has been made possible by the work of the entire PDG: Trevor Bradley, Stephen Braham, Carlton Chan, Jen Chang, Paul Irvine, and Terrance Yu as well as authors Jörgenson and Sinclair. Also essential to this project was the work of the ATiC lab members, director Ellen Balka and ethnographer Michael Jones.

We would also like to thank principal Ted Spear of the Island Pacific School, all the students who participated, and the very supportive community of Bowen Island.

We would also like to thank BC Tel Advanced Communications for donation of an ISDN line to Bowen Island, Zentra Computers for donations of PC hardware, and Innovative Computing Solutions and Redesign for their networking support.

This work has been in part supported by research and equipment grants from the TeleLearning - National Centre of Excellence (TL-NCE) and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.