Acknowledgements

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

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. We would also like to thank the Centre for Experimental & Constructive Mathematics, the Assessment of Technology in Context lab and the Island Pacific School for their support and participation in this project.