Kids Enjoy a Digital Page-Turner - Photo Available On Business Wire's Web Site and AP PhotoExpress.COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- A photo from International Children's Digital Library (ICDL ICDL International Computer Driving License (computer skills certification programme; trademark of European Computer Driving Licence Foundation Ltd.) ICDL International Children’s Digital Library ICDL International Centre for Distance Learning ) Foundation is available on Business Wire's web site and AP PhotoExpress. Ruby Kulles, 7, is engrossed en·gross tr.v. en·grossed, en·gross·ing, en·gross·es 1. To occupy exclusively; absorb: A great novel engrosses the reader. See Synonyms at monopolize. 2. in an illustrated children's book from the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) Foundation. Kulles is part of Kids Team, a research arm of the Foundation at the University of Maryland's Human-Computer Interaction Lab, involving children in the design and testing of the Library's interface for children's books across digital media. The bright green computer she is using is a test model of the new, low-cost laptop developed by the One Laptop Per Child See OLPC. (OLPC (One Laptop per Child, Cambridge, MA, www.laptop.org) A research initiative of MIT Media Labs devoted to the creation of a $100 PC for educating children in developing countries around the world. ) organization (www.laptop.org). ICDL Foundation has the world's largest collection of children's literature available freely on the Internet. It's on the Web at www.childrenslibrary.org. |
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