ETC is commited to sharing materials developed through the center to the campus and to partners outside the campus.

K-12

The ETC has developed presentations specifically targeting K-12 education. During the last year the K-12 Outreach program showed the digital models of historical environments to 687 young students. The center has also been involved with the ArtsBridge program which allows UCLA students to teach art, music, dance, and architecture in Los Angeles schools. UCLA graduate students in architecture and urban design have used the digital models of historic environments to teach elementary, middle and high school students, allowing them to experience the models first-hand, to see the power and possibilities of the new technologies, and to learn about various career paths.

In academic year 2005-2006, ETC fellows will be presenting their work at inner-city schools through a generous grant from the Steinmetz Family Foundation.

COMMUNITY

Although the ETC was only recently formally established, the team behind the center and the facilities that form the center’s infrastructure have long been in place. The Visualization Portal, which is the main presentation theater for much of the visualization and modeling work done at UCLA, has drawn thousands of visitors – including researchers, students, and members of the greater UCLA community. In 2003, more than 4,000 people visited the Portal to see the innovative work being done by UCLA faculty and Research Fellows. In addition, more than 1,200 UCLA students went to the Portal to experience the digital reconstructions of historical monuments.

CAMPUS

ETC staff are available to work with instructors interested in using visualizations in their classrooms.

ARRANGING AN EVENT

K-12

Thanks to generous support from the Steinmetz Foundation, the ETC is able to host a limited number of educational outreach events each quarter. This could be arranged as either a school visit by an ETC scholar or a session in UCLA's Visualization Portal. If you're interested in arranging a presentation by an ETC scholar at your own school, please write to 'info 'at' etc.ucla.edu.'  Include information about your school, your class, the lesson plan connected to the ETC visit, and some suggested dates for the event. (Only available to schools in the Los Angeles area.) If you're interested in bringing your class to UCLA for a session at the Visualization Portal, please send a request to events@ats.ucla.edu and we will add your name to our waiting list. Please provide detailed information about your students and how this visit will tie into their lessons. We also encourage instructors to take the opportunity to use ETC content as instructional technology; if you are interested in leading a class session in the Portal with ETC content, please make a note of that in your request. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology also has archaeologists available for K-12 classroom visits through their Portals to the Past program. For more information, please visit www.ioa.ucla.edu/portals and click on class visits.

Campus

If you are a UCLA or UC faculty and are interested in arranging a classroom presentation or the use of one or more of the models in your classroom, please write to 'lms 'at' ats.ucla.edu.'

Community

If you’re interested in attending regularly scheduled events in the Portal, please visit the ATS Events page. If you’d like to schedule a specific event in the Portal, contact Joanne Fife at 'jfife 'at' ats.ucla.edu.'