{"id":554,"date":"2022-07-15T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech2\/?page_id=554"},"modified":"2023-09-29T15:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:48:25","slug":"zora-at-tufts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/beit-midrash\/zora\/zora-at-tufts\/","title":{"rendered":"Zora at Tufts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Active Citizenship through Technologies<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Funded by a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tisch faculty fellowship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinabers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professor Marina Umaschi Bers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and a grant from Academic Technologies, The A.C.T. Pre-Orientation program was designed to understand the utility of networked technologies and purposefully designed curriculum on students&#8217; civic participation on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tufts.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tufts&#8217;<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> campus. This three-day long intensive program took place as a pre-orientation program during summer 2005 and summer 2006 just before participants&#8217; matriculation to the university. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The goals of the program were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To engage incoming freshman in a fun, hands-on set of activities that will help them become part of a community and a social support network.<\/li>\n<li>To provide an educational experience in which freshman will learn about academic, institutional, social, and extracurricular life at the university and the surrounding community.<\/li>\n<li>To leverage on young people&#8217;s fascination with computers as means to encourage their participation in an educational program in which they will gain more sophisticated knowledge about new technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Program Details<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please click on one of the links below to view that year&#8217;s program brochure for more details.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/04\/ACT2005brochure.pdf\">A.C.T. 2005<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/04\/ACT2006brochure.pdf\">A.C.T. 2006<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Student Video Presentations<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please choose from below to view video presentations made by A.C.T. students and staff members<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A.C.T. 2005 Zora Video:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 320px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-554-1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/04\/act2005_video.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/04\/act2005_video.mp4\">https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/04\/act2005_video.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<h2>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A.C.T. 2006 Zora Video (Quicktime Video):<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 320px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-554-2\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/04\/act2006_video.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/04\/act2006_video.mp4\">https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/devtech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2018\/04\/act2006_video.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<h1>&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<p><b>People:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Primary Investigator<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; Professor Marina Umaschi Bers &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">marina.bers@tufts.edu \/\/ <em>marina.bers@bc.edu as of 2022<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Project Coordinator<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; Clement Chau &#8211;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">clement.chau@tufts.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Program Coordinator 2005<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; Ashima Mathur &#8211;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ashima.mathur@tufts.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Program Coordinator 2006<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; Daniela Mesalles&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">daniela.mesalles@tufts.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With support from: Jonathan M. 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