Educating Schools and Families with ToxRAP over MPEG-4

描述（由申请人提供）：STTR计划“教育学校和家庭ToxRAP超过MPEG-4”的目标是教育教师，学龄儿童及其家庭识别和评估环境健康问题，使他们有知识和技能，以减少他们暴露于潜在的污染物和预防与环境有关的疾病和疾病。将编制供教室和家庭使用的环境卫生教育材料，以便通过因特网和可能的其他渠道分发，使用最近国际上批准的MPEG-4格式，该格式支持更高的视听质量、互动性、个性化和目前多媒体标准的分发多样性。为了避免这一教育举措成为“又一个网站”，这一合作将建立在创新和获奖的ToxRAP（毒理学，风险评估和污染）课程系列的K-9年级，目前正在使用的3,500教室在22个州。该计划将加强ToxRAP在课堂上的使用，并将ToxRAP课程和概念直接扩展到家庭中。内容将根据学习者个人（教师、学生和家庭）的需要量身定制，旨在衡量学习者的表现，并具有互动性，可从学校、住宅和社区的各种信息技术资产中获取。在第一阶段，Creneaux和EOHSI/UMDNJ-SPH将展示ToxRAP扩展和家庭活动在线MPEG-4格式的可行性，吸引力和可访问性。将开发一个规模模型网站，向教师、学生、家长和社区其他人展示MPEG-4 ToxRAP的独特功能，他们将在第二阶段开发完整的模型网站之前提供反馈。目前的课堂ToxRAP计划为第三阶段的在线ToxRAP活动提供了基础设施，包括教师培训，而基础的MPEG-4平台则适用于其他在线课程。通过使用批准的丰富媒体标准，MPEG-4创作和交付机制的发展，包括无线和广播提供商对MPEG-4的预测采用，也将有利于ToxRAP和使用底层平台的未来课程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the STTR program "Educating Schools and Families with ToxRAP over MPEG-4" is to educate teachers, school-age children and their families on the identification and evaluation of environmental health problems so that they have the knowledge and skills to reduce their exposure to potential pollutants and prevent environment-related illnesses and diseases. Environmental health education materials for the classroom and home will be developed for distribution over the Internet, and potentially other channels, using the recently internationally ratified MPEG-4 format, which supports a greater audiovisual quality, interactivity, personalization, and distribution diversity among current multimedia standards. To avoid this education initiative from becoming "yet another web site," this collaboration will build upon the innovative and award winning ToxRAP (Toxicology, Risk Assessment and Pollution) curriculum series for K-9th grades that is currently being used in 3,500 classrooms in 22 states. The program will enhance the use of ToxRAP in the classroom and extend the ToxRAP lessons and concepts directly into the home for families. The content will be tailored on-demand to the individual learner (teachers, students and families), and will be designed to measure learner performance, and be interactive and accessible from a broad range of school, residential and community information technology assets. In Phase I, Creneaux and EOHSI/UMDNJ-SPH will demonstrate the feasibility, appeal, and accessibility of ToxRAP extensions and home activities in an online MPEG-4 format. A scale model website will be developed demonstrating the unique features of MPEG-4 ToxRAP to teachers, students, parents, and others in the community who will provide feedback prior to developing the full model website in Phase II. The current classroom ToxRAP program provides the infrastructure for Phase III on-line ToxRAP activities including teacher training, while the underlying MPEG-4 platform is applied to additional on-line curriculum. By using a ratified rich media standard, developments in MPEG-4 authoring and delivery mechanisms, including the forecasted adoption of MPEG-4 by wireless and broadcast providers, will also benefit ToxRAP and future curriculum using the underlying platform.