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Computer Science educators are often frustrated in their attempts to demonstrate the power and relevance of their discipline in a classroom setting. Increasingly, educators are turning to carefully designed service learning projects to provide that experience.
This paper describes a year-long service learning project in which we developed a working prototype of a mobile, location-aware tour for the Bonsai Exhibition Garden of the North Carolina Arboretum. The tour is a web-based, customizable, multimedia presentation on handheld Personal Digital Assistants. Students developed the complete tour, including all presentation materials and system installation, at the University of North Carolina at Asheville in a series of three computer science courses. The project abounded with both the benefits and pitfalls that come from combining service learning with cutting edge technology.

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ACMSE '08: Proceedings of the 46th annual ACM Southeast Conference
March 2008
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  1. guided tour
  2. location-aware computing
  3. mobile computing
  4. project-based coursework
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