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Phone: 487-1860

NSF 1504860: Agile Communicators: Preparing Students for Communication - Intensive Software Development through Inquiry Critique and Reflection
Google CS4HS
Houghton Middle School Programmers
Shards - An iPhone Game
Learning by Reading - A computational account of learning from reading.
VModel - Qualitative modeling software for middle school science classrooms.
Solar House - Solar House Simulator for LeTuS curriculum.
NSF GK12 Teachers:Graphic Design Assignments. From NSF Graduate Teaching Fellowship.
FAVL - Feedback Articulate Virtual Laboratory
CyclePad - Thermodynamics Software
EvapLab - Evaporation Laboratory
First Things First - A Goal-Based Scenario teaching one of Stephen R. Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

CyclePad: An articulate virtual laboratory for engineering thermodynamics. Forbus, K.D., Whalley, P., Everett, J., Ureel, L., Brokowski, M., Baher, J. and Kuehne, S. (1999). Artificial Intelligence. 114, 297-347. [Local mirror]

VModel: A visual qualitative modeling environment for middle-school students. Forbus, K., Carney, K., Sherin, B. and Ureel, L. 2004. Proceedings of the 16^th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, San Jose, July 2004.
Design Of Computational Supports For Students In Visual Modelling Tasks. Ureel II, Leo C., Carney, Karen (2003). In Wasson B., Baggetun, R., Hoppe, U., Ludvigsen, S. (Eds.) International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, CSCL 2003, Community events, Communication and Interaction. (pp. 98-100) Bergen, Norway, University of Bergen Press.
Using Modeling to Support Integration and Reuse of Knowledge in School Science: Vmodel, a New Educational Technology. Carney, K, Forbus K., Ureel, L., Sherin, B. (2002, April) . Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
We Made The Mistakes So You Don't Have To! Petrelius, Joan M., Ureel II, Leo C. (2001, March) . Paper presented at the MACUL 2001 Conference in Detroit, MI.
Supporting Student Design Work in Articulate Virtual Laboratories. Ma, J., Baher, J.L., & Ureel, L. C. (1999). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Canada.

Question Generation for Learning by Reading, Ureel II, Leo C., & K. Forbus, C. Riesbeck, L. Birnbaum (In Press) To appear in the Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Textual Question Answering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. July 2005
A conceptual architecture for generating examples in a socratic tutor for qualitative modeling. Leo C. Ureel, II. (2004) In Neil Heffernan and Peter Wiemer-Hastings, editors, Workshop on Dialog-based Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Macei�, Brazil, 2004.
Qualitative modeling for middle-school students. Forbus, K., Carney, K., Sherin, B. and Ureel, L. 2004. Proceedings of the 18^th International Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Evanston, Illinois, USA, August
Distributed Coaching for an Intelligent Learning Environment. Kenneth D. Forbus, John O. Everett, Leo Ureel, Mike Brokowski, Julie Baher, and Sven E. Kuehne. Proceedings of QR98, May, 1998, Cape Cod.

Demonstration of Supports for Student Reuse and Integration of Knowledge through Modeling . Carney, Karen, Ureel, Leo (2003). In Wasson B., Baggetun, R., Hoppe, U., Ludvigsen, S. (Eds.) International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, CSCL 2003, Community events, Communication and Interaction. (pp. 98-100) Bergen, Norway, University of Bergen Press.
High School Computer Programming Now In Amazing 3-D. Leo C. Ureel II (2001, March) . Presented at the MACUL 2001 Conference in Detroit, MI.