Children as designers of web portals

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 40, Issue , 2003, Pages 142-149

  Large, Andrew ^a   Beheshti, Jamshid ^a   Nesset, Valerie ^a   Bowler, Leanne ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 23244451494     PISSN: 15508390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.1450400118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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