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       The multimedia tool entitled Warning SEISM!- Seismic Prevention in Schools
 
      
        
           
             Warning 
                SEISM! Seismic Prevention in Schools was created in the context 
                of a research project conducted in 2002 by the San Juan National 
                University in San Juan, Argentina, and led by Alicia Violeta Malmod 
                and María Isabel Balmaceda.  
                This is 
                  a multimedia software intended for students between the ages 
                  of 7 and 12, and promotes space adequacy in schools and the 
                  establishment of preventive behavior towards earthquakes, recognizing 
                  the potential that schools have for disseminating information. 
                This tool 
                  aims at establishing links that allow for the access of the 
                  population at risk to the existing theoretical body on seismic 
                  prevention. It also proposes a new way of approaching the issue 
                  of seismic prevention, as it integrates dissimilar disciplines 
                  and lays emphasis on knowledge building and the analysis of 
                  inter-subjective aspects.  
                   
                 
                
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      Finally, 
        this multimedia software responds to the need for a tool to be used by 
        teachers of primary education, in order to facilitate the implementation 
        of seismic prevention from a constructivist approach that includes the 
        participation of all sectors involved in the education community. 
      For 
        further information, please contact: 
        alertasismo@farqui.unsj.edu.ar 
        amalmod@sinectis.com.ar 
        marisabal@farqui.unsj.edu.ar 
       
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