Mapping

• Where are you?
• How to get your latitude & longitude
• How to build & display maps
• How to read a map

Building Web Pages & IDnature guides

• Overview
  • Unix/Linux operating system commands
  • Unix/Linux vi text editor commands
  • HTML tags & file structure
  • Directory Structure on Discover Life Websites
  • 20q XML tags & file structure
  • 20q_build guide
  • Processing images for Discover Life
• How to Write Web Pages
• Creating a New Guide
• How to Import a List to a Guide
• How to Use the Discover Life Guides

Imaging

• Uploading Images From Your PC to Discover Life
• Uploading Images From Your MAC OS X to Discover Life

Instructions for Web and Office Support Activites

• Reading Mail using PINE
• Managing Mail
• Printing on the eMac
• Switching between OS 9 and OS X on the eMac
• Translating Files on the eMac
• Scanning Slides with the Polaroid SprintScan 35 scanner
• Scanning Slides with the Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 scanner
• Scanning Images on HP Flatbed Scanner
• Scanning Images on UMAX Flatbed Scanner
• Building Polistes Environment on Mac OS X

Activities In Exploring Diversity

• Insect identification
• Ant Diversity Lab
• Ecology Project Discover Life
• Examining Plant Diversity
• Discoverlife Through Science
• Tree Diversity Recording Sheet
• Catalpa Biodiversity Project- Overview
• Observing the Sphinx Caterpillar
• Exploring the Caterpillar Habitat Activity
• Looking at Habitat Advantages
• Looking at Habitat Adaptations
• Observing and Classifying Wasps
• Caterpillar Surprise Activity for Students
• The Life Cycle of a Caterpillar Activity
• Making a Mobile of the Caterpillar Life Cycle
• Observing the Sphinx Moth
• Comparing Caterpillars and Moths: An Activity for Students
• Making an Adaptive Caterpillar Activity
• Raising Parastic Wasps: a Student Activity
• Children's Butterfly Site, includes color pages

Instructional Activities for Teachers

• How to Teach Web Page Creation
• Taxon Assignment
• Library Resources
• An Easy Guide To Netscape Navigator
• Searching the Web Worksheet Answers
• Searching the Web Worksheet
• Building a Mini-museum of Natural History

Technology Based Activites for Students

• An Easy Guide To Netscape Navigator
• Searching the Web Worksheet
• Searching the Web Worksheet Answers
• Scavenger Hunt

Activities Students Can Do in the Field

• Measuring Trees Exercise
• Setting Up a Plot
• LOG_ID Form to Inventory Species in Your Area

Activities Using Dichotomous Keys

• Using A Dichotomous Turtle Key
• Turtle Key Activity
• Making a Leaf Key

Instructions for Using Photography Equipment

• Photographing Specimens with the digital camera
• Nikon 90s
• Nikon D1

  Links for Software Packages

• Perl Documentation
• ModPerl Documentation
• MySQL Manual
• Convert html images to postscript
• ImageMagick - convert
• ImageMagick - PerlMagick
• ImageMagick - PerlMagick
• PERL MIME::Lite
  • Installation
  • Documentation
• PERL MIME::Tools

  Links for Scanners & Labeling Equipments

• Intermec Products website
• Microbar 9730
• ScanImage 1470 Imager

  Courses taught by John Pickering

• ECOL 4110/6110 Insect and Plant Diversity
• ECOL 4940 -- Ecology internship

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