Living Marine Invertebrates: An Interactive CD-ROM

无脊椎动物占地球上所有动物生命的95%，在世界海洋中占主导地位，因此了解它们的生物学和生态学对学生理解地球生态系统至关重要。从传统的无脊椎动物学课程到强调一般入门生物学、海洋生物学、海洋学和生物多样性的课程，许多大学课程都涉及无脊椎动物。无脊椎动物有着令人眼花缭乱的身体形态和形态变化，以及复杂的进食、运动和其他难以描述和说明的行为。几乎所有的教科书都以百科全书式的方式用线条画和照片来描绘无脊椎动物，这让学生很少或根本没有意识到它们在自然栖息地的位置和/或行为。目前市场上还没有多媒体产品可以为学生提供一种观察大多数无脊椎动物群体、它们各自的身体计划和行为的手段。这个项目正在开发一个交互式光盘的原型，其中包含选定的海洋无脊椎动物的数字录像带序列，重点是两个主要群体的身体计划、运动和摄食行为。我们在自然和模拟野外条件下拍摄活体无脊椎动物方面积累了多年的经验，并利用了众多海洋栖息地和最先进的养殖设施来开展该项目。来自30所大学的访问本科生正在使用我们的教学和研究设施对原型进行测试。在一次全国无脊椎动物学家会议上，将对样机进行进一步测试。

Invertebrates comprise 95% of all animal life on the Earth and dominate the world's oceans so some knowledge of their biology and ecology is fundamental to a student's understanding of the planet's ecosystems. Invertebrates are covered in many university-level courses ranging from traditional invertebrate zoology classes to those emphasizing general introductory biology, marine biology, oceanography, and biodiversity, to name a few. Invertebrates are represented by a dizzying array of body forms and morphologicalvariations as well as complex feeding, locomotory, and other behaviors that are difficult to describe and illustrate. Virtually all textbooks represent invertebrates with line drawings and photographs in an encyclopedic manner that provide students with little or no sense of their position and/or behavior in natural habitats. No multimedia products are available on the market today that provide students with a means to observe most invertebrate groups, their respective body plans and behaviors. This project is developing a prototype interactive CD-ROM containing digital videotape sequences of selected living marine invertebrates with an emphasis on the body plans and locomotory and feeding behavior of two major groups. We are building on several years of experience in videotaping living invertebrates under both natural and simulated field conditions and have access to a multitude of marine habitats and state-of-the-art culture facilities for conducting the project. The prototype is being tested by visiting undergraduate students from 30 universities that use our teaching and research facilities. Additional testing of the prototype will occur at a national meeting of invertebrate zoologists.