Living Marine Invertebrates: An Interactive CD-ROM

无脊椎动物占地球上所有动物的95%，并主导着世界海洋，因此，了解一些无脊椎动物的生物学和生态学知识是学生理解地球生态系统的基础。无脊椎动物在许多大学级别的课程中都有涉及，从传统的无脊椎动物动物学课程到那些强调普通生物学、海洋生物学、海洋学和生物多样性的课程，不一而足。无脊椎动物表现为一系列令人眼花缭乱的身体形态和形态变化，以及复杂的摄食、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的方式描绘无脊椎动物的线条和照片，让学生很少或根本不知道自己在自然栖息地的位置和/或行为。如今，市场上没有多媒体产品可以让学生观察大多数无脊椎动物群体、他们各自的身体计划和行为。该项目正在开发一个原型互动光盘，其中包含选定的活着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规划和运动和觅食行为。我们在自然和模拟野外条件下拍摄活的无脊椎动物方面积累了几年的经验，并获得了许多海洋栖息地和最先进的养殖设施来进行该项目。该原型正在由来自30所使用我们的教学和研究设施的大学的访问本科生进行测试。对原型的进一步测试将在全国无脊椎动物动物学家会议上进行。

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.