Multi-Media Teaching in Geology

该提案要求提供设备，使加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的地质科学系能够为其学生提供先进的实验室和讲座媒体能力。多年来，UCSB地质学系一直对开发和使用计算机和先进的视觉呈现媒体来教授本科课程表现出浓厚的兴趣。目前，在大学和苹果公司的资助下，我们正在制作一张用于我们的海洋学课程的视盘(由幻灯片、动画和视频剪辑组成)，一个广泛的光学矿物学和结晶学互动教程，以及一个关于北美大陆从幻影到现在的演变的互动教程。互动教程是在彩色Macintosh电脑上使用SuperCard实施的演示项目。这种材料的潜在用途是巨大的。我们希望创造一个环境，让学生可以浏览支持他们的实验室和课程的一系列侧面的地质信息，访问地质主题的教程，并通过网络通过电子邮件与他们的教授交流。我们希望，这也将产生软化主题界限、整合地质科学不同分支的影响。与实验室中的计算机连接的高速网络，加上演示设备，将使学生和讲师能够获得比不使用高速网络更广泛的教学材料。所有材料或材料也将在实验室以外的地方向学生开放。我们需要学生实验室中使用的设备，为材料系和校园范围提供的系级网络支持，支持授课的设备(使用计算机的显示和动画功能)，以及供教师用于讲课、实验室和辅导材料准备的计算机。

This proposal requests equipment that will enable the Department of Geological Sciences at University of California, Santa Barbara to provide advanced laboratory and lecture media capability of its students. Over the years, the UCSB geology faculty have shown strong interest in developing and using computers and advanced visual presentation media to teach undergraduate courses. Presently we are, with both University and Apple Corp. funding, creating a videodisc (consisting of slides, animations, and video clips) for use in our Oceanography course, an extensive interactive tutorial for Optical Mineralogy and Crystallography, and an interactive tutorial on the evolution of the North American continent from Phanerazoic to the present. The interactive tutorials are demonstration projects being implemented with SuperCard on color Macintosh computers. The potential use for this kind of material is enormous. We want to create an environment where students can browse through a side range of geological information in support of their laboratory and coursework, access tutorials of geological topics, and communicate with their professors through electronic mail over a network. We hope that this will also have the affectof softening subject matter boundaries, integrating diverse branches of the geological sciences. A high speed network connected to computers in the laboratories, combined with presentation equipment, will allow the students and lecturers to have access to a much wider range of instructional material than they would otherwise. All or the material would also be available to students outside of the laboratory. We are requesting equipment for use in student labs, department network support for availability of the material department and campus.wide,equipment in support of lecturing (using the computer's display and animation capability), and computers for faculty use in lecture, laboratory, and tutorial materials preparation.