Project(s) by "Joan Edwards" |
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| Field Botany Website (2006) |
| Edwards, Joan and Art, Hank (Biology) & Oh Bother! |
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| The Field Botany Website incorporates two previous sites’ worth of content: the Botany course website from 1999 and the recent Blackboard site. The aim was to provide a site that students could easily use for reference while taking the course. The site includes a plant manual with descriptions and images of plant species and families, videos of plant habitats, PowerPoint presentations on evolutionary botany and much, much more! |
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| Fast Enough to Break Your Heart, Exploding Flowers (2005) |
| Edwards, Joan; Whitaker, Dwight (Biology and Physics) & Exploding Apples |
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| The Exploding Flower project involved creating a new web site for Dwight Whitaker and Joan Edwards about their research and recent publication on the Dogwood Flower. This site is geared to two distinct audiences. One group is the academic audience who will be interested primarily in raw data, the video, and contact information section listing publications. The other group is the every day visitors. Children who have heard about the flower from their science teachers, or those who have read about the flower in a magazine and want to know more. For these visitors the section on the plant, with pictures and explanations about its life cycle will be particularly helpful. Since the high speed video is one of the most exciting features of the site, it too can be reached from the home page. |
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| Online Key for Aquatic Insects (2005) |
| Edwards, Joan and Smith, David (Biology) & Any Milkshake is Good |
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| In the introductory Ecology course and Environmental Sciences course students study the aquatic insect fauna of local streams and rivers. To identify the insects to the family level, students use a rather cumbersome key where they have to flip back and forth between pages to link the written clues with line drawings illustrating the key characteristics. This project was to develop a web-based online self-study tool to guide students in identifying the insects without flipping back and forth between pages. |
