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 | To Return to the Table of Contents, click the "Contents" tab at the right of this page.
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| The Learning With Data project is designed to provide a suite of tools to support the delivery of inquiry based Earth science activities, and to provide the instructor with efficient access to student products and assessments.
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 | Tools and modules: (click the triangle to see subhead)
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| The help system is comprehensive. It is accessed from the "Help" dropdown menu that is at the upper right side of each module window. There are 3 kinds of help available:
1) Quick help: this is a brief text overview of the module.
2) Guide help: a step by step guided tutorial for using the module. It is recommended that all students go through the Guide Help, so they become aware of useful features they might not notice.
3) Video help: for some modules a narrated video demonstrating the use of the module is available. This is useful for visual learners.
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 | Solid Earth data browser:
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| Displays data to support data rich inquiries into the theory of plate tectonics. It displays elevation profiles, quake epicenters, quake cross sections (distance vs depth), seafloor age, volcano locations, island ages, seafloor heat flow, and geographically linked images, movies, and media.
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| Displays data about the ocean, including sea surface temperatures, temperature anomalies, rainfall, winds, and seawater composition. Data are available in profile, cross section, or map views. Much of the data is accessed directly from the Lamont Climate Data Library.
--This viewer will be revised to support a wide range of data, by January, 2008.
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| Earth Science readings, links, and movies:
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| Slide shows, movies, web pages, and pdf documents are displayed in the media viewer. As of December, 2007, there is an extensive library of material to support inquiry into the theory of plate tectonics, including 20 minutes of animations, inquiry activities, and homework problems.
The media viewer has a teacher interface for easily editing and composing presentations.
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| Students will capture images of the data displayed in the data browsers. They use the Image Editor to compose figures for their writing assignment, lab report or class presentation. The Image Editor allows the student to make a single image from multiple images that they position, scale, annotate, and save.
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| The Fishbanks game is a multi-user version of the original Fishbanks game developed by Dennis Meadows. to play the game, you must first set up a game using the Fishbanks Admin module. This requires a password, which you get by contacting prothero at geol.ucsb.eu. It is a work in progress.
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| Updates to the software and modules:
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| Updates to the software are regularly posted on the internet. To check for updates, select "Check for Application Updates" under the File menu.
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| Online updates to the content have not been implemented, but will be in the future.
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| If the user is connected to the internet, software bugs are automatically reported to the author. This insures that bugs will be logged and fixed.
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