California's Sierra Nevada
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Content Outline
- Rationale - Why did I chose this topic?
- Familiarity & Expertise with the topic
- I have numerours photographs and movies I have taken
- I have exetensive knowledge of the topic
- Academic Content
- Addresses multiple California State Content Standards
- Material is of interest to my students - see content outline
- Application of Technologies learned in the Masters Program
- Movies - I own or can take movies about the subject
- Animations, Simulations - there are multiple things to animate or simulate (e.g. mountain formation, subduction, orographic precipitation, etc.
- Interactivity - I can envision interactive, exploratory learning
- Collaborative Development - I can engage others in the development of this resource
- Google Site for this project
- Familiarity & Expertise with the topic
Components
- Trees of the Sierra Nevada (Frames, targets, swaps)
- Ecoystems of the Sierra Nevada (Image maps, behaviors, swaps)
- Geomorphic Regions of California (text inserts, multiple swaps, AP divs)
- Mountains of California (swapping on image map, study guide, pdf worksheets)
- Life cycle of conifers (interactive diagram)
- Mountains of California (public domain text & graphics)
- Understanding Scientific names; Levels of organization in biology (tooltip; forms)
- Project Files
- Making Videos for your website (flv, m4v, swf, etc.)
- Movie - Giant Sequoias (examples of m4v and swf/f4v files)