The information included was targeted to potential instructors at the Institute, which conducts cloudforest research and education and participates in local community educational affairs. The site included information about curriculum, volunteer opportunities, and environmental education information. CEA conceived of the Virtual Zoo project as a way of helping the Oakland Zoo use its World Wide Web site to build a virtual community of zoo lovers. By putting graphics, audio, and video of the animals on the Web, together with guides, anyone can go to the Zoo, anytime, from anywhere in the world. CEA students worked with zoo experts to create the Virtual Zoo, and met the challenge of exploring new ways of expressing the essence of what a Zoo is, while making that available to a wider audience.
Open Studios is the world's largest annual art show.
In cities around the nation, independent artists open their studios to the public on one or more weekends each year. CEA did two projects for R.A.N. First, students and faculty completed a pilot interactive laserdisk training program designed to teach key decision makers about tropical rainforests. By delivering a finished training program to those whose decisions are critical to the future of the rainforest, influential people, the Rainforest Action Network hoped to educate them about the consequences of their decisions. The interactive program contains basic information about what a rainforest is, why it's valuable, what the threats to the rainforests' ecology are, and what can be done to help preserve them. The interactive program can be used by business executives, managers, government officials, and others, without a teacher.