Nerea, with able assistance from Sylvelin and Lucia Snowhill , were the creative forces behind the handouts. Chuck Huber had designed the handy Web of Science sheet for the databases festival, and shared that informative handout with visitors. Contacts with UCSB visitors were very good, and may lead to increased interaction between the library and campus units, Residential Services for one. The range of technologies and types of exhibit is always rather astounding.
Teachers can create, collect, grade, and return assignments by the same means.
The program also includes message and discussion functions, which are easy to use and require very little technical expertise. Bill Prothero, Geological Sciences, has an ongoing project of several years that he has pretty much built from the ground up. Students, for example, can draw a line along a portion of the Pacfic basin and bring up a profile of graphic geophysical information related to that line, aka Project Alexandria . Students can then test many of their own hypotheses and see these scenarios graphically drawn.