Inexpensive lecture materials in color. An Internet presence for the following lectures was principally motivated by the need to present large amounts of material to classes in color. Lecture on the 1995 Kobe earthquake and its effects for Geol 100, Geology - Principles and Applications , illustrated with color diagrams, air and satellite photos, and news photos. Lecture demonstrating the use of color in displaying 3-dimensional scientific data from Geol 702H section 1, Scientific Visualization Seminar and Workshop , where color is the subject of the lecture itself. Lecture explaining a 3-dimensional data analysis technique from Geol 757, Seismic Imaging , using color visualizations of scientific data volumes.
Students help pay for access to multimedia materials.
As suggested above, the costs of presenting multimedia course materials can go far above the traditionally-funded costs of lectures illustrated on the chalkboard. The new UNR Strategic Plan also states that the University should induce students financially to purchase or lease their own multimedia-capable computers, and advises them to purchase commercial Internet connections. Of course, all of the materials discussed here are available in their entirety to Internet-connected students, at UNR or elsewhere. Some of these materials include sounds and animations as well as color images. For those students possessing a computer but not a connection, Louie put his lectures from the following two courses onto floppy disks available to students in the Library, which include all of the materials available on the Internet.