The Dynamic Explorer allows students to interactively edit their graphs and charts. It covers mountain ranges, trenches, sea floor rifts, faults, and volcanic activity with video, animation, narration, and graphics. Interactus Identibacter Interactus is a multimedia CD-ROM that helps teach students how to identify unknown bacteria. Simulating the experience of working in a laboratory, Identibacter Interactus allows students to choose from more than 50 different tests that can identify 60 bacteria species. The application, available in Windows and Macintosh versions, uses video, audio, and text to illustrate the identification process.
Students can simulate laboratory exercises by conducting experiments electronically.
The Windows CD-ROM is divided into 20 lessons that feature color 3D renderings of every system in the human body. Students can read text and perform exercises for each lesson. Based on Apple Computer's Hypercard and enhanced with Oracle Media Objects software, Metazoa 3.5 includes new ray-traced 3D computer animation, and models of animals. A hybrid CD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows, Metazoa 3.5 also adds new and revised coverage of vertebrate, algal, and protist life forms. This CD-ROM reference tool surveys six important model organisms currently in use in biological and biomedical research labs.