The Search for Equal Protection A web site that provides students with an interactive learning environment for exploration of US Consitutional principles and social debates which affect women's lives. The professor's home page was redesigned to include more information for her Women and the Law, International Women's Movement, Science and Technology, and University Seminar classes. A newsgroup was created to permit online discussion of relevant topics. The program presents students with several scenarios that may occur in the classroom. The program asks students to make decisions and diverts them to different situations based on their responses.
Students reflect on their decisions and their entries are saved in an electronic journal.
Students print out their journals and bring them to class to discuss the exercise. The program was already existed in Assymetrix Toolbook. The goal was to make the project cross-platform and more aesthetically pleasing. A series of Macromedia Director animations to demonstrate the characteristics of central tendency and dispersion that occur in normally distributed data. ITS provided assistance in developing web pages, graphics, and a QuickTime VR panorama for a virtual tour of the Orocopia Mountains near the Salton Sea.