The slideshow images are used in lecture and then placed on the Web page for access by the students. Since students also create images at home in different programs, and wish to modify an image using our programs, we purchased the Hijaak software to convert images from one format to another. The Corel Word Perfect 7 Professional Suite interacts with the IBM Simply Speaking Voice Recognition Program. We hope to use this program to tape our lectures directly to a Word Processing Program, then provide the students with copies of the lecture. The Timbuktu program connects the computers of all the Biology faculty, allowing us to easily share teaching tools and files.
Teaching uses Some software programs introduce students to new approaches to present their data.
The students are shown how to use the editing program to modify, edit, and enhance the figures for presentation in laboratory reports, seminars, etc. This is useful in teaching students how figures are prepared for publication. Thus, instead of later analyzing the data and then having to repeat the exercise with appropriate modification, the real-time analysis permits students to adjust their parameters as if they were conducting an experiment in a research laboratory. Sigma Plot and Statistica, in conjunction with Math Cad and Supercalc, etc, allows students to analyze data in real time, where they can make alterations to their protocol as their data is actually being collected and instantly analyzed. This has proven particularly valuable to the population biology laboratory exercises.