Encyclopedia of Life - Resouces for the Classroom

If you attended BLC08 you may have attended the presentation by Marie Studer on the Encyclopedia of Life. The Encyclopedia of Life website has some great resources for teachers and students. I had a conversation with Marie this morning and she was telling me about all of the new content and interactions that they had added to their site. Here are just a few:

The updates and new features include:

  • 80,000 species pages (up from 50,000 last fall)
  • Anyone can upload images onto the EOL Flickr group. Those images become associated with the unvetted portion of the species pages
  • If one is a registered user (it only takes an email address and password to register, or you can use your OpenID account, if you have one), individuals then have the ability to:
  • View vetted information only or all information that comes in from all sources
  • Comment on any data object on a species page.
  • Comments are viewable to all users, which makes it more interesting and transparent.

More about these updates can be found at:

http://www.eol.org/content/page/new_release_features

It is worth your time to take a look at the site.

Jim

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