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Regards, Steve Hammond PSN Aptos California

Colleagues,
This is to notify you of the BETA release of a new activity for the Geology 
Labs On-Line project. VirtualRiver-Discharge.
http://vcourseware.calstatela.edu/GeoLabs/ Follow the link to Virtual River.

(You received this email because your address is in my database of people 
who may be interested in the "Virtual Labs" of the Geology Labs On-line 
project. If you received this email in error, please accept my apology and 
let me know so I can remove your address from the database.)

I hope you will take a look at VirtualRiver and provide some feedback to 
me. It's designed as an interactive Web-based lab for introductory earth or 
environmental science courses at the university level. It may also be 
appropriate for some high school or middle school earth science classes. If 
you do review the activity, please note that there is a DEMONSTRATION 
version available (a link can be found on the first page) that gives you 
the opportunity for a quick overview.

Can you use it? Did you find any bugs? Do you have any suggestions to 
improve it?

VirtualRiver-Discharge and is one of three virtual labs we hope to 
eventually have available on the Web about rivers. It focuses on the 
determination of a stream's discharge using the "method of verticals." The 
next activity will be about flooding, hydrographs, flood recurrence 
intervals and flood probability. The final one will be concerned with 
erosion, load transport, and sediment deposition.

VirtualRiver-Discharge, similar to previous virtual labs (Virtual 
Earthquake and Virtual Dating), requires students to interact with the 
Shockwave Animations) in order to make careful observations and 
measurements, do simple calculations, and answer questions about their 
work. If the student correctly completes all aspects of the activity, a 
personalized "Certificate of Completion" is awarded to him/her. The 
certificate is proof positive that the student has completed the lab.

Warning: Because VirtualRiver contains numerous Java Applets, there are 
certain "Technical Considerations and System Requirements" that need to be 
addressed. The site's first page contains a statement about these requirements.

Thank you very much for your assistance in testing this activity.

Gary Novak
Department of Geological Sciences
California State University at Los Angeles
gnovak@..............









Colleagues,


This is to notify you of the BETA release of a new activity for the
Geology Labs On-Line project. VirtualRiver-Discharge. 


http://vcourseware.calstatela.ed
u/GeoLabs/
Follow the link to Virtual River.



(You received this email because your address is in my database of people who may be interested in the "Virtual Labs"
 of the Geology Labs On-line project. If you received this email in error, please accept my apology and let me know so I can re
move your address from the database.)



I hope you will take a look at VirtualRiver and provide some feedback to me. It's designed as an interactive Web-based l
ab for introductory earth or environmental science courses at the university level. It may also be appropriate for some high sc
hool or middle school earth science classes. If you do review the activity, please note that there is a DEMONSTRATION version a
vailable (a link can be found on the first page) that gives you the opportunity for a quick overview. 



Can you use it? Did you find any bugs? Do you have any suggestions to improve it? 



VirtualRiver-Discharge and is one of three virtual labs we hope to eventually have available on the Web about riv
ers. It focuses on the determination of a stream's discharge using the "method of verticals." The next activity will 
be about flooding, hydrographs, flood recurrence intervals and flood probability. The final one will be concerned with erosion,
 load transport, and sediment deposition.



VirtualRiver-Discharge, similar to previous virtual labs (Virtual Earthquake and Virtual Dating), r
mations) in order to make careful observations and measurements, do simple calculations, and answer questions about their work.
 If the student correctly completes all aspects of the activity, a personalized "Certificate of Completion" is awarde
d to him/her. The certificate is proof positive that the student has completed the lab.



Warning: Because VirtualRiver contains numerous Java Applets, there are certain "Technical Considerations an
d System Requirements" that need to be addressed. The site's first page contains a statement about these requirements.




Thank you very much for your assistance in testing this activity.



Gary Novak

Department of Geological Sciences

California State University at Los Angeles

gnovak@..............