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Reporting Results: The EdGCM eJournal |
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About -
Software
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Written by Mark Chandler
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A unique feature of EdGCM is eJournal, a tool that allows students to create reports discussing the results of their experiments. eJournals can incorporate both text and images, and provides a format that encourages students to construct "manuscripts" in a style similar to that of researchers publishing their findings in scientific journals or on the web.
An individual eJournal report may contain up to 20 text and image sections. Sections may be added or rearranged at any time while the report is being written. Images can be inserted by cutting and pasting (or dragging and dropping) from the associated EdGCM Image Browser into an eJournal image section. Text information about the image is transferred to the report as a figure caption, but figure captions are also editable so that students can point out specific information pertinent to their analyses. When an eJournal report is complete, it is easily converted to HTML format through the export function, and is publishable to any website.
eJournal reports are stored in the eJournal Library. They can also be linked to individual experiments in the simulation library database, to establish a relationship between simulations and their analyses. The database then keeps track of situations where many students are analyzing and reporting on one experiment, as well as one student analyzing and reporting on many experiments.
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