Description
Dive in with Duke University’s Cachalot app, a novel digital textbook designed for students enrolled in Duke’s Marine Megafauna class, but free for everyone, everywhere.
The encyclopedic portion of the app covers all forms of marine megafauna – from Hawaiian spinner dolphins to Magellanic penguins – in easy to read species profiles accompanied by captivating digital media. Learn from a new expert every week as a new species profile is released as the “Megafauna of the Week.”
The course materials will include open access readings from the primary literature and lessons used in class when it commences in Spring 2012.
Featuring:
- Megafauna of the Week Profiles including Favorite Facts, Species Information, Expert Information and Further Reading.
Amazing expert photos, audio, and video.
- Compelling National Geographic CRITTERCAM videos for some species.
- Easy to read profiles.
- Class readings in PDF format, loaded into an in-app annotation interface for highlighting, note-taking and free-form annotations.
- Class lessons enriched with audio and video content loaded into an in-app annotation interface for highlighting, note-taking and free-form annotations.
- Initial tutorial overlay illustrating most features of the program, which can be reset at anytime.
What's New in Version 1.2
- Completely redesigned UI for Megafauna of the Week, Readings, and Lessons.
- Interactive map of photos in Megafauna of the Week and Lessons
- Built in Twitter chat for Readings and Lessons
- Ask Wolfram Alpha and view experts' Tweets all from within the app.
iPad Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Excellent in-depth presentations
This is a wonderful assembly of quick facts, photos, lessons, and scientific papers, presented by an array of experts from around the world. You can use it at any of several levels. I hope to see similar offerings from other fields as soon as possible. Young and youthful scientists - you should be working on one of these! And the application could easily go well beyond science. Congratulations to the entire team!
Really good app
This app is very informative and helpful. I am a studen currently in my last year of high school and I am planning to be a marine biologist so this app will help greatly. Also I read the article on this through Pulse and loved the effort it took to get this on the App Store
Review
Great photos and very informative. Wish I had something similar when I was studying.
- Free
- Category: Education
- Updated: Jan 20, 2012
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 7.9 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Duke Marine Lab
- © Cachalot 2011
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
