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- ConDrift Pre-release 1.0
- Acknowledgements.
- Thanks are due to Tony Cheal of Ace Computing for providing me with
- 'Tween' to produce this and other films for use within the Electronic
- Scientific Support Material(ESSM) project. Ace Computing are at 27
- Victoria Road, Cambridge, CB4 3BW.
- Thanks are also due to Computer Concpets for providing me with a
- copy of their document processor 'Impression'. Some of the utilities
- supplied with Impression have been used in the production of ConDrfit.
- Computer Concepts are at Gaddesden Place, Hemel Hempstead, Herts., HP2
- 6EX.
- Some of the pictures have been produced with the aid of Computer
- Concepts 'Scan Light Junior'. The scanner was provided by ECS Computers,
- Kettlewell House, Kettlewell Lane, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, to whom I owe many
- thanks for their help and support in this project to produce Electronic
- Scientific Support Material.
-
- About ConDrfit
- Please note that this is a pre-release version of ConDrift and
- due to certain innacuracies would not normally be distributed.
- However, comments from a number of teachers having to teach Earth
- Science for the first time has suggested that there is an urgent need for
- material such as this. So although the disc is not complete I have
- decided to release it. Therefore, if you feel that this file may be of
- use to any colleagues please copy it and pass it on. I hope that a new
- and more accurate version of the film will be available in 3 to 6
- months time. There should also be a short ReadMe file accompanying the
- disc giving a brief explanation of Continental Drift.
- ConDrift is a loop of film showing how the continents have moved
- during the past 250 million years. The film is based on 6 maps which
- were originally produced in the late 60's early 70's and the thoughts
- and knowledge of the experts has progressed since then. Although I
- believe that the changes are mainly fine tuning rather than any
- dramatic changes and so the film is, at a general level, accurate.
- Except for India, however, part of which actually slides under the
- Eurasian plate. There are also definite innacuracies with the movement
- of the Eurasia plate during its collision with India. In addition
- 'minor' (?) islands e.g. Japan are not shown. There is also a slight
- problem in interpreting the film, for instance Australia does not look
- like Australia because it shows the continental plate at about 100
- meters below sea level. So the continental plate consists of both the
- land masses of Australia and New Zealand.
- ConDrift is part of a teaching course intended to help Science
- teachers, and others, teach 'Earth Science'. I hope that the course
- will be completed in June 1991.
- Although Electronic Scientific Support Material produces mainly
- posters and pupil information sheets projects such as Tween films will
- be undertaken and released as public domain material from time to
- time.
-
- ****HELP****
- Producing this type of material takes a great deal of time and
- money. If you have any expertise in producing written scientific
- material, art work or editorial skills or reviewing draft material I
- would greatly appreciate your help. If you feel inclined to offer
- sponsorship of some sorts I would also be grateful.
- If you have any other ideas, comments or information
- please contact me at the address given below.
-
-
- Electronic Scientific Support Material (ESSM).
- ESSM is aimed at the science teacher. Its purpose is to produce
- high quality scientific pictures, worksheets, posters and at a later
- stage technical pictures that are stored on disc. This material can
- then be used and altered by teachers to suit their own needs. The
- material is copyright free, it may copied and passed on providing the
- copyright notice (see below) is observed. The cost of the material is
- intended to be about the price of a disc.
- In the past teachers have spent many hours producing printed
- information/worksheets/diagrams for pupils. Subsequently other
- teachers have used them but found that they did not quite meet their
- own requirements, or the original author found that the 'goal posts'
- had been moved, necessitating the material to be re-written. It
- occurred to me that if this work was done on a computer then it would
- be easier to tailor the material to suit individual needs. Until
- recently such work has been limited to text only, but with the
- development of the Archimedes and cheap, high quality, easy to use
- scanners such as Computer Concepts 'Scan Light' and 'Scan Junior',
- pictures can easily be put into a computer.
- Now pictures and text can be combined using desk top publishing
- (DTP) software, such as Computer Concepts 'Impression', (which is
- technically a document processor, capable of wordprocessing and desk
- top publishing) to produce a printed illustrated document. However, as
- the information is also on disc it can be easily altered to suit an
- individual teachers needs.
-
- Copyright Notice.
- The contents of this disc is intended as public domain software
- (PDS). It is copyright free and copies of the disc may be made for
- free distribution, providing all ReadMe files that are on the original
- disc are present on any copied discs. The end user may modify the
- contents of the disc to suit their own particular needs, providing
- that any alterations are indicated (e.g. within a ReadMe file).
-
-
- Nicholas Horn. 2nd. of February 1991
- Rosemary Musker High School,
- Croxton Road,
- Thetford,
- Norfolk.
-