The main goal of project “Herbarium vivae icones” is reinforcement of the teaching of botany of students focused on scientific specializations and particularly students of the education of biology – future teachers of secondary schools. Project is based on using of multi-medial instruments as (i) electronic herbarium in both web and CD-ROM version containing photos of 361 live plants (scans and detail photos of habitus, flowers, leaves, and other structural features important from the determination viewpoint; – (ii) communicative interface offering various forms of learning, testing in both web and CD forms based on programming script PHP in combination with JavaScript in Macromedia Flash; – (iii) two complete series of herbarium specimens of these species protected by lamination; – (iv) electronic version of herbarium used for examination.
The financial resources cover purchase of A3 scanner, digital photo camera; external HDD, CD-ROMs, and costs for lamination of herbarium specimens. The project particularity is based on (i) species selection: the most frequent and most typical species for the area of the Czech Republic; – (ii) style of figures: scanning of live plants; – (iii) stimulating communicative interface.

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