The Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org), a free, online collaborative website offering information about life on earth has some great new features!
Create a Virtual Collection The Collections feature gives you the ability to gather together the pieces of EOL that are of greatest interest to you into a virtual collection which you can name, annotate and share. View examples of education focused collections on EOL: http://eol.org/users/50578/collections Create or Join a Community People who share a common interest in a particular aspect of living nature come together in EOL Communities to ask questions or share their expertise. Create a Field Guide The Field Guide tool provides a way to organize species information for a particular project or purpose. Field Guides enable the creation of customized content to include just the information from EOL specific to your educational needs. Print options include a journal section for student observations. To make your own field guide visit: http://fieldguides.eol.org/ In addition, the new EOL.org is easier to search and provides information for English, Arabic, and Spanish language speakers. Dont forget to tune in every 2 weeks for a new podcast from EOLs One Species at a Time series (http://education.eol.org/podcast) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- About EOL The Encyclopedia of Life is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world. It aims to build one "infinitely expandable" page for each species, including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text. Learn more at www.eol.org
