Content

• Innovative uses of imaging software in workplace assessment
• Transferring Toolboxes onto Palm™ Handheld
• Transferring Toolboxes onto Pocket PC’s
• Web Design with Microsoft® FrontPage® for Pocket PCs
• Pete's Vegie Patch
• Plant Adaptations
• The Catalogue of Tree Disorders
• The Foreshore Walk
• Toolbox resources

PDA demonstrator resouces prepared by the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens

Pete's Vegie Patch

• Click here to launch the resource. (650k 2min 20 secs on a 57k modem) requires Flash® Player version 6
• Click here to download the resource. (612k 2min 20 secs on a 57k modem)
• If you are using a PDA you can access the resource here. (650k 2min 20 secs on a 57k modem)
• As part of the planning and development of this resource, a range of possible user scenarios were developed. These can be downloaded as a pdf file. (16k 3 secs on a 57k modem)

Credits: Resource concept and content, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (see research partners);  resource design, Robin Petterd, multimedia TAFE Tasmania; consultant, Marcus Ragus. Special thanks to Peter Cundall for his generous participation and support.

Plant Adaptations

This resource is designed to be used by visiting educational groups and individual visitors to the gardens as part of their onsite excursions. It provides an interpretive and interactive resource for the learner as they make their way through a series of plant environments including, rainforest, subantarctic, alpine and desert.

It is envisaged that this resource will be further developed after the project's completion and will eventually encompass interactive video and sound created with Macromedia® Flash®.

• Click here to launch the resource.
• Click here to view the trial evaluation of this resource.

Credits: Resource concept and content, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (see research partners);  resource design, Adam Maxwell, multimedia TAFE Tasmania; consultant, Marcus Ragus.

The Catalogue of Tree Disorders

The catalogue of tree disorders has been designed to provide an interactive and mobile resource for staff, students and visitors to the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. It provides the user with written and pictorial details on tree disorders found within the gardens.

The product has been completed as a working prototype for the project in order to demonstrate its potential as a practical resource. Currently the resource includes canopy disorders content only with additional content being added progressively at a later date by the RTBG.

• Click here to launch the resource.

Credits: Resource concept and content, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (see research partners);  resource design, Adam Maxwell, multimedia TAFE Tasmania; consultant, Marcus Ragus.

The Foreshore Walk

This prototype is designed to be used by persons walking along the foreshore trail. Numbered embedded markers in the trail direct users to correspondingly numbered hyperlinks on the PDA resource which, in turn, display information text and images.

• Click here to launch the resource. Text alternative
• Click here to download the resource. (5mb 18min on a 57k modem)
• If you are using a PDA, you can access the resource here.
• In the trials section, there is an evaluation of this resource.

Credits: Resource concept and content, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (see research partners);  resource design, Andrew McGown; consultant, Marcus Ragus.

Toolbox resources

An example of a Series 3, Framework Horticulture Toolbox online training materials adapted for use on a PDA. The resource provides added interactive activities with sound and text file links.

• Click here to launch the resource. Text alternative. Requires Macromedia® Flash® Player version 6.
• Click here to download the resource.
• If you are using a PDA, you can access the resource here.

Credits: Resource adaption, Stephen Brain.