PICTURES (Portable Image Capture – Teaching, Understanding, and Rembering Enhancement for Students)

TitlePICTURES (Portable Image Capture – Teaching, Understanding, and Rembering Enhancement for Students)
Faculty/College/UnitForestry
StatusCompleted
Duration1 Year
Initiation04/01/2005
Completion03/31/2006
Project Summary

(WHAT?) PICTURES is a portable image capture and analysis work station that can be used to supplement the visual learning experiences of students in classes and laboratories in the Faculty of Forestry.

(WHY?) While different students exhibit personal preferences in their style of learning, our experience has been that many of our students respond best to well-prepared, relevant visual learning aids. While macroscopic visual aids are often available, many of the concepts and phenomena being discussed in classes and laboratories are often of a smaller scale nature.

(HOW?) The workstation will enable students to capture images (using regular, macroscopic and microscopic lenses) in laboratory sessions to save them to their own computer file storage space on the Forest Science Centre undergraduate computer server. The images will then be available for students to view, analyze, perform measurements, annotate and print at a later time. The workstation will also be used for demonstrations in classes making use of the many well-connected (wired) classrooms and laboratories in the Forest Sciences Centre and Centre for Advanced Wood Processing.

Funding Details
Year 1: Project YearYear 1
Year 1: Funding Year2005/2006
Year 1: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 1: Principal InvestigatorSimon Ellis
Year 1: Funded Amount22,219
Year 1: Team Members

Simon Ellis, Program Director, Wood Products Processing, Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry
Graeme Dick, President, Forest Product Society (UBC Student Chapter)
Jordan Barlow, Secretary, Forest Product Society (UBC Student Chapter)
Dan Splawski, Member, Forest Product Society (UBC Student Chapter)