Rick-- I used Thayer Birding Software's Birds of North America DVD when I taught. It has a textbook of sorts embedded in it. The textbook is OK, but not well illustrated. On the other hand, the DVD is full of wonderful photographs, bird calls and range maps. I used the quiz module to build quizzes of the birds seen each semester by my students. Every week we reviewed the birds on the quiz, and the students wondered why they did so well in my class! (Studying will do it for you every time...) (Furthermore, using computer technology resulted in my Dean thinking I was wonderful by using technology in the classroom.) The DVD comes in a Mac and a PC version.
You are welcome to use my ornithology class--there is a link on my website at http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com . You can use it either for personal inspiration or for your class. If you wanted your students to produce illustrations or photos for my web course, that would be wonderful. I have always meant to get around to producing, for example, graphs in the island biogeography and also in the extinction lectures. have fun... dan tallman On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > You might have a look at "Manual of Ornithology, Avian Structure and > Function" Noble S. Proctor and Patrick J. Lynch Yale University Press, 1993 > ISBN 0-300-05746-6 (cloth) > ISBN 0-300-07619-3 (pbk) > > I do not know of any really good small textbooks. The above book is > really good and is basically lab oriented but, covers a great deal and has > very good illustrations. > > > > On 5/28/2010 8:50 AM, Milton Blomberg wrote: > >> Wondering, and since I have the opportunity to teach a High School >> Ornithology class next year as an advanced Science elective, any suggestions >> for a nice, compact, illustrated, even lab oriented textbook? Aside from >> using a field guide as a primary text? Syallbus topics to include anatomy, >> taxonomy, migration behavior, field biology, etc., and of course >> identification. mjb >> ---- >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >> >> >> > > > -- > > Rick Holbrook > Fargo, ND > N 46°53'251" > W 096°48'279" > > > Remember the USS Liberty > http://www.ussliberty.org/ > > Reply to: fholbrookatcableone.net > > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- Dan or Erika Tallman Northfield, Minnesota http://sites.google.com/site/tallmanorum http://dantallmansbirdblog.blogspot.com http://picasaweb.google.com/danerika [email protected] ".... the best shod travel with wet feet" "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes ...."--Thoreau ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
