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Though commercial interest in the World Wide Web is growing, the potential uses of the medium as a learning tool are numerous. The GLOBE Visualization Project is one such educational application. We have designed and implemented a WWW-based, user-friendly, language-independent, graphical user interface providing access to visualizations created for GLOBE, a multinational program of education and science. The target users of the system are K–12 students and their teachers from over 1100 schools in 39 countries; other clients include the GLOBE scientific investigators and members of the public internationally. Navigation is intuitive, and employs the metaphors of a “Control Panel” which changes the image appearing in a “Viewscreen.” The interface can be learned empirically by persons of all ages regardless of technical expertise or native language; context-sensitive help is provided for users who prefer documentation. The GLOBE Visualization server is on the World Wide Web at URL http://globe.gsfc.nasa.gov/globe/.
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de La Beaujardière, JF., Cavallo, J., Hasler, A.F. et al. The GLOBE Visualization Project: Using WWW in the Classroom. Journal of Science Education and Technology 6, 15–22 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022512800874
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