Help for Treehouse Builders: How Chris Schmidt Composed his Treehouse Investigation

Investigation

Edit Morphological and Functional Diversity of Chris Schmidt's New Investigation Contribution

Treehouse Page Summary

  • http://tolweb.org/onlinecontributors/app?service=external/ViewTreehouse&sp=l2482
  • ToL Page ID# l2482
  • Contributed by on (server time) edit
  • Treehouse last edited by Chris Schmidt on Mon Sep 27 10:06:38 MST 2004 (server time)

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Copy Data: How and Why

Chris didn't use this option because he didn't have another treehouse with information that he also wanted to have in this page.

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ToL Treehouse Use Permitted by Copyright Owner

Treehouse Use Permitted By Copyright Owner: How and Why

Chris chose option number three because he would like to have his page help the greatest number of people possible learn about ant diversity.

1. Restricted to one-time use in specified location. Do not edit.

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2. Use anywhere on the Tree of Life. Editing/formatting permitted.

Contributions submitted under this model can be used by other ToL contributors to put together multi-authored ToL pages about a given topic. For example, a contributor may submit a description of the mating behavior of a dragonfly; another contributor writing a page about mating behavior in insects may then want to feature this description (in whole or in part) as an example on their own page. Whenever a contributor's contribution is displayed on a ToL page, it will be credited to the original author, and there will be a copyright notice informing visitors that the material is protected by copyright law.
3. Unrestricted ToL use and share with other scientific/educational projects.
Editing/formatting permitted.

This model covers all ToL use detailed in model 2. In addition, it allows the ToL to share materials with select, non-commercial, scientific or educational partner projects. Media submitted under this model may be exported to the databases of ToL partner projects, and they may be displayed on the web sites of these projects. Note that the ToL does not share materials with commercial content providers. Also, the ToL requires collaborating projects to always credit copyright owners alongside materials imported from the ToL collection.

We encourage ToL contributors to choose this model in order to maximize the dissemination of their materials through not-for-profit projects, and to participate to the fullest in an emerging, international community of scientific and educational content providers.

Page Contributors

Page Contributors: How and Why

Chris is the only person who worked on his treehouse and he is over 13 so he is checked off as the author, copyright owner and correspondent.

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Acknowledgements

Give credit to people and groups that helped contribute to the content of this page who are not registered ToL Contributors or do not want to be listed as an author, copyright holder or correspondent.

 

Copyright Date

 

Scientific Name(s)

In the space below write the scientific names of the organism(s) that your treehouse page is about. Separate each name with a comma. You may include the common name in parentheses. For example: Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Red squirrel), Pteromys volans (Siberian flying squirrel)

 

Short Title: How and Why

Chris took the time to write in the scientific name of each organism that his page is about. This will help other users find his page and learn the scientific names of the different types of ants.

Attached to Group(s) of Organisms

Choose the organism(s) that your treehouse page is about. Your treehouse page will be linked to the ToL branch or leaf pages for these groups.

Attached to Group(s) of Organisms: How and Why

Chris attached his treehouse to all of the different ant species and groups that his page is about. He chose Formicidae (Ants) as the primary group of attachment because Formicidae is the containing group for all of the other groups that his treehouse is about. Visitors to Chris's page will see elements from the Formicidae Branch page in the right sidebar of his treehouse. Visitors to all of the other Branch and Leaf pages of the groups of organisms to which Chris has attached his page will be able to see a link to his treehouse in those pages' treehouse menus.

 
 

Treehouse Page Content

Short Title

Type in 2-4 words to be used in menus that list your treehouse and in the browser window title.

Short Title: How and Why

This short title will show up as the link to Chris's treehouse in the pages of all of the groups to which he has attached his treehouse.

Full Title

Type in a title for your treehouse page heading. This heading should give a good idea of what your page is about and can be longer than the short title.

Full Title: How and Why

Chris's full title becomes the title of this edit treehouse window and will appear as the page title of his treehouse. The title Chris used gives a really good idea of what his page is about. The title will help visitors interested in ant mandibles and as well as ant morphology and diversity to find his treehouse.

Compose Treehouse Text

To add text type in the space below.
Begin paragraphs with <p> and end them with </p>

Composing Treehouse Text: How and Why

Chris worked on defining terms such as mandibles right away to help make the page more accessible to a wide range of visitors. Another technique that makes Chris's treehouse work for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners is his use of graphics and diagrams to illustrate each of the main ideas he presents.

Planning for Adding Images to the Page: Chris

Basic HTML: Chris uses <p> and </p> around his paragraphs, <strong> and </strong> around text he would like to make bold, and <em> and </em> around text that he would like to italicize. He mainly used these tags to make titles within his page. Chris left some blank spaces so that he can see what he is doing when he writes his HTML code, but he knows that these spaces will not appear in his treehouse. Chris used the special ToL code for adding images, which requires that you type in TOLIMG and the image's ID number. See the following section on adding images for more information.

Advanced HTML: Chris used the tag
<p class="center">TOLIMG6461</p> around his title image so that he could center the image. He also used something called "anchors" within his page so that he could jump people from one part of his page to another. You can see that in the first paragraph Chris has written "This page describes <a href="#illustrates">illustrates</a> just a small sampling of diversity. If someone clicks on the word "illustrates" in Chris's treehouse they will get bumped to the part of Chris's page that shows the illustrations. The code knows to take the visitor there because of the HTML shown in the sentence above. The section of the page that the visitors is bumped to will have the following HTML anchor tag:
<a name="illustrates"></a>
This is a useful way to help people navigate around your treehouse. You can read more about how to use these tags in the All the HTML You Need page.

 

Add Images to Your Treehouse

  1. To search for images in the ToL database to add to your text, click

    or

    If you need to upload new images to the Tree of Life database, click
  2. After you choose an image from the ToL Image Database to include in your treehouse, find the place in the treehouse text box above where you want to put the image. In that place, type TOLIMG and the number of the image you selected, for example, TOLIMG1234

Adding Images: How and Why

Creating and Uploading Images: To create his treehouse Chris uploaded a whole set of images to the ToL database. Chris is a PhD student in Entomology and he took the images of the ant specimens in the laboratory in which he works. Chris captured the images by placing the ant specimens under a dissecting microscope that was connected to a digital camera. Check out one of Chris's ant photos image data entry forms (pdf file).

Putting images in the page: To save time Chris kept a record of the image ID for each image as he uploaded it to the database. To actually add the images to his treehouse page he wrote the code TOLIMG plus the image ID in the text field in the place that he wanted the images to appear in his page.

Chris also could have searched the ToL database for images to use in his page. If Chris clicked the Find Images button he could have searched on a variety of categories to find his or someone else's images to use. Again, to insert the images into this page he would have to write the code TOLIMG and the image ID number, for example TOLIMG1234

References

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Learning Information

Treehouse Type

Below you may select additional treehouse types that describe your work and that will help visitors find your page when they do a treehouse search. The first category in the list is the treehouse type that you chose initially.

Treehouse Type: How and Why

Chris didn't feel that his treehouse could be called any other category than an investigation. The investigation category applies to scientific research, projects, experiments and the like.

ToL Learner Level

Choose a ToL Learner Level:
You may select all levels that apply to your page.

ToL Learner Level: How and Why

Chris chose to select all three learner levels because he thought that many different types of learners could appreciate his page. Beginners could view the images and diagrams of ant mandibles, while intermediate and advanced learners could utilize more of the page text.

Comments

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Notes

Notes are not part of the printed treehouse page. Use this section to write
notes for yourself or ToL editors.

 

Save and Preview: How and Why

In this help page the save and preview button won't work but you can click here to see what Chris's page looks like.

Publishing your page

When you are satisfied with your page you should submit it for publication. As soon as your page has been approved for publication you will receive an email with its URL (web address).

Save and Preview: How and Why

In this help page the submit button won't work. When you are in the actual treehouse editing form you will get a message asking you if you are sure you want to submit your page. You need to make sure you have attached your treehouse to a group of organisms before you submit your page for publication. After you submit your treehouse you cannot edit it again until the Treehouse Learning Materials editor has approved it for publication.