Biology

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Welcome to the OLPC Biology portal. The following information is about projects associated with the XO, including software and content.

Getting involved

All who share a passion in the subject are welcome. There are no particular requirements for participating. An inclination to learn or desire to teach others and share your knowledge are enough. If you are interested in these projects, please add your name below:

Participants

• Lauren
• misha
• --Sj talk
• Charles Smith
• ...

Recent updates

Please, include in this section any known recent updates regarding the music-related projects.

Biology projects

Software and tools

• ZipcodeZoo has a site for collating and identifying and reviewing photos of animals from anywhere in the world, including geographic tags to place them on a map.
• globio is a project with their own biological enyclopedia, and some individual school-pairing programs.

Biology content

Samples

see Biology (collection) for the collection curated by the E.O.Wilson Foundation.

Curators

Sharing your own XX material

If you have biology material to share, you can create a bundle out of it and post it to the wiki here for review. And bear Misha Herscu's advice in mind about how easy and rewarding it is to compile things into a full book.

Other sources

field guides

• Field Guide to the Snakes of Massachusetts (and how to make your own field guide), Misha Herscu
• a guide to field guides