 Mrs. Vansickle and Dr. Livingston setting up the dissection.  Dr. Livingston working hard on the cat.  The Sony Digital Mavica we used to capture stills.  Scott using the Sony DCR-PC7. |
ThinkQuest team 15401 would like to thank you for visiting Anatomically
Correct: The Online Cat Dissection. We figured that most people would
have a lot of questions concerning the creation of our site, so here
are the ins and outs of the construction. Anatomically Correct: The Online Cat Dissection was created to meet the practice and identification needs of anatomy students and teachers. The site was designed to immerse students and teachers in content about the cat anatomy while being easy to use at the same time. Only after many months of hard work has our team been able to create just that. In order to create a site that would be invaluable to students and teachers alike, we decided to ask the department chairs of Norcross High School what they needed in the classroom. After going through many ideas and possibilities we decided that our school's newly formed anatomy and physiology class could use a site to help on their study of the cat's anatomy. By working closely with the teacher, Ms. Swift, we were able to create an outline for the site's development. After outlining what the site would do we decided that in order to create all of our content we needed to obtain a cat and someone to dissect it. Our school's science department provided the cat. They obtain cats for dissection from Ward's Biology in Rochester, New York. Ward's obtains all specimens in a responsible manner. They work closely with the USDA to ensure full compliance in the acquisition and handling of all preserved specimens. A retired local veterinarian, Dr. Livingston, was kind enough to dissect the cat for us. The issues of what the site would entail, where we would get the cat, and who would dissect it were now all taken care of. Then there was the matter of creating the site. After traveling to Georgia State University's technology center, and consulting other various authorities on the subject, we finally figured out how we were going to photograph the cat. We planned on using the video and pictures that we took of the cat and assembling them into the diagrams and photographs you see on the site now. Getting the high quality pictures that we have on the site now was not easy. Eventually we ended up using a VHS camcorder to document the dissection, a Sony Digital Mavica still camera for photos, and a Sony DCR-PC7 digital video camera for additional movies and photographs on the site. A Truevision Targa 2000 was then used the input the video and pictures from the digital video camera. All of the site's content was simply compiled from our own knowledge of cat anatomy, as well as Dr. Livingston and Ms. Swift's expertise on the subject. The long period that followed was basically a compilation of our efforts up until that point. Due to the hard work of Andrew Fu, Brian Hummel, Scott Liniado, and help from many others along the way, we are pleased to present you with Anatomically Correct: The Online Cat Dissection. |
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