Mineral Expert System Evaluation

0. Good references; but individual items are not linked to the references.

1. Beautiful images, but I wonder how useful perfect samples will be to the user. It might be that images that are more less than perfect would help the user. For example I'm fairly familiar with quartz, but most quartz I encounter is not in the form of large translucent crystals, but rather in opaque white crystals that are intermixed with other minerals.

2. Big points for your uses and facts notes linked to each mineral!

RDM Alpha test: A. Works Great!!! I imagined I was trying to key pyrite and discovered there was a need to have an actual sample in front of me, since there is pyrite and chalcopyrite (which I may have been miss identifying my entire life!) B. Well almost. Cleavage Planes for Quartz does not seem to be encoded, so I was unsuccessful in my second trial. C. My last trial was for a red ruby, which I identified using red and colorless streak.

3. Excellent Images. In order to use them in your classroom you need to have expressed copyright release, or contact the owners of your images, unless they were identified as being in the public domain.

Grade = 100%. Great job! Let me know how it works out in your classes.