LibGuides: Resources for Online Teaching and Learning: Agricultural &amp; Food Sciences: Online Educational Tools

Agriculture: Selected Online Educational Tools

Agriculture Virtual Tours
A collection of virtual tours including Egg and poultry farms, Pig farms, Crop farms, Dairy farms and milk processing, etc.
Crop Sequence Calculator
The Crop Sequence Calculator is an online tool to compare crop sequence options. The tool is based on trial results and historic data from Western Australia.
Feed Cost Calculator
This tool can be used to work out the lowest cost of a number of different sheep feeds.
It can also be used to work out the feed value of a chosen mix of feed in terms of its energy and protein value and provide a cost per tonne, per megajoule of energy and per kilo of protein.

Beef Production Calendar
The beef production calendar is a management tool for producers to help them in scheduling practices pertaining to the cow herd over a twelve-month period. The calendar is based on a late March calving beef herd. The calendar addresses three categories: General Management Practices,
Feeding Management, and Herd Health.

Soil Web 200
A web-based educational tool that provides students with interactive, graphical, video and text-based information to assist them in understanding fundamental soil science concepts. It also relates these concepts to various soil management issues.
Soil Lab Modules
This site includes virtual soil laboratory modules that are an accessible complement to courses on soil laboratory analysis, supplement learning for other courses where soil analysis is relevant, and provide a starting place for those new to the soils laboratory.
European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
Land-Use Impacts on Soil Quality
A multimedia, web-based experience to enhance understanding about the impacts of human land use on soil formation and soil quality through looking at three land uses on the University Endowment Lands as a case study.
Soil Formation and Parent Material
A multimedia website illustrating processes of soil parent material and landscape development.
Virtual Soil Processes
Developed to illustrate the four general soil forming processes: additions, losses, translocations and transformations. The tool is used both as an in-class and off-campus resource in various natural resource courses, such as soil, agriculture, forestry, environmental sciences, or geology, across British Columbia and beyond.

Canva
An online design tool that offers users the opportunity to create professional-looking posters, slideshows, images, event flyers, resumes, cards, certificates, infographics, and other media. The tool allows students to design visuals to showcase their knowledge in unique ways.
Glogster
Glogster is a Web 2.0 platform that allows users to create interactive online posters called glogs, by adding images, videos, audio and text. As a learner-centered tool, Glogster supports students’ building of knowledge by allowing them to construct their own meaning of the content. Free 7 day trial.
Google Sites
A Google web application that allows users to create wikis and websites, with ease of use and collaborative design. Google Sites is free to use (with a paid option that offers more storage capability).
Powtoon
An online platform for creating short video presentations. Powtoon gives anyone the ability to create professional videos and presentations. You can select from royalty-free libraries of animation, live-action video, images, designed backgrounds, soundtracks, and moving graphics, or you can use your own visual content and voiceover.
Sutori
A “collaborative instructional and presentation tool.” It can be used as an alternative to traditional presentations such as PowerPoint or Prezi. The stories can be viewed one panel at a time, like a slideshow, or scrolled through, like a timeline. (Limited version: Free)