Introduction & Instructions

Aloha everyone!

Welcome to this interactive E-book! The goal of this book is to digitally recreate the beauty of Lyon Arboretum to make it accessible to a wider audience. Lyon Arboretum is a 194-acre botanical garden managed by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa nestled deep in Mānoa Valley. Lyon Arboretum features beautiful rain forests, small water bodies, exciting trails, and boasts a collection of 5,660 thriving tropical plant varieties. To know more about arboretums, click here.

As educational technologists and instructional designers we have endeavored to implement cutting edge technology to build virtual tours of the arboretum that will hopefully produce an authentic learning environment for children and adults who are not able to walk through the trails of the garden grounds.

Pressbooks was selected as a platform to host the interactive E-book because of its intuitive features, H5P capabilities, and its accessibility as an open educational resource (OER). Each chapter contains virtual tours of designated paths in the arboretum, colorful images, information about the various plants in the arboretum, interactive quizzes, and ends with hands-on activities.

Instructions:

When you go to each chapter, please click on the ↑ arrow in a Blue circle to navigate to the top of the page.

To move to the next or previous chapter, please click on the → arrow on the Blue bar at the bottom of the page by selecting right or left respectively.

We would love to have your feedback. Please let us know how we could improve this E-book. Email us at shamilaj@hawaii.edu.

Are you ready to explore the Lyon Arboretum? Click here – Exploring Lyon Arboretum