At 11/23/04, April Bednarsky (Wash U St Louis MO USA) wrote: >Hi Eric, >I just wanted to say that we would definitely be interested in using >the Jmol interactive protein structure tutorial you mentioned. We >would actually like to use something like that for both our intro >course and our nonmajors course. If you would like assessment data >from us on using the tutorial, we would also do that! When do you >think this would be ready for testing in classrooms? >April Hi, April, The earliest I imagine our new Jmol-based tutorial on basic protein structure, named "Exploring Protein (EP)", would be testable would be fall 2005. That may be optimistic; we'll see how it goes. In addition to having built-in quizzing, it will be discovery-based, rather than transmissionist in approach -- to the extent we can pull that off. We would be delighted to have you and others test it. I have no funding to test it, as my existing NSF DUE funds will be consumed in making the tutorial plus enhancements to Protein Explorer. I don't plan to get significantly involved in assessment myself, as I think my time is better used in development. I would be pleased if someone else applies for funding for assessment of Exploring Protein and/or Protein Explorer or other resources at MolviZ.Org, in which case I would be happy to be a consultant. Of course, once we have something to look at, we'll make it available as a beta through molvis-list, and ask for feedback and/or formative assessment. That might be by late spring, but no promises. -Eric /* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Protein Explorer - 3D Visualization: http://proteinexplorer.org Workshops: http://www.umass.edu/molvis/workshop Biochem Structure Tutorials http://MolviZ.org World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources: http://molvisindex.org ConSurf - Find Conserved Patches in Proteins: http://consurf.tau.ac.il Atlas of Macromolecules: http://molvis.sdsc.edu/atlas/atlas.htm PDB Lite Macromolecule Finder: http://pdblite.org Molecular Visualization EMail List (molvis-list): http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/molvis-list Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology U Mass, Amherst MA US 413-545-2325/FAX 413-545-2532 http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - */