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Will McClure [email protected] Department of Biological Sciences Carnegie Mellon University TEL Fair October 2, 1998 |
| Summary: This project involves the development of WWW pages that allow the student to see and to manipulate images of molecules in various structural displays. The interactive images of molecular structures are rendered on a (Netscape) browser page using the Chemscape Chime plug-in (installed in all of the CMU computer cluster Macs and PCs).
1. The Chime display pages have been used for the past two years in upper level biochemistry courses as tutorials and as one-page visual introductions to research papers dealing with structure-function topics.
2. In the past year, I have written similar pages for students in some of our freshman and sophomore courses. The pages linked below use the Chime plug-in to display a selection of biological molecules and macromolecules. They are designed to complement standard introductory texts where more explanation is provided, but where interactive 3-D images of the molecules are not available.
3. I have also developed several different types of "practice quizzes" on molecular topics. The quizzes use JavaScript to provide immediate grading and scoring. In some cases, specific feedback is also provided to incorrect answers.
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