More Biological Demonstrations

 

Demonstrations by other faculty

Steve Hines, Washington State University

“Why do spleens get big?”

Steve Hines Demo 082412 from BCU @ WSU CVM on Vimeo.

 

The Learning Objectives pdf can be seen here.

 

Richard Losik, Harvard

• DNA Compaction
• DNA Footprinting
• Ribosome
• Crabclaw

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Faculty Workshops

 

May 2008 ASMCUE Conference Resources:

• A blank demonstration development handout can be downloaded here.
• The demonstration activities created at the conference are available here.
• An activity modified for use in our large lectures (antiparallel nature of DNA): available here.

 

 

Undergraduates building Demonstrations:

Creating the demonstrations requires a high level of understanding. We are encouraging interested undergraduates to make them as well.

Students can choose to build biological models and present them during the lecture:

 

 

Creating Animated Demonstrations

A person with a moderate level of computer skills can create an animated PowerPoint show that demonstrates a biological principle. Using TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio, that Powerpoint can be turned into a video. During Winter 2007, two upper-division undergraduates used the creation of animated demonstrations to better understand topics like membrane gradients, membrane potentials, and immunofluorescence.

 

 

These videos are also posted to our HHMI-UCI Program YouTube Channel for students to view.

 

We are writing up this experience of creating PowerPoint/Camtasia videos, and a summary is available here.