Molecular Graphics ManifestoHow To Do It |
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In the How-To sections, I describe my personal approach to, and my own resources for, integrating graphics into my one-year biochemistry course, which is offered to third- and fourth-year students who have taken one year each of general and organic chemistry. All of the resources I describe are available on the World Wide Web, and I have designed them to support any introductory biochemistry course, regardless of approach or text employed. Teachers may use any or all of these resources by linking their course materials to them, by downloading and printing, or by modifying them and posting them on the Web. For all types of use, I ask that teachers request permission and inform me about their approach. These permission requests help me to adapt my materials for widest use, and they provide a form of peer review that helps me to convince my colleagues that this form of Web scholarship is worthy of support. For more information, see Why Ask Permission? (www.usm.maine.edu/~rhodes/Permit.html).
I ask you to view my own approach to this problem as a very practical set of recommendations about how to do it. I hope it motivates you to try my resources, or to formulate your own. The important goal, no matter how you decide to achieve it, to make macromolecular graphics an integral part of your teaching and your students' learning.
Figure: Students at work in Deep View hands-on workshop. Click to enlarge image.