Yesterday, I was unable to show my nifty multimedia presentation because the laptop connection to the projector was not working. Probably a contact is burned out by all those frustrated instructors bashing the button repeatedly. I had to revert to the ancient technology of showing a DVD. Tomorrow, I will probably be forced to bring in a boombox and play CDs!
This awesome video, via Kottke, shows what one could do to with a little imagination to create teaching aides, even when there was not wi-fi in the classroom.
"Protein syntheis: an epic on the cellular level." Something like this, well sort of like this, is going on all the time! in our bodies!
When I was in college, I thought of majoring in physiology. I took chemistry, biology, and all of the prerequisites, but then got sidelined by my other interests and ended up majoring in the humanities. I still remember my organic chemistry course, though. There were 700 students, and the stage of the auditorium rotated, so that the previous class's lab set-up would disappear, and our professor would appear along with his lab set-up, ready to demonstrate the latest concept! (I wish I could remember his name!) Just a few years earlier, before there was powerpoint, before there was Moodle and WebCT, this amazing film was created to illustrate the concept of protein synthesis. It starts with a blackboard, different colors of chalk, and an unsmiling chemistry professor. So far, very familiar. But it also has interpretive dance, people with balloons on their heads, one of those "96 tears" organs, flute, the Jabberwocky, and something that emits smoke. I sure hope my students come up with something half as imaginative when they present their group projects at the end of the semester.
"O frabjous day! caloo callay! the protein chain came streaming out!"
Oh, and don't forget to click on the video response to hear "The Dendrite of Spring"!
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