Help:Teaching with Proteopedia
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This page presents some ideas for how educators/teachers/professors might use Proteopedia in their teaching.
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Use Existing Pages
Of course, you can use existing pages in Proteopedia. Be sure to consider those specifically designed for and by educators, which are listed at Teaching Scenes, Tutorials, and Educators' Pages.
Proteopedia pages can be projected during lectures (if you have an Internet connection in the classroom), and/or assigned to students as homework.
Author Your Own Pages
If you create your own pages, you will have scenes of the molecules that you are emphasizing in your teaching -- scenes that show exactly the structural features you wish to emphasize. See the Main Page for links to videos that show you how to author pages in Proteopedia. Customizing molecular scenes is amazingly easy with Proteopedia's Scene Authoring Tool.
Worksheets
A low tech, but quick-to-prepare lesson plan involves distributing worksheets of questions regarding the molecular scenes on a particular Proteopedia page. These worksheets can be on paper, a web page (which could be on a page in Protopedia), or within your local courseware system. Students in a computer lab can do such worksheets in class, concurrently, perhaps in pairs, which fosters discussion. The questions can be purposefully vague, to encourage discussion -- in which case completion could be simply "checked off" rather than graded in detail. Such worksheets give focus and a finite completion goal to each student. In contrast, simply assigning students to read a Proteopedia page may leave them less focused and perhaps uncertain about whether they have absorbed what you intend from the page.
Student Authoring of Temporary Proteopedia Pages
Student Authoring of Projects as Permanent Proteopedia Pages
Proteopedia Page Contributors and Editors (what is this?)
Eric Martz, Karsten Theis, Jaime Prilusky, Wayne Decatur, Eran Hodis, Ann Taylor
