11 more videos available at
http://www.jeffloo.com/stuff/2010/instruction/pubchem/
PURPOSE: To make online instructional videos for PubChem, a free database of the biological activities of small molecules developed by NCBI at the National Institutes of Health.
METHODS: Develop modular videos that address research problems and tasks in chemical informatics. This arrangement encourages remixing, reuse, and sharing that can be tailored to different learning needs. The videos are stored in and delivered through YouTube – a popular, video-sharing website that offers social media features for commenting, voting, and video sharing.
This pilot project demonstrates that online video development is not cost prohibitive when using software and services that are free, open source, readily available at academic libraries, or cost five dollars.
For details of why and how these videos were developed, please visit:
http://www.jeffloo.com/stuff/2010/instruction/video/
RESULTS:
Twelve instructional videos were developed. Some topics include:
- Searching PubChem
- Understanding, simplifying, and saving search results
- Searching and downloading chemical structures
- Searching for and viewing bioactivity data
- Viewing 3D chemical structures
- Conducting a structure-activity analysis
- and more!
See all videos at either:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/CHEM/instruction/pubchem/
or
http://www.jeffloo.com/stuff/2010/instruction/pubchem/