Sunday, November 27, 2005

Homeschool World: "The World's Most Visited Homeschool Site"

http://www.home-school.com/

Saturday, November 26, 2005

Internet Linux Servers - How To Set Up and Configure A Linux Web Server and Linux E-mail Server

LinuxPlanet - Tutorials - Admin Digest: Setting Up Your Own Web Server - Why You Need Your Own Web Server

DSL/Cable Webserver - Run your own webserver from home on DSL or Cable!

http://www.dslwebserver.com/

how to set up own web server with cable or dsl web connection

Monday, November 21, 2005

Searching GenBank

Searching GenBank

National Center for Biotechnology Information. NIH clearinghouse for genetic squence databases!! Now has 100 gigas

The RCSB Protein Data Bank

The RCSB Protein Data Bank

Data bank for protein 3d structures.

CELLS alive! Table of Contents

CELLS alive! Table of Contents

Nice immunology online units, one on HIV, another on the "anatomy of a splinter" good reviews for general immune functions and some nice movies of immune cells at work also.

HIV Infection

HIV Infection

Simple drawing-based life cycle of HIV. Drawings are a bit so-so, but good info. and concise on one page with lin ks to each stage.

Immunology Course Materials and Animations at Davidson College

The Biology Project: Microbiology & Immunology

The Biology Project: Microbiology & Immunology

Immunology teaching unit that uses AIDs as a focus. Materials are so-so, but nicely presented. Need more time to analyze and find good parts, but lots of graphics, labs, etc. Lots here, just needs to be filtered.

HIV / AIDS Information on the Internet, provided by AEGIS

HIV / AIDS Information on the Internet, provided by AEGIS

Major AIDs information clearinghouse--great resource.

The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource

The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource

Comprehensive patiente resource site

HIV / AIDS Theme Page

HIV / AIDS Theme Page

Page with links to aids resources for teaching

MSIChicago | Exhibits | AIDS: The War Within

http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/AIDS/index.html

Museum of Science and Industry AIDS page with life cycle of virus and how researchers are working to stop virus at each stage. Good intro with pictures like powerpoint showing animations of virus.

Steve Pizer, PhD

http://64.232.148.76/sites/VA%20Boston%20Health%20Care%20System/Investigator%20Biographies/PIZER,%20STEVEN%20D.htm

Steve Pizer, PhD

http://64.232.148.76/sites/VA%20Boston%20Health%20Care%20System/Investigator%20Biographies/PIZER,%20STEVEN%20D.htm

Friday, November 18, 2005

eBay: BN-VF733 BATTERY JVC GR-DF470 GR-DF570 GR-X5 3300mAh (item 7556232301 end time Nov-20-05 01:49:11 PST)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7556232301&category=43435#ShippingPayment

backup battery for JVC camcorder

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Health WebQuest - AIDS

All the Virology on the WWW

http://www.virology.net/garryfavweb.html

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Fungus and Actinomycete Gallery

Mycology Online

Parasites and Parasitological Resources

The Big Picture Book of Viruses

Virtual Bacteria Museum

Photo Gallery of Pathogenic Bacterial

Infectious Disease

antibiotic resistance powerpoint

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

HyperRust: Chords/Tab: Saddle Up The Palomino

http://hyperrust.org/OLD-ChordTab/SaddlePalomino.html

chords tablature for saddle up the palomino

Monday, November 14, 2005

Stalking the Mysterious Microbe

http://www.microbe.org/index.html

Cute interactive micro teaching site with lots of current events, every-day stuff along with Sam microbe mysteries

Sunday, November 13, 2005

EXCITE = Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology

EXCITE = Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology

excite--CDC epidemiology resources adn teaching curriculum

Bacillus

http://smccd.net/accounts/case/bacillus/home.html

anthrax presentation

EXCITE = Excellence in Curriculum Integration through Teaching Epidemiology

Epidemiology Main Page

http://www.wv-hsta.org/TeacherInfo/NIH_Modules/epidemiology/epidemiology.htm

epidemiology concept modeule from NIH with good epidemiology resource page

How Big is a ... ?

How Big is a ... ?

MICROBES

http://nikoeco.tripod.com/microbes.htm


webquest to find three non'pathogenic bacteria. Looks like good simple one!!

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Fluke test tools, answering your electronic, electrical, predictive maintenance and biomedical needs.

http://us.fluke.com/usen/support/manuals/default.htm?prodcategory=OBS

Fluke multimeter test manual downloads 77 series II is the righ one.

Friday, November 04, 2005

CARLTON DRAUGHT BIG AD

CARLTON DRAUGHT BIG AD

Funny satirical beer ad from Australia

Bird Reaper, pt. III: Paul Ewald replies: SciAm Observations

Bird Reaper, pt. III: Paul Ewald replies: SciAm Observations

Comments from Paul Ewald and criticisms about whether bird fl is a threat or not.

Shingo - Google Video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7820333450116505275&q=shingo
PowerRangers parody--full video feed!

Online Textbook of bacteriology!!

Thursday, November 03, 2005

YouSendIt | Email large files quickly, securely, and easily!

http://www.yousendit.com/

Allows for sending large files, up to 1 G, with virus checking.

Virtual Animation of the Kinematics of the Human for Industrial, Educational and Research Purposes

Virtual Animation of the Kinematics of the Human for Industrial, Educational and Research Purposes

NIce actual digitzed skeletal elements animated wtih real kinematics--has sitting in chari, jump, stairs, elbow, hip joints...lots of cool stuff and right there online in Real PLayer.

Human Gait Animation & Analysis : Walking Disorders visualized with a 3d Model

Human Gait Animation & Analysis : Walking Disorders visualized with a 3d Model

Human gait kinematics showing actual films and simple real-time stick figure that can be speeded up and rotated. A bit simplistic, but nice to show how it is studied and fun to play with.

Sickle Cell Anemia Case Study

Sickle Cell Anemia Case Study

This is beautiful!! A nice interactive website with all the aspects of malaria, plasmodium, sickle cell--the genetics, molecular biology, biogeography nin a multi-part presenatation that even includes self-testing questions. Even has a part on treatmenta nd political aspects!! Great!!

Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases

Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases

Great images of microorganisms and symptoms of diseases.

Case Studies: The Evolution of Human Resistance to Malaria

Case Studies: The Evolution of Human Resistance to Malaria

very detailed population genetic equiation approach to presenting human resistance to malaria


Nice sickle cell hemoglobin gene distrrbution map in good colors.

CityLab Curriculum

CityLab Curriculum

High-tech biotech lab for high school students and teachers in boston at boston university medical campus. This is curriculum which includes some inquirey-based internet explorations, including antibodies, and sickle cell/malaria.

Rediscovering Biology - Unit 6 HIV and AIDS Animations and Images

Rediscovering Biology - Unit 6 HIV and AIDS Animations and Images

video animations from so-so online biology text. These ones are on HIV which could be good for that case study in micro--haven't wateched them yhet.

Evolution: Library: A Mutation Story

Evolution: Library: A Mutation Story

Nice video on sickle cell and malaria relation in west africa. Shows how malaria infects red blood cells, real life stories from family with kids with sickle cell homozygous and heterozygous kids who survive malaria.

Also has background story on mutations and where sickle cell comes from.

Malaria and the Sickle Hemoglobin Gene

Malaria and the Sickle Hemoglobin Gene

Malaria and red blood cells, sickle cell. Background on genetics, relationship between malaria and sickle cell anemia.
Some nice figures, a bit technical and hard to read.

Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum : Nature

Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum : Nature

Original Nature article on sequence of Plasmodium genome. Shows genetic map, sectiosn on evolutionary relationships, metabolic genes, DNA replication and repair...great to show students how original research is done and published.

WHO | Malaria

WHO | Malaria

WHO malaria information with fact sheets, lots of stats, programs to fight disease.

Plasmodium, The Malaria Parasite

Plasmodium, The Malaria Parasite

Great animation on plasmodium life cycle!!

Malaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Malaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia entry on malaria--nice overview but few graphics, lots of links.

An On-Line Biology Book

http://www.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/BioBookTOC.html

Online Biology Book from Community Colege in Arizona, encouraged to use for educational purposes. Full of images, from Farabee...great resource!!

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Environmental Microbiology: by Microbes.info

http://www.microbes.info/resources/Environmental_Microbiology/

SEarch page from MIcrobes.info on environmental links. Great source at Microbes.info''should put on my website as place to look things up!!

BSCI 424 Lab Exercises

BSCI 424 Lab Exercises

Microbiology exercise in page with interactive glossary and pages with media, techniques, from U. of Maryland

MMID Virtual Microbiology Lab

http://www.mgm.ufl.edu/%7Egulig/mmid/mmid%2Dlab/index.htm

Interesting virtual completely online micro lab with four cases that then take through step by step what would be done with the bacteria and with images showing results of tests.