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TITLE OF TEACHING RESOURCE
Molevision
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Mike Casey
NAME OF PRODUCER
Mike Casey, School of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, University College Dublin
DATE OF PRODUCTION
2009
WEBSITE OF THE PRODUCT
http://www.ucd.ie/chem/molvis/index.html
TYPE OF PRODUCT
Web Site/Portal
LEVEL OF CHEMISTRY KNOWLEDGE
Advanced
PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH
Modelling
SUBJECT AREA
Fundamental Chemistry
TARGET GROUP LEVEL
Upper Secondary School
LANGUAGE/S OF TEACHING RESOURCES
English
TUTORIAL SUPPORT
No
DESCRIPTION
the Molèvision (ryhmes with television) site at University College Dublin. The purpose of these pages is to demonstrate key concepts in structure and bonding in organic molecules. The site also showcases a variety of important organic compounds, such as biomolecules and pharmaceuticals, and illustrates their great diversity, and their importance in our lives.
The website uses Jmol which allows the viewer to interact with the molecular structures in many ways, e.g. to rotate or zoom the model and change the display style. This powerful visualisation tool will help you to see and understand concepts that are difficult to convey with static images. The ability to change between different model styles, e.g. "ball and stick" and "spacefilling", and to manipulate 3D representations of atomic and molecular orbitals is a very useful aid to understanding structure and bonding in organic molecules. 'Playing' with molecular structures in this way is an excellent complement to the use of plastic molecular model kits.
There are four categories of molecules on the site: basic molecules to illustrate bonding, drug molecules, biomolecules and other molecules.
COMMENTS
Mike Casey has developed this and other techniques to promote engagement in a large first year chemistry module at Unoversity. For a synopsis of a talk he gave on this please see the following link:
http://www.dit.ie/media/chemicalandpharmaceuticalscience/documents/MC-DIT%20May%202012.pdf
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
Limerick Institute of Technology

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