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Bioscience Computer Cluster- Spring 2003

Schedule for Room 104 in the Science Building
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
9 AM - 5 PM
9 AM - 7 PM
9 AM - 5 PM
9 AM - 5 PM
9 AM - 5 PM
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Come in! Check email, do research, or simply say hello! Open to all students taking biology courses. There is always a friendly face to greet you! The cluster is a support center offering.

Internet access and supplemental instructional software for: Intro Biology, Physiology, Evolution, Ecology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Genetics.

We support our students!




Computer Training, FREE for all UH students, faculty and staff
Just go to http://www.uh.edu/ittraining/
and click on "Current Training Schedule"
then click on "Register Online" to sign up for a class.



List of available software:
Qty: 5 Ward's Five Kindoms SmartSlides
Description:
This CD-ROM contains slides of different organism living today. This software lets the student use their computer as a Microscope. It lets the students examine the organisms any way they want to. The CD-ROM also shows clips of how to use a microscope with different tools.

Qty: 1 Five Kingdoms: A multimedia guide to phyla of life on earth
Description: This electronic reference guide provides multimedia information (including video clips) covering all of the 92 phyla living today with example from selected genera. More than 500 illustrations have hyperlinked explanatory text clips. A unique interactive habitat key allows the user to explore the whereabouts of these organisms. An illustrated glossary is included, comprising over 700 scientific terms. This CD-ROM provides an expert overview of our planet's biodiversity: the kingdoms of prokaryotae (monera), protoctista, fungi, plants, and animals.

Qty: 2 BioBytes: For Biology in the Laboratory
Description: This CD-ROM is a simulation for the biology laboratory. The CD-ROM focuses on 6 main themes, which are Dueling Alleles, Alien, Cycle, Seedling, Shark, Reaction Time. This CD-ROM is accompanied with a workbook, which gives contains an overview for each of the themes and also exercises. The overview will give the students an idea of the themes of each simulation (the learning objectives) and provide background on the ideas around which the activities of the simulation revolves. The BioBytes CD-ROM is very informative as well as fun to learn from.

Qty: 5 Life: The science of Biology (includes Instructor's CD-ROM)
Description: This CD-ROM is a supplements sample. It contains the following materials: Sample Chapters, Student Web Site/CD-ROM, Instructor's Resource CD-ROM, Instructor's Teaching Kit, Test Bank, Overhead Transparencies, Lecture Notebook, Study Guide, Web CT Tour, and Custom Labs.

Qty: 6 The KAPLAN EDGE
Description:
This CD-ROM is a sampler. This CD gives information about all the services Kaplan has to offer. Kaplan offers the following services: Financial Assistance Programs, Study Guides for Students K-12, Practice Tests, Graduate information and much more. Gives the students web address of where they can take free practice tests.

Qty: 3 Essential Study Partner: Biology (2 Discs)
Description: This CD-ROM provides help for students in Biology. This CD contains many main topics. The CD gives the student detailed information about each of its topic. Each topic also has a practice test in the end. The practice test tests the students over the material covered in that topic.

Qty: 1 The Dynamic HUMAN: The 3D Visual Guide to Anatomy & Physiology
Description: The Dynamic Human CD-ROM interactively illustrates the complex relationships between anatomical structures and their functions in the human body. Dynamic, three-dimensional visuals are the premier feature of this exciting learning tool. This interactive program covers homeostasis and each body system by demonstrating the interactions between the systems.

Qty: 1 Digital Humans: The Visible Human Project
Description: This version of the Digital Humans CD-ROM includes both the Visible Man and Visible Woman data, as well as a multimedia introduction to the Visible Human Project, a government-sponsored research effort (including actual video footage and interviews). The contained in this CD-ROM are reconstructed from data provided by the Visible Human Project. All the images are reconstructed from real humans; they are not artistic impressions of human anatomy.

Qty: 2 UNDERSTAND! Biochemistry (includes Instructors CD-ROM)
Description:
This CD-ROM includes an extensive encyclopedia of topics student's will find great breadth and depth of coverage. This CD also contains wide selection of minicourses that are packed with illustrations and animations. This program includes a selection of multiple-choice quizzes, and each response you give will receive an explanation.


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