unsolicited biochemistry online tech support by me
I made a Canvas learning activity for biochemistry students. I sent this to some profs at SMC, and one of them actually used it! Here how it looked: Students will try the crowdsourced protein folding solution program "Foldit" (University of Washington). Those U-dub dudes are getting gamers to design a novel protein to block the docking protein on the SARS-CoV-2 envelope ("spike protein"). They've posted two videos to explain the effort, on the Fold.It website: This COMPUTER GAME could help stop coronavirus (Links to an external site.) Looking at TOP Foldit coronavirus solutions (Plus: lab testing) (Links to an external site.) I made a 13-question Canvas quiz (not really a quiz, but it's automatically graded which is really very nice) about those two videos. Here's an example of one of my questions:
