[bionet.general] Microbiology Teaching videos

DBK@aberystwyth.ac.uk (09/07/90)

Does anyone out there have experience of or recommendations for Video
material suitable for using in teaching to 1st-year Biology students to
impress on them the wonders of microbes, especially prokaryotes?

All suggestions/comments gratefully received.

Many thanks,
Douglas Kell.

rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Bingham) (09/07/90)

> Does anyone out there have experience of or recommendations for Video
> material suitable for using in teaching to 1st-year Biology students to
> impress on them the wonders of microbes, especially prokaryotes?
>
> All suggestions/comments gratefully received.
>
> Many thanks,
> Douglas Kell.

If you have access to laser-disc players the two volumes of the "Cell
Biology" LaserVision discs, produced by the Institut fur den
Wissenchaftlichen Film, Gottingen, has some fine sequences of both
prokaryote and eukaryote material.  Being on PAL standard laser-discs
means that the material can be incorporated into interactive video.

Are you aware that there is a British Universities Film & Video
Council which promotes the production, study and use of film, TV and
related media for higher education and research?  They are at 55 Greek
St., London, W1V 5LR, tel.  071-734 3687.  I bought the Cell Biology
laser-discs from them.

Richard Bingham

FLANDRO%FRSUN12@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Jean-Pierre Flandrois) (09/11/90)

forFor small groups of students (10 - 15), we use a Wild Leitz microscope with a
video camera Sony DXC 101 P and a video monitor PVM 1442 QM 35cm. This
material is for exhibiytion . Each student can work also with a classical
microscope and see by himself the microbial world.