Intro to Jing and Macromolecules

This week you will investigate how to use a Jing sceencast to support and explain complex content. Before you can do this, though, you need to download jing. It's a pretty straightforward process, but please let me know if you have any questions. Here's a quick tutorial on the downloading process and how the program works.




Okay, once you have the tools in hand, here's the task: create a 1-3 slide powerpoint to explain the function and structure of one of the four categories of macromolecules (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids). Make sure your explanation is clear and easy to follow. Once you are satisfied with your jing video, please upload it it your blog. Here's a quick little demo jing on dehydration and hydrolysis reactions. Thought it might give you an idea of what I'm looking for (though I'm sure yours will be better than mine!)

Building Carbohydrates

In class on Friday we built carbohydrates. We started with glucose and then created fructose molecules. We then simulated (simplified...) dehydration reactions to make maltose). Check it out!



After we were happy with our maltose molecules we decided to get a little more complicated....Check out our class polysaccharide!!





Now, if we used 8 maltose molecules to make our class polypeptide, how many water molecules were produced??