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Collections
- Gallery (formerly the Atlas Collection) is a collection of images, videos, and animations that can be used to enhance lecture or lab presentations. Individual items include brief legends that describe the items and how they were obtained. A collection of items around a central theme (e.g., Gram stain and MacConkey agar) includes a title for the collection and a title and short description for each item (e.g., figure title and legend).
- Visual Media Briefs (formerly the Visual Collection) consist of high-quality, short communications with digital images, animations, and videos about the microbial world. Briefs include introduction, methods, discussion, and reference sections. Briefs describe the item and how it was obtained (e.g., cultured and isolated), its significance and/or use, magnification, and references. Visual Media Briefs are similar to short research communications (or briefs) in scientific journals.
- Laboratory Protocols are information briefs about standard laboratory tests and include the procedural steps as well as the purpose, theory, history, safety considerations, tips and comments, and references.
- Critical Thinking Question Bank is a collection of multiple-choice questions that go beyond rote memory and regurgitation of content to requiring critical thought. The level of critical thinking is designated minimally at level three (application) in Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Levels. Designed especially for interactive learning using audience response systems, the questions are of value for pre- and post-tests or traditional exams, and may be used in the classroom or laboratory or online in blended- and distance-learning experiences. (Coming in summer 2012)
- Alternatives to Lecturing: A Pilot Program for MLTV is a collection of short video clips showcasing innovative and engaging pedagogical tools related to teaching microbiology. MLTV is a proposed channel of YouTube videos that are scientifically accurate, pedagogically sound, and visually and audibly clear — warranting “ML Approval” stature. The videos may be produced by ASM or the public at large. The first set of YouTube videos will inform and demonstrate effective approaches to teaching based on research about how people learn science. (Coming in summer 2012)
News
*ALERT* The ML Archives Site is offline for technical maintenance. Please check back for an update in 2012.
Now available: Two new Visual Media Briefs and five new Gallery and Laboratory Protocol resources.
2011 Editor's Choice Awards
Animation
The Major Histocompatibility-I System: the Activation of Naïve CD8 (T8) Lymphocytes by Dendritic Cells
Gary Kaiser, The Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville
Still Image
Indirect Immunofluorescence for Detection of Measles Antibody
Kristina M. Obom, Patrick J. Cummings, Maria A. DeBernardi, and Gary Brooker, The Johns Hopkins University
Video
Aeolosoma hemprichi Ingestion of Soil Particles and Digestion of Microbial Films
Michael Witty, Urban Coast Institute, Monmouth University
Now Available - Spanish Translations of Gallery Resources
The Spanish translations of the 2005-2009 Gallery Collection Laboratory Protocols are now available! Links to the Spanish translation of Laboratory Protocol image descriptions are provided at the bottom of the individual project page in the 2005-2009 Gallery Collections. These translations were provided through the efforts of the ASM International Volunteer Translators Network.
¡Las descripciones de las imágenes en el "Gallery" del 2005 al 2009 están ahora disponibles en español! Los enlaces a las traducciones en español del material en el "Gallery" del 2005 al 2009 se encuentran en la parte inferior de las páginas de cada uno de los proyectos del "Gallery". Las traducciones fueron realizadas por la Red de Traductores Voluntarios Internacionales de la ASM.
Deadlines
Submit Visual Media Briefs and Gallery Resources - Deadline 7/1/12
Submissions are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. The submission deadlines are July 1 (for December publication) and December 1 (for May publication). Please review the guidelines below before submitting a resource: Guidelines for submitting