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Creating your own content is invigorating, and best done with some careful deliberation and planning, including scripting and choreography. However, detailed planning may not be a luxury you have at this time, and if you are unfamiliar with content creation, this could be quite a hill to climb. Therefore, this team recommends those unfamiliar with creating content to outsource your content at first, so you can spend time planning interactive assignments and working on your course assessments. There are wonderful resources and talks from experts available online, and we have aggregated links that you can use from resources you can lean on, including the ASBMB. Did you find a video on a topic you need to teach, but it contains an error? Use this as a teaching tool. Your LMS will have a way for you to provide a description of the resource, and you can give students the timestamp and explain the error.

For those familiar with content creation, be sure to create small bites of content based on the learning objectives that you have already streamlined. Think about the multiple topics that you would cover in a standard lecture period and create content for those topics separately. Consider how you will ensure that students are working through this material in a timely manner (i.e. quizzes and/or homework assignments with specific deadlines). There will be a fine balance between flexibility, especially for students with slower technology or limited access, and making sure that students are making progress. 

Most LMSs have limited space for uploaded content; however, YouTube is an excellent way to deliver videos to your students. When you upload, there will be an option for your video to be unlisted. This means that only individuals with the link can view it, and you can provide this link to your students through the LMS without it being able to be viewed publicly.  

Resources

Advanced biochemistry

• PyMol
  •  - Free for educational use; can be combined with tutorials to create a lab module; examples
  •  - Active site in minutes, scenes, labels, movies, builder
  • - Ligand binding site analysis, distance measurments, mutagenesis, dihedral angle changes
• (pdb file)
• - Among a lot of information, show students a Ramachandran plot of evaluated pdb file
•  - Advanced interactive molecular visualization and modelling software
•  - Links to papers, authors and expertise
•  - The international BMB organization offers articles for free download on nomenclature and research
•  - Vital source is a group of publishers sharing e-texts, only good this term; Cengage and Wiley
• - All in-press articles are free
• - Includes seminars and methods
• - Includes the science, technology, and application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, with free videos, open-access articles, and visuals
• - How the COVID-19 spike protein binds its ACE2 receptor and possible therapeutic and diagnotic uses; corresponding preprint is linked in the video description

Biochemistry

•   - From Harvard's free online course, “Cell Biology: Mitochondria"
• - From Harvard's free online course, “Cell Biology: Mitochondria"
•  - Great wrap up video for macromolecules.
• - Includes talks covering a range of topics
•  - A student resource if they feel they need to supplement course content.
•  - Literature, databases, free full text articles through PubMed Central
•  - Includes historical context
• - Collection of webinars, including "Discover Real Time PCR for the Classroom"
• - Links to many videos on chapter topics

Biochemistry nonmajors

• iPad, Kindle, pdf download, by Ahern, Rajagopal and Tan
• - Online course lectures by Ahern at Oregon State University, free download (iTunes only)

Entertaining biochemistry

•  - Stanford students dancing out central dogma
• - A documentary featuring the life and research of 2018 Nobel Prize winner Jim Allison; sign up for a free educational license

Chemistry

•  - Short YouTube videos by faculty
•  - A community that posts resources, simulations.
• - Offering zero cost resources for faculty and students in the face of the pandemic (gen chem 1 and 2 homework, extra practice problems, and quizes).
•  - Free courses and resources including Green Chemistry, Toxicology, Chirality, etc.

Structural Biology

•  - Protein structures, PDB-101, articles, videos, coloring books
•  - Includes links to proteomics tools, swissmodel, swissdock and others

Case studies and activities

• - Does not include solutions
•  - Register as faculty to receive solutions etc.
•  - Five-module series from sequence alignments to virtual docking using COX-I. See the Supplementary Materials.
• - A case study relating bacterial transformation and stopping the spread of a disease-causing agent

General

•  - Short lectures, animals, and videos on a range of topics
•  - Curation of course content for many different disciplines. Also has online support communities.
• -  Presentations and activities for workshops and teaching from Bio-Rad