> If it is this difficult to get all this going on a Mac, should I > assume that Jmol -- when scripted by JavaScript -- is PC-only?
I mentioned the Molecular Workbench in a previous thread, but I thought I would provide a couple of quick links here. One of the reasons we have created activity authoring software as a java application instead of using applets in browsers was to avoid browser/platform specific issues. Using the Molecular Workbench you can create activities using Jmol (and molecular dynamics based models). Using Java Web Start you can have a user click on a link in a webpage and launch your activity. As far as they are concerned they are just opening up a new window, so it is pretty seamless (especially after you have run that activity once - speeding up the launching). Here is one example: http://xeon.concord.org/webstart/jnlpFiles/modelerPages/DNAtoProteins2jmolList.jnlp We even used Jmol to act as a viewer for our 3D molecular dynamics models: http://xeon.concord.org/webstart/jnlpFiles/modelerPages/3DmodelsJmolList.jnlp Anyone can create activities with this software. You can have the students generate reports of their answers, snapshots of models which they can annotate, and these reports can be saved as html pages (and sent to you via email), printed, or submitted to us to help us research the use of our activities and how to make them better. BTW, "us" refers to the Concord Consortium (www.concord.org), an non-profit educational technology group. New features are added all the time, so we welcome any suggestions for improvement or new innovations. -Dan Damelin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
