TEACHING AND LEARNING SUPPLEMENTS
McGraw-Hill offers various tools and teaching products to support the fifth edition of Foundations in Microbiology. Students can order supplemental study materials by contacting your local bookstore. Instructors can obtain teaching aids by calling the Customer Service Department at 800-338-3987, visiting our Microbiology website at www.mhhe.com, or contacting your local McGraw-Hill sales representative.
Digital Content Manager: This multimedia collection of visual resources allows instructors to utilize artwork from the text in multiple formats to create customized classroom presentations, visually-based tests and quizzes, dynamic course website content, or attractive printed support materials. The digital assets on this cross-platform CD-ROM are grouped by chapter within the following easy-to-use folders.
Active Art Library: Key figures are saved in manipulable layers that can be isolated and customized to meet the needs of the lecture environment.
Animations Library: Numerous full-color animations of key microbiology processes are provided. Harness the visual impact of processes in motion by importing these files into classroom presentations or course websites.
Art Libraries: Full-color digital files of all illustrations in the book, plus the same art saved in unlabeled and gray scale versions, can be readily incorporated into lecture presentations, exams, or custom-made classroom materials. These images are also pre-inserted into blank PowerPoint slides for ease of use.
Photo Libraries: Digital files of instructionally significant photographs from the text can be reproduced for multiple classroom uses.
PowerPoint Lectures: Ready-made presentations that combine art and lecture notes have been specifically written to cover each chapter of the text. Use the PowerPoint lectures as they are, or tailor them to reflect your preferred lecture topics and sequences.
Tables Library: Every table that appears in the text is provided in electronic form. You can quickly preview images and incorporate them into PowerPoint or other presentation programs to create your own multimedia presentations. You can also remove and replace labels to suit your own preferences in terminology or level of detail.
Instructor's Testing and Resource CD-ROM: This cross-platform CD-ROM provides a wealth of resources for the instructor. Supplements featured on this CD-ROM include a computerized test bank utilizing Brownstone Diploma (a testing software to quickly create customized exams). This user-friendly program allows instructors to search for questions by topic, format, or difficulty level; edit existing questions or add new ones; and scramble questions and answer keys for multiple versions of the same test.
Word files of the test bank are included for those instructors who prefer to work outside of the test generator software. (Test bank authored by Denise Friedman, Hudson Valley Community College)
Transparencies: McGraw-Hill provides 450 color Overhead Transparencies of text line art and numerous photos.
Course Delivery Systems: With help from our partners, WebCT, Blackboard, TopClass, eCollege, and other course management systems, professors can take complete control over their course content. These course cartridges also provide online testing and powerful student tracking features.
FOR THE STUDENTOnline Learning Center: This site offers an extensive array of learning and teaching tools. It includes quizzes for each chapter, links to websites related to each chapter, interactive activities, and case studies.
Student StudyGuide: by Nancy Boury, Iowa State University. The author provides study objectives, chapter overviews, test-taking strategies, crossword puzzles, multiple-choice questions, critical thinking questions, matching exercises, and pathway mapping problems to reinforce the concepts in each section of the text. Answers to the objective questions are included.
HyperClinic 2 CD-ROM: by Lewis Tomalty and Gloria Delisle. Evaluate realistic case studies that include a patient history and description of signs and symptoms. Students can either analyze the results of physician-ordered clinical tests to reach a diagnosis or evaluate a case study scenario and then decide which clinical samples should be taken and which diagnostic tests should be run. More than 200 pathogens are profiled, 105 case studies presented, and 46 diagnostic tests covered. PC compatible.
Microbes in Motion 3 CD-ROM: This interactive, easy-to-use general microbiology CD-ROM helps students actively explore and understand microbial structure and function through audio, video, animations, illustrations, and text. 18 books cover topics from microbial genetics to vaccines. Mac and Windows compatible.
To obtain an instructor login for this Online Learning Center, ask your local sales representative.
If you're an instructor thinking about adopting this textbook, request a free copy for review.
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