MacCycle Menstrual Cycle Database

HyperCard Stacks Multimedia Teaching Program

S. Whiten, N. Petersen & J. Aiton

School of Biological & Medical Sciences

University of St Andrews

Asymetrix ToolBook Version

F. Bowser-Riley, M.A. Radcliffe & D.E. Byrne

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Marischal College

University of Aberdeen

MacCycle is an extensive visual data base in which you can examine up to 40 photomicographs with explanatory diagrams, graphs of hormone levels and four animations that illustrate the important dynamic changes during the Menstrual Cycle. This program, developed initially at St Andrew's using the Macintosh authoring system, Hypercard, was subsequently re-authored by Aberdeen to run on IBM PCs using Asymetrix Toolbook. MacCycle has been used at St Andrew's for first year undergraduate science and medical teaching as a substitute for 2 practicals and 2 lectures. MacCycle is designed to help the student:

to see in detail the important histological developments in the ovary
to correlate the ovarian structural changes with alterations in plasma hormone levels
to see the resultant structural changes in the uterus endometrium
to consider what factors control the menstrual cycle.

Features

demonstrates cross platform compatibilty of complex multi-media teaching material.

Download the ToolBook version

Download the HyperCard demo version

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