Instructor Behaviors

Connect for Virtual Labs

McGraw Hill Education was one of the exhibitors at ASMCUE 2022. I watched the recording of their live twenty-minute session tonight. Tammy Lorince was the presenter and is an instructor and lab coordinator at the University of Arkansas. They were developing an online microbiology course with lecture and lab with the University of Arkansas Global […]
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Microbiology Poetry

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew “Teaching microbiology with poetry: Connecting lower and higher order cognitive skills.” Suparna Chatterjee has two Ph.D. degrees: one in microbiology and one in curriculum and instruction! They presented this short microbrew on their approach to teach microbiology with poetry at Arkansas Tech University. Chatterjee teaches several courses and […]
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Tinkercad for Environmental Microbiology

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew “3D Printing to Observe Bacterial Interactions.” The speaker was Nik Stasulli, an Assistant Professor at the University of New Haven. This session was about creating 3D structures to examine bacterial interactions due to chemical secretions. Stasulli started the semester by having groups create Winogradsky columns and isolating bacteria. […]
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Labster Pre-labs and Safety

Dr. Manuela Tripepi, an Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson University, presented at ASMCUE 2022 about the use of laboratory simulations as pre-lab activities. This microbrew entitled “Using Laboratory Simulations as Pre-lab Activity” was an overview of how Tripepi used Labster videos during the pandemic in unique ways. Tripepi asked: do students learn and read the […]
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T-cell Receptors and Student Engagement with a New ImmunoReach Activity

The ImmunoReach RCN has been very active! Tonight I watched their ASMCUE 2022 microbrew entitled: ImmunoReach: An interactive approach to understanding T-cell receptor diversity. Claudette Davis from LaGuardia Community College – CUNY and Timothy Paustian from the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented. Davis is a (newly) Associate Professor and spoke about the students at LaGuardia. They […]
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Incorporating the Virtual Tools into the In-Person Courses

The Microbrew from ASMCUE 2022 that I watched tonight was titled “When Plan B Becomes Plan A; Incorporating Content Created Virtually into In-person Classes.” Heather Townsend and Sarah Shoemaker were the presenters. They both have decades of experience teaching and wanted to reflect on how to use content created during “the virtual year” and incorporated […]
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Verification of Tweets with Primary Literature Summaries

Dr. Judy Brown from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN presented at ASMCUE 2022 a Microbrew session entitled “Using Social Media to Enhance Science Literacy.” The goals of the session that Brown shared were to share the framework for this assignment and ideas for implementation. Brown asked the participants: how much time do undergraduate students […]
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Instructor Perceptions of Race, Racism, and Racial Equity

Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 Microbrew: Instructor Perceptions of Race, Racism, and Racial Equity Discussion in Introductory Biology. This session was a twenty-four-minute live session, and I watched the recording. The presenter was Dr. Candice Idlebird from Harris-State University, an Assistant Professor. The abstract cited guidance for making biology classrooms more inclusive including the Drewsbury & […]
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Immune System Scaling with Immunoreach

Day one of ASK BIO workshop was great! I learned a lot and have met incredible people! Tonight, I watched the ASMCUE 2022 Microbrew entitled “Microbrew. Immunoreach: An Activity That Investigates Immune System Scaling.” Sam Elliot and Cynthia Downs presented on an activity they created with the Immunoreach group. Elliot wanted to make connections between […]
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Connecting Science and the Public with Concept Mapping

It has been a long day! I’m on my way to an ASK BIO workshop in Denver. While waiting for the train I watched another ASMCUE microbrew by a former UNC SPIRE fellow now at Appalachian State. The title was Science in the News Activity for Introductory Majors. The activity is structured and repeated several […]
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