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Fifty QM Course Reviews

Paula McDougald from Virtual Arkansas and Dr. Brandie Benton (Virtual Arkansas) presented a QM session I watched tonight entitled “My Circus and My Monkeys: Sharing What We’ve Learned Through Simultaneous QM Reviews.” Virtual Arkansas is funded through the Department of Education to provide supplemental instruction in the state. They have 130 teachers and students from […]
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Supporting Teachers to Create Better Learning Experiences Online

Tonight I watched the QM recording for the session entitled “Student Connection and Rapport in the Virtual Environment,” presented by Lisa Pizzuto, Program Specialist/Coordinator at Fulton County Schools. Pizzuto has been teaching online for seventeen years! Pizzuto’s objective was to share ideas for how we can personalize a generic course and develop connections with students. […]
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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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Virtual Culture Work-ups

Erin Rumpke presented at ASMCUE 2022 a ten-minute recorded session, “Virtual Culture Reading Exercises for MLS Students.” Rumpke is an Associate Processor and Program Director of the Medical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Cincinnati. Rumpke has over fifteen years of experience! Using Articulate 360 software, Rumpke developed a series of virtual culture reading […]
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Discussion Forum Entry Ticket

Tonight I watched the ten-minute recorded ASMCUE 2022 session entitled “Using Interactive Discussions to Foster Scientific Literacy Skills.” Dr. Elise Mosser from Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Drexel designed this course for undergraduate and graduate students. The MIIM 541 Bacteria and Bacterial Infections emphasizes the evaluation and interpretation of primary and review articles about […]
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Tetanus, Hummingbirds, and Antibodies

Connected by ImmunoReach, Michelle Pearson from Spokane Falls Community College connected with Philip F. Mixter from Washington State University. Their session was entitled “Tetanus Module: Helping First-year Students Connect Molecular Concepts with the Biology of Vaccines” and consisted of a ten-minute recorded session. They chose tetanus and explained their objectives. They wanted students to explain […]
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GoogleForms for Unknown Microbe Identification

Dr. Lauren Brooks presented a ten-minute recorded session for ASMCUE 2022 entitled “Online unknowns: a supplement for the microbiology lab.” Brooks is faculty at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Their learning objectives were to revisit the unknown identification lab since it is often only performed “once or twice in a semester.” Brooks recreated the unknown […]
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TopHat and Technology in a Food Folklore Course

Dr. Bwalya Lungu, Associate Professor of Teaching at UC Davis, presented a recorded session at ASMCUE entitled “Integrated Approaches to Teaching Improve Overall Student Learning and Engagement in Large Classes.” Lungu spoke about the origins of this study and the need to improve the course based on feedback from student evaluations and technological advances. They […]
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A World Without Microbes and Drafts

I am starting to watch ASMCUE 2022 sessions I missed. Michelle Korir from Aurora University spoke about activities they do on the first day of the semester. Korir explained what they used to do: introductions, syllabus, and an icebreaker. Korir reflected how this was very instructor-centered and students seemed bored. Nevertheless, Korir acknowledged that the […]
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Tools for Sharing Ideas

Madison Bunderson, Elena Darling-Hammond, & Daniel Pimentel presented at the CAST UDL symposium this summer on “Using Online Tools and UDL to Elicit Learner Voice.” This was a three-video pre-recorded session. Pimentel began by speaking about student voice. I liked how they started with a slide that simply read “it is lovely to meet you.” […]
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