I want to know more about semi-structured interviews. This Delve video titled “Semi Structured Interviews | Step by Step Explanation” helped. They defined semi-structured interviews as “a research methodology where you plan a discussion guide ahead of time, but allow yourself to probe deeper or ask follow up questions that weren’t scripted.” Therefore, semi-structured interviews […]
Tonight I watched JMBE Live! Heather Bergan-Roller, Tina Ballard, and Jaime Sabel presented the work they are doing. Ballard spoke about how students may note be prepared for class. They noted that sometimes instructors assign readings but these may not be completed before the session. Ballard shared that research has found that outside and in […]
Tonight I watched a JMBE Live! session with the authors of the article “From Novice to Expert: An Assessment to Measure Strategies Students Implement While Learning to Read Primary Scientific Literature.” The session was presented on May 19, 2023 by Melissa McCartney, Min Zhong, Cerrone Foster, and Miriam Segura. The group worked together to study […]
Tonight I started watching the KBase Educators Orientation meeting from December 2024. Ellen Dow facilitated the session and shared resources from the KBase Educators group and handbook. Dow explained the structure of KBase narratives and how to join the KBase Educators group. The Educators Org has several narratives that can be copied. There are a […]
Tonight I started watching day 2 of the ISME19 workshop “From Reads to Function.” Mikayla Borton from Colorado State University presented on “DRAM and genome-resolved inference.” Borton started with dereplication of bins/MAGs. After that step, MAGs are annotated with DRAM. The tool used to dereplicate metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) is dRep. Borton explained that the […]
Katharina Wolff from TU Braunschweig, Germany, presented a five-minute session at London Calling 2024 titled “Empowering scientists with data literacy skills in long-read genomic sequencing.” Wolff spoke about the variety of plants around us and empowering students to learn about plant diversity. They wanted to address the increasing availability of data and lack of data […]
Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew entitled “Microbrew. Blogging about biotechnology: Replacing the term paper with an accessible writing style assignment.” Chadene Tremaglio and Michelle Kraczkowski, assistant professors at the University of Saint Joseph in CT were the presenters. Their attendee learning objective was to “gain a framework for a new project/paper assignment to […]
Tonight I watched the ASMCUE 2022 microbrew session by Daryn Stover entitled “Enhancing communication skills through discussion of primary literature and phenotypic variation.” Stover is at Arizona State at Lake Havasu and is a dedicated undergraduate campus. There are no dedicated research labs. There is a senior capstone experience and opportunities for internships. The BIO […]
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 […]
Tonight I watched the Lilly Conference online session “The Effectiveness of Metacognitive Reading Strategies in the College Classroom” by Jiyoung Kim from Fayetteville State University and Trela Anderson from the National Defense University. They assessed metacognitive reading strategies in the courses they teach. The data is from the reading across the curriculum program at Fayetteville […]