Sunday, 10 August 2014

Is your teaching website mobile friendly?

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Here is an interesting question... Have you tested your teaching website on a smartphone? If not, try it... I'll wait. Many website...
Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Say hello to the hairy tree rat.... The latest genetics model organism!

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In a recent post - Designing a virtual fruit fly lab using HTML5 - I wrote about how I had replaced a fruit fly genetics 'wet' teac...
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Sunday, 1 June 2014

Designing a virtual fruit fly lab using HTML5

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A few years back (2011, to be precise), we were faced with a 'crisis' in the delivery of a first-year fruit fly genetics lab. The st...
Thursday, 10 April 2014

The importance of cell referencing in Excel spreadsheets...

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Using Excel correctly in the lab is an important skill to develop, and students sometimes get this wrong by failing to correctly use cell re...
Thursday, 3 April 2014

Video of Paramecium, C. elegans and Gram stained bacteria

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The video below I put together from videos shot using the main teaching microscope during classes. The video shows Paramecium , C. elegans ...

End of a journey - no more blogging at Scitable

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For the last three years I have been blogging over at Nature Scitable about bioscience elearning and today, after 143 posts, I have decided...
Saturday, 9 November 2013

E-mail - dark social media? I think not...

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Yesterday evening, I had the privilege of engaging in a thought-provoking discussion with Alan Carr on the pervasive use of email in teachin...