As you are planning your classes for spring semester, please make note of how you will present Case It! to your class, what questions you may ask of your class, and how the experience goes for your class. This information will be vital in writing up the results, so the more detailed you can be, the better.
It'd be great if you could keep a written log, but alternately you can email things to me directly and I can compile an overview for each campus.
Thanks!
BJ
Friday, February 6, 2009
Class testing
Here is what I'm thinking for how I will use Case It in class this semester. The students would generate two separate web pages/posters, one analyzing an existing case (HIV and maybe other viral diseases). The other web page will be about an open-ended bioinformatics extension - not necessarily an extension of the case but related to whatever virus the case was about.
I have 3 lab sessions scheduled for this - 4/1, 4/8, and 4/29.
4/1 - Introduce them to the software and walk them through an example case. (I think I may make up a simple case just for demo purposes so we don't have to "waste" an existing case.) After the demo, they will work through their assigned case and start to prepare their web pages. Each case has ELISA, Western blot, and a fairly simple bioinformatics piece (like what we did for the Anna case). Web pages have to be finished by 4/15.
4/8 - Check on progress with web pages. Introduce them to the problem spaces, and how to select and load sequences into Case It for analysis with MEGA 4. Get them started on coming up with their own question to test, identifying what sequences they need. These web pages will be due 4/22.
4/8-4/29 - Give them their conferencing assignments. Conferencing (asynchronous) about Case studies 4/15-4/22; conferencing about bioinformatics project 4/22-4/29. Look into setting up a time or two for synchronous conferencing.
4/29 - Last day of conferencing. BJ visits for focus group interviews
There are obviously a few details to work out... How many groups and how big should the groups be? I have 40 students in two lab sections (20/lab). 2-3 per group works best. Maybe it would be helpful if both classes had the same number of groups for the conferencing assignment? I still need to package up DNA sequences for each case and set up the problem space.
I have 3 lab sessions scheduled for this - 4/1, 4/8, and 4/29.
4/1 - Introduce them to the software and walk them through an example case. (I think I may make up a simple case just for demo purposes so we don't have to "waste" an existing case.) After the demo, they will work through their assigned case and start to prepare their web pages. Each case has ELISA, Western blot, and a fairly simple bioinformatics piece (like what we did for the Anna case). Web pages have to be finished by 4/15.
4/8 - Check on progress with web pages. Introduce them to the problem spaces, and how to select and load sequences into Case It for analysis with MEGA 4. Get them started on coming up with their own question to test, identifying what sequences they need. These web pages will be due 4/22.
4/8-4/29 - Give them their conferencing assignments. Conferencing (asynchronous) about Case studies 4/15-4/22; conferencing about bioinformatics project 4/22-4/29. Look into setting up a time or two for synchronous conferencing.
4/29 - Last day of conferencing. BJ visits for focus group interviews
There are obviously a few details to work out... How many groups and how big should the groups be? I have 40 students in two lab sections (20/lab). 2-3 per group works best. Maybe it would be helpful if both classes had the same number of groups for the conferencing assignment? I still need to package up DNA sequences for each case and set up the problem space.
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