If you want your students to remember the stages of mitosis, the above mnemonic device would probably be useful. But does rote memorization of the …
Sound Science: Simulating at Blind Youth Slam
One problem with biology labs in general, including our own virtual labs, is that students who can't see are excluded from using them. That's a shame, …
Labs, labs, glorious biology labs
Last week I wrote about the new interactive chapters and SimUText features coming for this fall. We haven't neglected our labs this year either. …
New Release: Finches and Evolution
I'm excited to announce that we've finished a new SimBio Virtual Lab called Finches and Evolution. This major update to our old Islands and Selection …
Evolutionary Questions
Losing is Harder Than Gaining On the research side of SimBio, we spend a lot of time writing questions for testing whether students are learning from …
Minimally Invasive Education
You're probably aware of the TED talks - short talks by interesting people that then get posted to the web. I came across one recently by Sugata …
Tools Inhibit Creativity
I'm at the Ecological Society meeting this week, where we're doing a big introduction of our SimUText Ecology chapters. In the cracks I've been going …
Help Study Mendelian Pigs
We use research to help design our virtual laboratories. Some studies we do on our own, but for many we need help from faculty willing to try a lab in …
