Evolution and Revolution in STEM Education

Office Hours and Community Conversations

BioQUEST Office Hours

BioQUEST Office Hours for 2024 are Wednesdays at 12:00 PM ET and Thursdays at 2:00 PM ET. These hours are a time for our current or future partners to meet with Sam and Deb to discuss anything BioQUEST/QUBES-related. Join us! The Zoom link can be found here.

    Please note that Office Hours will not take place on holidays, including the following:

  • New Year's Day (January 1)
  • Juneteenth (June 19)
  • U.S.A.'s Independence Day (July 4)
  • Indigenous People's Day (October 12)
  • Veteran's Day (November 11)
  • National Association of Biology Teachers (November 13 & 14, 2024)
  • Thanksgiving (Third Wednesday & Thursday in November)
  • Christmas Eve and Day (December 24/25)

 

BioQUEST Community Conversations Series [Archive]

From October 2021 through May 2022, BioQUEST Community Conversations were held. Below are the archived recordings of these sessions.

Sessions:

May 26, 2022 - Publishing your conference materials on QUBES

March 24, 2022 - What can BIOME do for your Project?

February 24, 2022 - OER for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEM Classrooms

Jan 27, 2022 - CourseSource

Dec 16, 2021 - How BioQUEST and QUBES Can Support Your Project

Oct 28, 2021 - Introduction to the QUBES Educational Resources Library
 


Recordings:

Publishing Conference Materials on QUBES

In this session,  BioQUEST staff will show how to publish conference materials, presentations, workshops, and teaching materials with BioQUEST. This tool is a great way to make them accessible to others, document your scholarship, and build your resume. The QUBES OER Library has a variety of examples including workshops, posters, and other conference materials.

View and download the slides here 

You can jump direction to the sections of the video by using the links in the outline below.

  • Introduction (0:00)
  • An overview on publishing with QUBES (1:56)
    • QUBES OER Library for authors (3:58)
  • Conference/workshop related publishing (5:26)
    • For conference participants (8:23)
    • For conference organizers (12:58)
 


What can BIOME do for your Project?

In this session, BioQUEST staff will give a short presentation about how our partner groups can participate in the BIOME Institute and how that participation can benefit your group. We’ll hear from past participants about their experiences and advice. We’ll also discuss our community goals for BIOME 2022, the theme of which is IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility in STEM Classrooms). 

View and download the slides here

You can jump directly to sections of the video by using the links in the outline below.

  • Introduction (0:00)
  • What is BIOME? (1:06)
  • Ways to participate as a partner (5:13)
  • Ways to participate as a participant (9:36)
  • How BIOME assists your project? (12:04)
  • Conversations from past BIOME participants

OER for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in STEM Classrooms

In this session, we will be discussing teaching resources related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, featuring a few resources listed in this month’s Community Spotlight. BioQUEST staff will give a brief introduction to using QUBES collections and our inclusive teaching ontologies to find and organize resources on these themes, and a few of the authors will be in attendance to talk about their resources. We encourage participants to bring DEI resources to share in our collection on QUBES!

View and download the slides here 

You can jump directly to sections of the video by using the links in the outline below.

  • Introduction (0:00)
  • The February Community Spotlight (1:30)
  • Resources emerging from BIOME working groups and FMNs (2:42)
  • Meta-data for inclusive pedagogy; universal design; and Open Science/Open Ed (3:54)
  • Introductions to resources
    • Ben Negrete - Data on Dead Zones and a Scientist Spotlight featuring Benjamin Negrete, Jr. (5:11)
    • Hayley Orndorf - Getting Started with Universal Design for Learning (9:04)
    • Mary Mulcahy - Integrating Social Justice into your STEM Classroom: Redlining & Health (11:32)
    • Yarid Mera - Teaching Cancer Biology Through a Lens of Social Justice (14:32)
  • Invitation to share additional resources and continue the conversation (17:16)

An Introduction to CourseSource - January 27, 2022

In this webinar, BioQUEST staff and CourseSource Managing Editor Erin Vinson will give a brief overview of CourseSource, a journal of evidence-based teaching resources for undergraduate biology and physics. We’ll give a tour of the CourseSource pages on QUBES, with special attention to using collections to keep track of articles that interest you. After the short presentation there will be ample time to ask questions about publishing your teaching resources with the journal. 

View and download the slides here

You can jump directly to sections of the video using the links in the outline below.

  • Introduction (0:00)
  • A brief overview of CourseSource (1:38)
  • How the articles are organized (4:42)
  • An invitation to submit your teaching resources (8:39)
  • What are "collections" and how can you use them (11:31)
  • How to collect a courseSource article (13:15)
  • Use the mini-dashboard to access your collection (14:22)
  • Visit your profile to organize your collections (15:31)
  • Additional resources (17:30)

How BioQUEST and QUBES Can Support Your Project - December, 16 2021

In this webinar, BioQUEST staff will give a brief overview of how BioQUEST and the QUBES platform can help advance your project’s goals. This will include an introduction to how the QUBES platform can support shared group spaces, how BioQUEST supports projects, as well as diverse examples of groups that are using the QUBES platform, including Research Coordination Networks, IUSE projects, interest groups, and professional societies.

View and download the slides here

You can jump directly to sections of the video using the links in the outline below.

  • Introduction (0:00)
  • A brief overview of how the QUBES platform is organized. (1:15)
  • Examples of what you  can do with a group. (7:05)
  • Managing groups (a quick peek behind the curtain) (12:10)
  • What to expect from the Hosting a Project with BioQUEST / QUBES FMN (16:52)
  • Additional opportunities to learn about hosting a project. (20:32)

Introduction to the QUBES Educational Resources Library - October 28, 2021

BioQUEST will be hosting a webinar on October 28 at 4:00 PM ET to introduce the QUBES platform and major features of the QUBES Educational Resources Library, including tracking of resources, adaptations, and instructor-only access.

View and download the slides here

You can jump directly to sections of the video using the links in the outline below.

  • Introduction (0:00)
  • A brief description of the QUBES Educational Resources Library (1:23)
  • How to navigate to the QUBES Library from the QUBES home page (3:15)
  • Navigating the basic resource record (5:29)
    • Bibliographic data
    • Downloading the full resource or individual files
    • Finding related resources
    • Member options
  • Live demo of navigating a resource record (9:42)
  • A quick introduction to resource versions and adaptations (15:30)
  • CourseSource resources (18:06)
  • Additional opportunities to learn about resources (24:17)