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    Why Do I Need a Lab Notebook? Teaching Responsible Conduct of Research with CURE Lab Notebooks
    There are few instructional tools about data acquisition and management available for undergraduate students. I created this lesson as a Fellow of the Ethics Network for Course-Based Opportunities...

    Keywords: lab notebookresponsible conduct of researchdata acquisition/ management

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    Cleaning Biodiversity Data: Excel
    Access and clean an open source polar bear dataset using Excel.

    Keywords: data in the classroombiodiversity informaticsData cleaning

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    Communicating with Data: Digital Data Resources
    Students access, clean, configure, and standardize a dataset and create a relevant and scientifically valid data visualization to communicate science.

    Keywords: data in the classroomdata visualizationdigital resourcesbiodiversity informaticsbiodiversity collections

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    Electronic Lab Notebooks: Options for Building Data Management and Quantitative Reasoning Skills
    Presentation on Electronic Notebooks and Lab Archives given at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: 2019 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshopelectronic notebookselectronic lab notebookslab archives

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    Calling Bull: Data Reasoning in a Digital World
    "So, the aim of this course is to help students navigate the bullshit-rich modern environment by identifying bull seeing through it, and combating it with effective analysis and argument."

    Keywords: data scienceinformation literacydata literacyethicscallin bullcalling bull

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    Use of PeerWise - an open digital question authoring tool
    Session on PeerWise presented at BioQUEST Workshop 2018

    Keywords: Summer Workshop 2018

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    Sequence Similarity: Introducing Biological Databases to Community College Biology Students
    This laboratory module, published on CourseSource, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.

    Keywords: phylogeneticsbioinformaticssequencingFASTANCBINIBLSEalgorithmsincubatorsBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityBLOSUM scoring matrixneighbor-joining distance matrixCourseSourcephylogramZika virus

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    Developing a phylogram from computational resources.
    This laboratory module, published on CourseSource, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.

    Keywords: phylogeneticsbioinformaticssequencingFASTANCBINIBLSEalgorithmsBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityneighbor-joining distance matrixCourseSourcephylogrampercent identity matrix

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    Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and "under the hood" approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses
    This laboratory module, published on CourseSource, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.

    Keywords: phylogeneticsbioinformaticssequencingFASTANCBINIBLSEalgorithmsincubatorsBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityBLOSUM scoring matrixneighbor-joining distance matrixCourseSourcephylogramZika virus

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    Lateral Transfer Maps as a Metacognitive Tool in First Year STEM Courses
    We introduce the Lateral Transfer Map (LTM), a tool for students to actively and visually explore the transfer of ideas, skills, and concepts across concurrent coursework. The LTM is an extension...

    Keywords: concept mapmetacognitionfirst-year studenttransfer

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    2016-Manheim-EtAl-Improving Decision Support for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
    This report describes decision-support tools, including models and nonmodeling approaches, that are relevant to infectious disease prevention, detection, and response and aligns these tools with...

    Keywords: infectious diseaseecosystemepidemicmodel policy

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    An Open Source, Collaborative Electronic Notebook for Undergraduate Laboratory Classes
    To overcome many of the limitations of the paper laboratory notebook (PLN), we developed an electronic laboratory notebook (e-LN) for the Dynamic Genome course at the University of California. The...

    Keywords: data collectionData annotationNotebook Skills

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    Using Alternative Assessments: IGELS Tools, Tips, & Strategies to Enhance Undergraduate Biology for Non-majors
    Alternative assessments focus on learning outcomes and engage students with metacognitive reasoning.​ This workshop session provides an introduction to designing and using rubrics as alternative...

    Keywords: NABT 2022IGELS

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    Instructor Guide : Integrating Leadership Skills, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Google Tools to learn Chemistry
    Scientific, leadership and recent artificial intelligence skills are integral frameworks of the curriculum. All of them together or individually can enhance knowledge, critical thinking and...

    Keywords: simulationactive learningstemBiochemistryInterdisciplinary STEMfaculty developmentchemistryArtificial IntelligencereflectionUndergraduate: Seniorleadership skillssinstructor traininggoogle tools

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    Use of Peerwise and Twitter in Open Pedagogy
    This presentation will demonstrate the use of two open tools (Peerwise and Twitter) to engage students in creating and discussing course content.

    Keywords: twitterOER

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    Tools of Seeing
    This video really focuses on having a sense of scale, a Number Sense skill. We talk to astronomers, biologists, and geologists about how they use tools to enhance their sight and how this allows...

    Keywords: videosnumber sensescaleunit conversionsScience Forwardorders of magnitude

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    Murder by HIV? Undergraduate edition
    Bioinformatics case study focusing on phylogenetic tree interpretation, published in the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

    Keywords: case studyResources @ NSF - NCCSTSbioinformaticsNIBLSEHIVnucleotide sequencingphylogenetic treeviral life cyclesmutation ratesreverse transcriptase sequences

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    Sequence Similarity: A Quick Introduction to Bioconductor
    Following the Sequence Similarity exercises by Kleinschmit, et al., this tutorial will guide students in using the Bioconductor suite of R packages to likewise compute sequence similarity.

    Keywords: bioinformaticssequencingNIBLSEmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityBLOSUM scoring matrixBioconductor

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    The Human Microbiome Biodiversity in Health and Disease
    The students will analyze the human gut and vaginal microbiomes in healthy and diseased states using diversity of bacteria as determined by 16SrRNA sequence.
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    Integration of Bioinformatics into Life Science Curricula: Community Development, Dissemination, and Assessment of a NIBLSE Learning Resource
    Big data and computational tools have transformed the way we address biological questions. To prepare undergraduates for tomorrow’s challenges, life science curricula should integrate the...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSELife Science

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