Sunday, September 21, 2014

Sabbatical Project OVERALL Update

Lab Manuals:

I have created annotated versions of all labs that I plan to revise based on a survey of lab schedules.  There are still certain questions I need answered and certain procedures that need improvement but most of the content revisions are done.  

The next step would be to make these annotated pdf versions available for easy review and commenting by instructors.  I have not determined what web platform I would use for that.

Physio Micro Questions:

I am still perusing each lab in the Integrated Anatomy and Physiology lab manual that I borrowed from Jill.  I have reviewed 12 out of 16 labs and have created about 11 questions.  As I have mentioned in a previous post, instead of fixing questions to very specific topics like stoichiometry, it is much more productive to simply come up with viable questions appropriate to the topic rather than forcing a question out of the experiment to fit under a certain category.

The next step will be to peruse the microbiology lab manual that Barbara let me borrow.

SLO Research

I have heard from 3 colleges and am still awaiting responses from 2 that I contacted last week.

Next steps:
Summarize the responses for each college into a report form.  Send further questions if necessary.
Contact 2 or more colleges.

Book Reading:
Finished three books, 2 by Atkins and the third one on 17 Molecules that Changed the World.

Next steps:
Clean up my notes from the 2 Atkins books into an annotated bibliography form
Create powerpoints from the 17 Molecules book
Select my next book
Finalize the list of the remaining books

Article Reading
Sadly, only one article read so far!

Next steps:
Start reading the other articles I have downloaded!

That is all for now!


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