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Robert Ryshke

Literacy Map for Genetics - 0 views

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    On the NSDL website, they have literacy maps that organize the conceptual understanding of a topic. While a bit cumbersome, they are worth reviewing. You can print them out.
John Burk

Seeing Forests for the Trees and the Carbon: Mapping the World's Forests in Three Dimen... - 1 views

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    Very cool map of US forests, with details on how the data was gathered
John Burk

Gettin' Real with Centripetal « Megan Hayes-Golding - 0 views

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    cool overhead map of turn for centripetal motino calc
John Burk

Colleges looking beyond the lecture - The Washington Post - 0 views

  • The lecture backlash signals an evolving vision of college as participatory exercise. Gone are the days when the professor could recite a textbook in class. The watchword of today is “active learning.” Students are working experiments, solving problems, answering questions — or at least registering an opinion on an interactive “smartboard” with an electronic clicker.
  • A new biology course had 22 freshmen fan out across campus last fall for dirt samples, from which each student culled a new and heretofore unknown virus. Now, the class has picked one virus for genetic mapping.
  • Not all the ideas are new. At the University of Maryland College Park, engineering professors eliminated introductory lecture courses in 1991. Since then, students have spent the crucial first year engaged in actual engineering, building swing sets, helicopters and hovercrafts.
Robert Ryshke

Resnick on the Future of Genomic Study to Map the Human Species - 0 views

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    This is a powerfully important TED talk that gives an overview of the advancing technology associated with moving the Human Genome project well into the 21st Century
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