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BioQUEST Blog Update – Feb. 25, 2009
02.25.09
Pea image by Phil Price shared under (cc).
You are currently reading the first BioQUEST Blog Update. We are pretty excited about using our newly designed web site to share information with the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Community. However, us sharing information is just the start. Our goal is to use this site to build community-wide interactions. Sure, it won’t happen automatically. We are all in the process of exploring the emerging social media to figure out how to make them work for us. What better place to explore and share than with a community of teachers interested in rethinking undergraduate biology education? We have been around since 1986 and we plan to stick with this for a while longer. Please consider joining us.
If you are not currently receiving updates by e-mail and would like to just let us know [bioquest@beloit.edu].
The e-mail version of this update included additional information on the following posts:
APPLY NOW BioQUEST Summer Workshop 2009: Green Architecture – Green Curriculum
Where Are We? Evolution Survey
ActionBioscience: An issues approach to biology
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BioQUEST Summer Workshop 2009: Green Architecture – Green Curriculum
02.24.09
This year we will take advantage of Beloit College’s new LEED certified Center for the Sciences to explore ways that our facilities provide us with opportunities to ask scientific questions and collect data as well as address sustainability issues. The BioQUEST Summer Workshop will be proceeded by a separate PKAL Meeting on Planning Facilities for Undergraduate Science.
Title: Green Architecture – Green Curriculum
Dates: June 15-21, 2009
Location: Beloit, Wisconsin
Featured Projects: This summer’s workshop will feature Numbers Count! and Investigative Cases.
More Information and Application: http://bioquest.org/summer2009
Also see the BioQUEST Calendar for other upcoming events.
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Welcome to the new BioQUEST blog
02.13.09
Welcome to the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium (BQCC) Blog. We are very excited to have you as a reader and we hope that you will find and share useful information here. There are several things we hope to accomplish using this blog including:- Sharing information more efficiently about BQCC activities and resources. We are currently involved a in diverse collection of projects and collaborations which may be of interest to members of the consortium and we think that short, informal blog posts will be an effective way to share what we are working on.
- Establishing a more dynamic conversation about undergraduate biology education reform. In addition to making it easier for us to share ideas, the blog format should make it easier for anyone to share their suggestions and feedback as comments on a post.
- Highlighting ideas and resources from our community. The blog is just part of our new web interface that makes it easier to feature user generated content that we have collected over our 20+ year history.
- Pushing ourselves. We think it is important to continuously try new things and evaluate their effectiveness. We hope that you will join us in this experiment, give it a chance, and let us know what works and what doesn’t.
To contact us please post a comment, send us an e-mail, or call Sue at [608/363-2012].
Sue Risseeuw – Project Manager [risseeuw@beloit.edu]
Ethel Stanley – Director [stanleye@beloit.edu]
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Links to Past BioQUEST Summer Workshops
10.27.08
We are excited to announce the 2009 BioQUEST Summer Workshop:
Green Architecture – Green Curriculum
For More Information see http://bioquest.org/summer2009
You can also look at information about past BioQUEST Summer Workshops
- 2008: Problem Solving in Biology: Data, Tools and Resources from Plant Science
- 2007: Exploratory Evolution Education
- 2006: Exploring Complex Data Sets
- 2005: Investigating Interdisciplinary Interactions
- 2004: Systems Biology
- 2003: Enabling Exploration for Everyone…
- 2002: Biocomplexity in Undergraduate Education
- 2001: Microbes Count!
- 2000: Developing Curricular Resources…
- 1999: Evolution: Laboratory Field
- 1998: Persuasion in Biology
- 1997: What Can We Learn From Math
Also see the BioQUEST Calendar for information on other events.
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