Jordan's Team

To Padma- I am going to be starting microbial genetics and sharing of DNA in an allied health micro class in two weeks. This is always a tricky thing for non- bio majors but an important topic. I like how you have framed it in terms of antibiotic resistance (I do the same). The one minute essay will really help the students articulate their understanding/misunderstanding and also let you know how well they understood the concepts.

Michael - I think that the observations and videos are great however I was wonderingwhat type of active learning experience do you intend to provide during lecture to activate their prior knowledge? edited 03:17, 3 Oct 2015

Thanks Karen. As you suggested, I will include one minute essay to facilitate the students’ participation and also to assess the students’ knowledge on the concepts.

For Padma: I like how you teach HGT using antibiotic resistance as an example. For learning outcome 1, you list a higher order summative assessment as a case study with S. epidermidis. Is that part of an exam, graded I am assuming? you should provide some formative assessment that is also higher order as a practice before the students are graded on that.

Michael-Really like that you incorporate so many visuals into your assessments. Something I could definitely emulate. You have a set of bullet points that are "things they should already know"...do you find they actually know these things or do you end up covering them anyway. Just curious... -Angela

Hi Pam, Great job keeping up with the assignments! Based on what you have done so far, are you going to make any changes for the upcoming quarter/semester?

Hi Team! Lets plan another Skype meet-up to discuss assignments #4 (reporting out on how the first semester went) and #5 (alignment grid for the new semester).

Nice to see your comment Jordan. I will implement active learning module for HGT as I had done last semester. The change would be out of class activity where the students have PowerPoint slides with recorded lecture. I hope to give more of higher order questions for summative and formative assessments. I have posted alignment gird for spring 2016. Thank you for your advice and suggestions.

Hi Pam,
Here is a link above to the Revised Bloom's taxonomy book we discussed in our Skype meeting. I think it may be helpful for writing those higher order questions. The link is for the abridged version, but here is also a longer version with more examples and mini-modules.