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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Sources of the project

Material I intend to use in my project about learning bioinformatics tools

Empiric
- I helped teaching in the workshops of Introduction to bioinformatics (with extensive and useful quantitative lecture- and tool specific evaluation from more than 30 Biochemistry and Biology students)
- I will to do some qualitative research using some representative bio-researchers from the different segments that I will work with.

Theoretical
Methods litterature and IT literacy
The Media Book, Newbold, Boyd-Barrett and Van den Bulck, Oxford University press, 2002:
- Ch 2 “Tools for studying the Media” by Hilde Van den Bulck: Using the ideas and basis for qualitative and quantitative methods
- Ch 7 “Advertising and Marketing” by Rachel Eyre and Michel Walrave: Using the segmentation of user-profiles on the users of bioinformatics tools.
- Ch 8 “Interactive Electronic Media” by Gillian Youngs and Oliver Boyd-Barret: Using the “distance learning”-methods. (no - it has nothing to do with distance phylogeny methods)
- Livingstone, Sonia: Media Literacy and the Challenge of new Information and Communication Technologies, The Communication Review, vol 7, 3-14, 2004


Bioinformatics maintaining litterature
- Campbell, A. Malcolm: Public acess for Teaching Genomicsm Proteomics, and Bioinformatics. Cell Biology Education, Vol. 2, 98-111, 2003
- Andersson, S. et al: Theory Anchored evaluation applied to a CSCL intense course in Bioinformatics



Please don't hesitate with suggesting more sources on the subject. I know there are some material about teaching Bioinformatics but I can't find it right now...

2 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Hi Sine,

Here is another bio-science-blogger if you want to see how others blog.

http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/

CU
Anders

April 08, 2006 11:25 AM  
Blogger Sandra Porter said...

I have some teaching materials posted on our site. Some of the most popular materials are our animated tutorials on using BLAST (BLAST for beginners), on using genomics resources for researching a genetic disease (Allelelic variants of SOD), and on SNPs (SNP or sequencing error). You can find links to these on this page under tutorials.

May 15, 2006 8:03 PM  

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