Teaching resources
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Videos, Animations, Tutorials & other classroom material & resources
ASPB - Teaching tools for Plant Biology from American Society of Plant Biology Arkive - Arkive is a truly invaluable resource for conservation education and public awareness. Crash Course in Ecology - Also see crash courses in other subject areas Course Source - open-access journal of peer-reviewed teaching resources for biology Educator Resources - Ecological Society of America hhmi BioInteractive - award-winning multimedia - apps, animations, videos, virtual labs PBS Nova - Education resources for all subjects Science Video Vault - California Academy of Science's collection of educational videos Swayam, NRC, IISER-Pune - online course on climate change for teachers TROP ICSU -Transdisciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for improving climate studies Videos for teaching ecology - a list compiled by Megan Duffy for Dynamic Ecology Yale Center for Teaching and Learning - Ecology - Classroom material and resources Articles, posts, reports, etc on teaching Ecology (and Biology) Efficient, Effective Teaching - Topical resources for teaching Incorporating primary literature in Ecology courses Also see other articles in Small Pond Science -related to teaching. Teaching Tips: start lectures with a short video Also see other articles in Dynamic Ecology Problem based learning in Biology - by Peter Ommundsen with case studies Quick and dirty Pedagogy Science (2005) Teaching 101 Science (2005) TIEE - teaching issues and experiments in Biology A peer reviewed publication of educational materials by the Ecological Society of America. Transforming undergraduate education for future research biologists - Report by the NRC (National Research Council) of the National Academy of Sciences, US. |
Writing resources
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The Chicago Manual of style online
The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. Writing & Communication Resources - Marrissa Baskett's site Plagiarism - what is it, and how to avoid it? Resources to help student write with integrity Scientific Writing Resource - Duke University Writing a Journal Article - by Joern Fischer Writing a scientific research article - Columbia university Reference Management Software - Managing your library - a comprehensive comparison Hall Lab student resources - writing resources and more put together by Spencer Hall Articles on writing: The Science of Scientific writing American Scientist (1990) Notes on writing papers and theses Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (1995) The write stuff Nature (2004) How to write consistently boring scientific literature Oikos (2007) A plea for academic writing Integrative and Comparative Biology (2008) 10 tips on how to write less badly The Chronicle of Higher Education (2010) Tips for science writing for the general public American Scientist (2015) Story-telling in scientific writing: Points of view: storytelling. Krzywinski M and Cairo A. Nature Methods (2013) 10: 687 Against storytelling of scientific results. Katz Y. Nature Methods (2013) 10: 687 10:1045 Using narratives and storytelling to communicate science with nonexpert audiences. Dahlstrom MF (2014) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 13614-13620 Narrative style influences citation frequency in climate change science. Hillier A, Kelly RP, & Klinger T. (2016). PloS one, 11(12), e0167983 Publishing with objective charisma: breaking science’s paradox. Doubleday ZA, Connell SD (2017) Trends in ecology & evolution. 32:803-805 From blogs: Posts on writing and publishing - in Scientist-sees-squirrel (scroll down to lower part of page). Clear writing - advice from Brian McGill in Dynamic Ecology. Look for other posts on writing, etc. Writing in Ecology - in Small Pond Science. Also see other posts on writing, publishing, etc. Grant and proposal writing resources: Grants and Grant Writing - Resources from Science Magazine The Proposal Writer's Guide - University of Michigan |
Presentation and communication resources
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Writing & Communication Resources - Marrissa Baskett's site
Presentation Tips - Compilation of blog posts by Zen Faulke - free e-book Also visit Dr. Zen's website for other interesting information! And, his blog neurodojo (!) for science communication posts (...and more) Communicating Science - Giving Talks - the Burroughs Wellcome guide for young scientists Hall Lab student resources - presentation resources and more put together by Spencer Hall Articles, reports, blogposts on science communication: Ten simple rules for making good oral presentations Plos Computational Biology (2007) Small Pond Science Useful Communication resources In Praise of Showmanship in scientific communications - Jeremy Fox in Dynamic Ecology Giving an academic talk - from Jonathan Shewchuk Ten Mortal Sins in Oral Presentations - Thomas Wolcott Plea from a symposium goer - some advice on talks from Daniel Janzen Better poster presentations: Better Posters - Another communication resource from Dr. Zen. Do's and don't's of poster presentation Biophysical Journal (1996) Ten simple rules for a good poster presentation Plos Computational Biology (2007) |