Humpty Dumpty

Virtual Molecular Lab

Check out this Virtual Molecular Biology Lab! It's an open source program, which means it's FREE!!!


http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtbiolab/

Google Earth Tutorial

Time Management

My 30 Second Spot

Day 2 of training

I cannot believe how much information I learned today! Pretty sure I'm not going to remember it all so I've got a lot of homework to do! I think the best thing I've learned (from an ISM perspective) is Moodle. I was prepared to dislike Moodle - based on my experiences with Blackboard - but it is going to be an awesome way to supervise Interns virtually. Having a central location for assignments, surveys, etc. is going to be very useful and Interns won't be able to claim ignorance or not receiving an email.

From an intern's perspective, I am in love with Google Earth and the new tools we learned today. The History feature and the lit trips broaden the use of the program to more than just science and math. I can even see using the program in a music class to show students where composers were born.

I have gained so much information in the training so far and can't wait to find out what we'll go over on Friday. Right now, I think my strengths are in blogs (even though this is my first) and recording with flip cams (but not the software yet). However, I think that with practice, I will be good at moodle and flipshare (not a huge fan of movie maker, but that's because the program always freezes on my pc). My weaknesses/areas of improvement are social networking and podcasting (just the itunes part).

I'm definitely not ready to train on most of these tools yet, but I've got a little time to familiarize myself with them. I am much more comfortable with the training overall, though. I think that I have shown great teamwork skills and professionalism. However, I can always improve in the area of leadership.

I think our trainers are doing a great job and I hope that the other participants are enjoying the training as much as I am.

Day 1 of training: a reflection

I think the training was very informative today! As someone who has never gone through the technical training, I am very excited to finally have "official" answers to all of my questions.

I think the easiest tool we went over today is the blog, and I think it can be used in numerous ways.

Facebook and Twitter are definitely areas of weakness for me (only for now!). I think I'll have to play around with both of these tools before I feel comfortable training on them.

Overall, I have learned a great deal today. My favorite was integrating music into a podcast.

Thanks to Liana, Ginny, and Jason for a great first day of training!!!