Listed as A&S 300

(Later to be listed as BIOLOGY course)

On line Seminar course

See flier about course (ppt file) or (PDF)

SEE UK PR on this course here

COURSE OUTLINE

Time:  On line course with weekly assignments.

Grading policy: Class participation and on line attendance for discussion board postings (20%). Sometime within the semester you will be required to conduct two oral presentations (in some cases this may be done with a partner). These will be recorded and either managed through YouTube or through ECHO360 or with the instructor to post on a web page. The media needs to be available for all students in the class. The oral presentation will be a major part of the grade (70%). A comprehensive Final Exam in essay format (10%) will be on a subset of the presentations viewed and on the nature of web based media presentation of what appears to be advantageous for conducting scientific discussion via web media.
            You will be required to sign up on a topic, research that topic and organize a presentation in which you will then present to the class. The topic can also be a research project that you are involved in. The class will ask questions and you are to encourage a discussion of the topic and answer questions from the audience through an on line discussion board.

            International students will also be participating in the course and presenting. They may not be enrolled in the University of Kentucky course; however, they may be enrolled in an equivalent course at their home institution. All students are required to participate with a video submission of their presentation and engaged in the discussion board for each presentation.

Link for topics and papers
Go to the http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
These journals offer you some topics that might be of interest to you for the course. Note—not all papers are full access to all the journals. One can also email the authors of papers and ask them to send you a PDF version of their paper for the course discussion.
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Syllabus

Pick a topic and be able to present it via Power point. Plan on performing two different presentations, each 15 minutes in length. The online questions and discussion will be linked with the presentation either via a web page or black board. If we have issues with posting by international students they can email me their text and I will post on a web page for all students in the course students to view.  The 1st presentation will be reviewed by the UK class and international students. After comments are provided,  a second presentation on a different topic or the same content will be given by the student for seeing improvement in the quality of presentation via this web media and for the scientific content of the presentation.

The theme for FALL 2012 is on "Current Problems in Biology"

Schedule

You can email me your topic then I will post it on the www site so others will know what topic you choose.

Dates:
Two presentations per week

Presentations           posted by Date         Topic University location
1 & 2                           8/25

               Cooper shows how to watch a power point and a youtube at same time on the screen (Go here and play ECHO 360 . Just click on "Hi" after you open the web link.

                                    8/30               

Cooper with 2 different ways to present:

One way with power point playing next to youtube (download pptx here, watch YouTubehttp://youtu.be/bdx9kfkje3o)

Second way is movie of talking head and then pptx part of movie http://youtu.be/agumUDQi5yg

.................FEED BACK on Cooper (PDF)

In case you want to see whole presentation for a journal club talk (download pptx here, watch YouTube http://youtu.be/tz7G3Yb5QqU) 27 minutes

3 & 4                           Sept. 1st week 

This week review Mr. Zana Majeed's presentation on the YOUTUBE link. Email me your constructive criticism. http://youtu.be/dbi_I70fYak "Pharmacogentic approach in directing inhibition of the larval heart in Drosophila melanogaster." ...This is a heavy research based presentation.     

.................FEED BACK on Zana (PDF)

We have a presentation on Muscle Exercise by Ms. Kristen Wilson. So the MOVIE with the person introducing herself is a download here (Click here 3 MB) and the presentation is on YouTube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q28Fs_lGdwE&feature=plcp

So watch both links and please provide feedback on technology use and on presentation for all presentations.

.................FEED BACK on Wilson (PDF)

5 & 6                           9/13

So we have a new posting here from Ms. Ann Cooper (a guest in the course, not officially registered but to provide a movie to watch this week and comment on related to an international research project). Just send me comments and I'll post them so others can read as well as Ann anonymously of course. Here is the YOUTUBE link:
http://youtu.be/twz8Pr4GWF0

 

.................FEED BACK on Ann Cooper (PDF)

                                   
7 & 8             A second very nice posting by  Ms. Kristen Wilson. We have the INTRODUCTION movie and a ppt. The YouTube will be posted here: http://youtu.be/yohve6gA3q8 if you can not see the YOUTUBE you can right click here and download a 120 mB file (quick time movie) then after you down load to your computer you can open it to play.
                                 

.................FEED BACK on Wilson (PDF)

9 & 10                         9/27
                                    9/29

A wonderful posting by Ms. Sunny Chung (presenting from KOREA). She use to be a student at the University of KY. She also published a peer reviewed manuscript on her project (here it is as a PDF file.. click here). Here is the YOUTUBE link ( http://youtu.be/QER83H4tvpg )

Here is the same seminar for a group, presented in KOREAN.

Part 1: http://youtu.be/0G7kaTtxK2E
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoi_8dH2jic&feature=relmfu
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFkjFHXqmKQ&feature=plcp

 

.................FEED BACK on Sunny Chung (PDF)

 

11 & 12                      10/4
                                    10/6

A real neat project posted by Ms. Katelyn McNamara is here on YOUTUBE

( http://youtu.be/yJHphumicqA ).

.................FEED BACK on Katelyn McNamara (PDF)

12 &13                       10/11
                                    10/13 
14&15                        10/18

A new approach of relaying information. Live poster presentation. Please see if this approach is a good means to present on line. We want to try new ways and then everyone can determine what does and does not work. The topic is an interesting topic. This is research by Ms. Ellen Burns (view here http://youtu.be/NSKyXoYKlHs )

.................FEED BACK on Ellen Burns (PDF)

 

2nd presentation by Ms. Ellen Burns presenting a teaching project.

YouTube http://youtu.be/SaSgIMQmr2A

She is presenting a lab experiment she worked out for teaching basics in neurophysiology.

.................FEED BACK on Ellen Burns (PDF)

 

Another neat project posted by Ms. Katelyn McNamara is here on YOUTUBE

(http://youtu.be/WU_NB9bjmSE ).

.................FEED BACK on Katelyn McNamara (PDF)

 

 A third posting by  Ms. Kristen Wilson. This one is on Alzheimer's Disease. We have the INTRODUCTION movie. The YouTube is posted here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwuNUiWy4mg&feature=youtu.be

.................FEED BACK on Wilson for 3rd posting (PDF)


FINAL EXAM  week   (Just email responses to questions back)

 Course Description:
The primary purpose of this seminar is to prepare students to discuss science topics (Research  or published works) and to learn a means to be effective in presentation via web based media. As part of the seminar, each student is responsible for selecting a topic approved by a Faculty Mentor. Presenting a research topic or paper orally in the context of the seminar is key and will be used for providing student feedback from peers and the instructors.

By the completion of this course, students will have:

1. Worked with faculty to provide a specific research or presentation topic
2. Learned to conduct a literature review relevant to the topic
3. Learned to present via web based media
4. Learned to join in a discussion board and learn to be self critical with feed back from peers and mentors for improvement.
5. Learned to work internationally with other students also presenting content in the course.
Course Prerequisites:  (for Univ of KY students: BIO 150-153 or equivalent introductory biology sequence