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- Category: a broad description of the topic areas. It
proved difficult to categorize some threads, there is some
overlap, and the classification is not always consistent. If you
don't find what you want by searching one category, try another.
Below are the categories and examples of what they include.
- Administration -- grading, TA supervision, credit,
enrollments, assessment...
- Books -- textbook recommendations; reading lists
- Curriculum -- requirements and course sequences.
- Lab preparation -- Sources of materials (including
equipment), recipes
- Lab procedures -- How-to for lab techniques and
experiments; ideas for labs
- Miscellaneous -- despite the number and variety of
categories, could not fit these threads anywhere else : )
- Movies/videos -- both educational and popular films and
videos on biology-related topics
- Pedagogy -- course design and content; used as a
catch-all category
- Philosophy -- ethics of dissection, gender-based
courses
- Safety -- safety issues in labs
- Software
- Subject areas -- used for threads pertaining to content
questions posed by Biolabbers. Includes a wide variety of
subjects, grouped into subcategories. Type in the content area you
wish to search, for example, "bacteria."
- Teaching techniques -- lecture demonstrations,
analogies, dealing with special groups of students...
- Subject: the subject line of the thread.
- Thread: search for any word in the text of the thread.
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