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Happy Tetrahymena Thanksgiving

On line workshop

Teleconference   Webinar  Web Conferencing  –  What ever you want to call it, the ASSET team is planning to bring everyone together online.  In these days of tight budgets and even tighter schedules, we believe this will provide the most practical venue for everyone to compare experiences with the ASSET modules in the fall.  A […]

You made it – end of the week

Congratulations !  Another week down and two days before you get that all too familiar feeling in the pit of your stomach. So enjoy the weekend, and if you start to wonder if your happy……. There’s an App for that ! Yes, its called TRACKYOURHAPPINESS.  It’s still only for iphones,  iPodtouches or iPads.  Blackberry and […]

Classrooms of the 21st century

The writers of Star Trek  could envision warp drive, transporters, time travel, and Klingon poetry.  However when it came to displaying shipboard classrooms, they still showed a teacher  questioning a bunch of students sitting in a row of desks. Now the website Slate has conducted  a contest to design a 21st century classroom.  The winning […]

Rumors are flying…..

We don’t know for sure, but is it possible a Tetrahymena researcher will make  this year’s team ? ROCK STARS OF SCIENCE Stay tuned.

Share your wisdom

This comment appeared yesterday and before it rolls into the archives, we repost it here: Marcy McKinley here…I hope to introduce my class to Tetrahymena starting in January. Any extra hints from those who have already run the modules? So this is your chance to share your wisdom.  If you have any ideas for Marcy, […]

The Inner Life of the Cell

Unless you are 9 feet tall with blue skin and a tail, you will be amazed by the computer animations found in ” The Inner Life of the Cell.”  As the website explains, this award winning piece is from  a series of animations XVIVO is creating for Harvard’s educational website BioVisions.  The NYT piece with […]

2010 Global Education Conference

Teachers might find something interesting at the 2010 Global Education Conference.   The Conference brings together educators from many different fields and institutions across the planet. The Conference starts today and extends through Friday. Best of all it doesn’t cost anything to attend and the only traveling required is back and forth to your keyboard. […]

Tetrahymena Sports Round-up

At the Protozoan Mixed Martial Arts championships held on October 31 in Northfield, Minnesota, Tetrahymena Thermophila moved up a weight class to devastate former champion Daphnia Magna and take home the title.  here is the video courtesy of ESPN daphnia-desktop

ASSET at STANYS

Is that enough acronyms for you !  Anyway,the ASSET team traveled to beautiful Rochester, New York, the Flower City, on Sunday, November 7th, at the annual convention of the Science Teachers Association of New York State. The team conducted a workshop to introduce the lab modules that were available to be piloted.   While attendance […]