Science Lab Radio

Join McGraw Hill Marketing Manager Erin Martin and Wes Rogers of Georgia Gwinnett College as they discuss how Wes uses Connect Master: Why Biology? to increase engagement and scientific literacy in his Non-Majors Biology course.  Utilizing units that start with a relevant theme and then thread in biological concepts allows him to break away from traditional approach that presents the biology first and then introduces relevancy.  Wes also talks about how he uses Virtual Labs not only as a lab replacement in an online environment but also as a learning resource to offer students a “hand-on” experience that is often difficult to achieve in a digital environment.  Wes offers best practices and advice to new and existing users of Connect Master: Why Biology? and Virtual Labs.

Join Jim Connely (McGraw Hill Education) and Tom Peters (St. Louis Community College), as they talk about Tom's perspective on science education and the many opportunities to help students. In this episode you will learn about some of Tom's tips that can help anyone on their journey. 
1. Tips for veteran users of  Virtual Labs.
2. Tips for new users of Virtual Labs.
3. How to use Virtual Labs for an online or hybrid biology or A&P course.
4. Tips to flip your in-person lab.
5. Tips to share with your students to improve their experience.

To learn more about virtual labs, click here: https://www.mheducation.com/highered/virtual-labs.html

Join Jim Connely (McGraw Hill Education), Heidi Smith (Front Range CC), Richard Pirkle (Tennessee Tech University) and Melissa Gutierrez (University of Southern Mississippi) as they talk about the three use cases of McGraw Hill's Virtual Labs. The 3 use cases are: 

1. Pre-Lab
2. Lecture-Lab Integration
3. Online Course 

For your course, we have an OLC (Online Learning Consortium) course or pre-built course for your quick use. We can provide a VPAT for your accessibility office. Any assistance you need, we can help you! Reach out to me with any questions: James.connely@mheducation.com 

If you would like a visual summary of our episode, click here for details: http://info.mheducation.com/rs/128-SJW-347/images/McGraw_ConnectVirtualLabs_UseCase-final.pdf 

Join Jim Connely (McGraw Hill Education), as he shares some tips about building the first hour of your day. Jim is a big believer in starting the day right, which is why he loved this post he read about on the @fabstory and @mhhighered Instagram channel.  Have a great day!

Please join Jim Connely (McGraw Hill Education) and Kelly Brown (McGraw Hill Education), as they talk about the brand-new biology lab simulations, active learning for Majors Biology, tips for using virtual labs with your lecture course, new developments in Majors Biology at McGraw Hill and a host of other goodies! Learn how you can use virtual labs in your course with a few button clicks! Find out how McGraw Hill's CODiE award winning software can help you today! McGraw Hill won a CODiE award for best student experience in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

This show was a fun one to record! If you would like to be on the show, reach out to Jim Connely (James.connely@mheducation.com)  or Kelly Brown (kelly.brown@mheducation.com) 

Please join Jim Connely (McGraw Hill Education) and Nahel Awadallah (Nash Community College). In this episode, Nahel shares his expertise with you on how to integrate labs into your lecture, tips for veterans, tips for new users, how to use some of the new reports, and how you can maximize your face-to-face lab time!  Nahel shares some fun examples (Goldfish Lab) along the way!!!!

On this show you will hear about:

• New Virtual Labs reports! 
• Tips for new users
• Tips for veterans
• Tips for using Virtual Labs in A&P I or A&P II or Microbiology

This show was a fun one to record! If you would like to be on the show, reach out to Jim Connely (James.connely@mheducation.com)  or Valerie Kramer (Valerie.kramer@mheducation.com) 

Please join Heidi Smith (Front Range Community College), as she talks about how you can use Virtual Labs  to integrate lab concepts with your lecture! Heidi shares how you can use the virtual labs product to extend the learning in lecture.  You can offer labs that were once thought to be difficult  due to lack of time, money, or lab equipment. 

One example,  the Biotechnology chapter in your course is awesome. Students read about gene cloning. You can offer the bacterial transformation lab to help your students begin to better understand biotechnology/cloning.  Heidi talks about the PCR lab in Connect Virtual Labs. She didn’t have the time or money to do the lab face-to-face. The PCR lab is easily deployed through Connect. Amplification of DNA is another challenging topic, and you can deploy a lab on the polymerase chain reaction. 
Click this video to learn more: https://bit.ly/enhancef2flabwithprelab

This episode is hosted by Jim Connely (McGraw Hill Education). 

Please join Heidi Smith (Front Range Community College), as she talks about how you can use Virtual Labs as a pre-lab in your face-to-face science courses. Heidi provides you with excellent tips on how to set this up with ease! Find the video for this audio here: https://bit.ly/enhancef2flabwithprelab

This episode is hosted by Jim Connely (McGraw Hill Education). 

Please join Jim Connely (McGraw Hill Education) as he interviews the following:

• Erin Martin  (McGraw Hill Education)
• Kelly Brown (McGraw Hill Education)
• Tami Hodge (McGraw Hill Education)
• Valerie Kramer (McGraw Hill Education)

In this episode they talk about how you can help ALL students with being the most prepared to take the lab or lecture! During this episode, this panel will talk about the newly revised prep modules for A&P, Biology, Microbiology and Nutrition. This prep technology is part of your Virtual Labs license! 

The newly revised learning modules in Connect include A&P Prep, Biology Prep, Microbiology Prep, and Nutrition Prep. Each module identifies content the student knows and, more importantly, doesn’t know. Prep then provides specific learning resources that teach the concepts with which they’re struggling. 

Please join Tami Hodge (McGraw Hill Education) & Raven Brake (student at University of Missouri), as they talk about Raven's experience using virtual labs for microbiology. Raven shares a few tips and provides her perspective on virtual labs! 

Check out this syndicated podcast that was featured on the Succeed in A&P podcast and will now be featured here on Science Lab Radio!

Accessibility is one of McGraw Hill's key initiatives—and incredibly important for the future of learning. Join host Valerie Kramer and Lisa Nicks (McGraw Hill) as we talk about what accessibility means and why it's so important in everything we do.

Accessibility: When a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally integrated and equally effective manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use.—The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education

Please join Jim Connely (McGraw Hill Education) & Ian Townsend (McGraw Hill Education), as they talk about new simulations in McGraw Hill Virtual Labs. Ian Townsend gives you some quick tips and a behind the scenes about how product decisions are made at McGraw Hill. As mentioned on the podcast, please email Ian to get involved with reviewing or contributing with Virtual Labs (email: Ian.townsend@mheducation.com).

We are excited to let you know that five (5) new labs are now available for you to assign in your course. The new labs are:

• Invertebrate Dissection – Earthworm
• Invertebrate Dissection – Mussel
• Vertebrate Dissection – Perch
• Population Biology - Growth and Competition
• Plants – Transpiration

If you want to see a quick video on where to find the new labs and a preview of the earthworm dissection, click here: https://bit.ly/earthwormdissection

Please join Tami Hodge (McGraw Hill Education) & Jason Furrer (University of Missouri), as they talk about the importance of practicing lab content and skills with McGraw Hill's virtual labs. Jason talks about weaving in personal experiences (his wife is a nurse) and making sure you have time to have your students talk through things they are learning. Jason gives some solid tips to make your science course better! 

Please join Jim Connely (McGraw Hill Education) & Michael Kool  (McGraw Hill Education), as they talk about unique assessments with McGraw Hill Virtual Labs. McGraw Hill Connect Virtual Labs can be utilized in a variety of implementation models. Click here to learn from a few instructors how they have seen success with Virtual Labs!  Instructors are using the simulations in Virtual Labs as pre-lab learning experiences, so students are better prepared and more efficient for the in-person lab experience. The lab simulations are also a great resource for integrating lecture and lab topics in order to allow students to apply what they have learned in lecture to the lab simulations. Finally, the simulations in Virtual Labs provide a complete lab experience for online courses. In all of these lab implementation scenarios, instructors need different types of assessment options. In this article, you will be introduced to the different types of assessment activities available to you in Connect that accompany the simulations in Virtual Labs.

Please join Tami Hodge (McGraw Hill Education) & Heidi Smith (Front Range Community College), as they talk about the importance of a solid pre-lab approach. Moving from a print oriented pre-lab to a digital one with McGraw Hill Virtual Labs revolutionized Heidi Smith's lab. 80-90% of her students do the pre-lab work and show up the most prepared! 

Please join Jim Connely (McGraw Hill Education) & Richard Pirkle (Tennessee Tech University), as they talk about the importance of connecting lecture and lab concepts. Richard talks about how "context" helps students learn topics quicker and more effectively.  In this podcast, Richard talks about strategies in the physical lab PLUS he talks about how he uses McGraw Hill Virtual Labs with Saladin A&P Connect for the best results. 

Making Connections with lecture and lab

• Design an interactive experience that allows students to learn through doing and visualizing.
• Students appreciate applied learning and low-stress assignments, resulting in increased classroom participation and engagement.
• Authentic assignments reinforce the application of concepts learned in lecture to a simulated lab experience.

My name is Jim Connely, and I am excited to bring you the Science Lab Radio Podcast. This interview style podcast is dedicated to all things considered in the science lab. Every other week, I will interview a key thought leader in the science field. We will talk about things like:

·      Curriculum 

·      How to manage resources in the lab

·      Hitting a moving target with students & the demands of online, F2F and hybrid learning

·      Equipment opportunities or challenges

·      Specimens

·      Accessibility in the lab (online and F2F)

·      Inclusion and Diversity & what it means for our future

·      MHE Virtual Labs (where the lab is always open) 

·      Pre-Lab (reaching every student on or off campus)

·      How to bridge the gaps between lecture and lab

·      How to provide a complete lab experience for online learning 

As your host, I promise you will take valuable information and insight from our podcast shows. My goal is to have you leave energized, excited, and empowered to make your lab the best it can be! Oooh and we will have fun along the way! 

Please make sure you don’t miss any of our shows by subscribing to us via iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you consume your podcasts. 

Make it a great day!