Winners of our #LearningBiology2016 contest – 3

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1st place

Submitted by: romvesen

Submitted on: Instagram

 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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2nd place ex-æquo

Submitted by: romvesen

Submitted on: Instagram

 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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2nd place ex-æquo

Submitted by: kamillalaha

Submitted on: Instagram

 
 
 
 


The third edition of our #LearningBiology2016 photo contest ended on September 15th. The awarded pictures were all submitted on Instagram. Congratulations to romvesen (1st place and 2nd place ex-æquo) and kamillalaha (2nd place ex-æquo) @Instagram who win a Visa giftcard of a value of 600 and 300NOK, respectively.

We would like to congratulate the winners and we invite everyone to send pictures to #LearningBiology2016 as the contest goes on. The next and last nomination round will occur in December 2016, so… back to your cameras and smartphones!!!

… and remember the theme of the contest: “Learning Biology”.

 

About the contest:

47 pictures were submitted by a total of 16 participants via Instagram and Twitter. All pictures eventually met the selection criteria published on the page of the contest and were examined by the jury.

Our jury was composed of 3 members:
– Jonathan Soulé, coordinator (University of Bergen)
– Anne-Laure Simonelli, co-coordinator (University of Bergen),
– Janne E. Søreide (University Centre in Svalbard).

The three factors that the jury members considered when reviewing the pictures were:
– relevance to the topic “Learning Biology”,
– esthetics,
– picture quality.

All jury members were given the possibility to vote for up to 3 pictures to be ranked from first to third. The pictures that collected at least 1 vote were nominated. 8 out of the 47 submitted pictures were eventually nominated.

The authors of the 3 awarded pictures win a VISA/Mastercard giftcard (300NOK) and will be soon contacted directly.

bioCEED seminar series – Making (use of) videos in Teaching and Learning.


Jonathan Soule - croppedRecent introduction of the concept of flipped classroom and increased use of online teaching platforms push teachers to adjust or deeply revise course material by making use of new technologies. Videos have become central in these new forms of teaching activities. Even though hardware and software for making videos are getting cheap and easily available, not everybody feels ready to become a movie maker or a movie star.

Jonathan Soulé, chief engineer at bioCEED, introduced three simple, technical solutions which are available to YOU, whether you are interested in recording your own lectures at the classroom, making video tutorials in connection to lab activities (PreLab) , making short videos in the context of flipped classroom or need to stream lectures or events.

Powerpoint presentation (PDF) available here.

bioCEED lunch seminar UNIS – Mads Forchhammer talks about how to strengthen the link between the different guest lectures and topics within a course.

Mads ForchhammerMads Forchhammer is professor in terrestrial zoology at the AB department at UNIS. He is responsible for the bachelor course AB-203 Arctic Environmental Management which is running every spring.

Mads shared his thoughts on how to strengthen the link between the different guest lectures and topics within a course that embraces a wide range of different topics as well as many guest lectures. Through his presentation he gave some good examples on how he has dealt with this.

Click on the screenshot below to watch his presentation:

Mads Forchhammers lecture