Writing Machines is the course website for English 170L at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
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Submitted by marmalade on 1 November 2006 - 2:32pm.
So this came up in my biochem class--A new permutation on the blog, it's called Adopt A Microbe. There's a microbe of the day... every day... with some funny pictures, pertinent facts, and (yes) even the opportunity to leave your own comments.
Shock and Awe brought up the question of education through play--what works and what doesn't (there was some neologism that applies here that I'm not remembering). Well, here's an example that I think turned out pretty well. I'm not sure how many first graders are tuning in to hear about the legionella pneumophilia or some other disease-related organism every day, but I find this a lot more of a fun, science-y related site that (oh, just for instance) Planet Jemma. And full of a lot of actually useful information.
Plus it's sort of a cool way to use the blog.
So, check it out--the pictures are especially fun for those (like me) who have short attention spans ;).
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Cool! Have you ever read Lynn Margulis? An old favorite of mine is, as listed by Amazon,
Garden of Microbial Delights: A Practical Guide to the Subvisible World by Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis (Hardcover - Sep 1, 1993)
It's got tons of pictures and instructions on care and feeding of a whole lot of things too small to see.
so cute
This blog is so cute and fun. I've never been a science person but I'm sure that, when I was in science class way back when, I would have loved it.
oh my goodness! i just
oh my goodness! i just squealed like a teenybopper from the late 1990s! those little microbes are so adorable! i think classrooms should really adopt these "fun" approaches to science. like tophat1 says, if my teachers chose to teach me science using colorful smiling germs, then i'd have warmed up to it more, and there might've been a chance that i went on to become a mobio or chem major instead of an english major, and then maybe i'd know what i was doing with my life...but then that's another story that i won't go into.
but thanks! this was too cute!