Hello everybody,

The Institute for Learning and Teaching conference was an amazing success! The team received very positive feedback from many of the audience one of which was a member from the E-Learning group at the University of Northampton, they have provided us with some useful advice on how we can develop our tool further. We would like to thank all of those involved in #NLTconf15 for a most enjoyable day.

Much of the team’s success was also published on twitter with many kind words spoken, as such;  

Hello all, we are now at the stage where the media content (images and video footage) has been recorded by the photography members of the project team. Tom and Maurice (computer sciences) are busy integrating them into our demo test site on NILE to ensure students get a high quality learning experience. Here are a couple of preview images of our student actors being recorded whilst doing the practical work as well as some of the scientific equipment being filmed. Keep logging on to get further updates.

Hello everyone,

We have submitted an abstract for consideration to the Institute of Learning and teaching annual conference in May. If successful we will be sending representative presenters. We have generated a list of multi-media media content which we will convert into interactive content and embed it into a NILE test site. This will be linked to our work developing the interactive elements of e-adventure and the generation of avatars to provide an engaging learning environment.     

Hello everyone, we are pleased to report the following progress that has been made; All chemicals and reagents have been ordered and received. This means that we are now in a position to replicate practical laboratory experiments in order to produce multimedia content. We are finalising the sequence and exact nature of the multimedia content to be implemented in DNA-Fc. The junior researcher and computer programmer on the project have met to discuss the practical nature of the learning material and how software can be developed to bring advanced interaction to specific areas of DNA-fc. An abstract is currently being prepared which will be submitted to the School of Education teaching and learning conference which takes place in May 2015.

Happy new year to you all! Over the Christmas break we have all been very busy identifying aspects of the DNA-Fc we can adopt to create a more user friendly interface. Following our meeting today we can confirm the following updates; the ethics form has been amended and will be submitted to the ethics committee in the near future. The learning content including the practical methods to be used has been explored in detail and the format of DNA-Fc is now beginning to take shape. Finally the biologists will provide a f2f demonstration of the practical learning so the computer scientist members of the team can better appreciate the nature of the practical content we are trying to transfer to the virtual space. We look forward to updating you with further developments. 

Hello everyone as promised here is a glimpse at some of the additional resources that will be generated through DNA-fc. This link will take you to a brief overview of plasmid recombination, inserting a vector, enjoy.

http://youtu.be/8rXizmLjegI

Hello everyone, we are very excited to present the first official progress post keeping you up to date with what is happening. After our meeting today we can confirm that the preliminary ethics proposal is almost complete, with just some minor adjustments to be made. Secondly there has been some progress in the time framework in which work will be carried out and lastly an exhaustive array of internet links have been organised, some of which will be embedded in our flipped content. An example of this will be added to the blog shortly.