BIOL 451

This course is actually two courses in one – half of the course deals with animal cell culture, and the other half deals with plant tissue culture.

In both cases, this lab focuses on the establishment, maintenance and subculture of different types of cell / tissue culture. In the process, students develop some of the basic skills needed to work in such labs in the future.

Since this is a senior-level course, in addition to the actual practical work, we will be developing some basic data analysis skills.

Examples of resources I’ve prepared for this course:

Laboratory Manual

A collection of H5P-based activities prepared for this course: https://www.lrnbl.com/artifacts/plant-tissue-culture-pre-lab-exercises/

Playlist of video materials I have prepared for the course:

A taste of the future

Because this course presents me with some special challenges, I’ve always wanted to try something different. Here is a brief explanation of my challenge and potential solution: https://www.lrnbl.com/artifacts/3d-video/

Below is a sample unedited test video, which makes use of the camera system similar to the one I had built and showed in the above-linked page.

Unfortunately, YouTube doesn’t seem to support this format the way it did several years ago (when I first came across this as a possibility). I did however come across a different way of doing this, in an even better way, using a different camera format (VR180).

I recently purchased a VR180 camera and have been working on a designing a good workflow, and finding and fixing potential problems.

A couple of test videos are shown below:

This first video introduces the idea of the VR180 video to be used in the lab. The second video will give you “a feel” for how I plan to use this technology to enhance the student experience.

Please scan this QR Code to view this video in the YouTube app on your mobile phone or tablet. It will give you a better idea of why I think this technology could be very good for this type of lab.

Please scan this QR Code to view this video in the YouTube app on your mobile phone or tablet. It will give you a better idea of why I think this technology could be very good for this type of lab.

  • If you’re using the YouTube app on your mobile device, then please move your device
  • if you’re using a desktop computer to view the video, then please use your mouse to move the video
  • if you’re using a VR headset (or a Google Cardboard headset), then feel free to just look around