Open widdowquinn opened 10 months ago
Suggestions for first confidence-building examples that would integrate well with the BM327 lab that the students complete 1 week before this workshop: The students will have looked at the following strains grown on nutrient agar plates and performed Gram stains on the following organisms: Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus sp.
They have also, at this point, experience with streaking different Staph strains on blood agar as a differential medium (haemolysis) - though they haven't yet seen the results from those plates.
That's the list of organisms we'd need to help with #10 as well.
In the 2024-01-25 presentation, it was clear that most of the class finished within 70min, for a planned 120min session.
In addition, the initial workshop exercise starts students with a difficult case: Brucella and Ochrobactrum so they have at least three cognitive tasks: understanding and learning how to use the tools; understanding and learning how to interpret the output of the tools; interpreting tool output in the context of Brucella/Ochrobactrum classification.
This is possibly too many things at once, and extending the introduction to the workshop may help in at least two ways.