350: TWiM Goes to College

About this episode

Nancy and Maggie discuss their creation of a freely available ebook of TWiM-based science literacy resources and classroom exercises.

Nancy and Maggie join TWiM to share how and why they created a freely available ebook of TWiM-based science literacy resources and classroom exercises that support teaching across key microbiology and molecular biology topics. Become a patron of TWiM. Links for this episode: Podcast annotation and resources in microbiology (Iowa State U) Curriculum guidelines for undergraduate microbiology (ASM) Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission. Send your microbiology questions and comments to twim@microbe.tv

People in this episode

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Nancy, Maggie

Topics covered

• science literacy
• microbiology
• molecular biology
• education
• ebook resources

Keywords

• microbiology
• science education
• classroom exercises
• ebook
• TWiM

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Iowa State U, ASM

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