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Homework
I sent out homework today. I’ve been working on the pre-consultation worksheet that will guide the mandatory consultation I have with all the students in my grant writing course. Last year I was involved in this course, but as a last minute instructor and the dates available had to be worked out on the side, making the session optional. This year, I am a embedded instructor and as such, I am taking full opportunity to act as one. I had my lecture a few weeks ago about different resources, tools, and methods for searching. The students are required to write the specific aims, background, research methodology, and rationale for an…
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Day in review Jan 19, 2016
I still haven’t gotten used to typing 2016 yet. I’m keep catching myself and having to correct. As predicted, the year started out running. I just had my first instruction session today. This course is part of COM, which has been hard to get traction from. But I was remembered and included this semester. This is a grant writing course that runs grad students through the process of writing for NIH. I am listed as an instructor rather than a guest lecturer, so I took advantage of that by assigning students out of class work. We’ll be having one consultation to make sure they are on track for finding literature.…
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First orientation with data managment done
Today is the first of a series of orientations. My colleges are in session and classes start on Monday. I have spend some serious time since RDAP thinking of how to incorporate an introduction to data managment into their sessions. Conceptually I thought this was important because I wanted the seed of these practices, and the ways we could support them in this effort to be there in the begining. The harder part was figuring out what to cut. I already have a full plate with a basic orientation to accessing materials, and I usually hit PubMed pretty hard since that is their main database. Typical session send them thorugh a…