I have compiled a set of favorite resources
Blogs
A blog that follows BBC’s World Have Your Say (WHYS). WHYS is global conversation that starts with topics chosen and guided by BBC contributors and employs all available technology to keep the “programme” as open as possible. Applicable to biology teaching, since all species affect each other, and humans have responsibility to learn about and improve the world.
Beginning as a discussion of “pseudoskeptical arguments from those who have trouble accepting reality” it then morphed into an almost exclusive forum for climate change. “Class M” in trekky refers to planets identified to support life and civilization. Parent blog, ScienceBlogs features a dropdown menu with links to about 60 science blogs.
Companion site to DNAi Web site, an free online teaching community where one can create personalized web pages with their Lesson Builder tool. Blog topics are searchable by topic and date. Originates in Cold Spring Harbor, Maine, site of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories famous for James Watson and Francis Crick’s DNA research.
A site originating in the Northeast US and maintained by Ms. Baker and her high school biology students. They blog about anything related to biology. One must register as a guest to blog here.
From Yavapai College online guidelines to the Tool of the Month, this blog is handy for ideas, refreshers, and the 57 Second Blackboard Tip of the Week that can be put right to use.
Links
A consortium of natural history and botanical libraries working together to digitize and bring biodiversity literature into an open access form. It acts as the foundation of literature for the Encyclopedia of Life. Items can be viewed as complete works in many formats.
Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Teaching and learning resources from federal agencies including animation, primary documents, photos, and videos. Almost any topic you can imagine is available here.
From the Accidental Mine to Young’s Farm. Good, zoomable topos, with roads, trails, and boundaries, of sites we might want to explore.
Full episodes and educational resources by title animal, and topic.
I keep up to date with this premier science journal.
USGS Real-Time Water Data for the Nation
Real-time data recorded at 15- to 60-minute intervals in graph and table formats. Subscription to emergency notifications, such as during floods, is available
Wikis
A place for analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement. Content includes analysis of media coverage of these topics. Incorporates pseudoscience, politics, Conservapedia, science, religion, and fun & recipes portals.
A stunning example of how a wiki can coordinate with environmental science courses. The RiverRidge courses integrate online environmental units with collaborative field research. Research destinations include Costa Rica and Nova Scotia. Upon return from the field component, students spend several weeks constructing a Research Wiki
A database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. Content by topic, location, author, type, license, and source. Features include “Meet our Photographers” and an invitation to name “unidentified objects.”
A free, easy-to-use species directory, including all domains of life. Includes vernacular names in dozens of languages. Now integrated with ZooKeys and PhytoKeys, peer-reviewed, open-access, rapidly produced journals aimed at freely exchanging ideas.
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