Bioscience 3: The Hitchhikers' guide to Biosci 3

Introduction

Every time I write a course (I wrote much of the Blackboard material that you used in semester 2 of year 1), I end up getting the quality education. I learn far more than anyone who just does the course! What can we do about this? Well, the obvious thing would be for you to write the course…

“Oh, but…” I hear you cry. Well, of course, if you could write the course, would you need to do the course? OK, don’t panic, I didn’t mean without help or structure. Last year, you had a load of resources on Blackboard. It would be good if we could all work towards having something like that. We will all work together to create your own resource, to revise from. Now, it doesn’t need to be perfect, and ‘we’ includes me. I probably have access to some pictures/materials that you don’t. I will certainly be providing direction, what to study, what to include, how far to go, and I can tidy things up (although one of you may prove to be good at this). We will talk about this more when we meet up in March (9-12am Friday 13^th, I think!).

I need you to start using the blog. Last year, I think people got lost and couldn’t find things they needed to read/do. So I am going to try and hang everything on the course blog. Later we can pick off the bits we want and put them together how we want. This means that you need to find the blog (would you be reading this if you hadn’t?), read it regularly, and do what it says. This will include reading, researching, and posting responses in the form of ‘comments’. I need to know that you can all do this. For reading, I will need to guide you within the textbook. The page numbers are very similar in the 7th and 6th editions, but as you go through, the 7th edition gets 1 or 2 pages ahead. By the very end it might be 5 pages ahead of the 6th edition. So I'd like to know which edition most people bought.

What to do

Step 1: Find the blog for Bioscience 3 and read it. Put it into your RSS feed.

Step 2: Find out how to add comments. Add a comment to the “Hello and Welcome” post. Introduce yourself by giving your name (I can tick off that you’ve done this) and telling us something about you.

Step 3: Add a comment to this post, telling me which edition of the text book you have – probably either 6^th or 7th (if you don’t have a copy, tell me that and explain where you can get access to one, to read).