{"id":6620,"date":"2014-10-10T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emblog.embl.de\/ells\/?p=6620"},"modified":"2014-10-10T17:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:02:38","slug":"log2embl-26-biology-teachers-explored-virtual-research-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/2014\/10\/10\/log2embl-26-biology-teachers-explored-virtual-research-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"log2EMBL: 26 biology teachers explored virtual research institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emblog.embl.de\/ells\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/log2EMBL-Poster_ELLS_LLAB_Heidelberg_0914_V4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5476\" src=\"http:\/\/emblog.embl.de\/ells\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/log2EMBL-Poster_ELLS_LLAB_Heidelberg_0914_V4.png\" alt=\"log2EMBL Poster_ELLS_LLAB_Heidelberg_0914_V4\" width=\"262\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n26 German secondary school biology teachers gathered at EMBL Heidelberg last week to attend the LearningLAB <a title=\"ELLS LearningLAB, 29.-30. September 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/emblog.embl.de\/ells\/events\/learninglabs\/ells-learninglabs-2014\/ells-learninglab-29-30-september-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Log in to Science \u2013 Forschern auf der Spur: Forschungssimulation\u00a0am Beispiel der Eisenspeicherkrankheit (H\u00e4mochromatose)&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; a joint CPD course\u00a0organised by ELLS, the out-of-school lab ExploHeidelberg, and the Regierungspr\u00e4sidium Karlsruhe (regional administrative council).<\/p>\n<p>Over\u00a0two days, teachers had the opportunity to explore the virtual research institute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.log2embl.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">log2EMBL<\/a>\u00a0which<span class=\"st\">\u00a0has been developed by teachers, students and ELLS staff as part of the Robert Bosch Stiftung-funded iNEXT (interactive Network for Experimental Training) project. iNEXT has been\u00a0a 3-year project to develop and disseminate state-of-the-art resources for teaching molecular biology at the advanced level in German schools (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inext-embl.de\">www.inext-embl.de<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\"> The virtual research institute log2EMBL is a platform\u00a0to offer inquiry-based research projects for students. It enables students to actively participate in an interactive research simulation which can be integrated in\u00a0their school biology curriculum.<\/span>\u00a0As part of the LearningLAB, the enthusiastic participants received an introduction into handling the web-based aspects of the institute and also got the chance to get their hands wet in a laboratory experiment investigating the genetic basis of the hereditary disease haemochromatosis. The programme was complemented by an expert presentation on <span class=\"st\">haemochromatosis and a visit to the EMBL Genomics Core Facility &#8211; the EMBL in-house genomics services centre.\u00a0The course was co-facilitated by a teacher who was involved in developing the haemochromatosis project in log2EMBL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 German secondary school biology teachers gathered at EMBL Heidelberg last week to attend the LearningLAB &#8220;Log in to Science \u2013 Forschern auf der Spur: Forschungssimulation am Beispiel der Eisenspeicherkrankheit (H\u00e4mochromatose)&#8221; &#8211; a joint CPD course organised by ELLS, the out-of-school lab&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-6620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6620"},{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=6620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}