Appendix 1: Posting to the E-‐Notebook Hello and welcome to the Dynamic Genome course. In this course students will be using an
iPad in place of a traditional notebook while working in the lab. This user handbook should act
as a resource for correctly posting to the notebook and when encountering common problems.
Startup
After each student has a personal account set up they should login the electronic notebook and
explore the interface. The first page to load is the Course Book.
Notice the following:
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On the right side of the notebook there are various helpful links including a link for the
“Course Book” , “Notebook Entries” and others.
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At the top of the site by the W icon are the headings “My Sites”, a chat bubble and “+
New”
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My Sites- directs the student to all the available sites within the Dynamic
Genome network.
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Bio20 Spring 2013- directs students to the “Dashboard” which acts as the main
hub of activities that can be completed while using the site as a notebook. When
accessing the dashboard, students will be automatically be brought to their inbox,
in which the instructors can leave messages.
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chat bubble- will show the comments of the user.
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+ New- See Posting below for more information.
Note: After posts have been submitted, the most recent posts will be shown on the left hand
side of the notebook and older posts can be viewed by scrolling down.
Posting Of course the feature on the site used the most is creating and editing “posts” that are entries in
the notebook. All posts will require instructor or teaching assistant review before becoming
public (Posted). Once a post has been accepted it can no longer be modified. Therefore,
understanding the process is very important. Follow the following steps:
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Click on Bio20 Spring 2013
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Click on Dashboard. There are a series of small icons in the left side of the
webpage (a house, a tack, a camera, a chat bubble, piece of paper, etc)
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Click on the tack icon
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Click on “Add New”
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The page should look like a blank email document. This is where posts will be entered.
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Below the text box see a box labeled “Easy Content Template”. Within this box is a scroll
bar titled “select template.” By clicking on this scroll bar select the template designed for
the current experiment.
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The “Categories” text box below “Publish” is also important for maximum organization.
Click on all of the categories that apply to the current post being completed. Also,
students should create a new category with their full name. This new category should be
selected each time a post is submitted or saved.
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Select the “Tags” that describe the entry.
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Fill out the template (purpose and procedure, calculations to be put into a table, etc)
using the course book as a guide. Wherever there are brackets around a word such as
[Plant Used] insert the specific plant being worked with.
10 SAVE THE TEMPLATE by clicking "Save Draft", NOT the “Submit for Review”, in the
box below the template entitled publish. This is extremely important. Unsaved templates
before going into the lab will be blank and will the information entered will not be
available for reference while in the lab.
11 Go to the lab and start working!
12 After the lab, finish the template by going to all posts, clicking on the template currently
being completed and then clicking edit. After finishing data entry (including images) and
the conclusion, click "Submit for Review" to publish the post. This will submit it to the
instructors for review. As a note, posts can continue to be edited until they have been
graded by the instructor. Also, preview the post by clicking "Preview" on the publish box.
E-‐Notebook Requirements For full credit on each e-notebook entry, you must complete the following before the experiment:
1. Date of the experiment
2. Purpose
3. Method
4. Appropriate Categories and Tag selected
And after the experiment is done and data are collected complete the following. Additional data
may be provided on iLearn.
1. Include labeled gel image:
a. Ladder sizes indicated
E-‐Notebook Guidelines b. Lanes labeled
2. Answer the questions in the “Analysis section”
3. Write a brief summary that includes
a. Re-state why you did the experiment.
b. State the results.
c. State the conclusions you made from the data.
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