11.2 Activity - Next Steps

11.2.1 Introduction

Congratulations on completing your research project! Take a moment and reflect on all that you’ve accomplished during this semester, especially those of you for whom this was your first research experience! Did you experience all the ups and downs of the research project from coming up with a research idea hypothesis, dealing with unexpected set-backs, and discovering something new?

We’ll wrap up here with several next steps including completing feedback to improve the next offering of this course, researching opportunities to do more science, exploring communities where scientists openly share insights, and optionally sharing more work.

11.2.2 Activity 1 – Complete Feedback

Estimated time: 15 min

11.2.2.1 Instructions

Help us improve this course! If you’re willing to have your feedback used in an official educational research survey, you will need to use a pre-authorized survey link from C-MOOR. Either way, your instructor will connect you to any feedback form.

11.2.3 Activity 2 – Research Opportunities

1. Knowing what you know now about research, what related skills are you interested in developing further and why?
Your text here:


2. REU – Which NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program would you attend and why?
a. Overview – https://www.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/reu/students
b. Search – https://www.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/reu/search
- Consider filtering by Research Area (e.g. Biology)
Your text here:


11.2.4 Activity 3 – Explore Communities

Estimated time: 15 min

11.2.4.1 Instructions

Spend a little bit of time browsing communities that discuss genomics, data analysis, and more. Paste the URLs for a couple of posts that you find interesting with a brief comment.

11.2.4.2 Questions

  1. Specialized Communities
  1. SEQanswers: the next-generation sequencing community
  1. Biostars: bioinformatics explained
Post URL of interest for Specialized Communities and your comments here:


  1. General Communities
  1. Reddit: The heart of the internet
  1. Twitter/X: It’s what’s happening
  1. Bluesky: Social media as it should be
Post URL of interest for General Communities and your comments here:


11.2.5 Grading Criteria

  • Download as Microsoft Word (.docx) and upload to your LMS (Blackboard, Canvas, Google Classroom) or refer to your instructor’s choice.

11.2.6 Footnotes

Resources

Contributions and Affiliations

  • Valeriya Gaysinskaya, Johns Hopkins University
  • Frederick Tan, Johns Hopkins University
  • Sayumi York, Notre Dame of Maryland Univeristy
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