Join me for one of my courses at the University of Florida!

  • Research Skills with Arduino and R (Spring 2019)
  • Data Collection with Open Technologies for Reproducible Research (Fall 2020)
  • Animal and Ecosystem Microbiomes (Spring 2024)
  • Ecology of the Microbiome (Fall 2024)
  • Ecology portion of Intro Bio BSC2011 - 900 students! (Spring 2025)
  • Population and Community Ecology portion of General Ecology (Fall 2025)
  • Animal and Ecosystem Microbiomes (Spring 2026)
  • Ecology portion of Intro Bio BSC2011 (Spring 2026)

WEB APPS FOR TEACHING

I’m always pushing myself to learn new methods and try new ways of teaching. As part of the General Ecology course, I’ve begun developing web apps to help reinforce concepts from my lectures. I’ll give a lecture, then the students will break up into groups and use the web app to reinforce concepts discussed in the lecture. These web apps are either simulations, games, a choose-your-own-adventure style app, or a quiz/review type app. Here is my curent list based off my lectures. Feel free to use them, modify them, or take them and customize them for your own ecology course. They were made with various coding tools (Lovable.ai, Google Gemini, Claude Code, Perplexity.ai). Most of them run great on mobile screens…so students can be studying for the exams and reinforcing concepts while using their phone and waiting for the bus between classes….etc. All…are a work in progress.

Class at UF

Class in Kericho

Class in the field in Kenya