I arrived on Genome Island standing in the water by this map.
Gene pool?
There is a very big model of a cell.
The external membrane is transparent; we are inside, and can see out as well as seeing the parts of the cell.
I believe there is more active teaching going on here than anywhere else I've been.
This sign is near the giant cell. The yellow cube floats and rotates, and when you click on it (or one of its fellows), it gives you instructions for how to do something in SL. I learned how to zoom my camera out much farther than I had been able to using other tools I know about.
Excellent.
The SL hints are great, but as you would guess the real teaching focus is on genetics.
Here we see two of a group of student project boards.
Interesting how coat color can come with various and sundry other issues.....
Back to the teaching. How could we have Genome Island without Mendel's peas?
The teaching here is much more interactive than I have seen in some other places. You click on things, and get (visible) data about what happens next in whatever sequence of events you are studying.
An excellent large animated art piece. All of this was swirling around and changing color.........
Can you see that the sign says "Human Genome"? The chromosomes were labeled, but the labels did not photograph. Our friends X and Y are on the right. Poor old Y is not only ... short ... but looks rather ... simple.............
I hadn't been thinking of myself as uninformed on this topic, but I was struck by how little I know as I explored this island.................
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