Using Labbuddy in the lab classes of the
course Food Chemistry
Julia Diederen, Laboratory of Food Chemistry
Activities in the course Food Chemistry
2nd year Bachelor course
▪ Lectures / knowledge clips
▪ Exercises (digital)
▪ Calculation cases
▪ Lab classes
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Principle of the lab classes:
Giving students responsibility
Lab classes start with a list of assignments
Assignments give students the goals of the experiments
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Principle of the lab classes:
Giving students responsibility
Lab classes start with a list of assignments
Assignments give students the goals of the experiments
▪ For each assignment student choose which method they need to perform
▪ Students make their own work-flow in ExperD
▪ Student plan the experiments
▪ Each student write his/her own report
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Schedule of Lab classes
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Day Activity
Thursday Make work-flow in ExperD
Friday Answer pre-lab questions in WebLabManualCheck work-flow with supervisor
Monday–Friday
Experiments
Monday–Friday
ExperimentsFinished: Start writing
Monday–Tuesday
Writing
Wednesday Peer-review
Friday Review report with supervisor
Preparing: Pre-lab activities
1: Making the work-flow in ExperD
● Students know the assignments (goal)
● Students know why they perform the methods
2: Pre-lab questions
● Students understand the steps of the methods
● Each method has pre-lab questions
● Need to be answered for chosen methods
● Some include movies of known “problems”
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Making experimental work-flow (ExperD)
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Pre-lab questions: prepare mode
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During the lab classes
▪ Students use ExperD:
● Overview
● Communication
▪ Student use WebLabmanual
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