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Posted Jun 29
Dear all,
I would like to publicize several outreach and educational materials related to understanding animal sounds that may be helpful for your teaching.
We have developed SoundLab, a free web tool for recording and analyzing acoustic signals and visualizing spectrograms: https://soundlab.sciencemusic.org/. In contrast to other available tools, the fact that this is free and web-based means it can be implemented in classrooms where software downloads are not possible (e.g. many K-12 settings). It has quite advanced capabilities including automated detection, sound analysis and graphing. It would be a good addition to any courses on animal behavior or communication.
In addition we have launched a 3 lesson unit called Balancing Act aimed at high school biology students that teaches about biological trade-offs, animal behavior and bioacoustics, and is freely available here: https://teach.galacticpolymath.com/units/en-US/14 It includes great footage of our research in action.
All of these were developed with the support of NSF (CAREER grant 2339824) and in collaboration with Galactic Polymath Education Studios https://www.galacticpolymath.com/.
I hope that you find these resources useful and we would love to hear your feedback.
Best wishes,
Michael Reichert
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Oklahoma State University
524 Life Sciences West
Stillwater, OK 74078 USA
https://reichertlab.com/
I would like to publicize several outreach and educational materials related to understanding animal sounds that may be helpful for your teaching.
We have developed SoundLab, a free web tool for recording and analyzing acoustic signals and visualizing spectrograms: https://soundlab.sciencemusic.org/. In contrast to other available tools, the fact that this is free and web-based means it can be implemented in classrooms where software downloads are not possible (e.g. many K-12 settings). It has quite advanced capabilities including automated detection, sound analysis and graphing. It would be a good addition to any courses on animal behavior or communication.
In addition we have launched a 3 lesson unit called Balancing Act aimed at high school biology students that teaches about biological trade-offs, animal behavior and bioacoustics, and is freely available here: https://teach.galacticpolymath.com/units/en-US/14 It includes great footage of our research in action.
All of these were developed with the support of NSF (CAREER grant 2339824) and in collaboration with Galactic Polymath Education Studios https://www.galacticpolymath.com/.
I hope that you find these resources useful and we would love to hear your feedback.
Best wishes,
Michael Reichert
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Oklahoma State University
524 Life Sciences West
Stillwater, OK 74078 USA
https://reichertlab.com/
