Re: Confocal and Widefield microscopy training material

Posted by Niyanta Kumar on
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Thank you Neftali, Kathy, Sylvie, and Steffen for the suggestions and excellent training resources to go through! Much appreciated 😊

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Hi Niyanta,

I have collected a few resources on our website, so that I can refer our users to it more easily. This is at https://www.bioimaging.bmc.med.uni-muenchen.de/learn/
Have a look at "Educational Websites" and "Materials for teaching".
Maybe you find something helpful. The listed page from Australia (was mentioned by others too) contains a quiz that you can take, and you can print out a certificate if you answer 8+ of 10 questions correct.

As in terms of hands on training, we start with a 3 h introduction session for up to 3 people. Usually with our samples, for two reasons.
First, we want the user to pay attention to the microscope and software, not on the biological content of the images we make. Second, this way we can be sure that the sample is all right and we don't have users with crappy samples blaming it on the microscope. I agree with others that after 3 hours it makes no more sense, brains are full.

Next we do a 'guided session' with the user's sample that we accompany until the user is getting good results. This is 1:1. Depending on sample difficulty, prior knowledge and user talent we sometimes have a third session.

I am impressed by Sylvie's approach, but I doubt our group leaders would be willing to come up with so much money for training. Some think what we do now is already too time consuming (but most are happy about it).


Steffen

Am 11.10.2019 um 21:59 schrieb Niyanta Kumar:

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> Hi all,
> Can someone suggest any existing resources and formats to pull from
> for designing new and advanced user trainings for confocal and
> widefield microscopy? I need to design trainings for a Zeiss LSM 980
> Airyscan 2 confocal and an Axio Obsever widefield scope. Interactive
> resources or existing quizzes that can ensure users know what they
> need to would also be helpful.
> Thanks,
> Niyanta
>

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