Online Teaching and Learning Panel
August 9, 2020
Online Teaching Learn Panel
August 9, 2020
Building an Online Audience using Crowdcast & Teachable (Christine Elder, Science Educator and Visual Artist) - https://christineelder.com/
Using Free and Low-Cost Tools to Create Intimate, Sustained Learning Environments (Gretchen Halpert, Scientific Illustrator and Founder of the Scientific Illustration Distance Program) -
www.gretchenhalpert.com, www.gretchenhalpert-distanceprogram.com
Teaching with Zoom (Karen Ackoff, Illustrator and Adjunct Professor at Ivy Tech Community College) -
Little Beasts has abundant, detailed images and essays tracing European natural history’s evolution from the 15th–17th centuries. It highlights Flemish artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel’s influential work, showing how art helped document and disseminate knowledge of nature’s diversity during the Renaissance.
Welcome to the second edition of 2025! This issue highlights the breadth of contemporary natural science illustration—from personal sketchbook practice to anatomy education, climate-science communication, art history, and bioarchaeological reconstruction. Articles explore teaching comparative vertebrate anatomy online, creating effective climate visuals, understanding early natural-history illustration through a review of Little Beasts , and using illustration, genetics, and 3D modeling to reconstruct a medieval skull. Log into your account to view the Journal: JNSI 2025 Vol. 57, No. 2 Not yet a subscriber? To view the issue for free, become a GNSI member today!
Visuals as a Catalyst for Climate Science Communication - Part 1 /July 15, 2025