EAGER: US Ignite: Digital Tele-Microscopy in Support of Teaching Biology

本项目探索如何通过实时高等级视频将大学微生物学家和研究级显微镜带入课堂，从而丰富高中生物教育。研究级显微镜有各种技术，通常不提供在高中课堂上的仪器。诸如相位对比、微分干涉对比等技术使学生们能够看到生物的细节，否则他们是无法看到的。专业的微生物学家能够对标本提供专业的评论，并在对话中回答问题，丰富学生的经验，激发他们的发现感。该项目使用千兆网络和超高质量视频将研究仪器和研究人员带入教室。该项目将南加州大学的研究设施与查塔努加公立高中STEM学校联系起来。该项目的技术将允许南加州大学的研究人员将活的生物标本放在南加州大学开发的显微镜下，并捕获微生物的超高分辨率（4k）电影，同时从显微镜系统向学生传输实时的高清图像。它利用了查塔努加部署的全市千兆网络。该项目为那里的学生提供了与另一个大陆的科学家合作的独特机会。

This project explores how to enrich high-school biology education by bringing university microbiologists and research-grade microscopy into the classroom via real-time, high-grade video. Research-grade microscopes have a variety of technologies not normally available in high-school classroom instruments. Techniques such as phase contrast, differential interference contrast, and others make it possible to see details in living organisms that students would not otherwise be able to see. Professional microbiologists are able to provide expert commentary about specimens and answer questions in dialogues that can enrich student's experience and excite their sense of discovery. This project is using gigabit networks and ultra-high-quality video to bring research instruments and researchers into the classroom.The project links research facilities at the University of Southern California with the STEM School Chattanooga, a public high school. The project's technology will allow researchers at USC to place live biological specimens under a USC-developed microscope and capture ultra-high resolution (4k) movies of the microorganisms while simultaneously transmitting live, high definition images from the microscope system to the students. It takes advantage of Chattanooga's deployment of a city-wide gigabit network. The project provides students there the unique opportunity to collaborate with scientists a continent away.