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CONFCHEM Session 8 -- MSDS -- hyperglossaries -- Moodle -- podcasting -- blogs -- wikis -- more!
by Bob Hanson 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

We are now concluding the seventh session of the Spring 2006 CONFCHEM conference on Web Based Applications in Chemical Education. Thanks and applause to Will Polik and Jordan R. Schmidt (Hope College), Julie Haack (University of Oregon) and Irv Levy (Gordon College) for their fine contributions. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to this conference -- authors and discussion participants. After this final session this coming week we will have a day or two of wrap-up discussion, and then we will be done. So, now on to our LAST SESSION! <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/#session8> For this session, three papers will be discussed concurrently: 8A: Improving safety comprehension through hypertext: the MSDS HyperGlossary, Robert Toreki (Interactive Learning Paradigms, Inc.) and Robert E. Belford (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#toreki> 8B: Teaching chemistry with Moodle, Fred Senese (Frostburg State University) <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#senese> 8C: Expanding the role of the organic chemistry teacher through podcasting, screencasting, blogs, wikis and games, Jean-Claude Bradley (Drexel University) <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#bradley> Our authors this week: Rob Toreki lives in the beautiful rolling hills of eastern Kentucky where he is president of the online companies Safety Emporium (http://www.safetyemporium.com) and Interactive Learning Paradigms, Inc. (http://www.ilpi.com) Prior to these ventures, Rob was a professor at the University of Kentucky. Bob Belford is well known to all, I am sure, as conference co-organizer with me both for this conference and the upcoming BCCE conference symposium with the same name <http://introchem.chem.okstate.edu/conference/symposium.php?id=7>. Bob has taught at community colleges in Arizona and New York, was a visiting Assistant Professor at West Virginia University and has just recently accepted an Assistant Professorship at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has developed a variety of server side and client side web based applications and has strong interests in green chemistry. Fred Senese is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Frostburg State University, in Frostberg, Maryland. He is known widely for his popular textbook, "Chemistry: Matter and Its Changes" now in its fourth edition, with coauthor James Brady. Fred has also authored extensively on the web, including especially his "General Chemistry Online!" <http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml>. Jean-Claude Bradley is Associate Professor of Chemistry and the E-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University in Philadelphia. His main objective is enabling faculty to incorporate high impact e-learning tools into their teaching using strategies that require little time or effort. Jean-Claude has been podcasting his own lectures in organic chemistry since February 2005 and last term started vodcasting them so that students can view them on their video ipods. Reports of his work and findings can be found at his blog <http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.com/>. In addition to e-learning, Jean-Claude works on a variety of chemistry-related projects involving nanotechnology as well as projects relating to doing open-source science, with a focus on malaria. Please join me in welcoming these authors [applause]. Please take a look at these papers and over this coming weekend address your short questions for the authors to CONFCHEM(a)clarkson.edu with a subject beginning with "CONFCHEM 8A" or "CONFCHEM 8B" or "CONFCHEM 8C". Full discussion will resume with the authors' replies to these short questions early next week. For those of you not yet subscribed to the CONFCHEM mailing list, it's STILL not too late to join us. See <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#brief> for brief instructions. Bob Hanson Bob Belford

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CONFCHEM Session 3
by Bob Hanson 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

We are now concluding the second session of the Spring 2006 CONFCHEM conference on Web Based Applications in Chemical Education <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#sessio…>. Please join me in a round of applause for Robert Lancashire and for the Jmol team and all those who participated in this past week's excellent discussion, which can be accessed in full at the CONFCHEM archives <http://majordomo.clarkson.edu/archives/confchem/200605/>. Clearly we have many exciting applications of JSpecView and Jmol to look forward to in the near future. [applause] Today we start Session 3. <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/#session3> Two papers will be discussed concurrently: 3A: ChemPrep: Self-paced OWL preparation for first semester general and organic chemistry, Beatrice Botch, Roberta Day, William Vining (University of Mass Amherst) <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#botch> 3B: BestChoice, a model for interactive web-based teaching, Sheila Woodgate and David Titheridge (University of Auckland) <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#woodga…> Please join us in welcoming these authors: [applause] Beatrice Botch <http://www.chem.umass.edu/Faculty/botch.htm> is at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she was the Director of the Chemistry Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts for over a decade, and is presently the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the department, in addition to her ongoing teaching duties as Lecturer. She received the 1998-99 College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Outstanding Teacher Award and was the Project Director of the National Science Foundation sponsored Northeast Regional Molecular Modeling Workshop held from 1994 to 1998. Current interests include the development and dissemination of OWL - Online Web-based Learning, an electronic homework and tutoring system for general chemistry. Roberta Day is a professor emeritus at U Mass, where she has received honors for her outstanding teaching. She is co-principal investigator on the ChemPrep grant. David Vining <http://www.chem.umass.edu/Faculty/vining.htm> is a professor of chemistry at U Mass. His principal interest lies in developing and testing educational materials and methods for chemistry. He has coauthored several outstanding CDs that include hundreds of videos and animations, interactive simulations, tutorials and exercises. Sheila Woodgate <http://www.che.auckland.ac.nz/staff/staff.aspx?staffid=36> is a Senior Tutor at The University of Auckland in New Zealand where she has taught first year Chemistry since 1977. She has had a long-standing interest both in instructional design for lecture-based teaching and in facilitating learning using computer-based activities. Her work designing a DOS-based interface and populating it with content laid the foundations for BestChoice, the student-friendly interactive learning system that she has designed for the web. David Titheridge, a graduate chemist who is currently doing honours in theology, has done all of the programming for the BestChoice student interface, editor and reporting system, contributing significantly to the design of all of these. Please take a look at these papers and over this coming weekend address your short questions for the authors to CONFCHEM(a)clarkson.edu with a subject beginning with "CONFCHEM 3A" or "CONFCHEM 3B". Full discussion will resume with the authors' replies to these short questions early next week. For those of you not yet subscribed to the CONFCHEM mailing list, it's not too late to join us. See <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#brief> for brief instructions. Bob Hanson Bob Belford

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