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This semester I will be trying various approaches to apply social networking to my chemistry classes. In each case i will try to start from a problem that I perceive, and then propose a social solution to this problem.
I will begin with my senior seminar class for chemistry majors. The...
Recently, in his Weblogg-ed blog, (link at http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/lifelong-teachers/) Will Richardson makes the following comments: ".......So when we reframe our goals in the classroom to include having our
students teach as a way to learn, we make an important shift, one that
we as...
I'm still trying to decide which aspects of social networking can be most useful for teaching chemistry at the college level. I found a wonderful place to start thinking about this; a website that lists dozens of different ways to use blogs. The URL is...
While at a National Meeting of the American Chemical Society several years ago, I went to hear a paper given in a symposium sponsored by one of the smaller Divisions. I was interested because the abstract indicated that the speaker was going to talk about the development of a new industrial...
I recently read the following description of a podcast on the new information literacy. It sounds as though it is in the direction I would like to follow, so I will link to it. The link is: Teaching information literacy: Who’s teaching the teachers? Posted: 07 Apr 2006 08:12:27 +0000...
So, what do I hope to accomplish by writing a blog? My basic intention is to try to understand how we can help our students at SUNY Oneonta develop a personal Virtual Learning Space (VLS) during their four years here. What are the components that should be included in a student's basic education...