Winter 2005 CONFCHEM	Trends and New Ideas in Chemical Education An on-line conference, Jan.-Feb. 2005
	Papers and Schedule	Brief Instructions	Discussion Archive: Jan / Feb / Mar

Introduction

This conference will highlight several recent and emerging trends in chemical education. The schedule below lists the dates that each paper will be discussed. Monday is reserved as a reading day. Participants should send short questions to the author(s) via confchem@clarkson.edu on Tuesday. Authors will respond to the questions by Wednesday morning, and the paper topic will then be open for general discussion.

The conference organizers and presiders are:

Brian Tissue           and      Donald Rosenthal
Department of Chemistry         Department of Chemistry
Virginia Tech                   Clarkson University
Blacksburg VA 24061             Potsdam NY 13699-5810
tissue@vt.edu                   rosen@clarkson.edu
540-231-3786                    315-265-9242

Papers & Schedule

Paper 1 - Send short questions Jan 18, Discussion Jan 19-21

"Projecting Computer Generated 3D Molecular Images in a Chemistry Lecture Hall"
Joseph Grabowski*
Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
*joeg@pitt.edu

Paper 2 - Send short questions Jan 25, Discussion Jan 26-28

"Peer-Led Team Learning: Promoting Conceptual Understanding and Reasoning Ability"
Mark S. Cracolice* and John C. Deming
Department of Chemistry, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812
*mark.cracolice@umontana.edu

Paper 3 - Send short questions Feb 1, Discussion Feb 2-4

"Using Just-in-Time Teaching in the Organic Classroom"
Colleen A. Fried*
Department of Chemistry, Hiram College, Hiram, OH 44234
*friedca@hiram.edu

Paper 4 - Send short questions Feb 8, Discussion Feb 9-11

"OpenSpectrum: A wiki-based learning tool for spectroscopy that anyone can edit" / (PDF version, 40 kB)
Stewart Mader*
Instructional Technology Group, Emerson College, Boston, MA 02116
*slmader@gmail.com

Paper 5 - Send short questions Feb 15, Discussion Feb 16-18

"IR Clickers and ConcepTests: Engaging Students in the Classroom" / (PDF version, 1.1 MB)
Margaret Asirvatham*
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
*asirvath@spot.colorado.edu

Paper 6 - Send short questions Feb 22, Discussion Feb 23-25

"Remote NMR Instrumentation in the Undergraduate Organic Laboratory"
Robert M. Hanson*
Department of Chemistry, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057
*hansonr@stolaf.edu

Open Discussion - Feb 26-Mar 2

Brief Instructions

There is no registration fee for this on-line conference. On-Line discussion will occur via the CONFCHEM Majordomo e-mail list. To subscribe to the CONFCHEM Majordomo, send the following command:

      SUBSCRIBE  CONFCHEM  your-name  <your e-mail address>

in the body of an e-mail message to MAJORDOMO@CLARKSON.EDU.

Note that your e-mail address must be bracketed by < and >. You will receive a confirmation email with more instructions. Other instructions, such as unsubscribing from the list, are on the subscribing page.

• For further details about this symposium contact the organizers listed above.
• For CONFCHEM Majordomo problems contact Donald Rosenthal (rosen1@clarkson.edu).
• For problems with the CONFCHEM webpages contact Brian Tissue (tissue@vt.edu).
• For more information about CONFCHEM see the home page: http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem/.