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Monday, February 07, 2011

Post-Mortem of ChemInfo Retrieval class FA2010

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In the fall of 2010 I taught Chemical Information Retrieval at Drexel for the second time. Here are some things I learned. 1. Needed a new...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Faculty Showcase talk on Smartphones, Wikis and Games for teaching and ClickTiles

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On November 12, 2010 I presented on "Using Smartphones, Wikis and Games for Teaching" at the Drexel Faculty Technology Showcase . ...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Villanova Talk on Technology and Students

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I had the pleasure of presenting a talk on "Technology and Students - Mix, Match or Miss?" at the Villanova Teaching and Learning ...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Education 2.0: Leveraging Collaborative Tools for Teaching

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On March 25, 2010 I presented at the Drexel E-Learning 2.0 Conference on " Education 2.0: Leveraging Collaborative Tools for Teaching ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Post-Mortem of Cheminfo Retrieval class FA09

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In the fall of 2009 I taught Chemical Information Retrieval at Drexel as sole instructor for the first time. Last year Kevin Owens showed ...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

VLC saves the day - iTunes RIP

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My first organic chemistry class ( CHEM242 ) took place on Monday. That was the introductory lecture where I explained how my online-option...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Social Anxiety Disorder Counseling in Second Life

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On September 29, 2009 Erica Yuen defended her masters thesis on using Second Life as a platform to perform counseling with people suffering ...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

My interview on Learning and Teaching at BCIT

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Tannis Morgan just posted her interview of me on her blog: Learning and Teaching at BCIT . The 13 minute audio recording covers how my tea...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Spring 2009 term post-mortem of CHEM 241 orgo course

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Another term at Drexel is over. Following my previous post-mortem analysis for the winter 09 term here are some thoughts about how things ...
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Saturday, May 02, 2009

Second Life and Lucid Dreaming

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I have been fortunate throughout my life to have had lucid dreams on a fairly regular basis. This is an extremely interesting experience o...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Chemistry in Second Life April 09 Talks

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Update: the recording is now available here Andrew Lang and I just did two presentation on applications of chemistry in Second Life. The f...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

FriendFeed and Second Life chemistry networking assignment

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This term I am teaching introductory organic chemistry ( CHEM 241 ). As an extra credit assignment, students had to use FriendFeed and Sec...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Winter 09 term post-mortem: SpectralGame implementation

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Our winter term at Drexel just ended. Following up on my previous post-mortem analysis , here are some observations from having taught Orga...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

Web based Spectra Game

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Yesterday I used the NMR game in Second Life during our 2-hour Friday workshop in CHEM242 . (We used a new location on Drexel island SLURL...
Saturday, February 07, 2009

NMR game on Second Life

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Andrew Lang and I have been discussing publishing our work on chemistry and Second Life. We're working on the draft here . When going...
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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Opening Up Education Review in Nature

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My review of the new book " Opening Up Education " has appeared in Nature today [ Bradley, J.-C. Nature 457 , 151-152 (8 January ...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Can the success of Scientific Blogging be measured?

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Timo Hannay recently gave a talk "Scientific Researchers and Web 2.0: Social Not Working?", which is reproduced in this Nascent b...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Future of Education Room in FriendFeed

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I have created the FriendFeed room Future-of-Education as a means of gathering and sharing information about the future of education to ass...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Chemistry Search at Drexel

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The Department of Chemistry at Drexel University is seeking an outstanding candidate for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Happy Accidents: A Must-Read for Open Scientists

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I usually limit my book reviews to Goodreads or Shelfari but this one deserves much more attention. In Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Mod...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Einstein Rejected Peer Review

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According to Silvan Schweber (page 9 of Einstein & Oppenheimer ): By 1930, every European scientific journal would automatically accept ...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Demographics of Organic Chemistry on YouTube

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I was just looking at the YouTube Insight feature showing demographic and access info on my uploaded videos. Since I use my YouTube accoun...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Spring 2008 post-mortem on organic chemistry courses

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It has been 2 terms since I posted a post-mortem analysis of my teaching experience. In the Winter08 quarter I taught intermediate organic...
Monday, June 23, 2008

New Communication Channels for Biology Workshop

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I'll be attending the " New Communication Channels for Biology " Workshop at UCSD on Wednesday. It looks like it will be very...
Friday, May 09, 2008

SciFoo 2008

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Just got my invite for SciFoo 08 (August 8-10) - I look forward to another intense meeting and catching up with friends and collaborators! ...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

My Interview on Rod's Pulse Podcast

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Rodney B. Murray interviewed me last week for his educational podcast: Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of Chemistry...
Monday, May 05, 2008

X2 Project

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I was asked by the Institute for the Future to highlight a dozen "Signals" that may point to new trends in science as part of the...
Friday, May 02, 2008

Chemical Heritage Foundation Talk

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Earlier this week, I attended the LISE08 conference at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. The theme this year was New Media...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Scholar2Scholar Conference Tomorrow

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The Scholar2Scholar conference is upon us. Jay Bhatt and Anita Chiodo did an amazing job with organizing this from the start. I'll be...
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Monday, February 25, 2008

NFAIS 2008 Sunday afternoon

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Yesterday afternoon I attended the NFAIS conference in downtown Philadelphia. The talks were actually very engaging. First up was David We...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Scholar 2 Scholar Meeting at Drexel

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I am co-organizing the Scholar 2 Scholar conference with Jay Bhatt and Anita Chiodo on the morning of April 16, 2008 at Drexel University i...
Monday, February 18, 2008

Open Medicine Editorial

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The Journal " Open Medicine " has published a very thoughtful editorial on " Open science, open access and open source softwa...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Virtual Poster Session on ACS Island

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The American Chemical Society will be offering a virtual poster session in Second Life from selected posters at the Sci-Mix session taking...
Monday, February 04, 2008

Chemical Heritage Foundation Podcast

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Drexel Island and my teaching of chemistry on Second Life is covered in a recent Chemical Heritage Foundation podcast " Distillations ...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Campus Technology Articles about Teaching in Virtual Worlds

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Linda Briggs wrote a nice article in Campus Technology about using Second Life to teach and highlighted the chemistry application that I us...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

Fall 2007 Post Mortem - the Closed Book Problem

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Another quarter done at Drexel and it is time for a brief post-mortem analysis of my teaching this term. I taught CHEM 241 , introductory o...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Virtual Biomed Workshop on Second Life

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On Friday November 30, 2007 I was part of a panel for a Virtual Biomed Workshop at Drexel. I gave a little tour of Drexel Island . My acc...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Chemistry Assignments in Second Life

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This term, the students in my organic chemistry class were presented with an opportunity to do an extra credit assignment using Second Life...
Sunday, December 09, 2007

Nature's Role in e-Science Talks

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Berci Mesko will be moderating a session on Nature's Role in e-Science on SciFoo Lives On (in Second Life ) tomorrow Monday December 1...
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