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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...