Villanova Talk on Technology and Students

I had the pleasure of presenting a talk on "Technology and Students - Mix, Match or Miss?" at the Villanova Teaching and Learning Strategies Symposium on May 13, 2010. Topics covered included screencasting, wikis, games and Second Life, with a particular focus on student response to these technologies.

My host, Carol Weiss, did a fantastic job of putting together a panel afterward with several students and myself to discuss educational technology with the Villanova faculty. Everyone seemed to genuinely want to find better ways of teaching and learning while expressing a healthy skepticism of new technologies. I agree that there is no panacea in this field but there are some tools that can be very useful for certain educational objectives. I tried to show them what kind of approaches have worked for me and how students have responded.

Technology and Students: Mix, Match or Miss?

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Chemistry Wide Open Column

I now have a column on ScientificBlogging.com called Chemistry Wide Open.

As you may guess from the title, I'll be discussing issues related to chemistry and Open Science. The challenge here is to post for a more general audience but I'll likely repost or restructure selected content from my blogs, mainly from this one and UsefulChem.

But who knows? Maybe there are some hard core organic chemists on there that might appreciate some NMR problems. We'll see from the comments what makes sense.