Chemistry Workbooks & Other Changes

Significant changes are due for the Spring 2010 chemistry students. Wonderful feedback has shown ideas that worked during the fall semester and ideas that failed. I appreciate everyone’s positive and negative feedback. I look forward to implementing these changes in hopes more students will be able to grasp the chemistry concepts covered during the school [...]

Classroom upgrade

Moodle 2.0 is in beta release but I’ve decided to attempt an installation and determine whether some of the new features would be helpful to students. I started the installation at 9 pm Saturday but have stalled the installation until php 5.2.8 is installed. This may take some time. I’ll update this post when the [...]

CHEMvideos

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The enhancement to the wiki has always relied on YouTube or another video storage site in order to provide videos. While this is a nice feature, being able to upload videos from our own lab activities or videos of the PowerPoints is much nicer.
The domain CHEMvideos.com was registered the other day and several test runs [...]

TCB Virtual Classroom

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The chemistry virtual classroom is now available to students in period 2 and 4. Registered students are able turn in their assignments into the drop box for grading. Instead of printing the problem sets and reading guides, students are completing the work on a Tablet PC or netbook and turning in the digital copies.
Teaching Assistants are also [...]

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