Feeling anxious about the upcoming fall term? Not sure how to plan a course that could ping-pong between in person and remote learning? Consider adopting the flipped classroom approach, in which content is delivered asynchronously and "in class" time (whether that is in person or remote) is used for problem-solving activities.
Last week we launched a new community feature, SLiThEr (Supporting Learning with Interactive Teaching: a Hosted, Engaging Roundtable). Kyle Grice hosted this first event on converting labs to being virtual. We had a wonderful attendance, and if you weren't able to attend you can catch the whole thing on our youtube channel.
This past week at the second workshop for the Cohort 1 VIPEr Fellows we had some really great conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion. In my breakout group, one of the topics of discussion was ideas for how to make students feel welcome in our classrooms: what were the little things we could start to do that might make a big difference? One specific point a group member noted was that we all care about our students, but the students don’t always recognize that because we don’t necessarily tell them directly.
The Global Inorganic Discussion Weekday (GIDW) is a virtual inorganic chemistry symposium series organized and co-hosted by Saurabh Chitnis (Dalhousie University) and Marcus Drover (University of Windsor).
As the fall approaches, it seems more likely that there will be at least some need for virtual labs this fall. When we first faced this problem in the spring of 2020, there was a need...a need for speed. With no planning time we had to get some kind of lab experience put together quickly. You did a great job! But now that we have a little more time to think about this, you might be wondering how you can do it better.
The Leadership Council (LC) of IONiC, the online community of inorganic chemistry educators, recently published a strong statement on moving the needle with diversity, equity and inclusion in the chemical sciences.[1] The LC of IONiC wrote, “We, as inorganic chemists, come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to form one community. One benefit of the diversity is that we, by working together and learning from each other, become better educators and researchers.
A short play, by Adam, Nancy, Anne, and Barb.
We are now experiencing national and international unrest and protests against the murder of Black people by the police sparked by the killing of George Floyd less than two weeks ago.
We would like to announce our upcoming LO writing party on June 9th, from 9 AM - 6 PM (Eastern), with apologies to the
This blog post is dedicated to Prof. R. M. Waymouth on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
Sometimes authoring a BITeS is daunting because there have been so many great posts in the past. How can this one compete with the latest announcing IONiC's (award-winning!) contribution to the 2020 STEM for All video showcase or the exciting opportunity to order the new VIPEr t-shirt? Well, here's hoping that a catchy title with a This is Spinal Tap reference is enough to get you to click on "Read More."