Have you even seen people wearing one of the cool IONiC VIPEr Organometallica shirts and said, wow, I really wish I had one of those? Now is your chance. To cellebrate this awesome community and how we were able to get through this past semester we have designed new shirts. This is a group order through Custom Ink so you can place your order, pay for it and get it shipped directly to you. The price depends on the number of orders, so hopefully it will come down even more. Time is limited, the order closes on May 31st, so order now.

We are very excited to share IONiC's work in the 2020 STEM for all Video Showcase! Check out our video “Come for the content, stay for the community" to learn how we are focusing on community to support faculty change. 

Have you heard of LibreTexts? It’s a growing Open Educational Resource (OER) platform that hosts OER across the undergraduate curriculum, especially chemistry!

Last July, an excellent BITeS post by Jeff Raker (read it here) gave us permission to change the courses we teach. Little did he know that in March 2020 we would find ourselves compelled by overwhelming exernal forces to rapidly evolve our lecture classes and labs into an online format.

As pretty much all of us have been doing over these last couple of weeks, I've been re-imagining what my classes will look like now that I'll be teaching remotely. I've wondered how we'll manage general chemistry labs, whether or not summer research will happen, and how I should be assessing students during this time. One thing that has helped tremendously - being in touch with colleagues - not just at my own instituion but from all over the IONiC community. 

Greetingsssss all,

As colleges and universities move to limit person-to-person contact at this time I have had several people on- and offline ask me about teaching remotely. There are a number of threads on Twitter that I've scanned but to be honest, I've been so busy trying to figure out what I'm planning to do that I decided to just type up some thoughts and hopefully people can chime in with their own comments.

The cyclical nature of academia means that the time of change is upon us. This is the season where some may be looking for a position, some may find a new position, and some may even lose a position.

Just a reminder that some big IONiC VIPEr events are coming up in the next month or so.

The Philly ACS has been cancelled. We are looking into alternative options for doing virtual presentations.

Who among us hasn't filled up one to two (or more) pages with a teaching philosophy statement???

Whether for job, tenure, promotion, or award applications, preparing a teaching philosophy statement is a time honored tradition in academia. Buzz words are incorporated, descriptions of what we and our students are doing are included, and each statement is tailored in some way to the application guidelines.

But what if there were extreme contraints on the statement?

What if you had to capture the essence of your approach to teaching?