Hi everyone - can anyone tell me when the ACS-INOR subdivision of  Sustainable Energy & Environment was established? It looks new. I like to start out the semester with a little history and frame the field as it is.

I am just starting teaching our 2nd semester Advanced Inorganic chemistry Course.  Essentially, the only information I received from my predecessor is that we use Miessler and teach chapters 10,11, 12,13, and 14.  I have the slides from the publisher.  Students have all had P.Chem. and the first semester Chapters 1-9 and are mostly seniors.

In my senior level inorganic lab, I've tried to incorporate full semester research projects.  Since I love synthesis, I have tended to assign synthetic projects.  Students have learned a lot during these experiences, but there are the obvious challenges of multistep synthetic work in a 3 hour a week lab. I'd like to try to develop projects that are more mechanistic in nature, but am struggling to come up with ideas that are both compelling and achievable.  We will be working in lab this spring with social distancing and some restrictions, but should be able to do all the things we normally

Hello! Maia Popova (https://chem.uncg.edu/person/popova/) and I (https://chem.wisc.edu/staff/pazicni-sam/) are putting together an NSF IUSE proposal to investigate student learning of molecular symmetry and how classroom practices influence this learning. We would greatly appreciate if VIPEr members would consider one or both of the following requests:

Hi Everyone!

Hi All,

Our first SLiThEr (Supporting Learning with Interactive Teaching: a Hosted, Engaging, Roundtable) was a success. The topic was teaching lab online with little prep time.

If you didn't get to attend here's the link to the recorded video.

Also, there is an upcoming SLiTher scheduled for this thursday. It will be about teaching a traditional lecture course online and we hope you can come join the discussion! 

Here's the registration link

I'm looking for reccomendations for affordable and versatile web cams that would capture verything from written text on a whiteboard to color and phase changes in an Ehrlenmeyer flask.  Suggestions for products that have worked for you would be very much appreciated as I gear up fast for an entire online Inorganic Chemistry experience.   Thanks! 

Dear Colleagues,  

I am trying to find some unprocessed NMR data that can be used by students in TopSpin since it is free and students could access it remotely.  If anybody has any FIDs for the following and would be willing to share, I would greatly appreciate it:

Greetings!

With everyone going to forced online teaching - 

Does anyone know of a good free source for *interactive* virtual labs for intro organic chemistry?  Such as soap synthesis? Phenacetine synthesis?

Also - good video for those labs would be very helpful....

Does Anyone have experience with Labster? 

Thank you so much.

-Anna Larsen

Hi all!

My university (University of Portland) is going to online teaching, likely for the remainder of the semester (though they haven't said that). I am wondering if any of you have good resources for an online or virtual coordination chemistry lab. I have seen a lot of great worksheets and activities that would work well for lecture, but I am hoping to find something for students that would be more like a lab. Perhaps a simulation that involves changing ligands and seeing how that affects UV-vis spectra? I appreciate any suggestions, resources, etc!