Hello VIPEr Colleagues,

I hope all is well. I wanted to share an idea I had today. Some of you may be aware that I published an editorial a few years ago in Chemical and Engineering News entitled "African Americans and Science." (The link is below.) Well, I decided to post a link to the article on the homepage of my inorganic course and encourage my students to read it, because honestly I want to know what the students think about it. But, I thought it was a good way to begin celebrating Black History Month.

Dear VIPEr colleagues,

Dear VIPEr Colleagues,

I would like for someone to look over a couple of experiments I am planning to do in my inorganic lab in the spring semester. The first lab is the synthesis of copper(II) glycinate monohydrate and the second focuses on [ReO2(py)4]Cl.2H2O.

Thanks,

Sibrina

I am concidering  putting portions of my lectures online for my students to review prior to class.  I would assign this as homework.  I might try this with a discussion of Wade's Rules.  I would spend the class time doing examples instead of trying to cram in the basics and examples all at once.

I was wondering if anyone has tried flipping the class and had success.  I would like to hear the details of what topics that you have tried and how you did it (what was on the online lecture and what was done in class).

Thanks,

Mary

Dear Fellow Chemist,

Just a comment... I really like having the CC licenses from LOs on the assignments I hand out in class. It's a great way to interject the importance of citing other people's work and it's yet another example of the collaborative nature of science. Having these on assignments to my seniors lets me reinforce some of the things we discussed on Lit&Sem. It's great that everyone is getting credit for their work, but it's also great that we can provide such a good example for our students.

Colleagues,

Chemical and Eng. News has some new Research Case Studies that perhaps would be useful for teaching intro level courses. See the link below.

http://pubs.acs.org/page/cenear/case-studies.html

Sibrina