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,

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

The Periodic Table and the Aufbau

A group of us at Earlham College will be teaching a seminar (1 credit, both semesters) for an interdisciplinary group of first year science students involved in a science themed Living Learning Community.  Our general goal for the first semester is to help them develop the interpersonal, collaborative and technology skills necessary for success in science.  We've joked that the course should be titled "Playing Well in the Sandbox with New Toys."  For example, we might introduce them to googledocs, google+, and the infamous doodle poll.  We might encourage teamwork and teach GIS, GPS, and Go

Colleagues,

I hope all is well. I am thinking about bring some rhenium chemistry into the inorganic lab.  I could have the students prepare [ReO2(py)4]Cl and characterize it using IR,NMR, UV-vis. What are your thoughts on this idea? This complex is really easy to make starting with [ReOCl3(PPh3)2] and excess pyridine. You let it reflux in acetone/H2O for 90 minutes.  I thought about this because [ReO2(py)4]Cl is actually a starting material for my research efforts.

Sibrina