Dr. Christine O’Connor, DIT, summarises her talk at the recent Irish Variety in Chemistry Teaching meeting: As a novice to podcasting I delivered this talk based on my own recent practitioners’ experience on getting started with developing and uploading podcasts for student use. As an introduction, I distinguished between Podcasting (which is audio track only) [...]
May 302012
Stephen McClean (s.mcclean AT ulster.ac.uk) School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, BT52 1SA UK. Introduction Video is now becoming an increasingly popular medium to demonstrate scientific techniques or experiments as evidenced by such initiatives as the Journal of Visualised Experiments (www.jove.com). The popularity of video sharing sites such as You Tube and Vimeo [...]
Clickers are most commonly used in large classes; however they can also be used, with care, in the laboratory. Clickers can provide an immediate and tangible change to the way the students currently engage with the laboratory session. Clickers can be integrated at every level of the laboratory.
A review of the medicinal chemistry videos by Prof David Smith, York.
The following describes what I do for a semester 1 module. It works well for me and the technician, and my 2nd and 3rd year students see the benefit. It has taken a few attempts to iron out problems, but is now working well. I adapt the strategy for the follow on semester 2 module (more of that again..) In short, I put the students in charge…