NSF sponsored VIPEr faculty development workshop in Inorganic Chemistry. June 28 - July 3, 2015, the University of Washington. Topic: Heterogeneous Catalysis at the Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry. More Details

Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource

General Teaching Resources
158 objects

Fundamentals of Inorganic Chemistry
238 objects

Coordination Chemistry
137 objects

Main Group Chemistry
64 objects

f-block Chemistry
15 objects

Bioinorganic Chemistry
78 objects

Organometallic Chemistry
104 objects

Solid State and Materials Chemistry
102 objects

The February (and early March) Symmetry and MO Learning Object Challenge!

Submitted by Nancy Scott Burke Williams, Scripps College, Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College on February 25, 2015 - 12:50pm

Dear Friends of Viper (FoV),

What's LO?

Submitted by Flo, Slytherin' State on February 8, 2015 - 3:33pm

A ligand orbital? Lorillard Inc. on the NYSE? Some new element that a bunch of scientists made 5 atoms of that lasted 0.2 microseconds? Well, in the world of VIPEr an LO is a learning object. Great...what's a learning object? Wikipedia defines a learning object as "a collection of content items, practice items, and assessment items that are combined based on a single learning objective".

Embracing the “bewildering array of content”

Submitted by Joanne Stewart, Hope College on January 29, 2015 - 11:06am

I am now four weeks into teaching one of my favorite classes at Hope. The official name is Structure, Dynamics, and Synthesis II, but it is known to all as SUPERCHEM (cape not required)! The subject matter is symmetry, group theory, and computational chemistry.

Come on, Spring Break!

Submitted by Sheila Smith, University of Michigan- Dearborn on February 19, 2015 - 2:26pm

Here we are in the murky middle of the semester when all I can think about is a week off from teaching. Friday can’t come too soon, and then I have a week that is mine…A week to prep for ACS...Denver is coming fast. A week to catch up on grading and writing and gasp!... reading the piles of primary literature articles that I have stacked on my desk for when I have time. Time to put some of the good stuff that I’ve done this semester on VIPEr maybe? Time to plan for the summer workshop on Catalysis in Seattle?

A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words. . .

Submitted by Elizabeth Jamieson, Smith College on February 9, 2015 - 1:00pm

One of the things that we are hoping to do in our blog posts this year is to highlight some LOs on the site that we've found useful in class. I'm teaching inorganic this semester and would like to mention two LOs that I've used recently in class to help students visualize delta and lambda stereoisomers and find symmetry operations.