Molecule and DNA Models
THis is an artist who makes small models of molecules and DNA using 3D printing technology. Science and art at the same time.
http://www.shapeways.com/shops/molecule_models?ca=email&ct=062713&cr=ds…
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Geek Chic
Benny Chan / The College of New Jersey
Mon, 07/01/2013 - 18:51
Howdy all,
Awesome time at the workshop this week. We saw an abundance of awesome chemistry, inorganic related clothing.
All of these websites were accessed on July 1
Maggie's super awesome d-orbital earrings were found on etsy, one pair left as of July 1, 2013 at 6:44 pm:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/92342046/quantum-physicschemistry-atomic-d
Two awesome heavy metal t-shirts:
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Sapling Learning Online Homework
I am planning to incorporate Sapling Learning online homework in my Foundations of Inorgnaic Chemistry class and my Advanced Inorganic CHemistry class. I've not used this program before, and am on the steep side of the learning curve. If you have an established course that I can adapt, that would be great. Also, I will be authoring questions as I need. Id love to crowd-source authoring of questions so that I'mnot just relying on my own perspective. Thanks!
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Symmetry or kinetics?
Karen McFarlane / Willamette University
Tue, 06/25/2013 - 10:06
I teach a one-semester upper-division course where, as we all know, tough decisions need to be made. I have always taught symmetry, but it has become apparent that our students enter their senior year weak in kinetics, so I am considering swapping out symmetry/group theory for a more advanced treatment of kinetics and mechanisms. This pains me, because these two topics are are two of my favories. Then again, so is everything else...
Thoughts?
Karen
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Supplemental Instruction questions
Joanne Stewart / Hope College
Wed, 06/05/2013 - 14:33
We are planning to pilot a Supplemental Instruction (SI) program in one of our general chemistry sections this fall (2013). We plan to use undergraduate supplemental instructors who will attend class and lead supplemental discussion sections for small groups of students. We are familiar with the literature on SI and we have some experience with PLTL, but we still are anxious about the logistics of setting this up.
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Favorite Podcasts?
Barbara Reisner / James Madison University
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 11:20
Thanks to everyone for the blog recommendations. I'm also looking for some good podcast recommendations for the walk to work? Do you have any favorites? Like Keith I'm a huge fan of Chemistry in its element (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/podcasts/). I'm thinking of using these when I go back to teaching Inorganic Chemistry I in Spring 2014.
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Favorite blogs?
Barbara Reisner / James Madison University
Thu, 05/09/2013 - 16:11
As I was reading Kyle's post on the conversation on the Andre the Chemist blog, that go me thinking a bit about chemistry blogs and the fact that the academic year is finally over. Does anyone have good recommendations for "must read" (or even pretty good) blogs about chemistry and related subjects? I'd like to try and get in some good reading habits over the summer.
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Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum
There is a discussion about the undergraduate chemistry curriculum in general going on over at Andre the Chemist (http://andre-the-chemist.blogspot.com/2013/05/lets-talkcomplain-about-u…), if anyone is interested in weighing in (I suggest recommending more Inorganic ;) ).
-Kyle
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Werner cobalt complexes
Maggie Geselbracht / Reed College
Wed, 04/17/2013 - 00:32
I have a 3-week lab experiment in my sophomore inorganic course that I call Project Werner, heavily adapted from Angelici's text, in which students first make their choice of 4 cobalt complexes: [Co(NH3)6]Cl3, [Co(NH3)5Cl]Cl2, [Co(NH3)4(CO3]NO3, or [Co(en)3]Cl3. In the second week, everyone carries out ligand substitution of [Co(NH3)5Cl]Cl2 to prepare the two linkage isomers of [Co(NH3)5(NO2)]Cl
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