Hi all,

A quick introduction.  I am a part-time assistant professor at DePauw University, where I teach various levels of college students.  My training is protein crystallography, but I have been a chemical educator for a long time (and getting longer by the year, sigh).  I also volunteer and teach a chemistry II class at our local high school, so I interact with a wide range of levels during a typical day.

Dear Colleagues,

Dear Colleagues,

I will be teaching our one semester Inorganic course (with lab) in the Spring for the first time.  I am working on the lab syllabus and would love to know your must-do/favorite/fail proof (ha) experiments.  I've gotten a few good ideas from those posted to the forums, but am interested in hearing about some of the classics on your syllabus as well.  What experiment(s) do you do that students get the most out of?  What experiment(s) do they enjoy the most? Thanks. 

Hello all,

I am teaching a thrid year inorganic course and want to teach some IR basic using symmetry and character tables.

I would like to go over generating  Reducible representations and then use the reduction formula based on the character table to get to the irreducible representation.

I am using Housecroft and Sharpe's Inorganic Chemistry Text book, 3rd edition and they do cover this topic a little bit, biut I was wondering if anyone knows of other more comprehensive resources with further examples and explanations.

Thanks.

Here's another older poll on VIPEr that is probably invisible to most users (since it does not appear when you look under Polls on the left nav bar):  Do you teach Tanabe-Sugano diagrams to your undergraduates?  I'm curious to see more VIPEr users vote in this poll and post a comment to stimulate more discussion.

Cheers,

Maggie

Some of our older polls on VIPEr are not listed under the Polls nav bar on the left (an artifact of a change in the poll feature).  In particular, a poll I started awhile back after getting into vehement arguments with fellow pit VIPErs on the correct pronunciation of the name of the Group 16 elements.  This poll has been featured on the front page of VIPEr for awhile and has gathered a fair number of votes (at least as far as our most successful polls go).  I thought it was time for a change, time for a new poll to be featured on the front page.  But, I did not want to lose

Hello Everyone,

How many of you use ACS exams as part of your inorganic course? How are they being used? (part of the exam, interspersed, as model for your own questions etc) I am new to teaching and is currently teaching Inorganic 1 at a small(er) state college. Any advice on this would be much appreciated!

Thanks.

Chinhin