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

Dear Colleagues,

Does anyone have any good strategies for teaching MO theory?  I am teaching an inorganic course with juniors and seniors. My approach has been to have them review basic MO theory from general chemistry, then go into the ligand group orbital approach for polyatomics. If you have ideas, please let me know.

Do any of your schools give faculty teaching credit for doing undergraduate research? It seems like some of you have a required senior thesis and you get some credit for supervising some number of those.

Are there any other ways you're "rewarded" for supervising undergraduate research?

Dear VIPEr Colleagues,

Has anyone prepared a powerpoint (5 slides about) focused on the basics of CV? I have never taught this topic, nor did I learn about itin graduate school. If I did, I don't remember. I am thinking about talking about this in my inorganic class. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sibrina

Our CIO just announced a request for proposals from faculty exploring the use of an iPad in teaching.  The carrot here is an iPad for the faculty member!  I love thinking about better ways to use technology in helping me improve my teaching and helping my students advance their learning.  And a "free" iPad wouldn't be too shabby either.  :-)

OK....I'm sure this has probably been discussed before but.....

For our General Chemistry Laboratory, we required the students to keep a detailed notebook (including a pre-lab, experimental work and a post-lab) that is submitted for grading each week.  The notebook constitutes the vast majority of the assessment of the student's work in the laboratory (we require three abstracts the first semester.....three abstracts and three introductions the second semester....etc. and those are also graded but probably constitute less then 10% of the overall grade in lab).

Does anyone know of good chemical drawing software for inorganic chemistry.  In the past I have used ISIS/Draw, however with a change to Windows 7 I tried to download Symyx Draw 3.3.  I cannot figure out how to input NH3 for an ammine ligand.  I have also tried ChemSketch.  Unfortunately I cannot figure how to turn off the charge function.  The program insists on changing NH3 to NH2 and if I force it to NH3 it includes a positive charge on nitrogen (and puts a negative charge on my metal center with NH2).  Any help either with these programs or another free/shareware package is greatl

Dear VIPEr Colleagues,

good text.