REWARDS AND CHALLENGES OF USING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM

Preseinted at the symposium on Rewards and Challenges: Experiences of Young College Chemistry Faculty. 216th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition. Boston 1998.

Introduction

• My Background
• About Widener

What I Teach

• General Chemistry
• Instrumental Analysis
• Advanced Spectroscopy
• Environmental Analysis

What I Did “Special”

• Multimedia in the classroom
• Web materials for course
• NMR software
• Mathcad

How I “Sold” the Teaching

• Talk to people
• Small changes
• Student evaluations

Professional Development

• Journal of Chemical Education
• NMR Concepts
• ChemConf
• Web pages

Academic Citizenship

• Presentations to administrators
• Faculty workshops and presentations
• Informal help
• Committees
• Communication with ITS

In Hindsight

• Try new things but…..
• Don’t be a “fanatic”
• Find a niche
• Talk to people
• Learn the rules of the game

Please send any comments, corrections, or suggestions to svanbram@science.widener.edu.

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