Yesterday was another good day for me at BCCE. Here are some nuggets: SEE-I Technique: this can be utilized in chemistry to provide students an opportunity to clarify and explain their understanding of a concept. The “-I” part is the…
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BCCE: Day 1 Recap
While not always in realtime (thank you Google Docs offline!), you can follow and ask questions/post comments on my notes from the BCCE conference here. Day 1 was short, but pretty good. While all of the sessions I attended didn’t…
BCCE Bound!
Over the next several days, I will be attending the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education held this year at Penn State. This is the second time I've attended this conference. It's a great opportunity to comment with chemistry teachers and…
Exploring Vernier LabQuest 2 (and Juice)
We’ve used Vernier probes and LoggerPro frequently in our classes for years, usually using a computer/LabPro interface to collect data. We of course always get good data, but the limiting factor is always the computer, as boot up/login time on…
New Year, New Classroom
Well, sort of. While I like to think of my classroom as student-centered, for the past two years, I’d been teaching in a classroom that looked like this: Pretty much everything but the desks and the chemicals are bolted to…