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Using Pre-Lecture Resources in your teaching

Using Pre-Lecture Resources in your Teaching

By Michael Seery On January 10, 2011 · 2 Comments

Much of my study on educational research this year has focussed on Pre-Lecture Resources, working with Dr Roisin Donnelly at DIT’s Learning Teaching and Technology Centre and my colleague Dr Claire Mc Donnell. I’ve turned into something of an evangelist for pre-lecture resources, so in order to spread the good word, [...]

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Podcasting and Screencasting for Supporting Lectures

Podcasting and screencasting for supporting lectures

By Michael Seery On December 12, 2010 · 2 Comments

Prompted by my visit to Edinburgh next week to the “More Effective Lectures” workshop, I have compiled several blog posts and bits and pieces of other writing into a Resource Pack that I hope might be useful to other practitioners entitled: “Podcasting and screencasting for supporting lectures“. The resource is a PDF file and is [...]

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YouTube: Acquiring a UV/visible spectrum; choosing cells and solvents

By Michael Seery On December 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This video shows how to acquire a UV/vis spectrum and demonstrates the different types of cells and solvents that can be used – showing the absorbance ranges for each.

Funding from DIT and the NDLR gratefully acknowledged.

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Demonstration of the iodine clock experiment

By Michael Seery On December 1, 2010 · 3 Comments

This experiment demonstrates the iodine clock reaction between iodide and persulfate ions, using thiosulfate as the ‘clock’. After some introduction details, three experiments are performed: studying the effect of concentration to determine the orders of reactants (3:01), studying the effect of temperature to determine the activation energy (7:47) and studying the effect of [...]

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Class Websites using Google Sites and Podcasting with Audacity

By Michael Seery On October 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This presentation is a screencast of a presentation to be presented at Chem Ed Ireland 2010. It covers:

what uses class websites might have overview of setting up Google Sites Example of a chemistry class website on Google Sites Uses for podcasting in education Overview of Audacity

This handout accompanies the [...]

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Variety in Chemistry 2010

By Michael Seery On September 6, 2010 · 2 Comments

I attended the UK Variety in Chemistry Education 2010 meeting in September at Loughborough University. Variety is always a great meeting, with lots of talks from practitioners about ideas they have had and how they got on after implementing them. This is my fifth Variety, and every year I come away with useful ideas. I’ve [...]

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Interview with John Biggs

By Michael Seery On August 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Found these on iTunesU from La Trobe University (Australia) – interviews with John Biggs (constructive alignment and problem based learning); Vaughan Prain (teaching science);  Chris Scanlan (New media for journalism students); Lorraine Ling (future of education). Nice, listenable, relatively short podcast interviews.

Link to Biggs interview is here – this will open iTunes [...]

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Periodic Table of Videos

By Michael Seery On March 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This is a really wonderful resource from the University of Nottingham. There is a video for each element showing its reactivity (or not), with demonstrations and insight into the underlying chemistry. The real star of the show is the wonderful Prof Martyn Poliakoff, below.

He offers in his unique way, insight into each of the [...]

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Some Literature on Podcasting in Education

By Michael Seery On February 26, 2010 · 1 Comment

This post summarises a mini-review on recent literature on podcasting and learning in the higher education context. Along with the journal article title, a brief annotation is provided. I have previously written about Gilly Salmon’s wonderful book Podcasting for Learning in Universities” which has lots of examples on implementation of podcasting in practice. [...]

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Book Review: Podcasting for Learning in Universities

By Michael Seery On February 26, 2010 · 1 Comment

Gilly Salmon and Palitha Edirisingha (eds), SRHE/OU Press 2008, reprinted 2009.

I really liked this book, or at least the parts that I read. As with anything by Gilly Salmon (or Gill e-Salmon as I like to write her), it is pragmatic for the practitioner but based in research, without the research being [...]

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