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E-learning (dis)traction

By Michael Seery On June 14, 2011 · 6 Comments

I think the start of my teaching career coincided with the rise of the VLE. Early on, I remember being told about these new learning environments and the array of tools that would help student learning. Encouraged, in the nicest possible way, to upload material and use the institution’s expensive new toy, many lecturers complied [...]

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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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Iodine Clock – Pre-Lab Activity

By Michael Seery On December 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This is an Articulate interaction which incorporates video demonstrations the various aspects of the iodine clock experiment and then has a quiz towards the end. This could be used as a pre-lab activity, where students could print out their response to the quiz and bring it to the lab, or alternatively link the quiz to [...]

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Teaching Fellowship Launch Presentation

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

The DIT 2010-2011 Teaching Fellowships were launched on 23rd September 2010, and each recipient of a Fellowship gave a presentation on the work they plan to do. It was really nice to see what others plan to do; there was a lot of variety and a lot of overlap at the same time. My presentation [...]

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Pooling data across the lab means that students will quickly observe any differences in their experimental data

Pooling Data in the Chemistry Lab

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

This article considers the concept of pooling experimental data in the teaching lab. It’s a very simple but effective technique that I have used, both in low-tech and high(er)-tech versions. Some observations from my own experiences as well as some examples from the literature are presented.

What is pooling data?

Pooling data, in the sense [...]

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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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VLEs: Are they dead or not?

By Michael Seery On April 2, 2010 · 11 Comments

In our first week of our Trends in E-Learning module, we’ve been looking at the VLE is dead debate. The seed for discussion was Martin Weller’s blog post (now over two years old) which makes the valid point that there are several independent third party (free) applications out there that address most if [...]

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