The teaching of spectroscopy can be a complex and challenging task. The Royal Society of Chemistry has been developing online resources for a number of years that provide access to analytical data as well as interactive quizzes and challenge sets. The RSC data repository houses over 250,000 spectra at this time including mass spectrometry, NMR and IR data and these are utilized to provide online games to test students capabilities, to underpin the SpectraSchool training website and to produce source data for students and teachers alike to use in their teaching and self-training efforts. This presentation will provide an overview of RSC resources that can be used to teach spectroscopy using our online data and tools.
2. Spectroscopy on the Internet
• There are many resources available online:
• Presentations, tutorials and guidance
• Tables of information
• Spectral data for download
• RSC is working hard on Spectroscopy data,
platforms and tools to support teaching and
provide data
3. RSC Spectroscopy Resources
• Presently available:
• LearnChemistry and the LearnChemistry wiki
• ChemSpider
• In Development
• RSC Data Repository
47. Where can SpectralGame Go?
• We are interested in supporting extensions
and enhancements to SpectralGame
• More data required….our spectral data
repository can host it
• Hosting assigned spectral data and using in
SpectralGame makes sense!
• And what about educating/testing students as
they do real time assignments?
57. Invitations
• Spectral data are welcomed from associated
syntheses, lab experiments etc
• Upload structures, spectra, analyses etc to
ChemSpider to share with the community
• Use www.SpectralGame.com and encourage
your students
58. Acknowledgments
• Alexey Pshenichnov - SpectraSchool
• Aileen Day and Martin Walker – Learn
Chemistry Wiki
• Jean-Claude Bradley, Andrew Lang, Robert
Lancashire, Kevin Thiesen (ChemDoodle) –
SpectralGame
• Depositors of data – there are many!
59. Thank you
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