Second Life in Chemistry Education LISE08

Slide 1: Using Second Life in the Chemistry Classroom The 8th Annual Leadership Initiative in Science Education (LISE 8) Chemical Heritage Foundation Jean-Claude Bradley E-Learning Coordinator College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor of Chemistry Drexel University April 29, 2008

Slide 2: What is the role of a chemistry teacher? Produce chemists by any means necessary!

Slide 3: View vodcasts on iTunes or on a video iPod

Slide 4: Natural migration from F2F to screencast/podcast channels 90.00 80.00 70.00 60.00 50.00 %subscribed CHEM 241 40.00 30.00 %attend 89 students 20.00 10.00 0.00 1 50 99 60.00 50.00 40.00 30.00 %subscribed CHEM 243 20.00 %attend 64 students 10.00 0.00 0 50 100 150

Slide 5: Teacher as a Learning Catalyst Use class time for workshops and assign recorded lectures  Be present while students do problems, watch lectures, play games, use Second Life  Discuss extra credit assignment on Second Life  Address technical implementation on their laptops  Small groups or one-on-one

Slide 6: Student Blogging

Slide 7: Student assignments on a wiki

Slide 8: Student assignment on NMR using live research data and JSpecView

Slide 9: Games on a TabletPC: Wheel of Orgo

Slide 10: EduFrag Maze (without weapons)

Slide 11: EduFrag Unreal Tournament (with weapons)

Slide 12: Quiz Obelisks in Second Life (Eloise Pasteur)

Slide 13: Student Assignments in Second Life

Slide 14: Flying Around on a Molecule

Slide 15: SMILES, InChIs and InChIKeys: the new language of chemistry

Slide 16: Visualizing NMR spectra on Second Nature Island

Slide 17: Interacting with NMR spectra (JCAMP-DX)

Slide 18: Talk to the spectrum: zoom 2.1-2.3 (Andy Lang)

Slide 19: Docking Demonstration on Drexel Island

Slide 20: Enoyl Reductase by Peter Miller

Slide 21: Avidin: From PDB file to…..

Slide 22: Avidin 3D structure in Second Life (Andy Lang)

Slide 23: Imine Formation Mechanism: talk to the molecules!

Slide 24: Indexing Molecules on SecondLifeMolecules.wikispaces.com

Slide 25: 3D Periodic Table (ACS and Andrew Lang)

Slide 26: Faculty “Offices” on Drexel Island

Slide 27: Bradley Lab on Drexel Island

Slide 28: Posters on Second Nature – with Bells

Slide 29: Conferences on Second Nature

Slide 30: ACS Island Kate Sellar (Finola Graves) Andrew Lang (Hiro Sheridan)

Slide 31: ACS Headquarters

Slide 32: ACS Landmarks

Slide 33: Virtual Poster Area

Slide 34: Nanotubes and Felicene

Slide 35: Resident Chemist Program: Hinestroza Lab

Slide 36: Rosania Lab

Slide 37: Party in the ACS Geodesic Dome! 13:30 EDT May 6, 2008

Slide 38: Summary • Use wikis to organize content and to interact with students on assignments • Use Second Life to stretch student and teacher imagination – and encourage networking • Use multiple channels to deliver content and assess learning • Most of these technologies are simple, free and hosted