Going online to enhance face-to-face teaching describes a move towards a flipped philosophy, where the students is at the centre.

1. #ivice14
Going online to
enhance face-to-face
chemistry teaching
Dr Simon J Lancaster
S.Lancaster@uea.ac.uk
@S_J_Lancaster
www.chemistryvignettes.net

2. Is it time to stop being so
precious about the content of
our degrees and our
relationship with and
ownership/authorship of that
content?

3. Flipping Roles
 Vignettes
 Twitter
 Open Educational Resources (OERs)
 The Question
 Chemical Concept Inventories

4. ‘Screencast’?
 A screencast is a recording of the evolving
image on the screen during a presentation
synchronised with the speaker’s audio
narration.
 We record using Camtasia Studio but
other solutions are available.

5. ‘Vignette’?
 A vignette is a short segment of a
screencast covering a critical concept
which may be augmented by an
interactive component introduced during
the editing process.

6. The Scenario
 Synoptic final examination questions.
 Formative revision peer presentations and
handouts.
 Require students to produce vignettes.
 Interactive revision tools available at time
of examination.

12. Support

13. Student authored vignette

14. Uptake
When was the exam?

15. Evaluation quotes
 “Thought about information
in a different way when
preparing interactive
questions”
 “You can add more to existing
presentation which is good”
 “Made you go over material
you might have forgotten”
 “Had lecture notes and
additional material
(narration)”
 “Highlights key areas”
 “No experience made
preparation difficult”
 “Students don’t have a lot
of time to do it. Takes
longer than actual
powerpoint”
 “Need more Camtasia
experience/easier
software”
 “Very good revision tool if
a lot of effort is put into
producing it”
 “Quality may differ and
affect revision – can’t rely
on them”

16. Peerwise

17. Cooperative sourcing through
Twitter
1. To keep in touch with the subject / education community.
Networking!
2. To facilitate your life. Plugging into the net.
3. To provide a novel and very immediate means of
communication with students over a particular topic or
module. Building a Network.

18. @CHE2C32:
Supporting a Module Example tweets from @CHE2C32 :
 "Super-toxic" dimethylmercury is this week's Chemistry
in its element #podcast subject. Careful now!
http://bit.ly/cHswSp
 Example tweets from followers (students):
 @CHE2C32 made some great black shiny crystals today
:D
 @CHE2C32 Tutorial work and dolly mixtures - happy
times :)
 @CHE2C32 is in the house and my experiment chooses
this time to start going wrong. Thank you God.

19. How do academics use
Twitter?

20. Widgets to the rescue

21. Tweeting in the lab!?

22. #phonarchem

23. What is the default copyright
status of everything published on
the internet?
Your work is automatically protected under copyright!

24. Alternative copyright Licensing

25. Open Educational Resources (OERs)

26. ChemTube3D

27. Symmetry at Otterbein

28. Chemical education ScoopIt

29. Lessons from Physics!
 Force concepts inventory
 A simple to administer multiple choice test.
 Rigorously designed and tested.
 Huge uptake and high credibility.

30. Chemistry
 Chemical Concepts Inventory
 A simple to administer multiple choice test?
 Rigorously designed and tested?
 Huge uptake and high credibility?

31. Concept Inventories

32. Chemical Concepts Inventory
 The principle claim to the title “Chemical
Concepts Inventory” appears to lie with
Douglas R. Mulford and William R.
Robinson of Purdue University for “An
Inventory for Measuring College Students'
Level Of Misconceptions in First Semester
Chemistry.”

33. A New Chemical Concepts
Inventory
 Madeleine Schultz and Gwendolyn Lawrie
(Queensland) have been working on a
derivative of the CCI.

34. A question of phase

35. ChemistryVignettes.net

36. Conclusions
 Never miss another #chemed conference.
 Share resources
 Mix it up
 Record it
 Interact
 Flip
 Let the students do the instruction
 Follow the chemical concept inventory
 Beware the Hawthorne effect
 Go to Variety in Chemical Education

37. Inspirations
 Dr Michael Seery
 Dr Claire McDonnell
 Prof Tina Overton
 Dr Paul Yates
 Dr David Read
 Prof Simon Bates
 Dr Ross Galloway
 Dr Paul Taylor
 Dr Natalie Rowley
 Dr Katherine Haxton
 Dr Madeleine Schulz and Dr Gwendolyn Lawrie