Hands-on or Brains-off?
Our third and final project is to identify something global that we wanted to change about our teaching or our professional environment. To a certain extent, I share the same environment as the rest of...
View ArticleAnyone for a Game of Chemistry?
Brett McCollum Identified Issue: Quantization is a very difficult concept for students in first year chemistry to comprehend. In the quantum world some properties are quantized, meaning that only...
View ArticleA Chemical Reaction
Brett McCollum Identified Issue: Chemistry 1201 (the first credit-level chemistry course) is required by all students in three of the four BSc degree programs, and taken by the majority of those in the...
View ArticleA Hole in Space
Brett McCollum Identified Issue: Chemistry 1201 (the first credit-level chemistry course) is required by all students in three of the four BSc degree programs, and taken by the majority of those in the...
View ArticleCLASH of CREATIVITY WORKSHOP – JASPER PARTICIPANT IDEAS
The following is a list of ideas for teaching improvements from participants in the Clash of Creativity workshop given at the ACIFA conference in Jasper, Alberta. This list was gathered during the...
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Academic Social Networking
The Social Networking Environment The latest set of Web technologies, commonly known as Web 2.0, has given Web users the ability to create and modify live Web content without the need to know...
View ArticleCLASH of CREATIVITY WORKSHOP – BANFF PARTICIPANT IDEAS
The following is a list of ideas for teaching improvements from participants in the Clash of Creativity workshop given at the MRFA conference in Banff, Alberta. This list was gathered during the...
View ArticleOnline Game to help students build bibliographies
Click here to go to this review of Bibliobouts. http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/online-game-teaches-citation-skills/28837?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en This is an interesting...
View ArticleCreativity: It’s Place in Education by Wayne Morris
Here is an interesting article by Wayne Morris called Creativity: It’s Place in Education It is in a PDF format and is worth a read. Please post your comments below. Rod
View ArticleBest of intentions…
Inspired by the enthusiastic support I received from my colleagues in the FLC, I undertook the planning for the first of my creativity projects in the Fall semester, with the aim of implementing it in...
View ArticleAnonymous Online Student Assessment – Nancy’s project 3
One component to the third FLC-CIC project was to identify something global that we wanted to change about our teaching or our professional environment. Since I have been interested in learning about...
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