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August, 2007

Presented at the National Meeting of the ACS and exhibited at ChemEd 2007.

August was a busy month for us, we presented a talk entitled, "Making the implicit explicit in the teaching of chemical equilibrium" at the fall ACS National Meeting in Boston. We also exhibited at the ChemED 2007 Conference in Denton, TX.

June, 2007

Presented a talk and a poster at the Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry Education Research and Practice.

In June, we travelled to Bates College in Lewiston, ME, for the Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry Education Research and Practice, where we presented a talk, "Making the Implicit Explicit in the Teaching of Chemical Equilibrium" and our collaborator from the PSLC presented a poster, "Chemical Equilibrium and the concept of Progress of Reaction".

March, 2007

Presented at the National Meeting of the ACS and exhibited at NSTA.

In March, we flew to Chicago to present a talk entitled, "On-line support for problem solving in introductory chemistry" at this spring's ACS National Meeting. We also exhibited at the NSDL booth in the exhibit hall of this year's NSTA National Conference in St. Louis, MO.

ChemCollective awarded "Highly Recommended" by Schoolzone

Schoolzone, the UK's leading evaluation service for online educational resources, reviewed our site for educational relevance and usefulness and awarded it a "Highly Recommended" rating. Schoolzone's teacher panel provides evaluations for the UK Government's ICT in Education partners, and has evaluated thousands of free resources on the web.

November, 2006

Presented at the Penn-Ohio Border section of the ACS and attended the NSDL annual meeting.

In November, we presented an interactive workshop, "Virtual labs and scenario based learning for introductory chemistry" for 30 high school and college chemistry teachers of the Penn-Ohio Border section of the ACS at Thiel College in Greenville, PA, Nov 7. We also attended the 5th Annual Meeting of the National Science Digital Library in Washington, DC.

October, 2006

Mixed Reception featured Gameology.org

Mixed Reception our murder mystery activity was featured in an article on Gameology.org, citing the potential for academic games as learning tools.

July, 2006

Exhibited and presented at the 19th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Our summer travels took us to Perdue University for the 19th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education where we presented a talk entitled, "Virtual labs and scenario-based learning for introductory chemistry" and distributed materials at our booth in the exhibition hall.

April, 2006

Exhibited with the PDB at 2006 Annual NSTA conference in Anaheim, Ca.

Our second trip to LA and the Anaheim convention center, this conference offered us the chance to exhibit alongside former group member, Jeff Milton of the Protein Data Bank. We hope to take advantage of his new position in education and outreach at the PDB to build scenarios and learning modules for biology and biochemistry.

December, 2005

Presented at the Pacifichem 2005 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In December we presented a talk entitled, "Virtual labs and scenario-based learning for introductory chemistry" as part of the E-learning in University Chemistry Education session.

November, 2005

Attended the NSDL Annual Meeting and presented at Duke University

In November we attended the NSDL Annual Meeting in Boulder Colorado, where we presented a poster on our latest community development efforts. We also presented a research talk, "The ChemCollective Virtual Lab and Other Online Materials" at Duke University in North Carolina.

October, 2005

Presentation and exhibit at the 171st (Eastern) 2YC³ Conference, in Newton, Pa.

On October 15th, we took a scenic drive to Bucks County Community College for our third 2YC³ conference. We distributed CDs at the exhibition hall and gave a presentation summarizing our past work as well as some of our new ideas.

July, 2005

ChemCollective exhibits and presents at ChemEd 2005 in Vancouver

Our third ChemEd conference, ChemEd 2005 was a great success. We distributed over 500 CDs at the exhibition hall and gave two hands-on workshops. Our latest development effort, an online stoichiometry bridge/review course was met with great enthusiasm by high school teachers interested in using it as an AP prep course.

March, 2005

Workshop at 170th 2YC³

On March 11th and 12th we presented a workshop on using the Virtual Lab to a number of chemistry teachers from around the Southern California area at the 170th 2YC₃ at Palomar College, California.

Presentation at the ACS National Meeting in San Deigo

On the 1 year anniversary of the launch of the chemcollective.org website, we presented a talk at the ACS National Meeting entitled, "Using digital libraries to build educational communities: The ChemCollective".

January, 2005

ChemCollective.org included in the ENC Digital Dozen

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, a showcase for online educational materials, chose the ChemCollective.org to be included in its weekly Digital Dozen, a list of exemplary web sites for educators.

November, 2004

The ChemCollective Exhibits at NCSTA 2004

On November 9, 2004, we drove 6 hours to Greensboro, NC to exhibit at the 36th Annual NCSTA Professional Development Institute. While at the conference, we demonstrated the Virtual Lab and Mixed Reception to chemistry teachers from around the region.

Poster presentation at the Annual NSDL meeting

The annual meeting of National Science Digital Library ( NSDL): Designing Strategies for Success was held in Chicago, IL this year. While at the conference, we met up with some great new groups and projects. We also presented a poster, "Using Digital Libraries to Build Educational Communities: The Chemistry Collective" which showcases our current work. On the last day of the conference, our group director, Dave Yaron, became vice chair of the community services subcommittee for the NSDL.

October, 2004

Presentation at our first "WCCTA/2YC³ Conference

In the scenic Ladyfoot Ski Resort, we presented a talk, "Using Virtual Lab Activities for Introductory Chemistry", to a very enthusiastic and dedicated group of chemistry educators from around the Washington state area.

Mixed Reception featured in ChemMatters Magazine

Our murder mystery scenario, Mixed Reception, was featured in the September edition of the ACS publication ChemMatters magazine. News of our scenario based activity quickly spread, and we received over a hundred requests for CDs in October.

Wednesday, October 6, 2004

Updates from for the last several months

We haven't posted any news in a good while, but we've been very busy in the meantime.

• In November, our project was written up in the "NewsWatch" section of Science Magazine
• David Yaron, project head of the ChemCollective, won the Carnegie Science Center's 2004 Award for Excellence as University/Post-Secondary Teacher in February.
• During the spring of this year, 20 pre-service science teachers at the The University of Pittsburgh used and evaluated the Virtual Lab, and will likely use it with their students this fall and in upcoming class years.
• In June, we presented a poster at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) about our work thus far, titled "Using Digital Libraries to Build Educational Communities: The ChemCollective."
• In July, we attended the the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE). We distributed over 1000 CDs with our software at the exhibition hall, gave two talks ( Virtual Labs and scenario based learning for chemistry and Using Digital Libraries to Build Educational Communities: The ChemCollective ), and led a workshop ( Using and Authoring Virtual Lab Activities for Introductory Chemistry ).

Friday, March 26, 2004

Launch at ACS and NSTA National Meetings

The official launch of this site coincides with the ACS meeting in Anaheim March 28 – April 2 and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 31 through April 3, 2004. Please stop by the ChemCollective booth in the exhibit halls at these conferences. We'll be happy to walk you through examples of online activities, and talk with you about how the ChemCollective can best meet the needs of chemistry teachers.

Thursday, March 25, 2004

Mission Critical Chemistry promotes international collaboration

For the third year in a row, introductory chemistry students at Carnegie Mellon University and ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico worked together on Mission Critical Chemistry, a collaborative project to design a next-generation fuel system for a mission to Mars. This year, over a hundred students participated in the joint project between Bernard Micheli at ITESM and David Yaron at CMU.

Thursday, August 7, 2003

The Virtual Lab wins two MERLOT awards