Drexel CoAS talks mp3 podcast

NIST Social Media Day Open Notebook Science Talk

2008-12-12T10:55:00.002-05:00

Jean-Claude Bradley presented on Open Notebook Science at the NIST Social Media Day on December 11, 2008. The talks starts with an overview of ONS and how it is being used to assess solubility measurements being crowdsourced in the ONS Challenge and Submeta Awards. The use of wikis, blogs, Google Spreadsheets, YouTube, Flickr, ChemSpider and other free hosted Web2.0 tools is highlighted. The UsefulChem project, involving the synthesis of anti-malarial agents, is then briefly covered. Finally, a very recent application of using Google Spreadsheets to automatically call web services to calculate volumes and weights of chemicals needed in reactions is demonstrated (code by Rajarshi Guha).

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NIST Dec08 Open Notebook Science Talk

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iSchool Open Notebook Science Talk

2008-11-13T18:08:00.002-05:00

update: transcript available

This talk covers Open Notebook Science from an information technology perspective. It was presented by Jean-Claude Bradley at the Drexel iSchool on November 11, 2008. Although solubility measurements and chemical reactions are mentioned the focus is more on how information is stored, retrieved and used using free and hosted services such as Blogger, GoogleDocs, Wikispaces, ChemSpider, CDD and others. The UsefulChem project and the Open Notebook Science Challenge are highlighted.

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iSchool Open Notebook Science Talk

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Open Notebook Science in 15 minutes

2008-10-30T14:07:00.001-04:00

update: transcript is available

On October 10, 2008 Jean-Claude Bradley presented a 15 minute summary of Open Notebook Science and its application to the synthesis of anti-malarial compounds as part of a mini-symposium on faculty research in the Chemistry department at Drexel University.

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Open Notebook Science in 15 minutes

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Chemistry Concepts in Second Life - Bradley/Lang

2008-08-24T12:36:00.004-04:00

This is a co-presentation by Jean-Claude Bradley and Andrew Lang on August 18, 2008 at the American Chemical Society conference in Philadelphia. The focus is on many of the tools available to easily demonstrate chemistry concepts in Second Life such as 3D molecules, reaction mechanisms, docking, organic chemistry quizzes, 5D graphs, the ACS museum featuring an HIV exhibit, the red tide phenomenon and many others. Most of the content on display rests on ACS island, Drexel Island and Nature's Second Nature island in Second Life.

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Bradley-Lang Chemistry in Second Life

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Open Notebook Science - Falcipain-2 Preliminary Results

2008-08-22T13:25:00.005-04:00

This talk was presented by Jean-Claude Bradley at the American Chemical Society meeting in Philadelphia on August 20, 2008. An introduction to Open Notebook Science is presented followed by an illustration of how ONS can be used in drug discovery. New data relating to the anti-malarial activity of Ugi products on 2 falcipain-2 docking sites is detailed. The docking calculations were provided by Rajarshi Guha and the enzyme and in vitro assays on Plasmodium falciparum were provided by Phil Rosenthal and Jiri Gut. Most of the syntheses were carried out by Khalid Mirza in the Bradley group.
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Open Notebook Science and Preliminary Falcipain-2 Results

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Second Life and Social Media: Networking Goldmine or Time Sink?

2008-08-22T10:03:00.005-04:00

Update: transcript available

This talk was presented by Jean-Claude Bradley at the American Chemical Society meeting in Philadelphia on August 18, 2008.

This is an overview of how social media and Second Life can be used to productively network. Prominent recent examples involving Deepak Singh, Bora Zivkovic, Beth Ritter-Guth and others are highlighted. Then Second Life content that enables collaboration, especially in chemistry, is detailed. The presentation ends with an example of hyper-networking using FriendFeed followed by a few words from Andrew Lang from ORU and Sandy Adam from Sigma-Aldrich.

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Second Life and Social Media: Networking Gold Mine or Time Sink?

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Open Notebook Science BCCE 2008

2008-07-31T10:30:00.005-04:00

Update: transcript now available

This is a presentation by Jean-Claude Bradley at the Biennial Conference for Chemical Education (BCCE) on July 29, 2008. The talk starts with an overview of Open Notebook Science using a wiki as a public lab notebook. An example of the usefulness of publishing failed experiments is detailed, showing how the version history of the wiki can be used to track the evolution of an organic chemistry experiment. Near the end of the talk an example of using automation to optimize a Ugi reaction is mentioned.

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Open Notebook Science BCCE 2008

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LISE08 talk on Second Life in the Chemistry Classroom

2008-04-30T16:06:00.004-04:00

I talked about Second Life in the chemistry classroom at the Chemical Heritage Foundation on April 29, 2008. This was part of the 8th Annual Leadership Initiative in Science Education (LISE 8). Most examples involve work done in collaboration with Andrew Lang. At the end I invite the group to an in-world meeting on May 6, 2008 at 13:30 EDT on ACS island. (slurl)

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ACS Talk on Cheminformatics in Open Notebook Science

2008-04-08T14:40:00.003-04:00

I present at the American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans on April 6, 2008. The use cheminformatics tools such as SMILES, InChI, InChIKeys and JCAMP-DX to store and retrieve experimental information on a public laboratory notebook is detailed.

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ACS Talk on Teaching Chemistry with Second Life

2008-04-08T14:31:00.003-04:00

I present on using Second Life to teach chemistry at the American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans April 7, 2008. Examples include using quizzes, generating 3D molecules, visualizing docking, proteins and reactions. An overview of ACS island is also given, with a focus on the Sci-Mix virtual poster session. Much of this work was done in collaboration with Andrew Lang.

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UBC Talk on Open Notebook Science and Libraries

2008-04-08T13:59:00.002-04:00

I presented a talk about Open Notebook Science and the implications for the future of libraries for Heather Morrison's class at the School of Libraries at the University of British Columbia on April 2, 2008. We did this over Skype so the questions are not very clear in the audio.

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Open Notebook Science and Cheminformatics

2008-03-27T10:34:00.004-04:00

I guest lectured on Rajarshi Guha's cheminformatics course at Indiana University on March 25, 2008. After an introduction to Open Notebook Science and the synthesis of anti-malarial compounds, I discuss SMILES, InChIs, InChIKeys, CMLRSS, JCAMP-DX, JSpecView, ExcelVBA, blogs, wikis and Second Life.

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Albright Talk on Educational Technology

2008-03-18T14:27:00.003-04:00

Here is my talk at Albright College on March 17, 2008. I mainly discussed the evolution in my use of blogs, wikis and Second Life in the teaching of undergraduate organic chemistry courses.

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NFAIS 2008 talk on Open Notebook Science

2008-02-25T15:20:00.003-05:00

Jean-Claude Bradley presents on "Open Notebook Science: Putting the Information User in Control through Transparency" at the NFAIS meeting in Philadelphia on February 24, 2008. This was part of the session on "The Emerging Culture of the New Information Order". The use of public blogs, wikis, GoogleDocs and mailing lists to conduct research on the synthesis of new anti-malarial agents is described.

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The Role of Blogging in Open Notebook Science

2008-01-21T07:15:00.000-05:00

I spoke at the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference (un-conference really) on January 19, 2008. Mainly I reviewed some of my posts on the UsefulChem blog from the past few months to show what types of issues are relevant to doing research openly. I then showed the connection from the blog to the wiki, mailing list and GoogleDocs where the laboratory data get reported and analyzed.

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My co-presenter Xan Gregg's talk screencast (SciVee)

Swarthmore Sigma Xi ONS Talk

2007-11-28T16:19:00.000-05:00

On November 27, 2007 I presented our work on Open Notebook Science. I had a little more time to explain most aspects of our work to a scientific, but not necessarily a chemistry audience.

Near the end I did discuss some of our very recent results relating to our CombiUgi project and the synthesis of some compounds about to to be tested for the inhibition of the malarial parasite's enzyme Falcipain-2.

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Cameron Neylon Drexel Talk

2007-11-04T14:51:00.000-05:00

A Beginner’s Guide to Open Science(not for beginners but by beginners)
A talk by Cameron Neylon
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and School of Chemistry, University of Southampton

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Presentation at 2:00 Friday November 2, 2007
Disque 109, Drexel University

The modern biochemistry or molecular biology laboratory generates large quantities of data that are generally stored across multiple computers attached to multiple instruments. Much of this data is never published and the majority languishes on old computers and is ultimately lost. At a local level this is a frustration for investigators who will often struggle to obtain specific pieces of data produced in their own laboratory. On a larger scale this is becoming a much more serious issue with the obligation of researchers to funding bodies to both preserve research data and make it available to other users increasingly becoming a formal a condition of publicly funded grants. Systems are required that can capture and preserve data along with sufficient information and metadata to make it possible for others to use this data.

In parallel with this a movement is growing within the research community that advocates greater openness in providing both the raw data from published studies as well as making available the large quantities of data that are never published. The logical extreme of this approach is Open Notebook Science [1], pioneered at Drexel University [2], where the researcher’s laboratory notebook is made available on the internet as it is recorded. Achieving the aims of Open Notebook Science also requires systems which can capture data and provide it in a useful format. In addition these systems must make the data visible to relevant online searches.

We are developing and using an electronic laboratory notebook based on a Blog format to capture experimental data in a biochemistry laboratory [3,4]. Within the system each sample is recorded in a single post. Analysis and manipulations of the sample are recorded in separate posts with links back to the input sample and forward to any products. All the information is made immediately available on the Web as it is recorded. The Blog engine has been specially built in house and has a number of features designed to enable and encourage the effective capture of data and metadata in the environment of a biochemistry laboratory. I will describe the Blog system and our evolving approach to capturing metadata as well as the process of integrating this with other web services to provide an open environment for recording work in the laboratory, laboratory materials, and validated procedures. The challenges and problems encountered in reconciling the twin aims of capturing data and making it available and readable will also be discussed along with the similarities and differences emerging between different approaches to Open Notebook Science [2,5,6].

[1] http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.com/2006/09/open-notebook-science.html
[2] http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/
[3] http://chemtools.chem.soton.ac.uk/projects/blog/blogs.php/blog_id/10
[4] http://chemtools.chem.soton.ac.uk/projects/blog/blogs.php/blog_id/13
[5] http://www.jeremiahfaith.com/open_notebook_science/
[6] http://www.michaelbarton.me.uk/

Bill Erb Thesis Defense

2007-06-14T15:07:00.000-04:00

Bill Erb's thesis defense on June 12, 2007 at the Drexel University Chemistry Department.

Exploration of the Fundamentals of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

This thesis focuses on the study of different tools that can be used for preparing samples for matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI TOFMS) and utilizing these tools to study different ionization processes that are operating in the MALDI experiment.

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BCLA Open Notebook Science and the Library

2007-04-19T15:33:00.000-04:00

This is my April 19, 2007 presentation at the British Columbia Library Association Conference on Open Access. There was only time to do a brief introduction about trends in openness in education and research and how that might affect the needs of scientists in publishing and finding information. I also showed a few screenshots of UsefulChem near the end.

Thanks to Heather Morrison for the invitation!

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Open Notebook Science and Education

2007-04-19T11:00:00.000-04:00

This is my presentation on April 17, 2007 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. I describe Open Notebook Science in the context of education and argue that trends in open education, open science and automation will change the educational landscape in the near future.

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Open Notebook Science ACS March07 (JCB)

2007-03-28T07:58:00.000-04:00

Here is my talk "Open Notebook Science using Blogs and Wikis" at the American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago on March 27, 2007 at the Communicating Chemistry Symposium.

The first half is basically a condensed summary of how we are using UsefulChem to do Open Science. I then demonstrate for the first time Dave's Excel code to compute kinetics from JCAMP NMR reaction profiles and the building in Second Life where Beth and Eloise have help me to set up a poster room with NMR spectra, molecules and an organic chemistry quiz.

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Teaching Organic Chemistry with Blogs and Wikis (JCBMarch07)

2007-03-26T10:39:00.000-04:00

This is my first talk at the American Chemical Society conference in Chicago on March 25, 2007. I describe the evolution of my teaching practices using technology over the past few years, involving blogs, wikis, podcasting, vodcasting, games and class workshops.

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Dan King PAETC07

2007-02-28T12:28:00.000-05:00

Where is technology most effective: inside or outside of the classroom?
Dan King, Drexel University

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Philadelphia Area Educational Technology Conference Feb 23, 2007
At Drexel University, environmental chemistry is taught to a diverse group of students in a single class. The student population includes both upper level undergraduates and beginning graduate students from a variety of majors. The preparation level of these populations is quite variable, as many of the graduate students have not had a chemistry course in several years. Consequently, a significant amount of time must be spent reviewing fundamental chemical concepts. These general concepts are either incorporated into the lecture material or reviewed in group activities. Two forms of technology were used to improve student learning. In class, personal response systems (or “clickers”) were used to reinforce the lecture material. Outside of class, students use an online discussion board to post questions related to homework problems. The Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG) survey was used to help identify which components of the course helped the students learn the material. These results will be compared to end-of-term evaluations and measures of student performance during the term.

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Gall and Pritchard PAETC07

2007-02-28T12:14:00.000-05:00

iTunes U Implementation
Brian Gall and Russ Pritchard, Philadelphia University

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Philadelphia Area Educational Technology Conference Feb 23, 2007

Philadelphia University has implemented a new hosting solution for its educational audio and video content. Learn how we implemented the iTunes University Podcasting solution to create a collaborative learning and information space for the administration, faculty, students and learning community.

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Mike Zarro PAETC07

2007-02-27T18:35:00.000-05:00

Don't Make Me Think - I'm Here to Learn
Mike Zarro, Drexel University

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Philadelphia Area Educational Technology Conference Feb 23, 2007

3.2 million people took at least one class online in the fall of 2005. As a student in Drexel University's online Master of Library Science program and a webmaster for 8+ years, I'll share my experiences and observations of eLearning success and areas of improvement. Online education more than just Blackboard - it includes video, podcasts, and online collaborative workspaces.

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Jean-Claude Bradley PAETC07

2007-02-27T11:21:00.000-05:00

Leveraging Wikis and Blogs for Teaching and Research in Chemistry
Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel University

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Philadelphia Area Educational Technology Conference Feb 23, 2007

An overview of the UsefulChem project presented to a group of instructional technologists.

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Laura Blankenship PAETC07

2007-02-27T08:21:00.000-05:00

Interactivism: Blogging in Freshman Writing
Laura Blankenship, Bryn Mawr College

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Philadelphia Area Educational Technology Conference Feb 23, 2007

See a presentation of results from using blogs in a freshman writing class. In particular, I will discuss the affect that online interaction has on the process of writing and what elements of blogging are most effective.

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Tim McGee PAETC07

2007-02-26T09:11:00.000-05:00

Towards Preparing Educators for Multiliteracy
Tim McGee, Philadelphia University

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Philadelphia Area Educational Technology Conference Feb 23, 2007

The teaching of print literacy, traditionally understood as the ability to read and write texts made primarily out of words, was the responsibility of all teachers at the elementary level and the specialty of English, Language Arts, and Composition teachers in middle school, high school, and college. With the advent of digital computers and the multiliteracy demands they create, some teachers at every level find themselves ill-prepared to teach even the decoding of multimedia and multimodal texts, much less their encoding or production. Taking into consideration state standards, teacher education programs, and current theories of multiliteracy and multimodal discourse, this presentation suggests short and long term action plans to help prepare the teachers of today and tomorrow to meet the multiliteracy needs of their students.

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Second Life in Education

2007-02-05T13:45:00.000-05:00

Tim Siftar from our Hagery library at Drexel gave a talk this morning about Second Life basics and some educational applications. It was a really good introduction and hopefully some of the people in attendance will get inspired to give it a try.

We then met Beth in-world and she shared lots of tips about getting started and teleported us to a few educational places. Josh controlled our avatar. Unfortunately, Beth couldn't record her part with Camtasia because of the computational demands of SL. But she did provide us with a link to her wiki on educational Second Life applications.

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Google Co-op Workshop

2007-01-30T08:22:00.000-05:00

Here is the Jan 29, 2007 Google co-op workshop that I ran at Drexel. The first half is an overview of free online educational materials that can be used as resources for teaching. In the second part I demonstrate how these can be used in an organic chemistry class and how to build custom search engines to ensure that students find only material validated by the teacher. In another example I show how a search engine for funding sources could be created.

The examples are available on this wiki and anyone is invited to contribute. Most of the Google co-op links are also open to the public for contributions.

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NC Science Blogging Conference

2007-01-22T05:32:00.000-05:00

Here is my presentation at the North Carolina Science Blogging conference on Jan 20, 2007. I led a session in the afternoon on Open Source/Open Notebook Science and this is the part before opening up to general discussion. It starts off with an overview of the UsefulChem project in my lab, including our use of JCAMP and JSpecView to provide data mining of our NMR spectra. Other efforts towards doing science openly using blogs and wikis are then highlighted, including:

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Communication Strategies of Traditional and Open Chemists

2006-11-29T13:18:00.000-05:00

This is a link to a presentation delivered to students at Texas Tech University on the communication strategies of traditional and open chemists based on the "system" and "lifeworld" theories of Jurgen Habermas.

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LCCC Closed Chemistry Interview

2006-11-16T21:05:00.000-05:00

The students in English 105 Honors at Lehigh Carbon Community College interviewed Kim Ashman, Director of Quality and Compliance, at Sonofi-Aventis. While she discusses "closed" chemistry and drug development, the students are using this information to frame an argument to promote Open Notebook Science. Some of the questions discuss patenting and competition and large mergers.

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JSpecView Demo

2006-11-16T17:28:00.000-05:00

This is a screencast of how to use JSpecView to analyze spectra from an experiment involving the synthesis of anti-malarial compounds. It demonstrates the utility of delving deeply into the raw data of "failed experiments".

More chemistry details available here.

Here is the audio podcast (mp3).

JSpecView Demo (vodcast)

2006-11-16T17:21:00.000-05:00

Stewart Mader Wiki Talk at Drexel

2006-10-26T14:42:00.000-04:00

Stewart gave a good general talk about wikis followed by a few examples in education.

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Drexel CoAS E-Learning Lecture Series
Time: 11:00 Thursday October 26, 2006
Location: Disque 109

Four Letter Words: How wiki and edit are making the Internet a better learning tool

Stewart Mader, Senior Instructional Technologist, Life Sciences and Brown Medical School, Brown University

A Wiki can be thought of as a combination of a Web site and a Word document. At its simplest, it can be read just like any other web site, but its real power lies in the fact that groups can collaboratively work on the content of the site using nothing but a standard web browser. The Wiki is gaining traction in education, as an ideal tool for the increasing amount of collaborative work done by both students and teachers. Students might use a wiki to collaborate on a group report, compile data or share the results of their research, while faculty might use the wiki to collaboratively author the structure and curriculum of a course, and the wiki can then serve as part of each person's course materials. I'll show how using the wiki has improved collaboration and data collection in several courses, and transformed a well-known science education website by allowing the teachers who use it to collaboratively author and edit its content. Participants will also learn about the range of wiki tools available, from free, web-based tools to enterprise solutions that can serve an entire digital campus. I'll also discuss my recently released wiki-based book, Using Wiki in Education, which is a compilation of case studies showing how teachers are using the wiki in a variety of environments.

UsefulChem Drexel MiniSymp (vodcast)

2006-09-28T06:11:00.000-04:00

The chemistry department at Drexel had a minisymposium on Sept 27, 2006 from our faculty to educate our grad and undergrad students (and each other) as to what we were doing. The talks were limited to 15 minutes so it was a good way to get an overview of all the research projects.

My talk was about the UsefulChem project. It was similar to the one I gave at the ACS meeting a few weeks ago but a bit shorter at 13 minutes. Keeping in mind the diversity in the audience I tried to keep it fairly non technical. I showed examples of how we use blogs and wikis to do open source/open notebook science.

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UsefulChem Drexel MiniSymp

2006-09-28T05:58:00.000-04:00

The chemistry department at Drexel had a minisymposium on Sept 27, 2006 from our faculty to educate our grad and undergrad students (and each other) as to what we were doing. The talks were limited to 15 minutes so it was a good way to get an overview of all the research projects.

My talk was about the UsefulChem project. It was similar to the one I gave at the ACS meeting a few weeks ago but a bit shorter at 13 minutes. Keeping in mind the diversity in the audience I tried to keep it fairly non technical. I showed examples of how we use blogs and wikis to do open source/open notebook science.

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ACS UsefulChem talk (podcast)

2006-09-18T11:35:00.000-04:00

Here is my talk at the American Chemical Society on September 14, 2006 in San Francisco. This is a fairly condensed summary of the UsefulChem project, with plenty of examples on how we use blogs and wikis to do open source science.

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ACS UsefulChem talk (vodcast)

2006-09-18T11:28:00.000-04:00

Here is my talk at the American Chemical Society on September 14, 2006 in San Francisco. This is a fairly condensed summary of the UsefulChem project, with plenty of examples on how we use blogs and wikis to do open source science.

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Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley

2006-09-08T14:58:00.000-04:00

The students in Beth Ritter-Guth's Honors English 105 class interviewed Dr. Bradley about Open Source Science. The students are working on a project that traces the issues of malaria, AIDS, and arsenic from Dr. Bradley's lab at Drexel to children living in Kabala, Sierra Leone. The project, Community College without Borders, seeks to help students recognize the collaborative efforts of various disciplines in solving the world's greatest problems.

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Teaching with Technology Wiki and Blog Vodcast

2006-08-17T16:44:00.000-04:00

This is a vodcast overview of wiki and blogs and of other information found at Teaching Tools for Teachers and Professors.

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Teaching with Technology Overview

2006-08-17T15:35:00.000-04:00

This is a podcast overview of wiki and blogs and of other information found at Teaching Tools for Teachers and Professors.

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LVAIC Podcast

2006-08-09T22:19:00.000-04:00

Here is the podcast of the talk I gave at the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent College's Summer Teaching with Technology Symposium at Cedar Crest College.

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LVAIC Presentation on Gaming

2006-08-09T07:55:00.000-04:00

Here is a link to the presentation I gave on using the EduFrag Project (Unreal Tournament) in English (and chemistry) at the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent College's Summer Teaching with Technology Symposium held at Cedar Crest College.

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BCCE orgo games Bradley (vodcast)

2006-08-04T10:54:00.000-04:00

I gave a second talk on August 2, 2006 at the BCCE (Biennial Conferences on Chemical Education) on the use of games specifically for organic chemistry. It was only a 20 minute session so I had to skip over some slides but they are all available here for the curious. I talked about the EduFrag project and Wheel of Orgo. The response was positive and I hope we'll pick up a few more people to use and contribute to the projects in chemistry. Here is an article detailing the context of this work.

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BCCE orgo games Bradley talk

2006-08-04T10:34:00.000-04:00

I gave a second talk on August 2, 2006 at the BCCE (Biennial Conferences on Chemical Education) on the use of games specifically for organic chemistry. It was only a 20 minute session so I had to skip over some slides but they are all available here for the curious. I talked about the EduFrag project and Wheel of Orgo. The response was positive and I hope we'll pick up a few more people to use and contribute to the projects in chemistry. Here is an article detailing the context of this work.

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BCCE chem screencasting Bradley (vodcast)

2006-08-04T10:29:00.000-04:00

This is my 10 minute talk on July 31, 2006 at the BCCE (Biennial Conferences on Chemical Education) held at Purdue. I co-presented with Mark Ott about using screencasting for chemistry classes. It was good way to contrast our different approaches. Mark records 5-10 min scripted screencasts of key general chemistry concepts in his office alone while I record my entire organic chemistry lectures. I use my lecture archive to replace live lectures with workshops while he still teaches in lecture style.

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BCCE chem screencasting Bradley talk

2006-08-04T10:00:00.000-04:00

This is my 10 minute talk on July 31, 2006 at the BCCE (Biennial Conferences on Chemical Education) held at Purdue. I co-presented with Mark Ott about using screencasting for chemistry classes. It was good way to contrast our different approaches. Mark records 5-10 min scripted screencasts of key general chemistry concepts in his office alone while I record my entire organic chemistry lectures. I use my lecture archive to replace live lectures with workshops while he still teaches in lecture style.

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UsefulChem/CCWB Vodcast

2006-07-09T10:13:00.000-04:00

The following vodcast outlines a collaborative project between Jean-Claude's chemistry students and Beth's writing students at LCCC. The project hopes to bridge the communication gap between scientists and writers by providing students an opportunity to work together to open source scientific research.

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UsefulChem/CCWB Podcast

2006-07-04T22:51:00.000-04:00

The following podcast outlines a collaborative project between Jean-Claude's chemistry students and Beth's writing students at LCCC. The project hopes to bridge the communication gap between scientists and writers by providing students an opportunity to work together to open source scientific research.

Podcast (mp3)

Screencast (mov)

PPT Slides

LCTI/LCCC Ritter-Guth vodcast

2006-07-04T13:27:00.000-04:00

Here is Beth's talk from the June 30, 2006 workshop at the Lehigh Career and Technology Institute and Lehigh Carbon Community College. Full info here.

video iPod format (m4v)

LCTI/LCCC Bradley vodcast

2006-07-04T13:22:00.000-04:00

Here is my talk from the June 30, 2006 workshop at the Lehigh Career and Technology Institute and Lehigh Carbon Community College. Full info here.

video iPod format (m4v)

LCTI/LCCC workshop Ritter-Guth

2006-07-04T13:14:00.000-04:00

Here is Beth's abstract for her talk from the June 30, 2006 workshop at the Lehigh Career and Technology Institute and Lehigh Carbon Community College:

The tools used to create podcasts, vodcasts, and screencasts are easy and fun to use. By relying on programs like Audacity, Camstudio, Feedburner, Bloglines, iTunes, Skype, Sitemeter, and Vyew, instructors can create a rich and diverse instructional environment for students. The use of wikis in the classroom offer an easy and accessbile approach to sharing information. The use of blogs allows for free-flow discussion, and allows instructors to provide pod, vod, and screencasts through streaming. Additionally, students can subscribe to the feed through RSS. However, colleagues ar K-12 schools are encouraged to fight the ban of blogs under the DOPA restrictions. In summary, this presentation is about the use of these tools in the classroom to promote deeper and independent student learning.

podcast (mp3)
streaming Flash screencast
video iPod format (m4v)
Powerpoint slides

LCTI/LCCC workshop Bradley

2006-07-04T09:43:00.000-04:00

Here is my talk from the June 30, 2006 workshop at the Lehigh Career and Technology Institute and Lehigh Carbon Community College. I spent more time than I usually do explaining the basics of RSS and its applications in education using blogs, wikis, podcasting, vodcasting, screencasting and games. I also discuss my views on open courseware.

podcast (mp3)
streaming Flash screencast
video iPod format (m4v)
Powerpoint slides

Integrating WebCT with vodcasting and podcasting

2006-04-10T08:30:00.000-04:00

Here is my presentation from the March 30, 2006 Northeastern Regional WebCT Users Conference held at Drexel University.

I basically discuss the way WebCT's role in my classes has shifted since I started podcasting and vodcasting my lectures and moved to open courseware. Now the central location for my classes is a public wiki (e.g. http://chem241.blogspot.com) and WebCT is used primarily for testing.

I'm putting up the m4v vodcast as the enclosure for this podcast feed and it will play on either a video ipod or with Quicktime on a PC. Please give me feedback about this format. The resolution is not quite as good as with the Flash screencasts but, considering that the Powerpoint file is made available here as well, I think it might be good enough. I'm podcasting the mp3 in a separate post.

vodcast
Powerpoint

Integrating WebCT with vodcasting mp3

2006-04-10T08:00:00.000-04:00

Full presentation

mp3

Peer Review in the Google Age Morrison

2006-03-01T09:36:00.000-05:00

Update: Heather kindly re-recorded her presentation.
Here is the screencast.

Peer Review in the Google Age talk (Heather Morrison)
Powerpoint
Transcript

Unfortunately, we had some technical problems during the recording of Heather's talk but here is her Powerpoint presentation.

Peer Review in the Google Age Dominy

2006-02-28T13:13:00.000-05:00

Here is the podcast and screencast of Peggy Dominy and Jay Bhatt's talk on Peer Review in the Google Age. She does a nice job introducing the history of peer review then discusses current issues from a librarian's perspective.

Flash screencast
mp3 podcast

Peer Review in the Google Age Dominy Powerpoint

2006-02-28T13:12:00.000-05:00

Peer Review in the Google Age talk (Peggy Dominy and Jay Bhatt)
Powerpoint

Peer Review in the Google Age Dominy vodcast

2006-02-28T13:11:00.000-05:00

Peer Review in the Google Age talk (Peggy Dominy and Jay Bhatt)
m4v vodcast

Peer Review in the Google Age Bradley mp3

2006-02-27T08:36:00.000-05:00

Peer Review in the Google Age was the theme of our Feb 23, 2006 RSS club meeting. I invited a few librarians to present while I gave my perspective as a scientist. There were 3 short talks and I am posting them separately.

For the first time I recorded the screencast with a webcam when I was not using Powerpoint. Present in the room were Jay Bhatt, Peggy Dominy and Kevin Owens. Frank Fulchiero and his team from Connecticut College were also watching over Polycom videoconferencing. Heather Morrison from Simon Frazer University watched and presented over Netmeeting. Her audio came through a telephone conference call.

I have also created a vodcast that will play in iTunes or on a video ipod. I'll include it as a separate post so it shows up separately from the mp3 podcast enclosure here.

Flash screencast
mp3 podcast
transcript

Peer Review in the Google Age Bradley Powerpoint

2006-02-26T16:19:00.000-05:00

Peer Review in the Google Age talk (JC Bradley)
Powerpoint

Peer Review in the Google Age Bradley vodcast

2006-02-26T16:11:00.000-05:00

Peer Review in the Google Age talk (JC Bradley)
m4v vodcast

RSS club 19

2006-01-23T10:43:00.000-05:00

We had Doug Chute from psychology, Jennifer Maden (associate director of the center for Teaching Excellence) from the Drexel business school and Bob Oltrak from library science. Bobbe Allen, Connie and Max from Utah State joined us over Skype.

I basically caught up on the past month of enties from my main blog today.

-new RSS ideas for teachers
-podcast transcription services
-Sloan semester ends
-free online textbooks and webcasts for organic chemistry and other subjects
-WebCT conference at Drexel is coming up
-thoughts about PodcasterCon2006 and the art of the unconference
-QueryChem, Chmoogle and other new free online tools for chemists

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

Workshop 1 How to create a podcast

2005-12-06T14:53:00.000-05:00

This the workshop component of the Drexel RSS club's 18th meeting. It is a pretty tight 18 minute recording of creating a podcast from scratch using Blogger and Feedburner. It includes:
1) Creation of a Blogger account, blog and a post.
2) An overview of most of the Blogger settings and my recommendations.
3) Creation of a Feedburner account and putting in the Blogger atom feed.
4) An overview of the Feedburner settings, including conforming to iTunes and setting up copyright preferences.
5) Creating subscription buttons for Bloglines and an XML button and how to incorporate that in the Blogger template.
6) How to create a link to an mp3 to be podcast in Blogger.

I am not sure how useful the podcast will be without the visual but the screencast should show you everything you need to know to create a podcast with free services.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast transcript

RSS club meeting 18

2005-12-06T14:26:00.000-05:00

Friday's RSS club meeting included Steve Platek from psychology, Lisa Schmidt from Addiction Research and Mike Aquino from chemistry.

This time I decided to split off the meeting into two parts. This is the first part where I bring up recent posts in my main blog and we discuss them. This involved mainly the UsefulChem project and Open Source Science in general. Steve made the point that using blogs as a vehicle to discuss scientific data takes us back to the way scientist used to communicate mainly through letters.

I also brought up the two conferences I am helping organize:
1) Philadelphia Area Educational Technology Conference
2) HigherEdBlogCon

The second part on the workshop will be posted next.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

Student Interaction Talk

2005-11-24T14:22:00.000-05:00

On November 17, 2005 I gave a talk "Using Blogs, Podcasts, Screencasts and Games to Enhance Student Interaction" to a group of students at the College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel. Just some reflections about how interaction on every level is changing with technology.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast and Powerpoint of my talk.

RSS club meeting 17

2005-11-14T16:26:00.000-05:00

I had two blog posts to discuss: one on Google Creative Commons Search and another on how the availability of high quality university screencasts and webcasts on the open web.

We had a special guest on conference call from the UK, Jennifer Pearce from NETLinc. She has been learning to use screencasts using Camtasia to deliver information to teachers and students in Lincolnshire.

The others were mainly from the library: Jay Bhatt, Peggy Dominy and Tim Siftar. We talked about Creative Commons, iTunes and related technologies. I also briefly introduced the work I am doing with the UsefulChem project and how it is possible to merge teaching and research is some useful ways. More on this shortly in my main blog.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

RSS club meeting 16

2005-11-08T12:19:00.000-05:00

I had two blog posts to discuss: one on Blogsearch at Google and another on an update of my CHEM 241 class using lecture archives.

We learned a bit more about what the School of Education at Drexel will be doing with podcasting and how to format their RSS feeds to conform to the iTunes standard.

Lisa updated us on the blog that she created 2 weeks ago at a previous RSS club meeting. After some discussion, we set up a wiki to see if that fits her needs a bit better for sharing information about addiction research. We'll see how that goes at the next meeting hopefully.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

RSS club meeting 15

2005-10-31T11:55:00.000-05:00

We had a small gathering this time, with Rita from the Drexel College of Media Arts and Design and Mike from Chemistry.

I only had one post to discuss - the current state of lecture podcasting in Higher Education and what we might expect as the next step.

This part was fairly short and we then had plenty of time to show Rita how to find and subscribe to a few blogs on fashion using Bloglines and iTunes.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

RSS club meeting 14

2005-10-23T16:13:00.000-04:00

Today we had Lisa from the Drexel College of Nursing, Mike from chemistry and Chris from Information Resources and Technology. In addition, for the first time, we did a conference call with Bobbe from Utah State. As I mentioned previously, the screencast audio was adjusted for all the speakers. This worked fairly well for the lengthier monologged portions that could easily be identifed with Camtasia but in rapid dialogue a few words from the people farther away were not equalized.

We discussed Bobbe's ITSAcast, the podcast of the Open Couseware Conference I attended last month. Chris told us about his use of RSS for updating annoucements and Mike shared his use of RSScalendar. At the end, Lisa created a blog to share information about behavioral and addictions counseling. We'll follow up with her as it develops over the next few weeks.

Hopefully Bobbe and others from Utah State will join us by conference call in upcoming RSS club meetings, which are set for Fridays at noon for the rest of the term.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

RSS club meeting 13

2005-10-16T07:07:00.000-04:00

I summed up recents posts from my Drexel CoAS E-Learning blog, which included:
-recent addition of transcripts to my screencast/podcast class
-making podcast feeds available in iTunes
-including PDFs with MP3s when podcasting
-the Sloan Semester program at Drexel this term

The meeting went on for an hour after I stopped recording, which tells me that there is a passionate desire to learn about and implement these technologies.

Since it had been a while since the last RSS club meeting, there was a backlog of items to go through in my blog. In future meetings this term, I would like to see this develop into more of a workshop where we spend time actually building blogs, podcasts and wikis. It looks like Fridays at noon in 4020 MacAlister is a good time this term. So bring your laptops on Fridays!

I also made an effort to equalize the audio volume of the participants. This should make for a much better podcast.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

Villanova panel on RSS in education

2005-10-13T14:47:00.000-04:00

Update: here is the conference info page with several other recordings.

Yesterday, I led a panel discussion on the use of RSS technologies like blogging and podcasting, wikis and games in education at a WebCT users meeting held at Villanova.

On the panel: Scott Warnock (English faculty at Drexel), Michelle Francl (Chemistry at Bryn Mawr) and Laura Blankenship (IT at Bryn Mawr).

Scott talked about his use of screencasting to grade student essays and comment on them verbally. Michelle updated us on her podcast quantum chemistry class and the wonderful reception it has received on iTunes. Laura discussed her blogging class, involving a lot of student blogging. I summarized my use of podcasting, screencasting and wikis in teaching chemistry. One of the important points I wanted to make is that having an archive of recorded screencast lectures can afford time for more individualized interaction between teacher and student.

There were plenty of questions and based on talks afterwards I think a few people will push forward with experimenting with the technologies. A few people were enthusiastic about using Unreal Tournament in their teaching and I will report what happens on the Edufrag blog.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast and
Bradley Powerpoint.
Blankenship Powerpoint.
Francl Powerpoint.

The session was also videotaped - here is the webcast.

Dan Karleen on blogs in marketing

2005-10-06T16:48:00.000-04:00

As part of our Drexel College of Arts and Sciences E-Learning Lecture Series, Dan Karleen from Thomson Peterson gave us a nice overview of blogs in general then their use in marketing strategies for both universities and companies.

I really liked that he used a blog instead of a Powerpoint presentation to walk through the material. It makes it easier to create links for people looking to follow up on the content he presented.

We got a good representation from Drexel's Business school, COMAD, computer science, chemistry and Drexel E-Learning. I am hoping that people will leave today's talk with some ideas that they will implement and share at future meetings.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast and blog of Dan's talk.

Games in Education Talk

2005-10-06T14:42:00.000-04:00

Mark Wagner is putting together an educational gaming workshop and asked me to contribute some material. So I edited my Utah State open courseware talk down to the core 10 minutes where I discussed the use of Unreal Tournament for running chemistry quizzes.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast and Powerpoint of my talk.

Chemistry Mini Symposium

2005-10-05T13:36:00.000-04:00

Our chemistry department hosted a mini-symposium for graduate students to hear about what the faculty are doing in their research. We were limited to 15 minutes, which is a good way to keep all talks on the big picture. Students can always follow up with individual faculty members later if they are interested.

I divided mine up in two sections. The first part dealt with my nanotechnology work: bipolar electrochemistry on carbon nanotubes, which basically means doing electrochemistry on the tip of very tiny tubes without physically touching them. The second part was a quick summary of using blogs, wikis and games in education. I even had time to do a quick Unreal Tournament demo for a Lewis structure map quiz.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast and Powerpoint of my talk.

Open Courseware Talk

2005-10-04T15:46:00.000-04:00

I just came back from the Open Education Conference at Utah State. It was a really enjoyable experience. I talked about using blogs, wikis and games to quickly generate open courseware.

Bobbe Allen is in the process of podcasting the conference. They used iPods with iTalk adaptors to do most of the recordings. The RSS feed is available from the XML icon at the top of the ITSAcast blog, which also includes the proceedings of the conference. The summary for my talk is found here.

There were some very promising opportunities for collaboration with several people at the conference, especially for educational gaming using the educational version of Unreal Tournament. As these projects become concrete I will certainly report our progress in the Edufrag blog.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast and Powerpoint of my talk.

Drexel Celebrates Constitution Day

2005-09-15T16:03:00.000-04:00

Drexel will celebrate the 218th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17— the day designated by the federal government as Constitution Day— with a variety of initiatives.

On Friday, September 16, Dr. Richardson Dilworth, assistant professor of history and politics in the College of Arts and Sciences, will present a lecture via podcasting about the founding of the Constitution and the local charter.

Here is the mp3 podcast

Tech Talk

2005-09-07T12:19:00.000-04:00

I did a radio interview a few weeks ago on Tech Talk with Craig Peterson. The topic was Back to School Technology. The entire program is available here but for this podcast I cut out my portion of about 15 minutes.

I mainly talked about the implementation of podcasting and screencasting in the Drexel College of Arts and Sciences and a bit about the School of Education ipod initiative this fall.

Here is the mp3 podcast

RNAi talk

2005-09-07T11:57:00.000-04:00

Aleister Saunders from our Drexel Bioscience department gave a talk about the RNAi Resource Center:

Drexel University RNA interference Resource Center – Introductory Seminar

A series of seminars introducing the biology and technology of RNA interference where held at the University City, Center City, Queen Lane, and Doylestown campuses of Drexel University. The screencast link allows viewers to hear and see the seminar as it occurred on Aug. 31, 2005. The podcast is only the audio portion of the seminar.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

RSS club meeting 12

2005-09-01T09:32:00.000-04:00

We had a lively group at yesterday's RSS club meeting. Dan Karleen from Thomson Peterson joined our Drexel group from English (Scott Warnock), Math (Hugo Woerdman), Chemistry (Kevin Owens) and Ken Hartman (Drexel.com).

There was only one item from my Drexel CoAS E-Learning blog to discuss: podcasting in education for the fall. A few universities (Berkeley, Purdue, Bryn Mawr, Drexel) have feeds set up to distribute audio from entire lectures. We discussed various issues relating to this like screencasting, webcasting, student attendance, open courseware and likely outcomes of all these initiatives.

Having someone of Dan's caliber join us in person so soon after crossing paths a week ago in the blogosphere is a testament to the speed of action in an RSS world. Dan will be coming back as our first speaker this fall in our Drexel CoAS E-Learning Lecture series to talk about marketing with blogs. I'll post more information in the main blog shortly.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

RSS Club meeting 11

2005-08-26T15:28:00.000-04:00

Aleister, Quinn, Kevin, Jay and Tim participated in our RSS club meeting today.

Here are the things we discussed from the Drexel CoAS E-Learning blog:

-FeedCount using Feedburner to display your RSS subscriber number
-Blogs and wikis. We discussed the pros and cons of using each tool for distributing class lectures and collecting student assignments.
-A mention of Edublogs.org, the free blogging service for teachers
-My progress with my writing drafts of my next paper on educational gaming inside of a wiki
-a brief mention of science blogs
-the new Blogger Word interface: actually downloaded it and made some sample posts. We also tested uploading images through Word but it doesn't look like that is possible yet.
-A9.com street level view of Philly and tried to figure out how to have it default to one side of the street over another but no luck.
-SiteMeter worldmap: I briefly demonstrated how to access the geographic distribution of your recent blog visitors.

That is as far as the recording went. We followed this up with a little off-the-record meeting. What did we talk about? Come to the next RSS club meeting next week on Wednesday August 31 at 11:00 in 4020 MacAlister to find out!

Dan Karleen from Thomson Peterson will be joining us. Check out his blog - I bet we'll be talking about podcasting in education.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

UVSC podcasting and games talk

2005-08-13T09:54:00.000-04:00

I just got back from the Utah Valley State College Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange. It was definitely worth the trip.

Everyone there seemed to be interested in sharing knowledge. Refreshingly low hype factor.

I tried to catch most of the gaming in education talks. Tom Cunningham talked about a few of the games he used in review sessions to increase student motivation. I particularly like the way he used Powerpoint to play Technopoly, a game developed by one of his students based on Monopoly. By moving and copying objects inside of Powerpoint, he avoided using any coding to run a very slick and playable game.

John Krutsch did a workshop to show us how to play and create a game based on a multiple choice format without using any coding. We each had our own computer to follow along then play around. Showing is always better than telling. Check it out here.

I talked to several people about games and I hope that it sparks some collaboration with my EduFrag project.

After listening to Joe Buchanan talk about the way online education works at UVSC, I have a better perspective of how our system compares at Drexel. There is a good knowledge base there.

The last talk I attended was more of a conversation involving everyone in the audience. We sat in a circle and brainstormed discussion board issues. Joanne Bentley, Sandie Waters and David Wade guided the talk. (By the way, David - here is one of Mike's presentations that I mentioned with his numbers on discussion boards)

Bios of the various presenters can be found here.

My presentation was on podcasting, screencasting, blogs and games in higher education. I get into some more detail about the EduFrag project, my current student blogging experiment and some new numbers about RSS subscriptions with my online blogged classes.

Here are the screencast mp3 podcast and Powerpoint Slides for my presentation.

RSS club meeting 10

2005-07-29T08:37:00.000-04:00

Yana and Scott participated in our RSS club meeting today. We caught up with the most recent entries in the Drexel CoAS E-Learning blog:

I started with bringing everyone up to date with the EduFrag project. We now have separate workshops on Mondays to develop Unreal Tournament applications in education.

We discussed converting e-mail alerts to RSS feeds using Blogger and I showed an example of this for a Google alert search of "organic chemistry".

I played a little snippet of Kevin Owens' screencast for introducing students the admission process at Drexel.

Finally we had a good conversation about the role of peer review and the responsibility of the reader in authenticating scholarship (in both science and humanities).

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

RSS club meeting 9

2005-07-14T14:29:00.000-04:00

Jay and Quinn participated in our RSS club meeting today. It has been several weeks since the last meeting so there were several items to discuss from the Drexel CoAS E-Learning blog. We went over blo.gs, student blogging experiments in class and nanotechnology research, the open source Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, the NECC conference, digital storytelling and educational gaming. Jay then pointed us to some handy RSS feeds for chemistry and physics.

It is turning out to be tricky to find a good time for the RSS meetings during the summer. I'll announce the next one shortly.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

WebCT Faculty Showcase at Drexel

2005-07-13T14:02:00.000-04:00

I gave a talk today at Drexel highlighting uses of WebCT.

This showed the complimentary use of WebCT, blogs and educational gaming.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast
Powerpoint

RSS club meeting 8

2005-06-06T08:31:00.000-04:00

We only had a few members on our last RSS club meeting for the term. Our Hagerty Library was represented and we had the pleasure of a visit from Ken Tompkins of Stockton College in Jersey. Ken is catalysing the use of blogs and other technology at his institution and I look forward to exchanging more information with him in the future.

I changed the format a bit, first going over the postings in the CoAS E-Learning Blog from the past week. This should make for a better podcast for those who don't have time to listen to the whole thing.

I'll announce the RSS meeting schedule for the summer in a few weeks on the CoAS E-Learning Blog.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

RSS club meeting 7

2005-05-28T10:40:00.000-04:00

The Friday RSS club meeting was well attended again, with participants from computer science, history, the school of business and the school of education.

I started going over our latest procedures for lecture recording. We didn't quite finish going over everything but we can resume next week, depending on participant interest. The conversation moved to other topics like subscribing to RSS feeds using Bloglines, Flickr, open content, blog searching, technical aspects of lecture recording and related issues.

There was also a question about where to search for material by copyright status. It is Yahoo's Creative Commons Search.

Next week will be the last RSS meeting for the term.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

RSS club meeting 6

2005-05-20T13:47:00.000-04:00

We did something a bit different today for the Drexel RSS club. I showed Jay how to:
1) edit an avi generated from a Camtasia recording using Camtasia
2) export that avi to Flash
3) upload the Flash files to a server
4) create a post in Blogger to link to the Flash files

I paused the recording during the conversion processes.
This screencast should be a reference for our faculty who record lectures using Camtasia.
One of the points I make in the conversion to Flash is to use 800x600 resolution so that users with default desktop settings don't have to keep scrolling.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast

Integrating RSS feeds into WebCT

2005-05-20T13:16:00.000-04:00

This is Jay's 15 min presentation on integrating RSS feeds into WebCT courses.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast Powerpoint

Michelle Francl and context in education

2005-05-19T08:00:00.000-04:00

Michelle Francl from Bryn Mawr College gave an inspiring talk yesterday about the importance of context in education. She showed examples of asking physical chemistry questions within a context that students could relate to, such as determining the age of whales and ostrich eggs.

I think that relevant context is the only information really retained long after a class is over. For example, I still vividly remember learning in a visceral sense that my body is an open system in a thermodynamic sense. My statistical thermodynamics teacher asked if a human body was an open or closed system. I answered that it was closed. He then ate a piece of chalk and I understood why I was wrong. I can't help but think of that example when I try to conceptualize how I remain ordered while the universe steadily increases in entropy.

Contrast that with my Comparative Chordate Anatomy class. The main thing I remember after many years is that extinct fishes had lots and lots of oddly named bones. If the course had been taught within a relevant context, I would not remember that but rather probably something like the mind-blowing Cambrian explosion that gave rise to all the basic body designs in a thin sliver of geological time.

I would also remember if he would have eaten a fish bone.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast Powerpoint resources

Waypoint talk

2005-05-18T13:26:00.000-04:00

Andrew McCann was the speaker on May 11 for the Drexel CoAS E-Learning Seminar Series. He talked about using Waypoint to aid in grading essay style papers from students.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast and Powerpoint

RSS club meeting 5

2005-05-15T10:32:00.000-04:00

Our fifth Drexel RSS club meeting was well attended, with representation from psychology, chemistry, bioscience, the business school and the library. We discussed using Flickr for field trips in bioscience, the adaptation period for faculty starting out to record lectures, advantages and disadvantages of open source class content and some ways to use RSS for business classes.

I thought I had the audio issue solved by putting up 2 mics set across the room through a mixer then into my tablet PC. Unfortunately the tablet recorded a hiss from the mixer. So I went back to using the internal mic in the tablet, which gave some poor quality recording of some of the people in the room. Well, I'll keep looking.

Here is the screencast and mp3 podcast

Karen Goeller on RSS feeds for the classroom

2005-05-15T06:13:00.000-04:00

Karen Goeller, the assistant director of Distance Learning at Bucks County Community College, presented a talk at the Drexel WebCT Users conference on May 12, 2005. She described how to bring RSS feeds into WebCT for classroom applications, especially from news services. Her presentation was very practical and the screencast should serve as a great tutorial to get started with these tools.

Here is the screencast and mp3 podcast

WebCT Users Meeting Screencasting/Podcasting talk

2005-05-14T16:02:00.000-04:00

I presented at a WebCT users meeting held at Drexel on May 12, 2005. This is basically a compressed version of my earlier talk at Bryn Mawr on Podcasting and Screencasting in Higher Education. With 15 minutes available I definitely was not able to get into as much detail, like specifics of how to use Blogger and Feedburner that I discussed at Bryn Mawr. But this serves pretty well as an overview of the topic.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast and Powerpoint

RSS club meeting 4

2005-05-06T14:09:00.000-04:00

In our RSS club meeting today we had Jay Bhatt, our Engineering librarian, Aimee from psychology and a new telecom student Anuj. We created a Blogger account for Anuj and talked about some next steps in blogland.

Here is the screencast and mp3 podcast

Google Scholar

2005-05-04T13:47:00.000-04:00

Jay Bhatt gave a talk today at Drexel about using Google Scholar. This was a thorough analysis of the differences between searching for academic publications through Google Scholar vs. the databases that we have available at Drexel. Lots of useful links in the Powerpoint.

Here is the screencast mp3 podcast and Powerpoint.

Google Scholar ppt

2005-05-04T01:31:00.000-04:00

Powerpoint.

RSS club meeting 3

2005-04-30T09:01:00.000-04:00

Here is the screencast and mp3 podcast of the RSS club meeting we had last Friday.

We had the pleasure of Jay Bhatt's company, who handed out some materials to learn about RSS and library resources. Jonathan from math and Aimee from psychology also joined us.

I started off demonstrating Michelle Francl's excellent chemistry blog. We then looked at a number of RSS related issues, including how to use Feedburner to obtain stats on your feeds. Jay demonstrated searching of peer-reviewed articles using RSS feeds and Google Scholar (that he will discuss in more detail during his talk on Wednesday in the Living Arts Lounge at 11:00)

Next RSS club meeting Friday at noon in 4020 MacAlister.