Interactive Digital Overheads: Dynamic Teaching Tools for the Chemistry Classroom

TCE

The Chemical Educator

ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)

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Abstract Volume 10 Issue 1 (2005) pp 36-40

Interactive Digital Overheads: Dynamic Teaching Tools for the Chemistry Classroom

John Pollard and Vicente Talanquer*

Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ 85721, vicente@u.arizona.edu
Received October 8, 2004. Accepted November 29, 2004.

Published online: 24 January 2005

Abstract. We showcase and describe a collection of digital Web-based teaching tools, highly adaptable to diverse teaching needs and styles and designed to foster conceptual understanding of chemistry via interactive visualization. These resources target many of the topics traditionally addressed in the general chemistry curriculum and are widely available to chemistry instructors and students on the Web. We also analyze and discuss the impact that the use of these tools has had on our teaching practices.

Key Words: Computers in Chemistry; general chemistry; computers

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: vicente@u.arizona.edu)

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