18th BCCE Pre-Conference Sessions
Pre-Conference
Sessions
There will be four pre-conference events at the 18th Biennial Conference
on
Chemical Education.
ACS DivCHED Examinations
Institute
Seven working committees of the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical
Education (ACS DivCHED) Examinations Institute will be meeting on Saturday
and Sunday of the 18th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. The committees
will be meeting at the Hotel at the Gateway Center. Each committee will be
engaged in the highly interactive processes of preparing questions for the
next edition of the ACS examinations. Since the work of these committees is
well underway and since the work involves preparing questions and problems
for student examinations, these pre-conference committees are open only to
the current committee members or guests of the committee. Guests of the committee
are welcome after obtaining permission to attend a committee meeting from the
Director of the Examinations Institute and the Chair of the Committee. Interacting
with the examination committee members is an excellent way to learn how the
examination problems are constructed and what topics are emphasized. If you
are interested in being a committee member for future ACS Examinations or observing/interacting
with one of the working committees at the 18th BCCE, please contact
Thomas Holme Phone: (414) 229-5680
Director, Examinations Institute
Professor Fax: (414) 229-5530
Chemistry Department Email: tholme@uwm.edu
UW-Milwaukee Home Page: http://www.uwm.edu/~tholme
The URL for the ACS Examinations Institute is http://www.uwm.edu/chemexams
Also, consider attending the following workshop “ACS Exams and Meeting
State Standards for High School Chemistry.”
General Chemistry (First Term)
Chair: Gordon Purser
University of Tulsa
gordon-purser@utulsa.edu
General Chemistry (Second Term)
Chair: David Finster
Wittenberg University
dfinster@wittenberg.edu
General Chemistry
Chair: Margaret Asirvatham
University of Colorado
Margaret.Asirvatham@Colorado.edu
General Chemistry – Blended
Exam
Chair: Diane Bunce
Catholic University
bunce@cua.edu
High School Chemistry
Chair: Laura Slocum
University High School of Indiana
lslocum@universityhighschool.org
High School Chemistry (Advanced)
Chair: Paul Groves
South Pasadena High School
PGroves@aol.com
Chemistry in Context
Chair: Laura Eisen
George Washington University
eisenl@gwu.edu
Critical Issues and Effective Practices in Chemistry-Based Laboratory Technology Education. Two and a half-days. Sam Stevenson, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 20036. sxs97@acs.org. This is a separate conference that runs on its own. Starts on Friday afternoon July 16, 2004 ends Sunday July 18, 2004. The location of this workshop is at the Hotel at Gateway. Registration for this conference is from the chemtechlinks website (www.chemtechlinks.org)
Developing industry/academic alliances from around the US. Partial participant
subsidies will be provided by ChemTechLinks. Representatives from industry
and academe are invited to attend this conference, where interactive
technology and focus groups will:
• identify critical issues facing laboratory technology education,
• explore factors influencing these issues,
• discuss effective practices for addressing these factors, and
• develop models for implementing selected practices. The conference
outcomes will be documented and disseminated in a report. The conference
will benefit chemistry-based laboratory technology programs and industries
that hire their graduates, by
• providing models that will improve training,
• increasing communication between stakeholders, and
• enhancing the visibility of chemical laboratory technology.
Pre-Conference Workshops
W1 Developing, Testing, and Assessing On-Line Intercollegiate Cooperative Learning Activities. Theresa Julia Zielinski, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Medical Technology, and Physics, Edison Science Hall Room E245, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898 (732)263-5197, Fax: (732)263-521, tzielins@monmouth.edu; Marcy Hamby Towns, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306. Phone number is 765-285-8075. 00mhtowns@bsu.edu; Co-presenters: Erica Harvey, George Long , Alex Grushow, George Shalhoub, & Lisa Lever. During this 4-day workshop (starts on Thursday, 7/15/04) you will be introduced to the materials developed to support on-line intercollegiate cooperative learning activities. You will participate through use of a sample on-line module and discuss implementation, facilitation, and assessment issues. Participants will also collaborate to create their own on-line intercollegiate cooperative learning activity. Participants should be familiar with tools such as Excel or Mathcad. We will review modules that have been developed and tested by the physical chemistry on-line consortium involving over 500 students at 23 institutions over the past 5 years (http://pcol.ch.iup.edu). We welcome chemists from all disciplines who are interested in innovative materials and teaching techniques. This workshop is supported by NSF grant DUE #9950809. Four days Room and Board support will be provided to participants of the workshop. Additional information may be found at http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/~tzielins/PCOL/Bcce%20PCOL%20Workshop%20Schedule9_17_03.htm
This workshop begins Thursday afternnoon, July 15, 2004 and goes through Sunday afternoon, July 18, 2004. Pre-conference on-campus housing and dining is available.
W2 ACS "Chemistry" Workshop. Maureen Scharberg, Department of Chemistry, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0101. Phone number is 408-924-4966, mscharberg@earthlink.net; Laura Eisen, Women in Science and Technology, 2100 Foxhall Road, N.W, The George Washington University at Mount Vernon, Washington, DC 20007. Phone number is 202-242-6692. eisenl@gwu.edu; Ellen F. Verdel, Department of Chemistry. BSF 309, Unversity of South Florida. phone: 813-974-8860, fax: 813-974-3203, e-mail: everdel@chuma1.usf.edu; Marta Gmurczyk, Education and International Activities Division, American Chemical Society, 1155 16th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036, phone: 800-227-5558, m_gmurczyk@acs.org. Have you been trying or considering an activity-based, student-centered approach to teaching your general chemistry course? The new textbook, "Chemistry" (a project of the American Chemical Society), is designed to support and reinforce this approach. This textbook project is part of a bold new initiative to re-think and re-work the general chemistry course that too many students perceive as a barrier rather than a pathway to their future. "Chemistry" includes traditional chemistry concepts in a non-traditional order using pedagogy built on active learning and group interactions. The concepts and principles in "Chemistry" are developed as often as possible by the analysis of data obtained in classroom activities. Because the approach requires more effort on the part of both students and instructors and what we are trying to accomplish may be unfamiliar, the ACS is supporting an intensive 1.5-day workshop before the BCCE to help prospective users develop a better understanding of the content and pedagogy of this new textbook. The workshop will be conducted by current faculty who have used this new textbook in their classrooms. Besides demonstrating how to use "Chemistry" activities and pedagogy, they will share their experiences from using this innovative curriculum in their classrooms.
This workshop begins Thursday afternoon, July 15, 2004 and goes through Friday lae afternoon, July 18, 2004. Pre-conference on-campus housing and dining is available.