Nov

29

Educational Blogs

November 29, 2005 | 1 Comment

Recently, Ponto Media has pointed to an interesting list of educational blogs: Top 20 EduBlogs (see also the comments). A Top like this is, above all, a personal selection. Probably because of that, George Siemens, author of elearnspace, has decided to update its own list of Educational and Technology blogs (again, check also the comments), [...]

Nov

22

Universities Worldwide

November 22, 2005 | 4 Comments

Universities Worldwide is the title of one of the most popular posts in my other blog Quick Picks, Quick Site of the Day section. In that post I recommend two of the best Universities directories that I know – Braintrack University Index and Universities Worldwide (that gives the title to the post) and a list [...]

Nov

3

Chemistry Pictures

November 3, 2005 | 6 Comments

When I was reading the comment of Marko Petkovic to the previous post, I’ve decided to recommend his site, Chemistry Pictures, where some interesting images can be found (at least for students and teachers). All of these images can be used freely since they are in the public domain.
Other interesting chemistry pictures resources:

Chemistry and Biology [...]

Apr

19

Best Web Sites for Teachers

April 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Best Web Sites for Teachers is an excellent compilation of sites by Graeme Daniel, published on wwwtools for Education, specially recommended for educators (an email address may be required to access the site).

Apr

11

Learningscience.org

April 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Learningscience.org is an online community dedicated to sharing the newer and emerging learning tools (hardware, software, interactive web tutorials) of science education.

Mar

10

Chemistry Resources for students and teachers

March 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Steve Marsden’s Chemistry Resources for students and teachers is a very interesting site, with materials like a periodic table, lectures, laboratory experiments, links for other sites, software or multimedia resources. This site can be useful not only for Chemistry students or teachers but also for those who have some interest in Chemistry. A must visit [...]

Feb

10

Mol4D Web Organic Chemistry

February 10, 2005 | 3 Comments

Mol4D – Molecules in four dimensions – is a general and organic chemistry educational web site. Interactive tutorials with animated molecules and an online editor to build molecules, perform conformational analysis or model some reactions. Very good.

Jan

24

EnvironmentalChemistry.com

January 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment

This site provides chemistry, environmental and hazardous materials educational resources including: a detailed periodic table of the elements, chemical database, hazmat emergency response guides, articles on environmental, hazardous materials and chemistry issues, and much more. The idea is that teachers use these resources so that students have a positive learning experience. In the environmental side, [...]

Jan

21

Resources for Chemistry Educators

January 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Stephen Lower, from Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Canada, keeps this magnificent collection of annotated links to instructional materials and other resources of interest to Chemistry teachers. The section specially designed for students enrolled in General Chemistry courses, General Chemistry Starting Points for students, is also highly recommended.

Jan

4

More RSS

January 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment

From Will Richardson, creator of the excellent Weblogg-ed: RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators (PDF document).

Nov

30

TORVS

November 30, 2004 | Leave a Comment

An excellent compilation of ready-to-use applications: 3D coordinates for chemical structures, calculation and 3D visualization of orbitals, VRML and GIFs of chemical structures, calculation and visualization of IR and Raman spectra, calculation of physicochemical properties and many others.

Nov

25

MERLOT

November 25, 2004 | Leave a Comment

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a collection of links, organized by subject: Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Technology, Mathematical, Economy and Education. Everyone can search or browse the links collection but those interested in adding sites or review the existing sites must register as members (membership is free). MERLOT [...]

Nov

22

DNA

November 22, 2004 | Leave a Comment

Two excellent sites about DNA: DNA from the Beginning and DNA Interactive, both from The Dolan DNA Learning Center, the source for timely information about genes in Education.

Nov

13

Elements of Life

November 13, 2004 | Leave a Comment

Integrated in an effort going under way to show the positive side of Chemistry, Cefic presents this campaign: Chemistry – Elements of Life. In this site, common applications of some chemical elements (hydrogen, fluorine, silicon, aluminium, titanium and nitrogen) are provided as announcements. As a complement, visitors have the opportunity to see some milestones of [...]