Videos in Chemistry Education

Jessica Parr has been involved in instruction in General Chemistry since 1999. First serving as a peer instructor as an undergraduate student, working throughout graduate school as a teaching assistant in the laboratory space and discussion sections, she is now teaching faculty at the University of Southern California. She has worked with all levels of students, from the least prepared, who have never had any instruction in chemistry, to the most prepared, who have scored a five on their Advanced Placement exams. Jessica has also worked as a mentor for undergraduate students awarded research fellowships through the Women in Science and Engineering Program and has been recognized with university wide mentoring awards for her efforts. She is responsible for organizing professional development programming and speaker series to engage the students in research activities. In 2018 she was named a Dornsife Science Transformation Fellow to redesign the second semester general chemistry experience. Rather than the traditional lecture and lab model, students in the discovery course perform short experiments and hands-on activities every day in the laboratory space. The entire semester involves active learning and increased student engagement. She is also working to ease the transition between general and organic chemistry, with the ultimate goal being to better prepare students for all future classes in chemistry and improve retention of course material. Jessica is committed to making chemistry more accessible to everyone and to increasing science literacy.

Preface

Chapter 1. Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Nicolas Cage, Harry Potter, Pulp Fiction, and More: The Key Ingredients in Teaching Biochemistry to Nonscience Majors Sean P. Hickey

Chapter 2. CHEMTERTAINMENT: Using Video Clips from Movies, Television Series, and YouTube To Enhance the Teaching and Learning Experience of an Introductory Chemistry Lecture Class Elmer-Rico E. Mojica

Chapter 3. Teaching with Videos and Animations: Tuning in, Getting Turned on, and Building Relationships Laurie S. Starkey

Chapter 4. What To Do with Class Time? Jessica Parr

Chapter 5. Use of Multimedia Tools in the Chemistry Classroom To Foster Student Participation Rebecca M. Broyer

Chapter 6. Video Assessment of Students' Lab Skills Catherine Skibo

Chapter 7. Videotaping Experiments in an Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Course at Pace University Elmer-Rico E. Mojica and Rita K. Upmacis

Chapter 8. Impact of Student-Created Mechanism Videos in Organic Chemistry 2 Labs Nirzari Gupta and Jacqueline Nikles

Chapter 9. Final Thoughts on Videos in Chemistry Education Jessica Parr

Editor Biography
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