Organic chemistry YouTube writing assignment for large lecture classes

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 497-501

  Franz, Annaliese K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication Writing; First Year Undergraduate General; Multimedia Based Learning; Organic Chemistry; Second Year Undergraduate; Student Centered Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858690226     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed100589h     Document Type: Article

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33. The group site was established as http://www.youtube.com/ group/chem8A. At the time of publication, this group site is no longer active and youtube.com no longer offers the feature to make a group page. Creating a group page on Facebook.com may provide an alternate method to post the YouTube videos together for easy viewing.
34. As evidence that these videos are also reaching an audience outside of the class through www.youtube.com, at time of submission of this manuscript at least 10 of the YouTube videos posted had received more than 1,000 views, with two of these videos receiving more than 10,000 views.
35. During the review and revision process for this manuscript, several additional examples were reported that provide evidence where making YouTube videos can be incorporated in high school and college classrooms to enhance learning about chemistry. One example is the "It's Elemental" online video contest, sponsored by the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the Dow Chemical Company, which attracted 1000 high school student participants from 36 states, see: http://www. chemheritage.org/discover/chemistry-in-history/its- elemental/index. aspx.
36. A second example is a collection of music videos produced by Neil Garg's organic chemistry class at UCLA and posted on youtube.com, see: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/students-rap-to-chemistry-160127.aspx (both accessed Nov 2011).
37. Two commentaries have also recently been published related to this topic: (a) Smith, D. K. Nat. Chem. 2011, 3, 681-684.
38. (b) Haran, B.; Poliakoff, M. Nat. Chem 2011, 3, 180-182.