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Developing online collaboration
skills in general chemistry
Scott Sinex and Ted Chambers
Prince George’s Community College
Largo, Maryland
Presented at 2012 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education
held at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Why online collaboration?
• 2. Communication and Collaboration - Students use
digital media and environments to communicate and
work collaboratively, including at a distance, to
support individual learning and contribute to the
learning of others. (ISTE NETS Students, 2011) Only lab dimensions!
• Recommendation - Use technology in more
transformative ways, such as participatory and
collaborative interactions and for higher level
teaching and learning that is engaging and relevant
to students’ lives and future plans. (ECAR National Study of
Students & Information Technology in Higher Education, 2011)
• Engaging in argument from evidence (NRC The Framework
for K–12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core
Ideas, 2012)
Drive
The collaboration tool - Google Docs
• Use online form to collect data
Provide links on
course webpage
• Examine class data in spreadsheet
LCD projector and computers at lab stations for each group
• Use chat function to discuss class results
Scenario for mock collaboration
• Collect student feedback too via a form
Online collaboration is done in…
Class Laboratory activity Collaboration effort
Nuts & Bolts of Extrapolation - Masses, slope, y-intercept,
In first Massing bolt with 1 to 5 nuts r2; compare via chat
semester Determine bolt mass by extrapolating
General to zero nuts Spring /Summer 2012
Chemistry Lights, Color, Absorption (Beer’s Law) - Standards, unknowns,
calibration curve and unknown slope, r2; compare via chat
analysis as post-lab activity
To be piloted in Fall 2012
Nuts & Bolts of Let’s Make an Error - Errant nut location in
In second introducing systematic error; Al nut in sequence, slope, y-
semester place of stainless steel nuts intercept, r2; compare via
General Spring 2012 chat
Chemistry Fe(SCN)++ Equilibrium Constant - Examine error as a
Multiple values done by serial dilution function of serial dilution;
form submission and then
Since Spring 2008 class results posted
Nuts & Bolts of Extrapolation
See linear
regression
and
goodness of
fit in action!
No prior
knowledge
required
Mass from y-intercept
http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/excelets/Nuts_&_Bolts_activity.pdf
Drive
The form in Google Docs
Drive
Very easy to create!
Draft questions
in order More data to add plus button
submit
Drive
The spreadsheet in Google Docs
The spreadsheet sets up from the form being developed!
Can hide previous data!
http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/excelets/nuts_&_bolts.xls
Using the chat function…
• Students not signed into Google Docs Drive
• Open chat (can bomb completely)
Might improve with experience
• Questions posed in activity (ignore questions)
• “Moderated on the fly” by instructor (peer?)
keeps chat productive
Drive
The chat function in Google Docs
Groups must
identify
themselves
Type here
The chat function appears as soon as two or more
people have opened the spreadsheet.
Chat excerpt - open
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wonky
To capture
chat: Must
copy & paste
into Word
Spring 2012
Chat excerpt – “moderated on the fly”
Summer 2012
Student feedback…
Summer 2012
1. Using Google chat is straight forward and easy.
Strongly Agree Agree No Opinion Disagree Strongly Disagree
24 students
Results: 11 13 0 0 0
4.46 100% aggreement
2. Google chat enhanced the groups’ ability to analyze the data.
Strongly Agree Agree No Opinion Disagree Strongly Disagree
Results: 12 11 0 1 0
4.42 96% agreement
3. Using Google chat was more efficient than using hard copy and the
telephone or email to discuss ideas and exchange results.
Strongly Agree Agree No Opinion Disagree Strongly Disagree
Results: 14 9 1 0 0
4.54 96% agreement
4. What is your overall rating of using Google chat during collaboration?
Very Good Good Average Poor Very Poor
Results: 10 9 4 1 0
4.17 79% above average
Student comments…
Positive
– Exchange of real-time data & rapid
communication regardless of location. Awesome!
– It was fun & a real hands-on experiment
– Quick & straight forward and don’t have to carry
on a long conversation, quick & to the point
Constructive
– Typing in chat is time consuming & people may fall
behind in the conversation ( video chat)
– Some information in chat can be missed when
many responds
Summer 2012
Some final thoughts
• Easy way to collect class data for comparison
and obtaining class statistics
• Moderated chat can produce some great
discussion/debate (prompt for evidence)
• Increases student engagement & thinking
• Great use of 21st century technology!!!
More info…
• Scott Sinex ssinex@pgcc.edu
http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex
• Ted Chambers tchambers@pgcc.edu
• Papers –
Mass, Measurement, Materials, and Mathematical Modeling: The Nuts
and Bolts of Extrapolation, Spreadsheets in
Education http://epublications.bond.edu.au/ejsie/vol5/iss1/3/
Mass, Measurement, Materials, and More Mathematical Modeling: The
Nuts and Bolts of Let’s Make an Error, Spreadsheets in Education to be
submitted
…and thanks for attending today!
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