Michael Seery's articles

Ideas

Stop motion animation to facilitate group discussion

27 October 2014

Learning and understanding chemical concepts through a stop motion animation activity

Opinion

There's something about maths...

29 September 2014

In this week's post, Michael Seery aims to start a discussion about how we teach maths for chemistry

Opinion

Teaching for transition

15 September 2014

It's a new academic year, and in this post, I have a look at some strategies that can help students make the transition from second to third level

Opinion

A chance to reflect

10 September 2014

Bringing together ideas from education research and teaching practice

Events

Variety in Chemistry Education conference report

1 September 2014

This year the ViCE meeting was held in Durham, and in this article, I try to give a flavour of some of the themes discussed

Opinion

Integrating art into the chemistry curriculum

21 August 2014

The recent Chemistry World themed issue on Chemistry and Art brought to mind a range of possibilities for integrating art into the chemistry curriculum by means of context based learning

Events

Context Based Learning at #ICCE2014

28 July 2014

In this post, I give some detail of the Context Based Learning symposium from the recent International Conference on Chemical Education (ICCE).

Events

Lots of chemistry education at #ICCE2014

14 July 2014

The 2014 International Conference on Chemistry Education began its first full day yesterday

Opinion

Warming to PeerWise

16 June 2014

In this post I have an argument with myself about whether I will use PeerWise. I'm not sure which side wins...

Opinion

Teaching thermochemistry

2 June 2014

A survey of some useful recent articles on the teaching of thermochemistry and thermodynamics for second and third level students