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
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Developing online collaboration skills in general chemistry
Scott Sinex and Ted ChambersPrince 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)
• 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)
Only lab dimensions!
The collaboration tool - Google Docs
• Use online form to collect data
• Examine class data in spreadsheet LCD projector and computers at lab stations for each group
• Use chat function to discuss class resultsScenario for mock collaboration
• Collect student feedback too via a form
Provide links on course webpage
Drive
Class Laboratory activity Collaboration effort
In first semesterGeneral
Chemistry
Nuts & Bolts of Extrapolation -Massing bolt with 1 to 5 nutsDetermine bolt mass by extrapolating to zero nuts Spring /Summer 2012
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
Summer 201224 students
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)
• 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