Development of chemical forums, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, crowdsourcing, and social bookmarking websites for chemistry

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Mitch A. Garcia1, M. N. Ali2, Noel N Chang2, and Heino Nitsche, hnitsche@lbl.gov3. (1) College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, 446 Latimer, Berkeley, CA 94720, (2) Nuclear Science Division, LBNL and Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 88R0192, Berkeley, CA 94720, (3) Nuclear Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Chemistry and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 70R0319, Berkeley, CA 94720
Several social networking platforms have been created to facilitate chemical education in recent years by us. Chemicalforums.com is a community driven forum where any student can ask a question and any member can help answer. Chemblogs.org is a website for chemists to obtain their own blogs, similar to Blogger.com and Wordpress.com. Chemmunity.com is a website where all members help solve a chemical research question; it combines both wiki editing capabilities with a crowdsourcing approach to solving chemical phenomenon. Further experiments mixing Web 2.0 technologies with chemistry will be discussed.
 

Using Social Networking Tools to Teach Chemistry
8:30 AM-11:55 AM, Monday, April 7, 2008 Hilton New Orleans Riverside -- Oak Alley, Oral

Division of Chemical Education

The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008