External Education Links
Content Topics
These external links may be useful for your research
Engineering
Optoelectronics
Organic Light Emitting Diodes
Nanotechnology and Photonics Lab videos
Royal Society of Chemistry OLED lesson plan
Materials Science
University of Cambridge Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science (DoITPoMS)
Nanotechnology
National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Photovoltaics
National Renewable Energy Laborartory
Photonics and Communications Technology
Reference Sources
COPE: Center for Organic Photonics & Electronics at Georgia Tech
Material Safety Data Sheets Search from Cornell University
Spectral Database System for Organic Compounds
Abbreviations for Journal Names
Useful Compilation of Information About Organic Chemistry
Answer Keys for Problems from Grossman's Book
Simple Program for Huckel MOs, easy to use!
A Broad List of Named Reagents that you may come across
IUPAC Glossary of Physical Organic Chemistry
K-12 Educational Resources
The Physics Classroom - Tutorials, demonstrations and manipulatives
Molecular Expressions- Science Optics and You
Teacher domain- K12 resource with lots of media
How Science Works - UC Berkeley program gives an excellent overview of scientific process(es)
Hyperphysics Georgia State University- concept maps and explanations
Hands On Demos and Activity Ideas
Note: this is a brainstorming area that GPAC can use to help collaborate on the science demo kits.
HANDS ON OPTICS- (from OSA, SPIE and NOA0
APS Project Sol- Animation explains silicon solar solar cells
Solar Cell Kit-How to build your own solar cell
Innovative Methods to Teach Optics in the Grade 5- (including jello optics)
Resources for Informal Science Education
Informal Science Education - Good resource to see what museums are doing with outreach activities.
E-learning
General Info
Fostering E-learning in the Networked World- NSF
Cornell Learning Molecule Concept
Creative Commons Content Licenses
The Carnegie Commons - Technology, teaching and learning
Digital Libraries
National Science Digital Library - NSDL
Applied Math and Science Education Respository
Chemical Education Digital Library
MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
The Chem Collective- Online resources for Teaching and Learning Chemistry
SMETE Digital Library Science Mathematics Engineering and Technology Education
Other Wikis
Special wiki from the Thz group at UMBC
Open Courseware
Tools
eXe xhtml authoring software for building modules with SCORM output.
JMOL molecular 3D manipulation tool and plugin
Open Science Project - software tools for scientists
Chem Spider Chemical Structures Database
Moodle Course Management System
Sakai Collaboration tools for Higher Ed