Concept

Calculator Skills

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:03 -0400

This tutorial is geared towards four simple tasks:

Introduction to scientific calculators
Showing best way to enter scientific notation
Illustrating issues with entering operations
Showing a handful of tips and tricks in dealing with scientific calculations

For the FLASH version of the lecturette click here:
http://media.usm.maine.edu/~dstasko/files/calc_media/

Downloadable Movie and helper documents
( All of the links below can be "right-clicked-Save as")

Calculator Tutorial Movie (Quicktime Format)
Link LARGE 211 Mb (ouch)

Link iPod compatible 85 Mb

Slides with problems from tutorial (PDF)
Link

quiz (eventually for blackboard)
Under construction

Partial Review: Basic Organic Reactions

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:05:31 -0500

The is a pencast that covers a handful of the basic chemical reaction related to Alkanes, Alkenes, Haloalkenes, and Alcohols for a pre-organic level chemistry class.

This pencast is not viewable in this preview. Click More below.

Free Radical Substitution of Alkanes: Extra Examples

Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:25:36 -0500

This is a pencast that moves a set of extra examples out of the Intro to Organic and Biochemistry class.
The pencast is not viewable in this preview, click Read More to see more.

Homework questions to follow shortly.

The Digestive System

Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:30:45 -0500

This is a ‘guest’ pencast by one of our colleagues, Rachel Simons. Rachel is teaching LCC130 Biology of Human Health and crafted these two lecturettes that relate to the way our bodies handle food.

Pencast Flash code is not visible in this preview. Click on the Read More link to see pencasts.

Quiz Questions (MC/TF) : PDF

Molarity review

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:38:22 -0500

This tutorials goal is to prepare students to begin solution related problems in the second semester of General Chemistry. It work on the assumption that these topics have been covered before.

The main concepts reviewed will be the three basic ways in which Molarity is utilized in solution problems: determining the molarity of a solution, dilution style problems, and measuring changes in the quantity of reactant in solutions given molarity and volumes.

Slides related to Pencast with example questions: PDF

This lecturette is done as a pencast (which is not viewable in the preview unless you click the Read More link below.)

Likely test questions related to the lecturette. PDF

Excel Tutorial

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:02:27 -0500

This tutorial is geared towards three simple tasks:

Introduction of common keyboard shortcuts that can simplify utilization of many document manipulations.
Creation of X-Y style charts in excel.
Obtaining a regression line from the chart and obtaining useful information from it.

For the FLASH version of the lectureette click here:
http://media.usm.maine.edu/~dstasko/files/ctel_tut1/lecturette/

Downloadable Movie and helper documents( All of the links below can be "right-clicked-Save as")

Excel Tutorial Movie (Quicktime Format)
~18 min 52.5 Mb (smaller would be better, less than 20 Mb is the goal)
Link

Excel Tutorial document (needed for quiz as well)
xls document
Link

quiz (eventually for blackboard)
Link

Typical Math Operations

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:18:13 -0500

Under construction