Rod's Pulse Podcast on Better Chemistry throughE-Learning chemistry

Rodney B. Murray interviewed me last week for his educational podcast:

Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of Chemistry and E-Learning Coordinator, College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University

• Drexel CoAS E-Learning Blog
• Drexel CoAS E-Learning Podcast
• Drexel Island on Second Life

• Open Notebook Science using Blogs and Wikis
• Teaching Chemistry with Second Life
• Other topics and tools mentioned:
• Audacity - free audio editing tool
• Blogger - free blog service
• Camtasia Studio - screen recorder
• Creative Commons - licenses for authors, artists, and educators
• Feedburner - manage RSS feeds and track subscribers
• Second Life - a 3D virtual world
• SMILES - for describing chemical molecules
• WikiSpaces - free Wiki service

Just got my invite for SciFoo 08 (August 8-10) - I look forward to another intense meeting and catching up with friends and collaborators!
Last year was truly enlightening.

Google Custom Search for Open Notebook Science chemistry

There has been a discussion recently on Michael Nielsen's blog about using a Google Custom Search for Open Notebook Science. Starting with UsefulChem, ChemTools (Cameron Neylon), OpenWetWare and Gus Rosania's 1CellPK, I created a search:

http://tinyurl.com/4multu

More sites can be added by volunteers. It will only work for sites that are accessible by a simple url (without a login).

Give it a spin by searching "malaria" or "protein".

We've already been using the Google Custom search for UsefulChem and it really works well - see the search box at the top of the UC wiki main page. It is also useful for teaching - for example to aggregate high level content about organic chemistry.