Members of the group have asked for some time during the next tutorial on revision and exam preparation. I will also need to cover some Book 7 "Quarks to quasars" content.
The tutorial is planned for fairly early in the the book 7 work, so I will focus on atomic and nuclear structure. We have touched on these topics earlier in S104, so there should be a good degree of familiarity.
I looked at an old TMA and decided to base much of the session on two topics: energy levels, spectra and hydrogen-like ions, and on nuclear reactions and decays. I prepared a Word document for me to use, with the questions and answer notes, and with some illustrative material from S104 and S282.
In case we get through that fairly quickly, I printed off some handouts for my Hubble expansion activity. I devised this activity at the start of S104, as one of the 'offical' tutorial resources. It would be useful if we can do this activity, because it links very well with the cosmology online discussion I have just initiated on the forum.
I then worked though the S104 specimen exam paper to familiarise myself with the contents. I will recommend that in the exam students do the Part B question first (presumably a graph), then the computer-marked Part A questions. The two longer questions from Part C should be left until last. I think it should be reasonable for people to aim to get through the exam in around two hours. After doing Part B and Part A I suspect most people will have reached or be close to their 40% pass mark.
I also printed out the short questions from an old S103 end of Course Assessment. We can work through some of these in the tutorial.
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S104 tutorial - book 7 and revision
Tuesday 16 April 2013 at 14:07
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SXP288 Elluminate for NMR: Chemical structures
Monday 8 April 2013 at 10:05
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To support the students' work on nuclear magnetic resonance in SXP288 (Practical science: physics and astronomy) we need to run two Elluminate sessions fairly close together. I decided to offer these fairly early as the information I had from students indicated they were making rapid progress through the NMR topic. I used two Doodle polls to let students indicate their preferred days of the week.
The first session covers valency and covalent bonds, functional groups, structural formulae, naming conventions and isomers for some simple organic molecules. The module team provide a short PowerPoint presentation based around fifteen slides including a few test questions at the end requiring students to identify structures and to draw structural formulae.
I reviewed the PowerPoint I used last year and made a few minor changes. This file ran to twenty slides. I had already included additional slides reviewing the naming conventions and I also split the test questions over more slides to improve clarity. I also stretched some of the images to improve the readability in Elluminate.
I prepared a pdf file from the PowerPoint slides, and used PDF Annotator (along with my Tablet PC) to hand write my speaking notes onto the slides. I also included all the annotations I planned to provide with Elluminate via the Tablet PC.
After printing this out I ran through the presentation myself. I still felt that students would find applying the naming rules difficult during the test questions unless they had easy access to the appropriate material. Therefore I extracted a few key slides into a separate PowerPoint, and exported this to a pdf file. This was then posted on the tutor group forum along with a suggestion for students to print it out ready for the session.
I posted this file and discussed it within Elluminate with my colleague Sye Murray.
Al this activity took nearly a day.
The first session covers valency and covalent bonds, functional groups, structural formulae, naming conventions and isomers for some simple organic molecules. The module team provide a short PowerPoint presentation based around fifteen slides including a few test questions at the end requiring students to identify structures and to draw structural formulae.
I reviewed the PowerPoint I used last year and made a few minor changes. This file ran to twenty slides. I had already included additional slides reviewing the naming conventions and I also split the test questions over more slides to improve clarity. I also stretched some of the images to improve the readability in Elluminate.
I prepared a pdf file from the PowerPoint slides, and used PDF Annotator (along with my Tablet PC) to hand write my speaking notes onto the slides. I also included all the annotations I planned to provide with Elluminate via the Tablet PC.
After printing this out I ran through the presentation myself. I still felt that students would find applying the naming rules difficult during the test questions unless they had easy access to the appropriate material. Therefore I extracted a few key slides into a separate PowerPoint, and exported this to a pdf file. This was then posted on the tutor group forum along with a suggestion for students to print it out ready for the session.
I posted this file and discussed it within Elluminate with my colleague Sye Murray.
Al this activity took nearly a day.
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