Course Objectives:
To prepare you to speak in front of an audience on chemical subjects.
Assignments and Tentative Schedule:
Jan 16 Distribute evaluation sheets, schedule, define rapporteur,
Piaget's theory of learning, Bloom's taxonomy, Perry stages of cognition.
Jan 23 Discussion of J.F. Bunnett J. Chem. Ed. 1995, 72,
pg 1119, and Beall & Trimbur, Chapter 9.
Review evalution form, rapporteur report.
Friday, February 17 Select Accounts of Chemical Research paper
Feb 20 Open
Feb 27 Student talks and written summary, Accounts of Chemical Research. 15 min. Written outline.
March 6 No class--Spring Break
March 13 Turn in rapporteur report, evaluation conference, discuss article assigned by P. Seybold.
March 27 Open
April 3 Discuss Papers assigned by Pearsall.
April 11 TUESDAY Prof Mary-Ann Pearsall, Drew University
Title Activation of Triosmium Carbonyl Clusters by Bridging Ligands: Some
Chemistry of Os3(CO)10(Y)2 (Y = Cl, Br, I, OH, OR)
Assigned Papers S.E. Kabir, M.A. Mottalib, G.M. Golzar Hossain, E Nordlander, E.
Rosenberg, Polyhedron 2006, 25, 95-104, and E. Lucenti, D. Roberto, C. Roveda, R. Ugo, Organometallics, 1997,
16, 5974 – 5980.
Evaluation:
Written Summaries
15%
Evaluation and Rapporteur reports 15%
Two 15 minute talks
40%
30 minute talk
30%
Papers selected for student presentations must be no more than
"one year old"; that is, they must have been published after January, 2005.
The final 30-minute talk must be based on a paper from either J Amer Chem Soc or the ACS publication that is the premiere journal of the subdiscipline, for example, Inorganic Chem or J Org Chem. Some non-ACS publications that have historical significance can be used, such as J Chem Phys and J Biological Chemistry.
Responsibilities:
Each member of the audience must come to the seminar room with enough evaluation
forms for all talks. The first page of the evaluation form must be
initialed and dated.
With every talk the speaker must distribute to each member
of the audience a written outline that includes the title of the talk, date
of the talk, name of the speaker, and journal article (author, title, and
citation). The outline will also indicate how the speaker used
ideas about learning (Piagetian learning/Perry's levels/Bloom's taxonomy)
in preparing the talk. (For the second and third talks one copy of
a written summary of the article must be also submitted.) The speaker is
responsible for arranging all audiovisual materials and hand outs. The
speaker must plan the talk to fit the allotted time; talks that are too long
or too short will be receive lower evaluations! After the allotted
time for the talk there will be a brief question and answer period. Then
the speaker and the professor will leave the room.
An envelope bearing the speaker's name will contain the name of the rapporteur. The primary job of the rapporteur is to gather the evaluations of the audience and write the rapporteur report, which is a summary of comments, criticisms, and suggestions for the speaker.
After the rapporteur is identified, the rapporteur will lead a discussion of the talk, roughly
five minutes long, going over the items
in the evaluation form. The audience members may write new comments
on the form based on the discussions. When the rapporteur is satisified,
he or she gathers the evaluation forms (and written summary) and places them
in the envelope. The next speaker summons the professor and speaker to return to the room.
The rapporteur should evaluate the content and presentation
of the talk, its appropriateness for the audience, how well it reflected
the material in the article, and how well the speaker followed the outline
in giving the talk. The report should include suggestions for future
talks. The rapporteur report should be one-page long, singled-spaced;
it must include the name of the speaker, the title of the talk, and the date
of the talk--it must NOT contain the name of the rapporteur.
One week after the talk the rapporteur submits two copies of the report
. The rapporteur meets for roughly ten minutes with the professor to
discuss the rapporteur report. The rapporteur returns the written evaluations
and summary. After the meeting with the rapporteur, the professor meets
with the speaker for roughly ten minutes to present the speaker with his
or her copy of the rapporteur report; they review the report and evaluate
the talk. The professor retains one copy of the rapporteur report and
either an outline or summary for his records. The professor returns
to each audience mmeber the first page of the evaluation form.
Variations: For outside
speakers a rapporteur team will be appointed to write the rapporteur report.
The seminar students will meet briefly following the talk to review
the evaluation, and the team will collect the forms. At the next class
meeting the rapporteur report will be read and discussed.