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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
Harry E. Pence of the
Department of
Chemistry and Biochemistry at the SUNY College at Oneonta coordinated a
symposium on the use of web-based social-networking tools in the teaching of
chemistry at last month's national meeting of the American Chemical Society
in Chicago. The April 23 issue of Chemical and Engineering News
features an article entitled
"New
Education Tools" that quotes Dr. Pence and examines the use of tools
such as blogs, wikis, and podcasts in teaching chemistry.
A long-time proponent of teaching with technology and of
collaborative learning, Dr. Pence organized the recent symposium with
Dr. Andrea Gay, a post-doctoral fellow at Washington University in St.
Louis.
At the symposium, Dr. Pence offered a presentation entitled "What is
the future of social networking software in the chemistry classroom?" He
and his daughter, Laura, an associate professor of chemistry at the
University of Hartford, were co-presenters for a session entitled "RSS
and social tagging: On the desktop and in the classroom." Both are
quoted in the article in "Chemical and Engineering News."
More than 12,000 scientists attended the spring meeting of the
American Chemical Society.
Before joining the SUNY-Oneonta faculty in 1967, Harry Pence
completed his doctorate at Louisiana State University and taught for
five years at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, PA. He was
promoted to the rank of professor in 1969 and received the SUNY
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1987. In 1998, Dr.
Pence was promoted to the rank of SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor.
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