Mapping out Chemistry Lectures

Well, it's not chemistry poetry, but if I do my job well enough I should be increasing the market for it. I'm using Apple's Keynote to make these, but was inspired by the Prezi software, which allows you to navigate around a map like this and pan in and out to different locations. I haven't decided exactly how I'll present it, but the non-linearity of it helps me organize my thoughts. Deciding where to draw connections gets me to ask myself questions that I otherwise probably wouldn't. Now I think that "Periodic Table Organization" is taking up way too much real estate, and I should just toss it and put the "properties" node in the middle. Yeesh, that's going to get messy. Okay, back to it. Classes start in a week and a half.

Comments

[I-Hung Chiang]

Mary:
I think you could split this into two levels. The first level is the center "periodic table organizer". It will have 4 different branchs, Period, Groups, properties and "classicfication". This way, you leave the first level simpler. If you click on any branch. The subgrouping show up and you could go into third level. I am not sure the program could do this, but this will reduce the clustering...

I-Hung

[Mary]

Great ideas, thank you! I can use the animation tools in Keynote to have branches appear, and also to zoom in and out on different regions of the map. I recently realized that my classroom set up is such that most students won't see the bottom half of the screen, so I will have to get creative anyway... Thanks for the suggestions!