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Immersive view in zoom makes small classroom teaching look so surreal and interesting. I have prepared a guide here to help get started.

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There are many ways we can incorporate games/ quizzes in our lessons. This is a great way to engage and also to collect feedback from students. One of my favorite platform is Kahoot!

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I have bought the surface pro several years ago to experiment with online teaching and this came in really useful in the recent years for online teaching. For a start, you can write/ annotate directly on your powerpoint files and this is really very useful. As we do more and online teaching, I do realize that a combination of presentation modes are necessary to engage and support students learning.

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Personally, i think the ipad pencil and samsung tablets with s-pen provides pretty good writing experience. One useful tool is to screencast the tablets to your laptop/desktop so that the control for zoom is still primarily on the desktop/laptop computer. For Samsung, the Samsung connect allows it to cast to laptops and apple devices require an app/ software such as the mirroring 360 that works well too.

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You can convert your webcam to a self-made visualiser/ document camera by positioning the camera directly above the paper that you are going write on. It takes a few iterations to get the correct height/ lighting etc. You can make use of lego blocks at home as it allows you to flexibly adjust the height. Otherwise, a tripod will also work well for this. If there is a company that can sell a stand where i can directly place my webcam or camera to mimic a visualiser, i think they will have good business from teachers.

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"We used an analogy to recent superhero movies. The trend in superhero movies these days is no longer one which a single superhero saves the day. Today, we see that a group of superheroes with different superpowers have to work together to solve bigger threats and challenges."

In summer 2018, together with academics from different engineering disciplines, I led the first multidisciplinary team project for SIT-NU students during their Overseas Immersion Program.

Students from across four different engineering disciplines came together to work in small groups and tackle sustainable engineering challenges including reducing food waste, waste-to-fuel technologies, and reducing plastic waste.

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Teaching chemical engineering students industrial symbiosis using online resources: A Singapore case study

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Teaching chemical engineering students industrial symbiosis using online resources: A Singapore case study

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Yin C-Y, Lee LY. Education for Chemical Engineers 2019, 27, 28-34

In this paper, a new and simple qualitative teaching method incorporating online (cyberspace) resources (e.g. Google Maps™) aimed at introducing the concept of industrial symbiosis (IS) to chemical engineering students is described. This method has been trialled as an exercise for a module as part of a chemical engineering degree programme taught in Singapore with integrated local industries and circumstances.

(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ece.2019.01.001)

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Simple Visual-Aided Automated Titration Using the Python Programming Language

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Simple Visual-Aided Automated Titration Using the Python Programming Language

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Song Wei Benjamin Tan, Pavan Kumar Naraharisetti, Siew Kian Chin, and Lai Yeng Lee

Journal of Chemical Education 2020 97 (3), 850-854

In this technology report, an open source programming language is used to automate a simple laboratory experiment commonly performed by Chemistry and Chemical Engineering students. It is introduced and demonstrated to the students from a 3-year Chemical Engineering undergraduate program. The aim of this activity is to allow students to appreciate the integration of knowledge from Chemistry and Computer Science.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00802

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00802

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For Discussion, I used Padlet as the platform to allow students to ask questions and comment on the module. In the beginning of the class, this is not adopted were much by students, but i see students warming up to its use. Perhaps at the beginning, they still not very clear on what to ask etc. Padlet is very easy to use and very convenient for us to keep an overview of the topics of interest or concern to the students.

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Tutorials are different from lectures, lots of explanations and writing. As such, i used Camtasia which has an easier editing toolbox. Camtasia is also screen capture and I used it in making tutorial videos. For the writing and derivation part, I use a self-made visualizer (Out of recycled materials) together with Whitelines paper to capture my writing and expanation. The screen capture tool allows me to toggle easier through the writing, Excel and MATLAB demonstration.

One alternative that can be used is the ZOOM online webinar. This can be used to facilitate e tutorials and e consultations. Just attended the training from CIT and look forward to testing it with our students by next week.

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I started this when I missed my lecture due to CNY this year. So we can record in our own office or at home. I used Panapto mainly because it allows the ppt slides to be captured very well and that students can skip to the slides they want to focus on if say they are watching for the 2nd time.  In LumiNUS, we can analyze the statistics and see how many students watch the videos and also how much (%) they watched. Self-recorded lecture tends to be faster paced that webcast as it lacks the interactions with students. In future, i will plan to put in activities like a quiz in intervals during the recording.

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For lectures where i have to do self recording during the lecture session, I used screen recording tool Panapto on my laptop. This is a bit tricky in terms of recording the voice. As we walk around during lecture. Also, as i am using a Surface Pro with smart pen. The writing on the laptop screen causes very noisy background sounds and makes the video very difficult to hear. My solution for this was to use my Trekz Titanium bluetooth (bone conduction) earpiece with built-in mic for the voice. Works very well as its hands free and wire free.. And because its bone conduction, it does not hinder my hearing. Downside is because I’m using my laptop, it doesn’t capture my writing on the whiteboard or on the visualizer. Since I’m aware of this, I try to keep my writing on the laptop as much as possible since it has a smart pen. Also, screen capture works very well when doing demo on software like Excel and Matlab.

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This is mainly provided by our University IT support, where a recording during our lecture session will be made. Quality is good if you use the mic and capture the sound. One feature i like is that LTs like LT6 allow 2 screen projection, So i can keep my powerpoint on one side and also do demo/derivations on the visualiser that will be beamed on the other side. Both sides are captured during the recording simultaneously and so its really nice.

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One of my favorite moments in teaching is the Ah HA! moment or the moment when the student understand a concept and goes "Orhh..."
Recently, with the teaching of Material and Energy Balances, a core module in Chemical Engineering holding the threshold concepts for the course. The joy in the process is really to see the blur faces turning to "ORhhhh..." For students, learning a new concept fires up the neurons in their brains and helps them to connect their experiences to the subject.
One of the important note for me is to continue to find ways to create these Ah HA! moments for the students and to get them interested in the learning process.

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Sharing of the highlights of teaching practices of particle technology at AIChE WCPT 2018

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Sharing of the highlights of teaching practices of particle technology at AIChE WCPT 2018

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Particle Technology (or Solids Handling) is an important module in Chemical Engineering Education. This poster highlights the best practices by lecturers from NUS, NTU and Newcastle University in Singapore!

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Renewable Energy Technologies Presentations in ACE classrooms (SIT-NU)

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Renewable Energy Technologies Presentations in ACE classrooms (SIT-NU)