Now that I’m retired, one of my projects is to create YouTube videos for general chemistry. With interest in the flipped classroom increasing, teachers will be able to more easily switch to that method of teaching if high-quality videos are available. I plan to make the videos available one chapter at a time, with a video for each chapter section. The first video is about ready to record. Getting the PowerPoint slides put together has been very time-consuming because I’ve never gone deeply into the topics of “What is chemistry?” or “How does the scientific method really work?” Last fall, 2021, I began by reviewing the literature on how to make instructional videos. That led me to discover the Modern Classroom Project. I completed the training they offered, and earned a certificate. Those folks are turning education around. Although the project is aimed at K-12 classes, it will be used in college classrooms, too, as college teachers learn about it. It uses the flipped classroom approach, combined with mastery-based grading, which allow students to be self-paced. I highly recommend taking their free course.

Here is a video that I thought was an example of how not to teach, but my wife sees it as demonstrating a different way of looking at shapes: Everything goes in the square hole.