External Education Links

Photonics Topics

These external links may be useful for your research

Optoelectronics

Optoelectronics module UNC

Liquid Crystals at CWRU

Organic Light Emitting Diodes

Building a simple OLED

Nanotechnology and Photonics Lab videos

Royal Society of Chemistry OLED lesson plan

Photovoltaics

National Renewable Energy Laborartory

Engineering

Engineering Pathway

Nanotechnology

National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Nanotechnology education hub

Reference Sources

COPE: Center for Organic Photonics & Electronics at Georgia Tech

ISI Science Citation Index

Material Safety Data Sheets Search from Cornell University

NIST Chemistry Webbook

NIST Physics Database

Organic Compounds Database

Spectral Database System for Organic Compounds

Abbreviations for Journal Names

Useful Compilation of Information About Organic Chemistry

Electron Microscopy Overview

TLC Staining

Answer Keys for Problems from Grossman's Book

Simple Program for Huckel MOs, easy to use!

A Broad List of Named Reagents that you may come across

IUPAC Glossary of Physical Organic Chemistry

K-12 Educational Resources

The Physics Classroom - Tutorials, demonstrations and manipulatives

Flash Animations for Physics

Molecular Expressions- Science Optics and You

Teacher domain- K12 resource with lots of media

Curriki- K-12 Lessons

How Science Works - UC Berkeley program gives an excellent overview of scientific process(es)

Hyperphysics Georgia State University- concept maps and explanations

Pathyways to Science

APS Project Sol- Animation explains silicon solar solar cells

Solar Cell Kit-How to build your own solar cell

About Elearning

General Info

Fostering E-learning in the Networked World- NSF

Cornell Learning Molecule Concept

Creative Commons Content Licenses

The Carnegie Commons - Technology, teaching and learning

Digital Libraries

National Science Digital Library - NSDL

Applied Math and Science Education Respository

Chemical Education Digital Library

MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

The Chem Collective- Online resources for Teaching and Learning Chemistry

SMETE Digital Library Science Mathematics Engineering and Technology Education

Other Wikis

Special wiki from the Thz group at UMBC

Wikipedia

Wikibooks

Wikimedia

Wikiversity

Open Courseware

MIT Open Courseware

Open Educational Commons

Open Learning Initiative

Tools

eXe xhtml authoring software for building modules with SCORM output.

JMOL molecular 3D manipulation tool and plugin

Open Science Project - software tools for scientists

Chem Spider Chemical Structures Database

Moodle Course Management System

Sakai Collaboration tools for Higher Ed

Freemind Concept Mapping Software

Wordle- create snazzy graphics from vocabulary, or text