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Joel Karty, author and master teacher, developed more than 80 videos and narrated animations on elementary mechanisms and problem-solving in organic chemistry. These videos are specifically designed to counter common student misconceptions and are used in the ebook as well as Smartwork online homework. These engaging videos and animations were built around Joel Karty’s text pedagogy and go hand-in-hand with his approach. This results in a cohesive learning package with a unified approach across ebook, videos, and Smartwork online homework.
These 20 videos guide students on how to solve difficult types of problems or visualize difficult topics. They are built around Joel’s pedagogy, complement book sections, and provide students with strategies for doing well on key concepts in the course.
“These videos are fantastic! They are very professional; you guys do great work!”
—Paige Hoyt, student at University of Findlay
Whiteboard videos of 50 selected mechanisms covered in the book discuss common mistakes along the way, helping students learn to draw mechanisms on their own. Half have been recorded by Kristen Barrett, Rowan University.
“I would personally use this video to help learn chair conformations, and I would recommend any classmates who struggled too to watch it.”
—Phoenix Dasbach, student at University of Findlay
These 15 animations help students visualize what is happening on a molecular level during the elementary steps. They also show simultaneous concomitant changes to the energy diagram and drawn curved arrows.
Intuitive online homework built by organic chemists. Smartwork is an online homework system that helps students practice applying organic chemistry, which in turn helps them to retain it. The system offers over 4,000 interactive questions—all with hints, feedback, and ebook links—so that students receive coaching in real time.
Over 1,100 graded mechanism problems that support the text’s organization and pedagogy.
Multistep mechanism and synthesis problems are graded for each step and feedback is given for each step so that students know where they went wrong.
Smartwork grades can report directly to your LMS gradebook, while individual and class-wide performance reports help you see students’ progress, identify challenging concepts, and intervene with students who struggled with those concepts.
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On-demand support from a dedicated customer success manager who will consult on course design integrate our tools into your LMS, and provide ongoing support. In a recent survey, 91 percent of instructors felt supported or very supported using Norton learning tools.
Students can read the interactive ebook with embedded videos exploring key skills and helping students visualize mechanisms and elementary steps as they are introduced. The ebook provides an active reading experience, featuring click-to-reveal answers for Your Turn exercises, as well as enabling students to take notes, bookmark, search, highlight, and read offline.
Students can also work problems in Smartwork with its intuitive 2D molecular drawing and multi-step tools to allow students to practice drawing mechanisms while receiving coaching in real time with answer-specific feedback.
Over 4,000 problems, including over 1,100 graded mechanism problems, support the text’s organization and pedagogy within Smartwork online homework. Get started quickly with our premade assignments for each chapter, plus new MCAT skill-building assignments, or take advantage of Smartwork’s flexibility by customizing questions and adding your own content.
Norton Teaching Tools also includes activities, classroom demonstrations, and lab experiment suggestions for in-person, online, and hybrid learning environments.
In addition to the animations and videos that can be used during class time, the Solved Problem PowerPoint lecture slides allows for in-class group problem solving.
More than 80 videos and narrated animations on elementary steps, mechanisms, and important skills in organic chemistry. These videos are specifically designed to counter common student misconceptions and to be inclusive for all students. Like the book itself, the videos also help students to develop and apply critical thinking skills.
Our new Norton Teaching Tools provide all of the support resources instructors need to make the switch to an organization by mechanism and continually refresh their syllabus with creative, diverse resources. Dynamic and experienced instructors have created the wealth of resources in this searchable, sortable online repository.
Joel Karty’s Author blog, teachthemechanism.com is a platform for a community of instructors to share their experiences and insights, have open forum discussions, view sample materials, and watch videos of Joel.
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