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CSD Educators: Christine Zardecki from the Protein Data Bank (PDB)

Ilaria Gimondi – Thu, 20 May 2021 09:27:00 GMT

For this CSD Educators blog, our guest is Christine Zardecki, from the RCSB PDB. This year, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) is celebrating their 50th anniversary and we are delighted to share with you a bit about their journey in education and the building of the PDB-101 educational resources.

CSD Educators: Alessia Bacchi from Università di Parma

Ilaria Gimondi – Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:41:00 GMT

For this CSD Educators blog, I have the pleasure to introduce to you Prof. Alessia Bacchi, from the University of Parma in Italy. In this blog, Alessia will talk to us about her recent experience teaching "virtually" the use of Mercury and the CSD in high schools, with the goal to help students and teachers with the learning and teaching of three-dimensional concepts, such as the geometry of molecules.

CSD-Educators: the CCDC Virtual Workshops Experience

Ilaria Gimondi – Tue, 15 Dec 2020 16:20:00 GMT

For this CSD Educators blog we wanted to share with you our experience hosting our first CCDC Virtual Workshops. The CCDC Virtual Workshops are interactive live sessions aimed at training our community remotely in using the CSD Software, and we launched the first series of three 90-minutes sessions in November 2020. We wanted to deliver a proper workshop, where you had the chance to try exercises yourself, ask us your questions, discuss together the issues you encounter and interact with us. After much thinking, planning and experimenting, we brought to you the CCDC Virtual Workshops.

In this blog you will read more about the format, the numbers, and what we have learnt from this experience.

CSD-Educators: Michael Zdilla Professor at Temple University

Ilaria Gimondi – Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:39:00 GMT

It is my pleasure to welcome Professor Michael Zdilla from Temple University as our guest for the third blog of the CSD Educators series. In his journey through crystallography teaching, Mike has created the Database for Educational Crystallographic Online Resources (DECOR), which we now host here at the CCDC. In its creator’s words, “DECOR is the world’s first online repository of shared teaching materials for crystallographic education. The site has an array of downloadable visual aids, animations, homework problems, and links to online courses and software downloads. DECOR is a resource for anyone in search of teaching tools for development of a new course for crystallography, augmentation of existing courses, or the pursuit of an informal education in crystallography and diffraction.”

CCDC Home Learning Collection

Ilaria Gimondi – Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:33:00 GMT

Highlights and insights about our home-friendly activities for kids, towards the discovery of the wonders of crystals.

IYPT through Crystals: voices, elements and structures

Ilaria Gimondi – Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:13:00 GMT

Reflections on the IYPT in Crystals project - including the competition winners, educational resources you can use at home, and what's next for the fantastic entries collected from across the community.

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CSD Educators: Christine Zardecki from the Protein Data Bank (PDB)

CSD Educators: Alessia Bacchi from Università di Parma

CSD-Educators: the CCDC Virtual Workshops Experience

CSD-Educators: Michael Zdilla Professor at Temple University

CCDC Home Learning Collection

IYPT through Crystals: voices, elements and structures

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