MSU lab instructor’s innovation reaching students, educators across U.S.
others learn during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo sent) STARKVILLE, Miss.– A member of Mississippi State’s Department of Chemistry is gaining a nationwide online existence through her innovative chemistry lab videos developed to help educators supply laboratory direction in the face of COVID-19.
Teresa Brown, an MSU speaker and basic chemistry laboratory coordinator, has actually produced lots of videos because March, with nationwide viewership reaching 12,000 trainees and teachers and more than 740 hours of watch-time logged. To see Brown’s YouTube channel chemistry videos, go to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjx8bWzK265GUefqpfPjOkw.
“I belong to a chemistry instructor Facebook group and have actually published ideas about keeping recording easy,” Brown said. “My ideas stimulated interest and subsequent videos followed.”
Brown stated she started creating videos for online laboratory conversion at the beginning of MSU’s response to the pandemic, and she started publishing videos to her individual YouTube channel.
“After the extreme work put into the videos, I believed I might make them public so others can benefit. There are trainers all over the nation in the precise same situation as me, and we are all just trying to cope and help each other,” Brown stated.
“Going online has actually helped me discover the beauty of chemistry for myself. I am forced deep within to share my excitement and see others make a connection to the material. That is what drives me as an instructor. Having the ability to share it with other educators is simply a perk,” Brown stated.
“In the face of the scary reality of COVID-19, Teresa’s innovative production for our trainees, and apparently a quickly growing external chemistry neighborhood of followers, is not only method beyond expectations, however a big bright beacon of motivation for everyone to see and share,” stated Dennis W. Smith Jr., MSU teacher and chemistry department head.
“Teresa has actually taken her enthusiasm for chemistry and revealed trainees the appeal of each reaction through quality video recording and modifying,” stated Whitnee Nettles, an assistant scientific teacher of chemistry and Brown’s coach. “I believe it’s easy to see why Teresa’s lab videos have been met such enthusiasm, not simply here at MSU but with other trainers throughout the country, also.”
Brown said she thinks she has “a duty to surpass just triage and to make something significant that might help others who are riding the very same struggle bus.”
“Though no experience can change hands-on knowing, there is worth to being able to see chemistry in a new method that a person would not get to experience seeing through foggy safety glasses and hurrying to finish on time,” Brown stated.
She credits chemistry graduate mentor assistants Edward Acheampong, Mahmuda Akter, Abdullah Anzeh, Matthew Carlo, Naba Das, Evans Fosu, Hari Giri, Widana Kaushayla, Dexin Liu, Gustavo Munoz, Tran Nguyen, Hoang Pham, Arma Regmi, Daniela Sanchez, Gabriela Sanchez-Lecuona, Hellen Stephanie, and Raihan Uddin for helping with the video production success.
“All of these students are part of my remarkable ChemDawg team,” Brown said. “None of the videos, nor online laboratory transition, would have been possible without their help. I constantly state I have the very best mentor assistants on campus and it was truly a ChemDawg synergy.”
A native of Amarillo, Texas, Brown got her 2011 master’s degree in chemistry from Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, after making her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry there in 2008. Brown received both the 2018 and 2019 The Majority Of Exceptional Graduate Mentor Assistant award for MSU’s Department of Chemistry.
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