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LittleBigPlanet

One of the reasons the PS3 is my favoriite console (along with God of War and Uncharted).  I made some chemistry-themed levels that, by some freak twist of fate, ended up earning me an award/grant from HASTAC.org and the MacArthur Foundation.

 

 

General Chemistry Concepts (YouTube)

A series of video tutorials originally made for my classes.  Nothing fancy. Just myself, a notepad, and a camera over my shoulder.  Here's a sample.  I don't think I'm this boring in real life, but I could be terribly, terribly wrong.

I'd hoped to do more, but other projects keep pushing it down the to-do list, plus the guy that did the editing for me is now working somewhere else, meaning I'll have to start doing these all by myself.

 

Mark's Chemistry Tutor

The internet was just a baby in 1995.  The most popular browser was Netscape, Yahoo was nothing but a list of links, and since modem speeds were limited to a blazing 28 kb/sec, pirating was limited to those lucky enough to know someone in a warez ring.  As I was finishing my first year of grad school I learned that I too could join the literally thousands of people joining this world wide web thingy.  There were already enough pages devoted to Van Halen and Star Wars, so I figured I'd do a page on the only other thing I knew anything about: general chemistry. 

To this day, I'm positive that it was the very first online general chemistry tutor.  If you can prove otherwise, send me an email.   Yes, I actually had to type in the HTML, but later on I upgraded to the clunky marvel that was Microsoft Frontpage (thank you warez ring).  I actually finished General I and started the second semester, but after a while I had a baby, then a job, so it eventually fell by the wayside.

I have no intention of working on it any more.  It's mainly here for my own amusement, but if you're taking first-semester general chemistry you might get some use of it.  Otherwise, it's just my own little artifact from the 20th century.