Chem. Educ. publications/presentations

  • “Organic ChemWare – HTML5 interactives for teaching and learning organic chemistry”, G. Deslongchamps, 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference, Halifax, NS, May 28-June 1, 2017.
  • “Visualizing VB orbital interactions in organic chemistry”, G. Deslongchamps, 98th Canadian Chemistry Conference, Ottawa, ON, June 13-17, 2015.
  • “Organic Chemistry Flashware 2.0 – “Think Tetrahedral”, G. Deslongchamps, 23rd IUPAC International Conference on Chemical Education, Toronto, ON, July 13-18, 2014.
  • “Lab3D.me: Visualizing Organic Chemistry Reactions Online”, M. Burger, M. Corrin, G. Deslongchamps, J. Jenkinson, 23rd IUPAC International Conference on Chemical Education, Toronto, ON, July 13-18, 2014.
  • “Lab3D (www.lab3d.me): A New Web-Based Resource of Interactive, Animated Organic Chemistry Reactions”, M. Burger, M. Corrin, G. Deslongchamps, J. Jenkinson, American Chemical Society, DivCHED CCCE: Committee on Computer in Chemical Education, Fall Newsletter, Nov. 25-27, 2013 (http://www.ccce.divched.org/P10Fall2013CCCENL).
  • “Textbook treatments of electrostatic potential maps in general and organic chemistry” Hinze, S. R., Williamson, V. M., Deslongchamps, G., Shultz, M. J., Williamson, K. C., & Rapp, D. N. J. Chem. Educ. 2013, 90, 1275-1281.
  • “When do spatial abilities support student comprehension of STEM visualizations?“ Hinze, S. R., Williamson, V. M., Shultz, M. J., Williamson, K. C., Deslongchamps, G., & Rapp, D. N.  Cognitive Processing – The International Quarterly of Cognitive Science 2013, 14, 129-142.
  • “Beyond the ball-and-stick: Students’ processing of novel STEM visualizations”, S. R. Hinze, D. N. Rapp, V. M. Williamson, M. J. Shultz, G. Deslongchamps, K. C. Williamson, Learning & Instruction, 2013, 26, 12-21.
  • “Identifying Student Use of Ball-and-Stick Images versus Electrostatic Potential Map Images via Eye Tracking” Williamson, V. M., Hegarty, M., Deslongchamps, G., Williamson, K. C., Shultz, M. J. J. Chem. Educ., 2013, 90, 159-164.
  • “The role of prediction tasks and spatial abilities in the use of macroscopic and particulate representations” S. R. Hinze, V. Williamson, K. C. Williamson, M. J. Shultz, G. Deslongchamps, D. N. Rapp, Abstract, 2012 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Penn State, PA, July 29 -Aug. 2, 2012.
  • “Electrostatic potential maps: How are these visualizations used in general and organic chemistry textbooks?” V. Williamson, S. R. Hinze, G. Deslongchamps, M. J. Shultz, K. C. Williamson, D. N. Rapp, Abstract, 2012 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Penn State, PA, July 29 -Aug. 2, 2012.
  • “Organic Chemistry Flashware 2.0 – a preview”, G. Deslongchamps, 22nd International Conference on Chemical Education, 11th European Conference on Research in Chemical Education, Rome, Italy, July 15-20, 2012.
  • “Organic Chemistry Flashware – Lessons from the GRC on visualization in science and education” G. Deslongchamps. Abstract, 243rd American Chemical Society, National meeting, San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
  • “Spatial Abilities Influence the Use of Dynamic Chemistry Visualizations.” S. Hinze, D. N. Rapp, V. M. Williamson, M. J. Shultz, K. C. Williamson, G. Deslongchamps, Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington D.C, 2011.
  • “Unlocking potential: Individual differences in the use of concurrent scientific visualizations.”, S. R. Hinze, D. N. Rapp, V. M. Williamson, M. J. Shultz, K. C. Williamson, G. Deslongchamps, G., Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011.
  • “What visualizations are students able to use successfully?” V. M. Williamson, S. R. Hinze, K. C. Williamson, M. J. Shultz, G. Deslongchamps, D. N. Rapp. 241st American Chemical Society, National meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 27-31, 2011.
  • “Identifying Representational Competence with Multi-Representational Displays”, M. Stieff, M. Hegarty, G. Deslongchamps, Cognition & Instruction, 2011, 29(1), 123-145.
  • “Organic Chemistry Flashware – A closet developer’s story” G. Deslongchamps ,Purdue University ,Lafayette, IN, Dec. 1, 2010.
  • “Nelson Education presents: Organic Chemistry Flashware – Bring learning to life and life to learning” G. Deslongchamps, 93rd CSC Conference, Toronto, ON, May 29 – June 2, 2010. Sponsored by CSC and Nelson Education Inc.
  • “Organic Chemistry Flashware – Visualizing and Interacting with the Unseen”, Association of Atlantic Universities Teaching Showcase, Acadia U., Oct. 24, 2009.
  • “Animating localized orbital interactions with organic chemistry Flashware” G. Deslongchamps. 238th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, Aug. 16-20, 2009.
  • “Visualization in Science and Education“, Gordon Research Conferences, July 26-31, 2009, Oxford University, UK,conference vice-chair.
  • “PostDock: A Novel Visualization Tool for the Analysis of Molecular Docking”, E. A. Wiley, G. Deslongchamps, Computing and Visualization in Science, 12, 1-7, 2009.
  • IM2.4, “Image and Meaning” forum, Harvard University, USA, Oct. 25-26, 2007, participant.
  • “Visualization in Science and Education“, Gordon Research Conferences, July 1-5, 2007, Bryant University, RI, USA, invited workshop coordinator.
  • “Organic Chemistry Flashware: an academic closet developer’s story” G. Deslongchamps, 28th National McGraw-Hill Ryerson Teaching, Learning & Technology Conference, Saskatoon, SK, Nov. 1-3, 2006.
  • “Image and Meaning 2: Discovering new visual expressions for science and technology”, June 23-25, 2005, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, invited participant.
  • “Animating localized orbital interactions with organic chemistry Flashware” G. Deslongchamps. PacifiChem 2005, Honolulu, HI, December 15-20, 2005.
  • “Visualization in Science and Education“, Gordon Research Conferences, July 3-8, 2005, Oxford University, UK.
  • “Visualization in Chemistry for the Major and the Non-Science Major”, Pacifichem 2005, December 15-20, Honolulu, HI.
  • “The Visualization of Linear Algebra Algorithms In Apt Apprentice”. Andrews, C., Cooper, R., Deslongchamps, G., Spet, O., Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science 2005 , V.S. Sunderam et al. (Eds.), LNCS , Vol 3514, pp. 1011-1018, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005.
  • “Animating orbital interactions in Flash”, G. Deslongchamps, Gordon Research Conference: “Visualization in Science and Education”, Queen’s College, Oxford, UK, July 3-8, 2005.
  • “Organic Chemistry Flashware: Animating reaction mechanisms and orbital interactions in Flash”, G. Deslongchamps, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, April 25, 2005;
  • “Organic Chemistry Flashware: Animating reaction mechanisms and orbital interactions in Flash”, G. Deslongchamps, Beloit College, WI, April 26, 2005, Invited lecturer. 
  • “Methodology development with MOE: PostDock, Reverse-Docking, SPLASH and LGA-Dock” G. Deslongchamps, 1st North American User Group Meeting, Chemical Computing Group Inc., Montreal, May 26-28, 2004.
  • “Animating reaction mechanisms and orbital interactions in Flash”, G. Deslongchamps, Gordon Research Conferences: “Visualization in Science and Education”, Queen’s College, Oxford, UK, July 20-25, 2003.
  • “PostDock: A Novel Visualization Tool for the Analysis of Molecular Docking”, E. A. Wiley and G. Deslongchamps, Gordon Research Conferences: “Visualization in Science and Education”, Queen’s College, Oxford, UK, July 20-25, 2003.
  • “Macromedia Flash”, G. Deslongchamps, Pre-Conference Workshop, Gordon Research Conference: “Visualization in Science and Education”, Queen’s College, Oxford, UK, July 18-20, 2003,  Invited workshop. 
  • “Visualisations scientifiques avec multimedia Flash” Département de Chimie, Université Laval, March 20, 2003.
  • “Web-Based Chemistry Flashware: transparent teaching and learning tools”, G. Deslongchamps, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, PA, February 18, 2003.
  • “Web-Based Chemistry Flashware: transparent teaching and learning tools”, G. Deslongchamps, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, December 16, 2002.
  • “Biocomputing in Drug Design: Bridging the Disciplinary Gap with Web-Based Interactive Multimedia Courseware”, C. Andrews, A. Deschênes, R. Cooper, and G. Deslongchamps, Gordon Research Conference: “Computational Chemistry”, Colby College, NH, June 30-July 5, 2002.
  • “Biocomputing in Drug Design: Visualization of cross-disciplinary topics with web-based Flash multimedia courseware”, C. Andrews, A. Deschênes, R. Cooper, and G. Deslongchamps, Abstract,85th   CSC Conference, Vancouver, BC, June 1-5, 2002.
  • “Biocomputing in Drug Design I: Bridging the disciplinary gap with MOE and web-based interactive multimedia courseware”, C. Andrews, M. Castonguay, A. Deschênes, D. Norman, G. Deslongchamps and R. Cooper, Abstract, Cambridge Healthtech 2nd Annual Conference on “Structure-Based Drug Design”, Cambridge, MA, April 18-19, 2002. view poster 
  • “Biocomputing in Drug Design I: Visualization of cross-disciplinary topics with web-based Flash multimedia courseware”, G. Deslongchamps, 6th Annual Atlantic Universities Teaching Showcase, Mount Allison University, NB, Oct. 27, 2001.
  • “Biocomputing in Drug Design I: Bridging two disciplines with MOE, Flash and Maple” , Deslongchamps, G., R. Cooper, Gordon Research Conferences: “Science Education and Visualization: International”, Mt-Holyoke College, MA, Aug. 5-10, 2001.