About

This is the work blog of Fred Senese, a professor at Frostburg State University. He teaches general chemistry, environmental chemical analysis, physical chemistry, and computational chemistry. He also teaches field courses in conservation, natural history, and environmental science in Madagascar. During the summer he works as a freelance science writer and educational media consultant.

Senese has co-authored textbooks at the college and high-school levels, and is the author of General Chemistry Online. His current project, “Stickman Chemistry”, is a graphic textbook that teaches chemistry in a highly visual way.

As a developer of educational media, he spends a lot of time tinkering with Flash, Moodle, LabView, and PHP/MySQL. He writes construction kits, learning objects, and Flash and LabView-based interfaces for control and access of lab equipment over the web. His dream is to build web environments for teaching science in the third world. These environments would be centered on collaboration and resource-sharing with isolated schools.

He’d love to hear from people involved in similar efforts. He’s also interested in summer review, consulting, and science writing jobs. You can write him at fsenese AT frostburg.edu