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We are getting fewer responses to calls for articles for the Newsletter and fewer volunteered articles. Starting with this issue we will have a single issue per year, the Fall issue each year.

 

1. Review of Director MX 2004
Brian Pankuch
Chemistry Department, Union County College
Cranford, NJ 07016

2. Safety Information on the Web
Scott Van Bramer 
Department of Chemistry, Widener University
Chester, PA 19013

3. Contemporary Chemistry: Visions of An IntegratedText/Multimedia Module Approach 

Conrad Trumbore
Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, University of Delaware

4. ChemWebDev-L: a new listserv discussion list
Bob Hanson
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN

John H. Penn
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 

5. Using Metasearch Engines for Chemistry-II
Harry E.Pence
SUNY Oneonta
Oneonta, NY

 

 

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Review of Director MX 2004

Brian Pankuch
Chemistry Department, Union County College
Cranford, NJ 07016

Macromedia Director is a very powerful tool that allows you to combine and work with many types of multimedia in the same project. It is able to combine images, text, movies, animation, DVD, sound, Shockwave, Flash, web links together and allow all the components to interact in your multimedia programs. You can create your own project such as an animation, and combine just about any other type of media, and animate that media.

Safety Information on the Web

Scott Van Bramer
Department of Chemistry, Widener University
Chester, PA 19013

As the current Online Chemistry Course (OLCC): Chemical Safety: Protecting Ourselves And Our Environment has been under development, I have found a number of very useful resources for safety information on the Web. As the course has developed, I am convinced that these sites should be in every chemical educators bookmark list. We should be using them as we develop experiments and our students should be using them to keep informed about the hazards they will encounter in the laboratory.

Contemporary Chemistry: Visions of An Integrated Text/Multimedia Module Approach

Conrad Trumbore
Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, University of Delaware

We report the evolution of a unique project developing an interactive textbook, linking to a multimedia module, and involving the exploration of higher degrees of student interactivity. This evolution progressed from Macromedia Director multimedia and hardcopy text, through Adobe Acrobat text with links to Flash multimedia, with the most recent combination of the multimedia features and text modules in a Flash-only format.

ChemWebDev-L: a new listserv discussion list

Bob Hanson
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN

John H. Penn
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV

In collaboration with CCCE, we are pleased to announce the inauguration of a new listserv discussion list specifically focusing on issues relating to chemistry-related web application development.

Using Metasearch Engines for Chemistry-II

Harry E.Pence
SUNY Oneonta
Oneonta, NY

"... The mergers and realignments of the past year are still churning the world of search engines. As if this were not enough, Amazon has recently announced that it is developing its own search engine that will make it much easier for an individual to manage his or her information resources. Until this situation becomes more stable, any attempt to compare the different engines is as fruitless as trying to nail plain jello on the wall. On the other hand, there have been some interesting developments in the world of metasearch engines, and it has been two years since this topic was discussed in these reviews (see Using Metasearch Engines for Chemistry-I). . ."