Newsletter: Using Computers in Chemical Education Fall 2007
ACS Division of Chemical Education :--Committee on Computers in Chemical Education
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Harry helps us catch up on search engines, RSS, personalized search, federated search and some interesting speculations.What’s New in Online Search for Chemists- 2007?Harry E.Pence SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY
pencehe@oneonta.edu When the previous article in this series appeared last fall, it appeared that the world of search engines was moving towards a battle of epic proportions. Yahoo! and Microsoft both seemed to be maneuvering to challenge the dominance of Google. Yahoo! had purchased several major search engines and was expected to leverage the technical knowledge that it had obtained to produce a Google-killing engine, and Microsoft was reported to be planning to spend whatever it took to achieve dominance in the search arena. Instead of a cliff-hanging battle, however, the competition has moved with the predictability of a WWE wrestling Smackdown.
The two programs PowerPoint and Keynote are used on a Mac and are found to have both strengths and weaknesses. Don't you wish you could combine the best of several programs? Review: Keynote vs PowerPointChemistry Department
Union County College
Cranford, NJ 07016
To be frank I like PowerPoint a lot, and would probably stick with it if it kept my presentations more stable.
Scott has created some very interesting interactions in Excel spreadsheets, that can be used for demonstrations or group work showing graphs changing as the data changes. He has also included examples that you can experiment with and directions on how to make your own.
Scott A. Sinex, Ph.D. Abstract
Our resident Red Head shows how to combine student lab assignments with an existing need to provide a useful Internet tool. Web-Based Scientific Glossary as an Assignment Dr. Thomas. G. Chasteen chm_tgc@shsu.edu The initial/entry page for the Atmospheric Chemistry Glossary lists an alphabetic link to all the letters of the alphabet: the user can browse terms alphabetically; however, most individual terms from users on the web are initially found via google searches. While the glossary's entry page (see figures above and below) was accessed 27451 times from June 1, 2006 through May 31, 2007, the total accesses in that period of the entire site were 60524. For a chemical site with no pictures or animations this is pretty good, I think. Annually, the highest-use month was September and December the lowest. An example of one of the glossary's entries is immediately below.
Carl shares some reminiscences of 45 years of teaching chemistry and his adventures of including computer technology in his teaching. Carl will be pleased to share his views of what has been effective and what may be in the future.
Computing In -- And Beyond -- Chemical Education A Personal View Carl H. Snyder In May, 2006, I retired after 45 years as a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of Miami (UM), and happily acquired the title Professor of Chemistry Emeritus. What follows describes my experiences with computing in chemical education and, afterward, in retirement. The conclusion suggests what I believe is one of the finest ways we can employ our computing skills beyond chemical education.
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