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Readers who are less experienced with using the World Wide Web and finding their way around it
may like to have a preview of what can be found at JCE Online:
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/
At the right is a list of some standard items, but the fare changes frequently, and some treasures from each issue are added. Beginning with the September 1996 issue, the W symbol in the Table of Contents tells you which articles are destined for the Web. This includes all of the Chemical Education Today section as well as abstracts of all articles. In addition, you will find a specially chosen article each month; whenever possible, this article will have a dynamic dimension to itsomething that obviously cannot be dealt with by the printed page.
In October there were two articles: "Use of the World Wide Web in Lower-Division Chemistry Courses" by Karen E. Stevens and Richard E. Stevens and "Thermoelectric Devices: Solid-State Refrigerators and Electrical Generators" by Edmund J. Winder, Arthur B. Ellis, and George C. Lisensky. The latter manuscript was difficult to illustrate effectively because electricity generated by the thermoelectric devices produces motionon JCE Online you will be able to see these devices in action.
In November we chose "An Integrated Biochemistry Laboratory, Including Molecular Modeling", the article with the cover graphic by Adele J. Wolfson, Mona L. Hall, and Thomas R. Branham. This backbone structure of lysozyme is even more striking on a computer screen than on paper. In addition, we have chosen two articles from the Curricular Change Digests column: "A New Approach to the General Chemistry Laboratory" and "Getting Real: A General Chemistry Laboratory Program Focusing on `Real World' Substances".
In this issue we have chosen the article by Kelter, Carr, Johnson, and Castro-Acuña, "The Chemical and Educational Appeal of the Orange Juice Clock". Why this article? Because on JCE Online you will be able to see the hands on the clock movecertainly not the case in the print version. The article by Mosher, "A Chemical Geneology Assignment", is also featured on JCE Online so that the lineage of the chemistry department at the University of Idaho can be more effectively displayed.
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