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A new year with new resolutions! Check out the new
and improved materials and services for you and your
classroom that JCE Software has recently put in place. Then read on
to learn about what is in store for 2002.
Reaching Out--Helping You
Providing high quality instructional materials and
helping chemistry instructors at all levels to use them effectively
has always been our goal. To make it easier for you to
know about the breadth and excellence of our materials, we
are reaching out in new and more accessible ways. JCE can help!
Attend a JCE Video Workshop
Would you like to learn more about JCE digitized
video materials? Would you like to use them in your
classroom? Are you organizing a meeting or conference where
the participants might like to learn too? If so, read on...
JCE staff conducts workshops on incorporating
JCE Video into classroom presentations. During 2001 we did this
at the ACS national meeting in Chicago, ChemEd 2001
in Toronto, the University of Wisconsin System
Chemistry Faculties Meeting, and the ACS Southwest
Regional Meeting in San Antonio. The workshops focused on
using video from our Chemistry Comes Alive! CD-ROMs,
and the format ranged from a three-hour hands-on session to
an hour-long demonstration. These were so well received
by participants that plans are underway for more workshops
in 2002. We will consider presenting a similar workshop
for any meeting or group of interested chemistry instructors
as time and finances permit: just invite us. If you are unable to attend a workshop, the materials we use in the workshops are available online.
JCE Online: New Look, New Additions
Visit JCE Software online and take a look at our
recently revised WWW pages. First try our improved technical support area. It includes descriptions of all problems that have
been reported to JCE Software and their solutions. We
also provide demonstration versions of all Web-ready
publications and a simplified order form. The Chemistry Comes Alive! (CCA!) area of the site also received a major update--finding video on any topic from any CD in the collection now is quick and easy. There is a list of the full content of all five published volumes
of CCA!, without the video, and a comprehensive table
of contents and search capability that help you find which
CD contains the videos you want. Please help us to continue
to improve our online presence by using it and telling us
what is helpful and what should be improved further.
Take Part in a Discussion Forum
Take advantage of a new feature at JCE Online, discussion forums. These forums are special features of Only@JCE Online. You will find discussion areas for all current
JCE Software publications, both software and video. Through
these forums users can ask questions, answer questions, and
share ideas and lessons using JCE Software publications.
The discussions will be monitored by JCE Software staff who will answer technical questions and gather new ideas for improving JCE Software.
What's in Store in 2002?
More Chemistry Comes Alive!
The CCA! series continues--at least one more
Chemistry Comes Alive! CD will appear in 2002. Volume 6,
tentatively titled "Techniques", will include video from
the videodisc Titration Techniques (1) and from the
videotapes Quantitative Techniques in Analytical Chemistry
and Techniques in Organic Chemistry Parts I and II
(2, 3, 4). Also included will be many other videos and images
that focus on laboratory techniques. Each CD in the
popular CCA! series contains video and animations of
chemical reactions and procedures that can be easily
incorporated into your own computer-based presentations, and
each works on both Mac OS and Windows computers. The newly revised Chemistry Comes Alive! home page includes links on the right side of the window to allow you to search the content of all published CDs, see the comprehensive table of contents, keywords, textbook cross reference, gallery of images, and much more!
New Editions
A new and expanded 6th edition of General
Chemistry Collection will ship in time for fall 2002 adoptions. It
will include new programs for general chemistry in addition
to the software included with the 5th edition
(5).
The Advanced Chemistry Collection will be updated in
fall 2002 and this 3rd edition will be shipped in time for
spring semester 2003. It will include new programs for
advanced chemistry in addition to the software included in the
2nd edition (6).
Periodic Table Live! 3rd edition will have a new, very
useful feature: the ability to interactively plot and sort
numerical data. It will include information about recently
discovered elements as well. We expect to release this 3rd edition in
the summer of 2002.
New Releases
In addition to the new programs above, we continue
to work with authors and peer reviewers on several
larger packages that will be published individually on
CD-ROM. We expect to publish at least two such CDs in 2002.
Watch the Journal and JCE Online for information about them.
Connect with Your Students Outside Class
Many students have their own personal computer,
which allows them more flexibility than using a campus
computer lab. Many instructors utilize the World Wide Web to
create HTML pages for their students. Campus-wide networks
are providing broadband access to such resources.
JCE Software has options available to take advantage of these
developments: course adoptions and Web-ready publications.
Software Adoption for Your Course
You can adopt our CD-ROMs so that JCE
Software programs are available to your students, just as you
would adopt a textbook. The popular CDs listed below
have already been adopted by general chemistry courses
at several institutions:
- The General Chemistry Collection
- ChemPages Laboratory
- Periodic Table Live!
- Chemistry Comes Alive!
We can arrange to bundle CDs with a laboratory manual
or to sell them separately through a campus bookstore.
For orders of 1000 or more we offer customized CDs
that include only the JCE Software publications you request.
For large orders, the cost per CD can be quite low (as little
as $3-5), making this a cost-effective method of
allowing students access to the software they need--whenever
and wherever they desire.
Web-Ready Publications
Using HTML to present material has many
advantages. Viewed with the ubiquitous Internet browser, HTML
is compatible with both Mac OS and Windows (as well
as most other current operating systems). It provides a
flexible hypermedia interface that is familiar to both instructors
and students, and publications can be used by
individuals directly from the CD-ROM. With appropriate
licensing, they are also ready for use on local intranets and can
be readily incorporated into other HTML-based
materials. Visit us online for a demonstration preview of each
Web-ready publication. Contact JCE Software to learn about licensing these Web-ready publications:
- Chemistry Comes Alive!, Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
- Flying over Atoms
- Periodic Table Live! 2nd edition
- Solid State Resources, 2nd edition
- ChemPages Laboratory
- Multimedia General Chemistry Problems
An Invitation to Share Your Work
Submit your technology-based instructional materials
to JCE Software. Software is in our name, but many of
our publications are not traditional software. We publish
- Video on videotape, videodisc, and CD-ROM
- Electronic documents such as Mathcad and Mathematica exercises, spreadsheet files, and macros
- HTML documents
- PowerPoint presentations
Most chemistry instructors use a computer in their
teaching and many of you have created materials for your classes.
If you have an original computer presentation,
electronic document, animation, video, or other item that is
not printed text, it is probably an appropriate submission
for JCE Software. A guide for software and video
submissions to JCE Software is available
online. We especially invite presentations, lessons, tutorials, etc.
that incorporate video and images from the Chemistry Comes Alive! series.
If you are looking for video and images that are
not included in the published CCA! volumes, contact
JCE Software. We have additional video that can be
made available to developers prior to its publication. If we do
not have the video you need, we may even be able to help
you develop it.
If you publish your work in the Journal of
Chemical Education, you will share your efforts with
chemistry instructors and students all over the world and
receive professional recognition for your achievements as well.
Get in Touch with JCE Software
For more information about publications, orders, adoptions, and network licenses, contact JCE Software: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University
Avenue, Madison, WI 53706-1396; phone: 608/262-5153 or 800/991-5534; fax: 608/265-8094; email. Information about all of our publications (including abstracts, descriptions, updates, etc.) is available from our World Wide Web site.
Literature Cited
- Jacobsen, J. J.; Jetzer, K. H.; Patani, N.; Zimmerman, J.; Zweerink, G. Titration Techniques [Videodisc]; J. Chem. Educ. Software, 1995, SP9.
- Zimmerman, J.; Jacobsen, J. J. Quantitative Techniques in Volumetric Analysis [Videotape]; J. Chem. Educ. Software, 1997, SP15.
- Browne, L. M.; Auclair, K. Techniques in Organic Chemistry, Part 1 [Videotape]; J. Chem. Educ. Software, 1998, SP20.
- Browne, L. M.; Auclair, K. Techniques in Organic Chemistry, Part 2 [Videotape]; J. Chem. Educ. Software, 1998, SP22.
- General Chemistry Collection, 5th edition [CD-ROM]; J. Chem. Educ. Software, 2001, SP16.
- Advanced Chemistry Collection, 2nd edition [CD-ROM]; J. Chem. Educ. Software, 2001, SP28.
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