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CONFCHEM Session 8 -- MSDS -- hyperglossaries -- Moodle -- podcasting -- blogs -- wikis -- more!
by Bob Hanson 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

We are now concluding the seventh session of the Spring 2006 CONFCHEM conference on Web Based Applications in Chemical Education. Thanks and applause to Will Polik and Jordan R. Schmidt (Hope College), Julie Haack (University of Oregon) and Irv Levy (Gordon College) for their fine contributions. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to this conference -- authors and discussion participants. After this final session this coming week we will have a day or two of wrap-up discussion, and then we will be done. So, now on to our LAST SESSION! <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/#session8> For this session, three papers will be discussed concurrently: 8A: Improving safety comprehension through hypertext: the MSDS HyperGlossary, Robert Toreki (Interactive Learning Paradigms, Inc.) and Robert E. Belford (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#toreki> 8B: Teaching chemistry with Moodle, Fred Senese (Frostburg State University) <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#senese> 8C: Expanding the role of the organic chemistry teacher through podcasting, screencasting, blogs, wikis and games, Jean-Claude Bradley (Drexel University) <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#bradley> Our authors this week: Rob Toreki lives in the beautiful rolling hills of eastern Kentucky where he is president of the online companies Safety Emporium (http://www.safetyemporium.com) and Interactive Learning Paradigms, Inc. (http://www.ilpi.com) Prior to these ventures, Rob was a professor at the University of Kentucky. Bob Belford is well known to all, I am sure, as conference co-organizer with me both for this conference and the upcoming BCCE conference symposium with the same name <http://introchem.chem.okstate.edu/conference/symposium.php?id=7>. Bob has taught at community colleges in Arizona and New York, was a visiting Assistant Professor at West Virginia University and has just recently accepted an Assistant Professorship at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has developed a variety of server side and client side web based applications and has strong interests in green chemistry. Fred Senese is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Frostburg State University, in Frostberg, Maryland. He is known widely for his popular textbook, "Chemistry: Matter and Its Changes" now in its fourth edition, with coauthor James Brady. Fred has also authored extensively on the web, including especially his "General Chemistry Online!" <http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml>. Jean-Claude Bradley is Associate Professor of Chemistry and the E-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University in Philadelphia. His main objective is enabling faculty to incorporate high impact e-learning tools into their teaching using strategies that require little time or effort. Jean-Claude has been podcasting his own lectures in organic chemistry since February 2005 and last term started vodcasting them so that students can view them on their video ipods. Reports of his work and findings can be found at his blog <http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.com/>. In addition to e-learning, Jean-Claude works on a variety of chemistry-related projects involving nanotechnology as well as projects relating to doing open-source science, with a focus on malaria. Please join me in welcoming these authors [applause]. Please take a look at these papers and over this coming weekend address your short questions for the authors to CONFCHEM(a)clarkson.edu with a subject beginning with "CONFCHEM 8A" or "CONFCHEM 8B" or "CONFCHEM 8C". Full discussion will resume with the authors' replies to these short questions early next week. For those of you not yet subscribed to the CONFCHEM mailing list, it's STILL not too late to join us. See <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#brief> for brief instructions. Bob Hanson Bob Belford

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CONFCHEM Session 3
by Bob Hanson 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

We are now concluding the second session of the Spring 2006 CONFCHEM conference on Web Based Applications in Chemical Education <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#sessio…>. Please join me in a round of applause for Robert Lancashire and for the Jmol team and all those who participated in this past week's excellent discussion, which can be accessed in full at the CONFCHEM archives <http://majordomo.clarkson.edu/archives/confchem/200605/>. Clearly we have many exciting applications of JSpecView and Jmol to look forward to in the near future. [applause] Today we start Session 3. <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/#session3> Two papers will be discussed concurrently: 3A: ChemPrep: Self-paced OWL preparation for first semester general and organic chemistry, Beatrice Botch, Roberta Day, William Vining (University of Mass Amherst) <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#botch> 3B: BestChoice, a model for interactive web-based teaching, Sheila Woodgate and David Titheridge (University of Auckland) <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#woodga…> Please join us in welcoming these authors: [applause] Beatrice Botch <http://www.chem.umass.edu/Faculty/botch.htm> is at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she was the Director of the Chemistry Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts for over a decade, and is presently the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the department, in addition to her ongoing teaching duties as Lecturer. She received the 1998-99 College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Outstanding Teacher Award and was the Project Director of the National Science Foundation sponsored Northeast Regional Molecular Modeling Workshop held from 1994 to 1998. Current interests include the development and dissemination of OWL - Online Web-based Learning, an electronic homework and tutoring system for general chemistry. Roberta Day is a professor emeritus at U Mass, where she has received honors for her outstanding teaching. She is co-principal investigator on the ChemPrep grant. David Vining <http://www.chem.umass.edu/Faculty/vining.htm> is a professor of chemistry at U Mass. His principal interest lies in developing and testing educational materials and methods for chemistry. He has coauthored several outstanding CDs that include hundreds of videos and animations, interactive simulations, tutorials and exercises. Sheila Woodgate <http://www.che.auckland.ac.nz/staff/staff.aspx?staffid=36> is a Senior Tutor at The University of Auckland in New Zealand where she has taught first year Chemistry since 1977. She has had a long-standing interest both in instructional design for lecture-based teaching and in facilitating learning using computer-based activities. Her work designing a DOS-based interface and populating it with content laid the foundations for BestChoice, the student-friendly interactive learning system that she has designed for the web. David Titheridge, a graduate chemist who is currently doing honours in theology, has done all of the programming for the BestChoice student interface, editor and reporting system, contributing significantly to the design of all of these. Please take a look at these papers and over this coming weekend address your short questions for the authors to CONFCHEM(a)clarkson.edu with a subject beginning with "CONFCHEM 3A" or "CONFCHEM 3B". Full discussion will resume with the authors' replies to these short questions early next week. For those of you not yet subscribed to the CONFCHEM mailing list, it's not too late to join us. See <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#brief> for brief instructions. Bob Hanson Bob Belford

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Discounts on ICSTI conference
by Wendy Warr 16 May '06

16 May '06

The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information announces a two-day conference, "Partnering in Science Information: Necessities of Change." The June 7-8 conference at the National Library of Medicine allows you to network with the new players in scientific and technical information and provides insight into the new relationships and alliances forming in STI across the information lifecycle. Join the key players to see what they are planning and doing in the new digital information environment (see the attached conference agenda for more detail). The conference is designed for managers and knowledge workers in STI (including scientists, publishers, librarians, digital content managers, information architects, and infrastructure developers). Session themes include: * New Players in the Information Life Cycle * Innovative Relationships: Who's partnering with whom? * Globalization - Internationalization * Moving Up the Value Chain: Information for Decision Making * "Repositories" in the New STI Infrastructure * National Centers: New Roles, Relationships, and Opportunities for Partnership Conference speakers include Leigh Watson Healy, Outsell's Chief Analyst, and Clifford Lynch, Executive Director for the Coalition for Networked Information. You'll also hear speakers from Google, Scope e-Knowledge Center, the European Patent Office, Groxxis, Elsevier, and the Korean Institute for Scientific and Technical Information. Register by May 26 to receive a $50 registration discount for the two-day event. The discounted rate of $250 includes networking lunches both days. You can register online at <https://eventmanagement.infointl.com/icsti2006/> https://eventmanagement.infointl.com/icsti2006/ Dr. Wendy A. Warr Wendy Warr & Associates 6 Berwick Court, Holmes Chapel Cheshire, CW4 7HZ, England Tel./fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com

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ICSTI conference agenda
by Wendy Warr 15 May '06

15 May '06

The preliminary program for this interesting conference (June 7-8, Washington, DC) is at https://eventmanagement.infointl.com/icsti2006/documents/ICSTI_conf_2006 _agenda.pdf Wendy Dr. Wendy A. Warr Wendy Warr & Associates 6 Berwick Court, Holmes Chapel Cheshire, CW4 7HZ, England Tel./fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com

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[Fwd: CONFCHEM Conference on Web-Based Applications for Chemical Education]
by Bob Hanson 05 May '06

05 May '06

FYI Bob Hanson -------- Original Message -------- Subject: CONFCHEM Conference on Web-Based Applications for Chemical Education Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 16:24:36 -0400 From: Donald Rosenthal <rosen(a)clarkson.edu> Reply-To: Donald Rosenthal <rosen(a)clarkson.edu> To: CCCE NETWORK <cccenet(a)clarkson.edu> To: CCCE Members From: Donald Rosenthal Re: CONFCHEM Conference Robert Hanson and Robert Belford have organized an excellent CONFCHEM Conference entitled: “WEB-BASE APPLICATIONS FOR CHEMICAL EDUCATION” which began today (May 5). I urge you to monitor the conference and participate when appropriate. The URL is: http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem/2006/b/ The May Discussion archive URL is http://majordomo.clarkson.edu/archives/confchem/200605/ Don Rosenthal -- Robert M. Hanson, hansonr(a)stolaf.edu, 507-646-3107 Professor of Chemistry, St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, MN 55057 mailto:hansonr@stolaf.edu http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

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CONFCHEM Spring 2006 -- Web-Based Applications for Chemical Education
by Bob Hanson 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

ANNOUNCEMENT -- online conference -- starts FRIDAY, MAY 5 Spring 2006 CONFCHEM Conference on Web-Based Applications for Chemical Education The ACS Division of Chemical Education's Committee on Computers in Chemical Education will be hosting the Spring 2006 CONFCHEM online conference, "Web-Based Applications for Chemical Education," from May 5 to June 30 (http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem/2006/b) This is a free online conference with seventeen papers being presented during eight week-long sessions. Each sessions will start on a Friday with registered subscribers submitting questions to authors through the weekend. The following Monday the authors will respond, and the discussion list will be open through Thursday for general discussion of that week's papers. You do not need to be registered to access the papers, but if you wish to view or participate in the discussion sessions you will need to subscribe to the list. Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions may be found at http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem/instructions.html. You are welcome to subscribe to the entire conference or to subscribe at any time after the beginning of the conference in order to participate only in those specific sessions that are of direct interest to you. Many of the authors’ online papers will provide links to their actual web sites (with passwords when needed), providing the opportunity to explore a site while interacting with the author directly. This combined with the discussion sessions should give this conference a workshop type atmosphere. If you are unfamiliar with CONFCHEM, we encourage you to subscribe to the discussion sessions even if you do not participate in the discussions. (You can “cancel” your subscription at any time.) Almost all of the subscribers will be chemical educators, and many will be educators who are also developers of other web-based applications. As the presenters are seeking input on their work, the ensuing discussions by subscribers could bring out important facets of the papers that you will miss if you are not subscribed to the discussion list. After the conference, all papers and discussions will be placed in the Archives on the CCCE CONFCHEM web site (http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem) If you have any questions, please feel free to contact one of the conference organizers listed below: Bob Belford (rebelford(a)ualr.edu) Bob Hanson (hansonr(a)stolaf.edu)

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Reports
by Wendy Warr 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Chemical Information and Computation 2005, Number 2 Report on the 230th ACS National Meeting, Washington DC, August 2005 The contents list is on the Web at http://www.warr.com/morepubs.html. The report: * Includes news from about 70 companies (including some not exhibiting) * Covers press releases for the last six months of 2005 * Features transcripts of 39 papers (all of them author-checked) presented to the Chemical Information and Computers in Chemistry Divisions on: o Structure-based drug design o Ligand-based drug design o Visualisation and Interpretation of Computational Models o Bridging the Gap from Paper to Electronic Notebooks o Chemical Information and Open Access o Public Information Databases o Public Policy and International Science Issues o Technology of Electronic Publishing Also available: a white paper Recent Trends in Discovery Informatics http://www.warr.com/index.html Half price to purchasers of Chemical Information and Computation 2005, Number 2 Contact me by email for further details. My apologies for this reminder if you have already ordered these reports. Wendy Dr. Wendy A. Warr Wendy Warr & Associates 6 Berwick Court, Holmes Chapel Cheshire, CW4 7HZ, England Tel./fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com <http://www.warr.com/>

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Program announcement and call for participants: ChemAxon User Group Meeting, June 7-8th, Budapest, Hungary
by Alex Allardyce 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

ChemAxon clients and forum users, We would like to invite you to join our User Group Meeting taking place June 7-8th at the Danubius Gellert Hotel, Budapest, Hungary. We have a wide range of scientific and technical oral and poster presentations from users, partners and ChemAxon staff. This year we introduce parallel Scientific and Developer workshop sessions for hands on works. The final program is available here: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/program.html As with last year we have a full social program for attendees to enjoy, with an informal garden party at ChemAxon's offices on the evening of the 6th and a tour on the Danube for the evening of the 7th. There will also be early morning visits to the thermal spa facilities situated at the hotel. Those interested in participation should submit their registration, links below. The Poster abstract deadline remains open until May 26th. The event hotel is requesting priority booking for attendees, block bookings are held until April 28th. I look forward to welcoming you to Budapest in June. Alex Meeting home page: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/index.html Event program: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/program.html To register or submit a poster abstract: http://www.chemaxon.com/forum/ftopic272.html Poster submission guidelines: http://www.chemaxon.com/forum/ftopic295.html Accommodation booking: http://www.chemaxon.hu/forum/ftopic261.html If you do not wish to recieve any further notifications related to ChemAxon's User Group Meeting. Please reply to this mail with the subject line "Unsubscribe"

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Program announcement and call for participants: ChemAxon User Group Meeting, June 7-8th, Budapest, Hungary
by Alex Allardyce 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Please excuse multiple postings We are announcing the program and a call for participants at ChemAxon's 2006 User Group Meeting taking place June 7-8th at the Danubius Gellert Hotel, Budapest, Hungary. The meeting will have a wide range of scientific and technical oral and poster presentations from ChemAxon users, partners and ChemAxon staff. This year we introduce parallel Scientific and Developer Workshop sessions for hands on works. The final program is available here: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/program.html Those interested in participation should submit their registration, links below. The Poster abstract deadline remains open until May 26th. The event hotel is requesting priority booking for attendees, block bookings are held until April 28th. I look forward to welcoming you to Budapest in June. Alex Meeting home page: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/index.html Event program: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/program.html To register or submit a poster abstract: http://www.chemaxon.com/forum/ftopic272.html Poster submission guidelines: http://www.chemaxon.com/forum/ftopic295.html Accomodation booking: http://www.chemaxon.hu/forum/ftopic261.html Alex Allardyce ChemAxon email aa(a)chemaxon.com Tel. +361 453 2658 --

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Examples of use of Jmol requested
by Bob Hanson 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

A group of us are preparing a paper to be presented at the next CONFCHEM online conference <http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem/2006/b> Web-Based Applications for Chemical Education: Experiences and Visions (beginning May 5) entitled: Jmol: Open-source molecular visualization <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#howard> As part of this presentation, we plan to highlight web applications that make use of Jmol. If you have written such a web page, even if it doesn't make extensive use of Jmol, and it does not appear at http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/Websites_Using_Jmol please let me know (off list, please) so that we can consider adding your site to the list presented and also possibly highlighting it. Thank you, Bob Hanson -- Robert M. Hanson, hansonr(a)stolaf.edu, 507-646-3107 Professor of Chemistry, St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, MN 55057 mailto:hansonr@stolaf.edu http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

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