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@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