Access Excellence, Genentech,
Inc., South San Francisco, CA, US.
National educational program sponsored by the biotechnology industry pioneer,
Genentech, Inc. Resources for science teachers including breaking news
in science, virus information, a biotechnology resource center, monthly
seminars hosted by scientists on topics including leeches and immunology,
and more.
URL: http://www.gene.com/ae
Amazing Science at the
Roxy
This site provides K-12 physical science education materials that
are specifically designed for teachers, parents and students. Its chemistry
section includes the electronic editions of the NCW Wonderscience, and
downloadable movies of common chemistry demonstrations.
URL: http://chemistry.uca.edu/roxy.html
BioNet
Funded under the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, BioNet
is designed to allow computer-based teaching to move into the mainstream
of teaching in biology and preclinical medicine.
URL: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bionet.html
BioQUEST.
BioQUEST is a set of simulations and related material for biology instruction
(genetics, biometrics, molecular biology, etc.). It's a cooperative effort
of several academic institutions. Write to asdg@umdd.umd.edu for information.
An introduction to the project can be obtained with anonymous FTP from:
cs.beloit.edu /public/bioquest.
CAChe, CAChe Users Discussion List
The focus of the list is undergraduate teaching applications of the modeling
tools from CAChe Scientific. Send a request to sub scribe to: majordomo@pacificu.edu,
Send messages to: cache@pacificu.edu
ChemCAI: Instructional Software
for Chemistry
Information for teachers and course designers on what's available
from both commercial and non-commercial sources, links to other instructional
resources. Downloadable CAI demos, digital texts and other materials from
Simon Fraser University.
URL: http://www.sfu.ca/chemed/
Cambridge Structural
Database (CSD) Manual
URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/quest/zdocmain.html
CHEMED-L, Chemistry Education Discussion List.
Send the message: subscribe chemed-l firstname lastname to: listserv@uwf.bitnet.
ChemEd
- Chemistry Education Resources
A collection of chemistry-specific education resources maintained by Alan
Cairns.
URL: http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/chemistry.html
Chemistry at NISS.
NISS (National Information Services and Systems) provides infor mation
services over the UK Joint Academic Network and acts as a focus for computer
disseminated information for the academic community. Gopher to gopher.niss.ac.uk
Port=71 and follow the path: NISS Bulletin Board Data > ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
> SUBJECTS A TO F > CHEMISTRY
Chemical Information at
IU .
A compendium of materials and hypertext links associated with Chemical
Information courses at Indiana University. The introductory course C400
Chemical Information
Sources and Services is currently accessible via the Web.
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo
Chemistry Teaching
Resources
A comprehensive list of information available on the internet pertinent
to chemistry teaching. This list is maintained by Kurt Irgum.
URL: http://www.anachem.umu.se/eks/pointers.htm
Chemistry
Textbooks in Print Archive.
The archive covers chemistry textbooks from freshman level through
graduate school. Bibliographic information, price, and references to reviews
are included, as are the ad dresses and telephone numbers of publishers.
The archive is available also via gopher (URL: gopher://gopher.umsl.edu:70/11/academic/physical/chem/books).
URL: http://www.umsl.edu/divisions/artscience/chemistry/books/welcome.html
ChemViz (Chemical Visualization Project)
Available via anonymous ftp to host zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (141.142.20.50)
at directory /Education/ChemViz
ChemViz is an NSF funded grant project to use high-powered com puting and
communications to help high school students better visualize abstract concepts
of chemistry. Images and animations of calculated atomic and molecular
orbitals can be made on Macin toshes. Contact Todd Veltman (tveltman@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
for details.
CICOURSE, Chemical Information Courses on the Internet
CICOURSE was established in September 1994 by Gary Wiggins (wiggins@indiana.edu).
Its purpose is to provide a forum in which people can teach and learn about
chemical information sources in all of their rich and varied forms. To
subscribe, send the message: SUB CICOURSE yourfirstname yourlastname
to: LISTSERV@IUBVM
or: LISTSERV@IUBVM.INDIANA.EDU
Proposals for courses, workshops, etc. should be sent to the Listowner,
Gary Wiggins at wiggins@indiana.edu. Course
materials are available via gopher (URL gopher://lib-gopher.lib.indiana.edu:7050/11/c400).
CIStudio:
Chemical Information at Rensselaer
CIStudio is the first WWW-based course in Chemical Information, designed
for Chemistry majors at Rensselaer. Developed by Joseph Warden (wardej@rpi.edu)
and Colette Holmes (holmec@rpi.edu) the emphasis is on interactive learning
using both print and electronic sources.
URL: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem/cheminfo/cistudio/index.html
CIRRUS
CIRRUS (Chemistry Internet Resource for Research by Undergraduate
Students) is a WWW site with a variety of information and links pertinent
to undergraduate research in chemistry. The site is hosted by the Department
of Chemistry at Pacific Lutheran University.
URL: http://rainier.chem.plu.edu:80/cirrus.html
Clearinghouse
for Chemical Information Instructional Materials (CCIIM).
The CCIIM is jointly sponsored by the Special Libraries Associa tion Chemistry
Division and the American Chemical Society Divi sion of Chemical Information.
It includes items that have been developed by chemistry or science librarians,
chemists, and others for instruction in the use of chemical information
sources. The ASCII files are also accessible on the Indiana
University Chemistry Library Gopher (gopher://lib-gopher.lib.indiana.edu:7050/11/cciim).
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/cciimnro.html
Computers in Teaching
Initiative (CTI), Centre for Chemistry, University of Liverpool.
The Centre's Software Catalogue has over 400 items of software (for which
independent reviews exist) for use in chemistry.
URL: http://www.liv.ac.uk/ctichem.html
Council on Undergraduate
Research, Asheville, NC, US
A national organization headed up by Dr. John Stevens at the University
of NC-Asheville, CUR organizes the National Conference on Undergraduate
Research (NCUR) every year.
URL: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~foxs/CUR.html
Global Instructional Chemistry
This is Henry Rzepa's collection of "small 'stories' or case
histories illustrating modern chemistry in action, liberally dosed with
'hyperactive' molecules which you will be able to rotate, measure, and
generally play with." A number of courses relevant to chemistry from
around the world are accessible from this site.
URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/GIC/
Internet Resources for Mathematics and Science Education.
Version 1.2, October 19, 1993, Compiled by T. C. O'Haver. This is a very
good compilation of resources in all areas of math and science education.
FTP to inform.umd.edu and get the file math-science-edu in the directory:
inforM/Computing_Resources/NetInfo/ReadingRoom/InternetResources
Journal of Chemical Education
Gopher.
Point your gopher toward jchemed.chem.wisc.edu. The site lists such things
as the JCE: Software offerings.
LBL's Ethical,
Legal, and Social Issues in Science, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
Berkeley, CA, US.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory tackles hard issues that face contemporary
scientists every day. This Web presentation is especially suitable for
middle and high school students and teachers.
URL: http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/ELSI.html
Macintosh Chemistry Tutorials.
FTP to archive.umich.edu and go to /mac/misc/chemistry.
Molecular
Models at Indigo
These are the "old-style" (not computerized) models.
URL: http://ds.internic.net/indigo/molecular_models/index.html
MOLEVUE, Molecular Computation and Visualization in Undergraduate Education. Send a request to join to: molevue@vax.etown.edu
National Institute for Science
Education
The National Institute for Science Education (NISE) is a NSF-funded
program for the improvement of science education (K-12).
URL: http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/nise/
NetBiochem
NetBiochem is a prototype of a biochemistry education, research,
and publication center on the Internet. It contains instruction- al material
in selected biochemistry topics, as well as links to some of the important
research and publication sites.
URL: http://www.hahnemann.edu/Heme-Iron/NetWelco.htm
It is mirrored at the University of Utah: http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/NetBiochem/NetWelco.htm
NIH Molecular Modeling
Home Page
This includes the NIH Guide to Molecular Modeling and links to
other guides and tutorials.
URL: http://molbio.info.nih.gov/modeling/
Representation Models
in Molecular Graphics.
URL: http://scsg9.unige.ch/eng/toc.html
URL: http://scsg9.unige.ch/tabmat.html (French version)
A text on visualization and rendering techniques in chemistry.
Resources for Chemistry
Teachers.
This web site is for chemistry teachers in grades 9 through 12. James Aldridge
provides lab experiments, information sheets, and other resources which
teachers can access.
URL: http://rampages.onramp.net:80/~jaldr/
UCAIR-lib, Undergraduate Cooperative Access to Information Resources
The UCAIR mailing list is a forum for discussion of the use of chemical
information by students and faculty at the undergraduate level. To join,
send the request to: ucair-lib-request@twu.edu with the message: SUBSCRIBE
firstname lastname
Archives are available at: URL: gopher://venus.twu.edu:70/11gopher_root%3A%5B._lists._twu-lists.ucair-lib%5D
University of Leeds Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology courseware
URL: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bionet/student/student.htm
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Educational Technology Branch.
URL: gopher://wwwetb.nlm.nih.gov:80/h/GET /
The ETB conducts R & D in computer and multimedia technologies. There
are texts of monographs on "Authoring Systems" and "Guide-
lines for Designing Effective and Healthy Learning Environments for Interactive
Technologies."
Using CAS Databases
on STN.
The tutorials are adapted from the hardcopy student manual of the CAS Academic
Instruction Program (first published in 9/94). However, the material is
equally well suited as a general purpose introduction to online searching
on STN.
URL: http://info.cas.org/ACAD/cover.html
Virginia Tech Chemical
Education Hypermedia
These hypermedia tutorials exist for analytical, organic, and physical
chemistry, and more applications are under construction.
URL: http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/vt-chem-ed.html
The
World Lecture Hall.
A clearinghouse for Web-based course materials. Featured are subject-specific
course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia
textbooks, etc.
URL: http://wwwhost.cc.utexas.edu/world/instruction/index.html
WWW Viewer
Test for Image (and Other) Formats (MIME test button)
URL: http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/documents/wwwtest.html