WWW site for Instructors of Chemistry

[Rzepa, Henry]

I am forwarding a message received from James Dix in the States (with his
permission).
Its a delight to have our first USA member on chemweb!

>Date: Wed, 6 Dec 95 20:57:27 MST
>From: dix at t10.Lanl.GOV (James Arthur Dix)
>To: h.rzepa at ic.ac.uk
>Subject: WWW site for Instructors of Chemistry
>Cc: Kathi_Prancan at hmco.com, Stacey_Pastor at hmco.com
>
>Dr. Rzepa,
>
>  I am creating a WWW site devoted to instructors of chemistry and
>chemistry instruction. The site is sponsored by Houghton Mifflin Company
>in Boston and will be actively maintained. I've been pondering the form
>and content of the site for some time, and would like to ask your advice
>on what should be included and how it should be arranged.
>
>  Some items to include are straightforward, such as pointers to other
>sites of interest to chemistry educators and instructions on how to use
>the WWW for novice users. But as you have pointed out repeatedly, there is
>much more to the WWW than just serving as a repository of information. I
>particularly like your sites containing recent presentations in chemistry,
>and your efforts in developing interactive methods to present chemical
>information.
>
>  Some ideas I have including scanning print and electronic media for
>items of use to chemistry instructors and posting digests, posting a
>molecule of the week with commentary by a chemist closely associated with
>the molecule, soliciting electronic manuscripts from colleagues describing
>their experiences in teaching chemistry electronically, evaluation of new
>educational software, interviews with movers and shakers in the world of
>chemical education, and developing and posting chemistry-specific Internet
>tools and content (especially with Sun's Java programming language and
>Microsoft's Blackbird technology). I would appreciate any thoughts you
>might have on how to enhance this WWW site for chemistry educators.
>
>  I will be presenting a paper on our site at the Spring ACS meeting in
>New Orleans, at a symposium on the Internet in Chemical Education. Are you
>planning to attend the Spring meeting? If so, maybe we could meet over
>lunch with like-minded colleagues and talk about how to use the Internet
>to its fullest potential.
>
>
>James A. Dix                            dix at chemiris.chem.binghamton.edu
>Associate Professor                     dix at binghamton.edu
>Chemistry Department, Box 6016          bg0681 at bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu
>
>State University of New York            voice:  (607) 777-2480
>Binghamton, NY  13902-6016  USA         fax:    (607) 777-4478
>
>on sabbatical leave 1995-1996:
>
>Los Alamos National Laboratory          dix at t10.lanl.gov
>Theoretical Biology and Biophysics      voice:  (505) 665-3853
>T10, MS 710, TA3-SM483, Rm 103A                 (505) 667-7510
>Los Alamos, NM  87545   USA             fax:    (505) 665-3493
>

Dr Henry Rzepa,  Department of Chemistry,  Imperial College,  LONDON SW7 2AY;
rzepa at ic.ac.uk via Eudora Pro 2.1.3; Tel  (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171
594 5804.
World-Wide Web URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/  


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