Authoring Interest and Short Comments

We are interested in your comments, opinions and suggestions about ChemPRIME. We are particularly interested in developing a large group of people who are interested in joining in the authoring of this project. This would obviously include text, graphics, movies, simulations, animations and anything else appropriate. While we will be unable to proceed rapidly without significant funding we would like to be able to begin rapidly when we succeed in developing NSF or other funding sources. We will develop both author recognition and monetary compensation. If you have an interest in joining in this effort, please use this guestbook for signing in, If your interests are well defined, include topics, exemplars, and the type of authoring in which you have an interest. See guestbook below for others interested.

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Alan Cairns (cairns@astro.washington.edu) wrote:

I am looking forward to the evolution of the site. I don't teach Chemistry this year but still maintain a site for Chemistry Education on the web. Yhe URL is http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/chemistry.html d a link to your page and feel free to do the same. Alan Cairns -- 03/28/95

Dwight S. Springer ( md9270@trotter.usma.edu) wrote:

I will have overall supervisory responsibility for a general chemistry course required for 800+ cadets at the United States Military Academy during the next academic year (95-96). We are very interested in making this course interesting and relevant to all including the majority who will not be continuing on in their study of chemistry past this two semester freshman course. I am very interested in learning more about this project. -- 03/28/95

Richard F. Daley ( daleri@wwc.edu) wrote:

I am very interested, particularly in the organic chemistry topics of the project. Please keep me informed! -- 03/28/95

James H. Burness ( jhb3@psuvm.psu.edu) wrote:

General interests: inorganic/physical, bioinorganic chemistry, topics appropriate for the typical (or appropriately modified) general chemistry course. -- 03/29/95

Wayne P. Anderson ( wpa@ibm.bloomu.edu) wrote:

Wayne P. Anderson, Bloomsburg University ligand field theory and other transition metal chemistry concepts -- 03/29/95

Robert E. Smith ( bsmith@longview.cc.mo.us) wrote:

I teach at a community college. Most of the students that take this class are interested in career field other than chemistry. I would like to develop a different format for approaching chemistry. In organic chemistry material seems to develop in a logical related fashion. What you learn today will be useful for the rest of the semester. In teaching general chemistry it almost seems as if there is a large series of ideas that are not directly connected. How can one teach general chemistry in a more connected fashion? -- 04/14/95

Phillip Fleming ( pfleming@falcon.cc.ukans.edu) wrote:

I am interested in learning more about your project. I teach Chemistry and Advanced Placement Chemistry at William Chrisman High School in Independence, Missouri. I am working on a Master's Project involving the use by high school students of databases available on the Internet. I am currently developing some short curriculum pieces that deal with individualizing chemistry instruction. It seems that your project seeks to deal with many of the same issues that I must deal with in my teaching and research. I would like to be involved with your project in any way that is appropriate. -- 04/24/95

Jerry Marks (marks_jy@atc.alcoa.com) wrote:

Keith, I looked in today using www resource to get some idea about project. Look forward to talking with you in May. -- 04/30/95

Carlos M Castro-Acuna ( castroa servidor.unam.mx) wrote:

I am a full time chemistry teacher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. I am very interested in this project because I consider that the development of chemistry in other countries can be interesting to US students. My research fields are electrochemistry and surface chemistry. -- 05/04/95

Dr Robert Lancashire http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm:1104 (rjlanc@uwimona.edu.jm ) wrote:

At UWI,Jamaica I am attempting to set up a Web site to help in distributed teaching of Chem in the Caribbean. Apart from lab manuals and course details I have started some exercises in spectroscopy and have included themes with local flavours eg coffee etc Am using chemical MIME types a lot and have the only free JCAMP-DX windows viewer around! With this can make interactive GC/MS over the web. URL given below -- 05/31/95

William J. McCoy Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics LaGrange College LaGrange Georgia (wmccoy@mentor.lgc.peachenet.edu (MIME friendly)) wrote:

This project looks very interesting. I have committed to using HTML in the classroom for the coming year in my General Chemistry Classes. This will not begin until January, as I have upper level assignments for the Fall Quarter. I am interested in working with Student Feedback using the HTTP-CGI (Common Gateway Interface) allowing for student interaction rather than simply reading hyper-linked text. This is somewhat problematic as the structure of the the interacting programs depends on the server being used to purvey the WWW files. Please count me in. -- 07/10/95

Roger Kuhlmann ( Rkuhlmann@AOL.com) wrote:

I am interested. I teach full time at Missouri Valley High School and part time at Metro Community College. -- 07/18/95

Paul P Coetzee (ppc@rau3.rau.ac.za) wrote:

Analytical Chemistry contributions. -- 08/08/95

Candy Degel (CXD201 ) wrote:

I am a chemistry student at Penn State and i believe that my chemistry professor would be very interested in looking at the information which you have compiled. He may even be interested in joining the effort. He is very interested in the pedagogical aspects of chemistry. Please contact me at the adress below and I will put you in touch with him. -- 09/22/95

Joann Pfeiffer ( pfeiffer@chem.wisc.edu) wrote:

As a 5th year graduate student in physical chemistry, I'm planning on either teaching at a liberal arts college or doing a post-doc in chemical education next year. I'm interested in the progress of this project and would like to be a contributing author in general or physical chemistry reform. -- 10/04/95

Lisa Kondisko

Twin Valley High School: I am interested in projects which could take advantage of practical agricultural applications Twin Valley High School RR3 Box 52 Elverson, PA 19520 -- 11/05/95

Eric Tsang ( etsang@nc.ied.edu.hk) wrote:

I am a lecturer in a institution for training science teachers, and is responsible for the further chemistry course. I am very much interested in the project and would like to participate. -- 01/26/96

Ted Davidson (TedDav@aol.com ) wrote:

Teaching general chemistry in high school and college. Able to contribute in physicalchem and materials chem. -- 03/04/96

Roger Skugrud ( rskugrud@luminet.net) wrote:

I teach high school chemistry at Cochrane-Fountain City High School. I am interested in the project because I am tired of my students being able to balance equations in their sleep, but are not able to tell me what is in a test tube. I have given several presentations encouraging a more constructivist approach to high school chemistry teaching. -- 03/10/96

Dr. James B. Condon ( condon_j@rscc.cc.tn.us) wrote:

I'm interested in participating. I teach General Chemistry, primarily, at a community college. We have developed our own detail topical list and our own laboratory manual. We have used as guidance the test realeased by ACS and the requests and needs of local industries and potential transfer universities. We would be very interested in the details of what others throughout the nation have on their competency lists. Ours is detailed enough that there are 200 items - to give you some idea of what I mean by detail. Sincerely yours, Jim -- 03/16/96

Jackie Bonneau (bonneau@neca.com ) wrote:

I am currently the chemistry teacher at Massachusetts Academy for Mathematics and Science Located at WPI ( Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and am very interested in being kept informed. Thank you. -- 05/18/96

Lisa Burkhart ( burkhart@fullnet.net) wrote:

Teaching at the secondary level (general/adv chem) I am delighted to see changes at the higher ed level, because so often we are driven to prep our students for traditional approach in college. I would particularly like to see a module incorporating applications of stoichiometry as it really is a stumbling block for many of my students. I'd like to be kept current of the developments. Thanks. -- 06/15/96

Helmut Koch ( tsunamik@aol.com) wrote:

I am very interested in developing some interdisciplinary critical thinking exercises in conjunction with undergraduate chemistry courses designed for students entering the health professions. In fact, I intend to develop these activities as part of my current Ph.D. program. I am just now starting my Ph.D. work in science education and would be very interested in hearing from anyone who has investigated critical thinking in chemistry from an interdisciplinary perspective. Furthermore, I would gladly contribute ideas to this project once I have completed my own analysis and synthesis. -- 06/23/96

Stephen Hayes ( Hazy129@aol.com) wrote:

I am a first year chemistry teacher in Broward County FL and hope to impliment new curriculum in the classroom -- 07/07/96

M. Suzanne Stoltz ( sstoltz@tenet.edu) wrote:

hs chem teacher and chem ed doctoral student. interested in visualization and student learning teaching in technology-poor district (self-provided Apple IIe, Pentium clone, and PowerMac) Internet access through UH, limited access through TENET. -- 10/14/96

Jim Ealy ( jealy@packer.edu) wrote:

Howdy: M.Ed Lehigh 86 Co-Author of several books/articles on demonstrations and a 70 minute video. Very interested. -- 03/06/97

Judy E. Herrmann ( herrmann@tenet.edu) wrote:

I would be interested in working on this project. I currently teach Advanced Placement/International Baccalaureate Chemistry, so the areas of development for this project would also affect my courses. -- 04/10/97

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I teach pre-college level and general chem at a community college. Are you planning to develop projects for students to do using Internet resources? -- 07/16/97

Leon L. Combs, Ph.D. ( lcombs@ksumail.kennesaw.edu) wrote:

I have been using a web-based program from VCU in freshman chemistry and will be teaching physical chemistry this fall. In physical chemistry I will be using web-based interactions also. You may look at science.kennesaw.edu/~lcombs and go to CHEM 121 spring 1997 to get to the program. I am interested in participating. -- 09/05/97

Sr. Carol Meyers D.A. ( cmeyers@sfc.edu) wrote:

I would like to know more about ChemPrime. I am interested in authoring some projects. -- 09/30/97

Washington E. Teixeira ( wet@anhembi.br) wrote:

Washington Eugenio Teixeira chemistry teacher. I'm chemistry course manager Anhembi-Morumbi University-S.Paulo-Brazil e-mail: wet@anhembi.br -- 01/21/98

Liina H. Ladon ( lladon@towson.edu) wrote:

I have a home page with over 100 pages of study aids which I have authored for General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. The web site is: www.towson.edu/~ladon. Our department is currently going through curriculum reform. We are considering a prep chem course. If you have any information about prep chem courses, elsewhere, I would appreciate some feedback. I confess I haven't looked through your site thoroughly, so I may find this information already in place. -- 03/04/98

Patrick E. Canary West Virginia Northern Community College 141 Main St. New Martinssville, WV 26155 (pcanary@nccvax.wvnet.edu ) wrote:

I teach geneal chemistry and a principles of chemistry course for per-health students at a community college. I also teach Anatomy & Physiology as well as several biology courses. My previous experience includes 16 years as a plant chemist for an electric utility. I am interested in developing web based courses and labs in the fields of biology and chemistry. -- 04/20/98

Nancy Hopkins (nh73@crab.rutgers.edu or nancyh@chemheritage.org) wrote:

I am an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and I am interested in participating in this project as an author. I am currently developing a course that will include the human side of science especially those of persons of color. I am also interested in developing multiple ways to teach chemistry. I currently teach biochemistry to undergraduates and I am interested in teaching general chemistry. -- 07/06/98

Cheryl Fowler (CheFowler@aol.com ) wrote:

I came across your program as part of some research I was doing for a class last year. I am wondering how the project is progressing. There doesn't seem to be any update since Fall'97. If I have missed something, please reply. -- 11/02/98

N. Duke Perreira ( ndp0@lehigh.edu) wrote:

I am in the ME/MECH Department. Interested in doing something similar to ChemPRIME but in ME. Not as wide a scope as you are following. Also interested per use of Web or like tools in interested both personally and as part of EdPol. -- 04/28/99

Mirella Arellano (mirearellano@prodigy.net.mx ) wrote:

I am teaching general chemistry at jesuit university "Universidad Iberoamericana Golfo Centro"in Mexico, and I am very concerned with educative investigation and constructivism. -- 10/22/00