Welcome to an introductory chemistry Web Server developed and
maintained by Dr. John I. Gelder.
This server contains materials developed and written for introductory
chemistry students at the college/university level as well as high school students.
The courses I teach contain useful resources for students and
teachers. Besides lecture notes, sample exams, and sample problem sets my
most recent courses are all available as podcasts.
Check out these pages for examples of what a course web site might contain.
The pages at this link are useful to AP Chemistry teachers. As
the former Chief Faculty Consultant for AP Chemistry I am delighted to answer
questions.
New Projects
The links in this section are to projects I am currently involved
with. My main area of interest is the application of digital video in introductory
chemistry. I am exploring how streaming digital video accessed via the Real
or Quicktime player can be effectively used by introductory chemistry students.
I am using SMIL, Flash 4.0/5.0, Real Producer and QuickTime Pro to develop materials
in this area.
MoLE: Molecular Level Experiments in Chemistry are a series
of JAVA simulations that will play through your Web browser. The project is
a collaboration with Dr. Michael Abraham at the University of Oklahoma. With
the assistance of a very talented student programmer, Mr. Kirk Haines, we
are developing a series of six computer-based molecular laboratory experiments
and their parallel hands-on laboratory experiments around the content areas
of: ideal gases (kinetic molecular theory laboratory
activity/simulation),
chemical equilibrium (Summer 2001), kinetics (collision theory and mechanisms),
phase equilibria, solution process and atomic structure. These topics were
chosen because they especially lend themselves to modeling using interactive
computer graphics and to integrating the three levels of chemical understanding
(particulate, sensory, and symbolic).We have recently submitted a proposal
to the National Science Foundation for funding to do this project. Faculty
interested in our project are encouraged to contact either Michael or myself
for more information.
REALVideo: This link contains a talk I gave at the 218th American
Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans on Wednesday, August 25, 1999. It
contains links to an interactive example of how Real video, SMIL and Net Cloak
are used to provide interactive, sychronized media streams. There is also
a link to recent examples of a CHEM 1215 Help Session using Real video and
SMIL.
Howard Hughes: This list some links for a
presentation I gave titled 'Interactive Web-based Tutorials
for Introductory Chemistry' on March 23, 2000. It contains
several links to resources using a variety of different
plug-ins to provide a demonstration of different types of
interactivity available on the WWW.
Streaming Digital Video Project:As a result of funding from
the Howard Hughes Faculty Initiative Program at OSU I have all of my introductory
chemistry lectures streamed from an OSX QuickTime video server. Using Flash,
interactivity has been added to each of the digital video files. The streaming
video is available at the CHEM 1314 (F00),
CHEM 1515 (Sp01) and CHEM 1515 (F01) course
web sites.
Real Video and SMIL Project: This is a link to a presentation
I gave titled 'Using SMIL to Enhance an Introductory Chemistry Web Site' at
the American Chemical Society's Pan American Conference for Undergraduates,
on July 1, 2000 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It contains links to my most recent
work using Real/SMIL and Flash/QuickTime to deliver interactive streaming
digital video. Please note the Spanish version of this talk was translated
by a computer, not by a Spanish speaking person so it likely contains errors
in grammer and work selection.
MGH Electronic Project is not accessible at this time. For
more information please contact me directly.