Newsletter: Using Computers in Chemical Education Spring 2002
ACS Division of Chemical Education :--Committee on Computers in Chemical Education
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Welcome! The Newsletter is FREE! To be notified when new issues are available, please subscribe. Scott Van Bramer, who takes care of organizing and monitoring our discussions on Newsletter articles, shares his expertise on using the Web. Our leadoff article by Scott combines an overall picture of what can be done using the Web for teaching as well as some very specific examples and suggestions.
Developing Web Pages for Teaching Part I - Introduction Scott
Van Bramer The Web has quickly become a powerful tool for undergraduate education and its use has rapidly expanded. Many faculty are struggling with how to use this tool for teaching. This question includes both what to do and how to do it. The web becomes a much more effective teaching tool when faculty can develop web pages for their courses. This set of articles will help you decide what to do and how you want to do it.
SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY
pencehe@oneonta.edu Harry shares his experiments on searching the web with us. I'm finding material faster and much more efficiently thanks to Harry's suggestions. The basic idea of a meta-search engine seems very attractive. Meta engines do not search their own database of web pages, but instead simultaneously submit the keyword(s) you enter to several different traditional search engines, compile the results from the various engines, and present the results to the user. If it is true that few search engines cover the entire searchable web (not to speak of the potions of the WWW that cannot be accessed by spiders) it seems like a very good strategy to combine the results from several different engines to obtain greater coverage and a correspondingly greater chance of finding the best reference to the topic being searched. In some cases, this approach is actually advantageous, but it is essential to understand that the basic assumption is probably not very accurate today and there are also some fundamental problems with meta-engines.
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