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Review
of Director MX 2004
from
Macromedia
Brian
Pankuch
Chemistry Department
Union County College
Cranford, NJ 07016
Macromedia Director is a very powerful tool that
allows you to combine and work with many types of multimedia in
the same project. It is able to combine images, text, movies, animation,
DVD, sound, Shockwave, Flash, web links together and allow all
the components to interact in your multimedia programs. You can
create your own project such as an animation, and combine just
about any other type of media, and animate that media.
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Scott provides
us with an update on safety resources available on the Internet,
with many useful links.
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Scott Van Bramer
Department of Chemistry
Widener University
Chester, PA 19013
svanbram@science.widener.edu
As the current Online Chemistry Course (OLCC): Chemical
Safety: Protecting Ourselves And Our Environment has been under development,
I have found a number of very useful resources for safety information
on the Web. As the course has developed, I am convinced that these
sites should be in every chemical educators bookmark list. We should
be using them as we develop experiments and our students should be
using them to keep informed about the hazards they will encounter
in the laboratory.
Conrad and Becky give us the opportunity to try out
several ways of integrating an environmental textbook with interactive
Flash animations. The animations should have wider application than just
environmental courses.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: I found it useful to read
this article with examples of the project open in another window.
If you want to follow examples of the current
status of the project as you
read
this article
click http://contemporarychemistry.com. After
opening, click on the "project reviewers" button
at the top left corner of the first page and, in the pop-up window,
enter "conrad" as
the username and "chemistry" as the password.)
Contemporary Chemistry: Visions of An Integrated Text/Multimedia
Module Approach
Conrad Trumbore
Emeritus, Department of Chemistry,
University of Delaware
Becky
Kinney
Multimedia Developer and Consultant,
University of
Delaware and Moonlight Multimedia
We report the evolution of a unique project developing an interactive
textbook, linking to a multimedia module, and involving the exploration
of higher degrees of student interactivity. This evolution progressed
from Macromedia Director multimedia and hardcopy text, through Adobe
Acrobat text with links to Flash multimedia, with the most recent
combination of the multimedia features and text modules in a Flash-only
format.
Bob and John are two experienced web developers who have started
a listserv discussion list for beginners and established developers
who want to learn or share techniques. Take a look and see if you can
benefit by signing up.
ChemWebDev-L: a new listserv discussion list
Bob Hanson
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
hansonr@stolaf.edu
www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
John H. Penn
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
jpenn2@wvu.edu
www.chem.wvu.edu/jpenn
In collaboration with CCCE, we are pleased to announce the inauguration
of a new listserv discussion list specifically focusing on issues
relating to chemistry-related web application development.
Harry has assembled
a comparison of a number of metasearch engines and after trying
several I've added them to my Bookmark bar to continue experimenting.
There is quite a difference in the results from the different
engines.
SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY
pencehe@oneonta.edu
"... The mergers and realignments of the past
year are still churning the world of search engines. As if this
were not enough, Amazon has recently announced that it is developing
its own search engine that will make it much easier for an individual
to manage his or her information resources. Until this situation
becomes more stable, any attempt to compare the different engines
is as fruitless as trying to nail plain jello on the wall. On the
other hand, there have been some interesting developments in the
world of metasearch engines, and it has been two years since this
topic was discussed in these reviews (see Using Metasearch Engines
for Chemistry-I). . ."
