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JCE Software@20: Now on JCE Online
New! JCE Web-Ready Software for All Your Students Beginning now, your students can have 24:7 access to tried and tested JCE Software titles via the Web! To celebrate its 20th year of publishing software, JCE Software is making available its entire collection of Web-ready titles on a subscription basis. Both institutions and individuals can subscribe to JCE Web Software for the same fee as they pay for a Journal subscription; that is, by doubling the
subscription fee you have access to materials worth more than five times that fee if obtained on CD-ROMs. To obtain access for all of your students, ask your library or department to subscribe by IP number. Then all computers with the range of IP numbers you provide will have access. This includes computers in your department, in dorms, or at other campus facilities. Here are some examples of the software.
Periodic Table Live! One of the first items published by JCE Software 20 years ago was a periodic table program. The latest version, Periodic Table Live! 3rd edition, is available even to non-subscribers—it’s free! For each element, PTL includes descriptions and data, images of the element and its uses, videos of chemical reactions, interactive 3-D representations of crystal structure, and a short biography of the person who discovered it. Tools that allow tabulating, sorting, and graphing data help present the periodic table in a discovery, inquiry-based mode. For those who purchased the Periodic Table Live! CD-ROM after Jan. 1, 2003 and now have free access, we have a special deal. You will automatically receive a free, three-year subscription to JCE Software on JCE Online. So your PTL purchase will bring you all of our other great software.
JCE Web Software: ChemPages Laboratory Wouldn’t students learn more from laboratory work if they knew the techniques before they came to lab? Students who work with this collection of 34 self-study modules will make better use of their limited time in the laboratory. Video, close-up images, self-help questions, and answers make ChemPages Laboratory a mandatory ticket to productive learning in the lab. The screen at the right is from the Thin Layer Chromatography Module. The photograph (upper image) shows the chamber, TLC plate, and other equipment needed for the experiment. A time-lapse QuickTime movie (lower image) shows separation of two substances.
JCE Web Software: General Chemistry Multimedia Problems Your students can experience being scientists! Observation of interesting phenomena followed by experimentation leading to explanation of the observations takes place daily in research laboratories everywhere. This set of 33 problems uses this methodology to help introductory chemistry students break out of the typical compartmentalized textbook presentation. Through the observation of video, judicious selection of options along the way, and reference to helpful hints, students are encouraged to draw from their knowledge to explain their observations. At left, opening screen of The Drinking Bird, one of 33 tried and tested multimedia problems.
Go to JCE Online Learn More: Short descriptions of each of the titles available in the entire Web-Ready collection can be found at http://www.jce.divched.org/JCESoft/jcesoftSubscriber.html. Details: The March 2008 issue of JCE will have details about software in JCE Web Software as well as about how to subscribe to it.
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Order Your Subscription: You can subscribe NOW using the form on p 320B of this issue OR at the JCE Online Store: http://store.jce.divched.org.
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Journal of Chemical Education • Vol. 85 No. 2 February 2008 • www.JCE.DivCHED.org • © Division of Chemical Education
