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About CCA! Volume 5

Chemistry Comes Alive!, Volume 5, contains several hundred movies dealing with organic chemistry and biochemistry (nearly two hours of video!). It is the fifth in a series of CD-ROMs for Macintosh and Windows computers. (Volumes 1-4 of Chemistry Comes Alive! (1-4) are also available from JCE Software.)

CCA! 5 movies come from several sources:

• 31 new movies deal primarily with biological chemistry
• more than 100 movies from Demonstrations in Organic Chemistry videodisc (5)
• 7 minutes of video from HIV-1 Protease: An Enzyme at Work videotape (6)
• 10 movies from Alkanes in Motion (7)

A number of related movies from other sources, some published in previous Chemistry Comes Alive! volumes, complete this collection of organic and biochemistry video.

About the Chemistry Comes Alive! Series

In Chemistry Comes Alive!, the emphasis is on the chemistry. Reactions are shown close up. Only where scale is important can more than the demonstrator's hands be seen. Many movies in Chemistry Comes Alive! include a voice-over narration. The sound of a reaction is included when it is important. Reactions or demonstrations have been chosen because they illustrate an important aspect of chemistry, involve substances or equipment that are not available in many schools, are hazardous, or cause problems of disposal or cleanup. All are certain to stimulate students' curiosity and help them learn. The Chemistry Comes Alive! series is divided into several CD volumes on related topics as recommended by a group of chemistry educators.

How to Use CCA! Volume 5

Each Chemistry Comes Alive! CD-ROM is like a World Wide Web site--you access it using an Internet browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. A complete, consolidated index of all Chemistry Comes Alive! volumes can be found at the CCA! home page at JCE Online.

The QuickTime movies of CCA! can be played directly using the QuickTime MoviePlayer as well as viewed within a WWW browser. The images can be easily incorporated into your multimedia presentations or lessons. Using the Web browser's Bookmark function is particularly convenient for organizing material for a lecture or student lesson. (An additional license must be purchased before you place video from any CCA! volume on your local WWW server.)

Let us know how you use Chemistry Comes Alive! in your classroom. We will share with others contributed ideas, lessons, or instructional materials that utilize Chemistry Comes Alive!

Acknowledgements

Partial funding for Chemistry Comes Alive! was provided by the National Science Foundation, New Traditions, grant DUE-9455928 and National Science Foundation, Instructional Materials Development grant ESI-9154099.

Many individuals made significant contributions to the development of this project: Erica Jacobsen and J. Monty Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jae Hyun Kim, Kongju National University, Seoul, Korea; and George L. Gilbert, Denison University.

The user interface for Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 5 was designed by Jon L. Holmes with input from John W. Moore, Elizabeth A. Moore, and Nancy S. Gettys.

Literature Cited

1. Jacobsen, J. J.; Moore, J. W. Chemistry Comes Alive!, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. [CD-ROM]; J. Chem. Educ. Software 2000, SP 18.
2. Jacobsen, J. J.; Moore, J. W. Chemistry Comes Alive!, Vol. 2, 2nd ed. [CD-ROM]; J. Chem. Educ. Software 2000, SP 21.
3. Jacobsen, J. J.; Moore, J. W. Chemistry Comes Alive!, Vol. 3 [CD-ROM]; J. Chem. Educ. Software 2000, SP 23.
4. Jacobsen, J. J.; Moore, J. W. Chemistry Comes Alive!, Vol. 4 [CD-ROM]; J. Chem. Educ. Software 2000, SP 25.
5. Trammell, G. Demonstrations in Organic Chemistry [Videodisc]; J. Chem. Educ. Software 1993, SP 6.
6. Jacobsen, E. B.; Jacobsen, J. J.; Wright, J. M. HIV-1 Protease: An Enzyme at Work [Videotape]; J. Chem. Educ. Software 1996, SP13.
7. Kim, J. H. Alkanes in Motion; J. Chem. Educ. Software 1997, 4D2 and 9C1.