 About CCA! Volume 7
Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 7 (CCA! 7) contains over 6700 hundred still images and more than 230 movies demonstrating flame test colors and explosions involving the elements and their compounds. It is the seventh in a series of CD-ROMs for Macintosh and Windows computers. Volumes 1-6 of Chemistry Comes Alive! are also available from JCE Software.
About the Chemistry Comes Alive! Series
The Chemistry Comes Alive! series includes six additional CD-ROMs (1-6). In each the emphasis is on the chemistry. Reactions and laboratory techniques are shown close up. Only where scale is important can more than the demonstrator's hands be seen. Most movies in CCA! include a voice-over narration, which is also provided as text on the same page where the video is found. The sound of a reaction or process is included when it is important. Chemical reactions, demonstrations, and laboratory techniques have been chosen because they involve 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. CCA! content is certain to stimulate students' curiosity and help them learn. To make it as useful to you as possible, a group of knowledgeable chemistry teachers has divided the CCA! series into several volumes, each of which contains closely related material. Let us know how you use Chemistry Comes Alive! in your classroom or laboratory teaching. We will share with others all ideas that we receive. If you create a new presentation or lesson using this video, contribute it to JCE WebWare or JCE Software and thereby share it with others.
How to Use CCA! 7
Chemistry Comes Alive! CD-ROMs are designed for use by chemistry instructors to locate video and still images for use in the classroom, laboratory, or in locally developed lessons or tutorials. They are not intended for direct use by students. Instructors who wish to have students use the CDs will need to provide clear instructions or bookmarks to allow students to locate the items of interest and provide supporting information as well as questions or other assignments.
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.
You can locate the content you want to use via
Once you find the videos or still images you want, you can easily bookmark them in your browser for quick, convenient presentation to a class. You can also view movies using the QuickTime Player. Or you can copy and paste them into a PowerPoint or other multimedia presentation or a lesson written in HTML. The online JCE Video Workshop provides detailed directions for doing so. You can use the video freely in your own presentations, but an additional license is required before you place any Chemistry Comes Alive! video on your local WWW server or LAN.
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! Call, write, or email JCE Software or, visit the Chemistry Comes Alive! User Forum.
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 CCA! 7. Video originally published in The Periodic Table Videodisc by Alton J. Banks of North Carolina State University and in the Demonstrations in Organic Chemistry videodisc by Gary Trammell of the University of Illinois at Springfield are incorporated into CCA! 7. Frank W. Darrow (Ithaca Collage), Steven D. Gammon (Western Washington University), George L. Gilbert (Denison University, emeritus), Lynn R. Hunsberger (Northwestern University), Kristin Johnson (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Barry V. O’Grady (University of Tasmania), Jongwook Park (Chongju National University of Education, Korea), David Phillips (Wabash College), and David Whisnant (Wofford College) contributed to producing various video selections. We also acknowledge the vocal talents of Margaret Biddle, Kelly Houston Jetzer, Michael Killips, and Teresa Larson (University of Wisconsin–Madison). Video editing expertise was contributed by Greg Minix (University of Wisconsin–Madison).
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