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DOCUMENT REMME ED228 065. SE 041 262. ,AUTHOR Rosenthal., Donald, Ed. TITLE Computers in Chemical Education NewSletter. Vollume IV 4 Numbers 1-4. INSTITUTION kmerican Chemical Society,,M4shington, PUB DATE 81 ,NOTE 52p.; Selected material from a quarterlymewsle,tier. Case,stUdies and information sOurces have been'" removed. PUB TYPE Reports Descriptive (141) -- Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Comp)iters in Chemical Education Newsletter; v4 ,n1-4 Mar, Jun..Sep, Dec 1981 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. bECRIPTORS *Chemistry; *College Science; *Computer Assisted Instruction; *Computer Oriented Programs; *Computer Programs; Higher Education; Information SOurcesr Instructional Materials; *Microcomputers; Newsletters; Programing; Resource Materials; Science Educaticiri s IDENTIFIERS \ *Computer Uses in Education ABSTRACT - Selections from volume 4 (numbers,1-4) of the-Task Force on Computers ift.Chemical Education,(TFCCE)Newsletter are presented. Number 1 includes an introduction to and objectivesof the newsletter and TFCCE4 a report on computer-related activitiesin the chemistry department at Eastern Michigan University, a list of TFCCE members, a discussion of a newsletter section focusing on reader questionsjinsWers related, to hardware/software problems ("Queries") and information.on locally delYelopedior-commerciallypurchaied software/hardware ("Who Done It?"), and a listing of sources of computer assisted initruction (CAI) materials. Nuttsber 2includes 'descriptions of CAI program distribution centers, sources of cAT .1Materials, a modular instrumental analysis course, and computer uses 'at Canterbury School (CT). Number 3 includes a letterdescribing elements needed in p4ograms, guide to CAI, report on computer usein chemistry at University of Texas (at Austin), data analysisuting computers, and listing of secondary sources of literature on 1 microcomputers. Number 4 includes discussions of use ofcomputers_in chemical,education ai University of MiChigan,end computer graphics, a summary of a conference on computers ineducation, a book review ("16-Bit MicrobrocessArs"), and a listing of primary sources of literature on microcomputers. In addition, numbers 2-4 contain "Hardware/Softwaie Queries" and "Who Done It?" sections. (JN) . _ . * , * ReproduCtions supplied by EDRS are the best that, canbe made * * - . from the original document. ****t******************************************************************. .41 DEPARTMENTOF EDUCATION ... NATIONAL INSTfTUTE OF EDUCATION 4, EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER IERICI - 4This document has barn ieproduced as ecarved I rom tha parson Or oroantzabon Ioninaung rt Mrnor changes have bean made to rmptov . usocoduchon Ouakty _ - Pcvnts of Vt4I WoormonS stated in thrs docu of. mom do not neCessanty rapreSant otfcLaINIE Penmen or policy COMPUTERS IN CHEMICAL EDUCATION NEWSLETTER Published by the ACS Division of Chemical Education Task Force on Computers in Chemical Education . G. Scott Owen, Chairman/Department of Chemistry, Atlanta University, , Atlanta, GA30314 David Rosenthal, Editor/Department of Chemistry, Clarkson College of-TechnOlogy, Pot'sdam, NY. 13676 Nolume IV Numbers 1-4/ 1981 "PERMISSIOIITOREPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTEDBY- TO THE EDUCATIONALRESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)" sr 2 :COMPUTERS IN.CHEMICAL- EDUCATIONNUVSLETTER Published bythe ACS Division ofChemicalEducation Task Force on Computers inChemicalEdueation G. Scott Owen, Chalrman/Department ofChemistry, Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA 30314 Donald Rosenthal, Editor/Department of Chemistry,Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, NY 13676 VoluMe IV Number 1/March 1981 M136SAGE kOM THE CHAIRMAN Welcome to the first edition of the new+FCCE Newsletter. We hope to publish the Newsletter quarterly. The objectives of the Newslettet. (as well as theTFCCE) are to help keep Chemical educators abreast of new relevant hardqpre andsoftware developments; to provide a forum,for discussion of issuesof common interest, to provide help and direc- tion to newcomers (and oldcomers) to the field, and anything elsewhich might be perti- nent. The continued existence of the Newsletter will bepartially dependent upon contri- butions from the readers. There are several capabilines.which we would like to seedeveloped. One of these is to-create a databage of different users, their systems andapplications. This. would facilitate the interaction between users: For example,- I have an APPLE II system (used just obtained an S-100 bus sys- for instrument interfaping and general programming) and I commurlicating tem. Both of my systeMs will be running UCSD-Pascal and I am interested in with others with similar systems. So please fill out the questionnaire in thisnewsletter so that we can begin to-organize thisdatabase. Probably many.of us now have the capabil- ity to use our small systems to talk to each other. I would Dike to explore the possibil- ities of using "electronic mail" to facilitate sofAware andinformation exchange. Another useful function of the Newsletter would be for haedwareand 'software re- Inc. Af- I bought the ASM/65 assembler from Programma International, , views. For example, ter creating and assembling a program on my APPLE I couldn't find a descriOtion of how to save-the assembled code. Reasoning that nobody would possibly sell an assemblerthat couldn't save the assembled codeI called Peogramma. They informed me that; yes, there was a "problem" with thataSsemblerand they gave me a telephone number of the author(in, I gave up and bought a new Nevada). I called a couple ,of times.but couldn't reach him so assembler (S,C-II). for my - On the otherha'nd: I just bought a wondeFful intelligent terminal program APPLE (DATACAPTURE 4..0 by Southeastern Software,6414.Derbyshire Dr., New Orleans, LA 70126). This program allows me to easily create text offline and sendit or to receive , overflow, text from another computer. receiving a large text ile thceis a.memory tHe program will send a stop control character to the other compu er,write the text out to disk, then continue receiving text -all automatically! Anoth r very useful feature is the ability to define special characters which theAPPLE normally does not have. This has with PDP-11's which use always been a problem for me since I use the APPLE to communicate the rubout/delete key (not available on theAPPLE) to delete characters. With this pre- to any- I strongly.recommend this progra gram I defined cOntrol/R to be rubout/delete. one who _uses theirAPPLE as an intelligeneterminal. , COMPUTERRELATED ACTIVITIES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY. EASTERN .MICHI:GAN UNIVERSITY by John W. More -Students end faculty ih EMU's chemistry 'department have access to avariety of computi'ng facilities. We have the following hardware: several remote terminals,in- cluding a daisy-wheel_ printer supported by graphics software for.,tifiesharinon a DEC system-10; a 48-K Apple II Plus with disk, serial and parallel1/0, a communica- tions interface, and a TEKSIM chip to simulate a Tektronix araphics terminal; V40 S-I00 buses; Z80-based micrdcompdters operating under CP/M or UCSD Páscal withCRT graphics, a digital platter, dot-matrix printer graphics, anh./D converter; and seven Commodore)5ETs. The PETs were just obtajned this fall with'fimds from an NSECAUSE 0 grant. , 0 Several faculty members ana a number of students have been involvedin computer .reiated projects.during the past few years. flop Collins has worked Kith undergraduates Steve Duff and den Johnson on PRBGEN, aOrogram that interacts with-computer-illiterate faculty to obtain information that is then used by PRBGEN to write programsthat print s simple exam and homework problems. Nina Contis has written an extensiVe set of CAI les- sons using CATALYST/P1L. These aresused for remediation in introductory courses. *Nina is also developing a,course on computer-instrument interfacing thatwill employ our PETs. and 5-100 system.A still maintain the Computer-Generated Repeatable TestSystem that has been distributed to over 50 other universities, and emcurrently'working on miro continue to be interested in computer graphics of ,the CGRT using an S-I00 sYstem. I sort used to illustrate the general chemistry textco-authored with Bill Davies and. Ron Collins. (Billis now at Hampdel7Sydney.) 1 have worked with undergraduate Patrick Harrington to develop a graphics,package for the DTC 300/S Daisy-wheelterminal. 14ork- ing with graduate student Robert Williams ana NSF-URPP undergraduate,Kalle Gehring, (from Brown University) extensive graphics software for the S-100 systemshave been pro:- duced.- One program has been interfaced to Ken Hick's stopped-flow apparatus. Ken's student, Sharon Pittenger (also NSF-URPO, fromEMU), is currently verifying the accuracy of the stopped-flow system and developing an advanced undergraduateexperiment based on it. Working with undergraduates John Estell (University ofToledo), John Vidolich, and Brian Carter, 1 am currently producing instructional programs for the PETs and Apple; maintaining the department's extensiVe set of canned programs for the DEC-10, expanding the data-analysis capability of the stopped-flOw system, and producing a chemical adven- ture game that teaches descriptive chemistry. ' I TASKFOPC:EON COMPUTE'RS IN CHEMICAL EDUCATION . The task,FOrciwas_established by the ACS Division of. Chemicat Education to f. prOmote and publicize the use of computers in chemiCal education. Regional and national workshops and programs are planned, orgamize'd, andfdtilitated by the Task Force.