Education journal to have electronic supplement

Next spring, the first issue of a new electronic supplement to the Journal of Chemical Education will appear. The journal is published by the American Chemical Society's Division of Chemical Education. The supplement, actually a floppy disk, will contain computer programs useful to chemistry teachers. It will be edited by Tamar Y. Suss-kind, associate professor of chemistry at Oakland Community College, Auburn Hills, Mich. She urges chemistry teachers to contribute programs. The venture is being funded by a $40,000 grant to Project Seraphim from the Dreyfus Foundation. Project Seraphim is a National Science Foundation program, based at Eastern Michigan University, to promote the use of microcomputers for chemical education (C&EN, July 4, 1983, page 30). According to Susskind, chemistry teachers have long recognized the potential of the computer in classroom and lab instruction. However, creative and innovative programs that help students learn chemistry are still rare. One reason may be that most chemistry teachers aren't ...