Monday, April 7, 2003 Delafield Brewhaus 3832 Hillside Drive Delafield, WI 53018

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Over the past 5 years the Internet and the World Wide Web have become an integral component of most everyone's life. Providing on-demand resources and information the WWW and online activities are more popular than television. Like nearly every other technology advance, the WWW is used in instruction. How is it used currently and how will it be used in the future? My introductory chemistry classes at Oklahoma State University use the WWW in a variety of ways, from downloading lecture notes and sample exams, viewing streaming video and interactive animations to doing interactive problem solving and checking answers to assignments. I would like to demonstrate a range of examples of how computers and high speed internet access has changed my classroom, and take a look at what my introductory chemistry course will look like in the not too distant future.

John Gelder earned a BS at Western Washington University and an MS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Arizona, he became a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1977 John started as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Oklahoma State University in the area of Chemical Education where he began working in the area of computer applications in the classroom. John is widely known in the chemical education community for his expertise in computer applications in chemistry. Beginning in 1978 he began producing software for use in introductory chemistry courses, and worked with the Institute for Chemical Education in Madison in 1984 and 1985 and at the University of Maryland in 1986 as the computer technology instructor. In 1994 he released a CD-ROM containing computer animations for introductory chemistry. In 2002 John Gelder, Michael Abraham and Kirk Haines received an award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources from the MERLOT Project for their Gas Law Simulation program that they developed. John Gelder and Michael Abraham recently received an NSF award to develop a series of Molecular Level Laboratory Experiments. Over the last 5 years he has integrated the WWW into his class instruction. Along with his work with computers in Chemical Education, John has been a Faculty Consultant for the College Board since 1990. Presently he is the Chief Faculty Consultant for AP Chemistry, and he is also the Chair of the Board of Publications for the Journal of Chemical Education. John is the WebMaster for the 18th BCCE at Iowa State University, July, 2004.