Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques

— August 1998 —

In-class Demonstrations

What will you demonstrate?
- Power of searching?
- Typical search for audience?
- Emphasize content or logistics (i.e., truncation symbol, how to print)?
Demonstrate access points to information.
- Combining several concepts (boolean)
- Avoiding nomenclature uncertainties (structures)
- Avoiding indexing limitations (headings vs free-text)
What if you cannot go online in class?
- Store results from earlier search and go through “screens”.
- Can do in several ways:
  - do PowerPoint capture
  - take “snapshots” from Internet and store on desktop
  - use word processing stored search
  - use transparencies of actual search printouts

Articles about Internet demos.

Using Netscape as a Presentation Manager
Van Bramer, Scott: ChemConf'97, Summer On-Line Conference on Chemical Education, June 1 – August 1, 1997. paper No. 1