Using the WWW for Teaching Chemistry

A Demonstration Poster for the Chemistry Webmasters Meeting 4

Paul May

TML (Tutorial Markup Language) is a Perl-based program that allows Multiple-Choice Questions to be delivered via the web. It was the first such program to be developed at Bristol University (at the ILRT) and is still quite basic in terms of layout options and question types. It is being used in the Chemistry Dept for basic MCQs and self-learning, but will probably be superceded within the next few years by more sophisticated systems such as the Teach-and-Learn program.

Try for Yourself...

Demos

• An Elementary Quiz, School level fun quiz - used in Open Days (Dr Paul May, text + diagrams)
• TML Example of most of the Question types available (Dr Paul May, text + diagrams)
• TML example using Chime (Dr Paul May, text + diagrams + rotating molecular structures)

Examples used for Teaching

• Basic Ideas in Physical Science, Level I Course (Dr Neil Allan, text only)
• Atoms, Structure, Spectra and Reactivity, Level II Course (Dr Neil Allan, text + a few diagrams)
• Molecules at Surfaces, Level III Course (Dr Paul May, text only)
• The visualisation of chemical processes for electronic publishing and presentations.