PTL:About Periodic Table Live!
From ChemEd Collaborative
Periodic Table Live! is a periodic table with access to data and descriptions of the elements. Using images and video from the Chemistry Comes Alive! collection brings this periodic table alive with high-quality depictions of reactions of the elements. Using the Jmol chemical structure viewer provides an interactive, 3D display of the the crystal structures of the elements. A customized Java applet allows sorting and charting of the included data to facilitate discovery of the periodic properties of the elements.
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Availability and Access
The periodic table is one of the central organizational tools of chemistry and learing how to use it and the wealth of information it provides is central to learning chemistry. To provide a periodic table to its users, free access to Periodic Table Live! will be provided by ChemEd DL.
Roadmap
Periodic Table Live! at the ChemEd DL is being converted to a collaborative, 'wikitized' environment. We expect that richer descriptions of the elements, additional sources of data, and more imagery of the reactions of the elements will result from this conversion. Availability from ChemEd Collaborative: November 27, 2007
In order to facilitate synchronization of data with the wiki version, we are currently devising a scripted, data-base driven version of Periodic Table Live! For instance, element descriptions will be "pulled into" PTL! from wiki articles of ChemEd DL Collaborative. Expected completion date: January 2009
Additional element data, chemist biographies, and some background information on the periodic table from Softsciences periodic table is being added to the wiki. Availability from ChemEd Collaborative: September 2008
In addition, we expect that learning modules about the periodic table will be contributed to ChemEd Courses and that these modules will make use of Periodic Table Live!
We are exploring ways to bring the periodic table of the elements to the social networking site, Facebook.
Delivered
Video clips in PTL! converted to streaming video formats. Display of crystal structures converted to use Jmol. Expected completion date: October 15, 2007. Availability from ChemEd DL: November 1, 2007
Contributions
Periodic Table Live! 4 is a ChemEd Collaborative version of PTL. As described above in the PTL Roadmap, PTL 4 is 'wikitized'. PTL 4 will include content from this wiki starting with the descriptions of the elements. PTL 3 descriptions of the elements are available as a starting point. We welcome contributions of descriptive facts about the elements in these pages.
Look for future opportunities to provide additional pictures, videos, crystal structure models, and data.
