Welcome to "All Atoms". My name is W. Gray Rushin and I
serve as a chemistry teacher, WebSite
Club advisor, and Reptile Club advisor at Cary Academy. My main objective in maintaining this site is to
establish and maintain effective communication between myself and the students and parents
of the Cary Academy community. However, I hope that students and teachers of chemistry
from around the world will find things of interest here. Students have been active
contributors to this site and you will find their projects (and literally thousands of
pages) published here for all the world to see.
I apologize to those readers who are viewing this site at lower screen resolutions. This
site will not be optimal under those conditions. Horizontal scrolling may be required and
the navigation bars might not be completely visible. This site
will look best at 1024 x 768. I considered my main audience when I designed this site. My
students will typically be viewing this site at resolutions of 1024 x 768 or
higher. If I designed this site to accommodate lower resolutions, then
my site would only occupy a portion of the real estate on my student's monitors. The
wide range of operating systems, monitors, and browsers remains as the worst problem for
web publishers.
In order to see the javascript menus on the secondary pages, you must be viewing the
page in a maximized (full screen) window at a minimum of 800 x 600 resolution. Users with
minimized windows or 640 x 480 resolution will experience problems displaying the
drop-down portions of the menu.
Speaking of browsers. This site utilizes frames, stylesheets, and javascript.
If you are experiencing problems with the site, you are probably using an
outdated version of your browser.
Due to the use of frames, saving a page as a bookmark/favorite, viewing a page's html
source, and printing a page can be troublesome. To mark a page (other than the homepage)
as a bookmark/favorite, right click in the specific frame that the page resides and choose
"Add to Favorites". To view the HTML source of a specific page (rather than the
frameset), right click on the specific page and choose "View Source". To print a
specific page, right click on the specific page and choose "Print".
This site is now hosted
through a web development company that I own with a former student. We build
dynamic, database-driven web sites for small businesses:
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If you want to see atoms in action then you have to check out the "Adventures of an Alchemist" section. There are some amazing
pics (and now MOVIES!) of some interesting experiments.
As of 3/10/06, the site is made up of 21,769
files organized into 1,751 folders weighing in at 949 Mb.
The "All Atoms" site is the result of a major overhaul of my original site. I
dedicated much of the Summer of 2001 to this project. Some of the work was a redesign of
the "look" as well as some major changes in the organization and functionality
of the site. However, the most drastic change was the addition of loads of content. I have
placed on-line my entire curriculums for first and second year chemistry that I have spent
many years developing. Primarily this was instigated by the knowledge that it would help
my students if they had access to course materials 24/7. Additionally, I remember starting
out in the profession and struggling to come up with experiments and demonstrations that
would inspire brilliance in my students. I don't know if I reached that goal but at least
some of these materials could serve as a starting point in your classroom. All of the
documents are in MS Word format. You can download them and alter them to serve your
particular situation. I have not copyrighted these pages because it just seems counter to
the traditions of the profession. I got most of my ideas from other teachers that were
willing to share. What I would enjoy is an e-mail that tells me what you found useful in
your classroom. If you insist on sending me a $million dollar donation, I
guess I would accept - you don't want to know how many hours (and how many
years) led to this site and its content.....and I do have to pay for this
server space you know.
