I would include Heavenly Errors by Neil Comins Dave Dave Bruning Physics University of Wisconsin-Parkside...
Dave Bruning
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Nov 1, 2005 4:21 pm
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A recent problem occurred at my institution regarding students attending public talks. Some of the ASTRO 101 faculty have asked students to come to our...
This is a a problem we often have here, and the suggestions below are great. I will implement them [if I can] with one caveat however... A lot of our students...
Dr Mike Inglis
inglism@...
Nov 1, 2005 5:22 pm
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We have similar complaints from some of our students. Even if they don't work, they might have a class during the talk. A solution we have for this is that we...
Kevin McLin
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Nov 1, 2005 5:37 pm
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Generally, there are many opportunities for a student to attend a talk (either during the day or at night) throughout the semester. So, I don't think it is...
I've noticed that a lot of instructors, especially of very large classes, tolerate students coming and going throughout the class period. I also observe a lot...
Not all of us are fortunate enough to be at a school where we have multiple public talks even vaguely related to astronomy in a year much less during each...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Nov 1, 2005 9:26 pm
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Hi all No I didn't drop off the face of the Earth.... but I'm trying. Gravity is a little too strong. Why yes, I still need employment :) I am teaching a...
Nick, Is there a teacher's manual? Ken Ken Brandt, M. Ed. Director of the Robeson Planetarium and Science Center, Lumberton Astronomy Lecturer, Department of...
Tim, It seems to me that students will crawl across broken glass, then take a dip in alcohol for extra credit. That's why I don't give any, other than extra...
I whole heartedly agree with Pamela. We need to be tough on them in our own classrooms. But it depends on the size of your class and the layout of your ...
Tina: I have my students look up their latitude and longitude on the Internet as part of their first observing lab. This website will give you the latitude and...
Google Earth provides latitude and longitude. For US users it should be accurate to street level. You need a Win PC to run it at present though. Cheers Rob ...
I agree whole-heartedly.. but I think I am also very lucky as our maximum class size for any course is 24 students! But even then we get a fair proportion who...
Dr Mike Inglis
inglism@...
Nov 1, 2005 10:06 pm
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Try Google -Earth. Bob Warasila SCCC Selden, NY 11772 40 50' 54" N 73 03' 19" W ... From: snupnhomer@... To: astrolrner@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday,...
Getting students to arrive on time and have good manners in the classroom is a challenge, and if anyone has a "magic bullet," I'd love to know about it! I have...
Joann Eisberg
joann.eisberg@...
Nov 2, 2005 5:12 pm
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I teach an intro astro class, for non majors. I usually get ~ 100 students in the class. I find my experience with allowing students to earn extra credit...
Post-doctoral Research and Teaching Associate Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research The University of Maine Orono, Maine The Center for Science...
heee heee It's St. Louis MO. The University of Missouri-St. Louis Observatory doesn't have GPS unfortunately. Toxic? St. Louis MI? Do tell! My current...
Other sites giving you a longitude and latitude are http://geocode.com/eagle.html (no www at the front) and http://tiger.census.gov Clicking on the map will...
Hello, I've recently joined astro-lrner (thanks Tim and Ed!), and having been learning a lot. I am about to start a tenure track job at Youngstown State...
... These systems have been used in planetariums. My recollection is that they have been used to steer the program from one object to another, sort of like the...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Nov 7, 2005 8:27 pm
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I am teaching a 12-week introductory astronomy course beginning in January (http://www.skythisweek.info/introast.htm) for adults and high school students. I'd...
I ran a planetarium for many years in which we used something similar to clickers (referred to by Dave Bruning below); there are three buttons hard-wired into...
Shupla, Christine
Shupla@...
Nov 8, 2005 4:50 pm
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If you are buying, you might want to try Amazon. They have older books and could probably put together the number of copies you want. Alternately, you might...
You might utilize my Astronomy, A Self-Teaching Guide, 6th Edition (John Wiley & Sons) which you can get new, priced very reasonably as it is soft cover, in...
Moche, Dinah L.
DMOCHE@...
Nov 9, 2005 7:23 pm
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... soft ... latest, ... Oh I use this book quite a bit. I Highly recommend it. I use it mostly for *very* beginning astro classes. Right now I'm using it...
... I was going to suggest this as well, I have a ton of demo books on my shelf - but I only have them as single copies (not 6-12). I'd be willing to send you...
Terraserver (http://terraserver.microsoft.com) will also give you the Lat/Lon of an address or place, and will display an aerial view of the location. In...
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