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1182 John Keller
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Dec 14, 2005
6:14 pm
Happy End of the Semester!!! I am a graduate student with the CAPER group in Arizona finishing up my PhD in Planetary Science and Astronomy Education Research...
1183 Bruce Bayly
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Dec 28, 2005
4:59 pm
(PS As usual, we'll take you off the list if you ask. Also, please feel free to forward to other interested people!) Only two more shopping days until Isaac...
1184 T F Slater
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Jan 4, 2006
12:51 am
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT College Astronomy Teaching Excellence Workshop Held from 9am-5pm, Saturday and Sunday, February 11-12, 2006 Tucson, AZ - Pima Community...
1185 Jordan Raddick
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Jan 5, 2006
5:26 pm
Hi all, Do any of you know of a good, student-friendly, preferably free-to-download graphing program that can read in 3-D data and output a contour or color...
1186 Jatila van der Veen -...
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Jan 5, 2006
5:50 pm
IDL...I believe it's free, but it's not terribly friendly. -Jatila -- Jatila van der Veen - Davis Lubin Group, Physics Department and Gevirtz Graduate School...
1187 Robert A. Knop Jr.
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Jan 5, 2006
6:38 pm
... It's not free in any sense of the word either. There are 3d routines built into PDL (which is free in all senses of the word), but it's no friendlier than...
1188 Juan Cabanela Ph.D.
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Jan 5, 2006
7:00 pm
IDL is also not even close to being free. There is a student license available for something in the ballpark of $99 and it actually deactivates after a...
1189 Dave Bruning
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Jan 5, 2006
7:31 pm
... Try GNUplot. It's free and pretty simple to use. You should only need one commands to read and plot the file. It will do 3-D and contour plots and allow...
1190 Erin (Weeks) Bardar
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Jan 6, 2006
10:03 pm
Dear Astrolrner Readers, In the fall of 2005, we conducted a multi-institutional study of students' understanding of concepts related to light and spectroscopy...
1191 Jordan Raddick
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Jan 13, 2006
5:58 pm
Thanks for the advice, all. Looks like gnuplot is the way to go. Rob, the data are flux(x,y). The specific dataset is stellar velocities as a function of ra,...
1192 snupnhomer@...
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Jan 14, 2006
5:05 am
Hello I've been informed I have a visually impaired student taking my astronomy class on astronomy which mainly covers the planets. Are there any resources out...
1193 Catherine Garland
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Jan 14, 2006
4:22 pm
Hi, There's a book called "Touch the Universe: A NASA Braille Book of Astronomy." I haven't used it with students but I have had a look at it. It has braille...
1194 Sheron Snyder
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Jan 14, 2006
6:40 pm
I suggest you get in touch with Viv Hoette at Yerkes Observatory. She does this type of thing and even has the students doing to telescope work. Vivian Hoette ...
1195 snupnhomer@...
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Jan 14, 2006
6:41 pm
Thanks guys I've been trying to find Touch the Stars without much luck. Tina ... From: Catherine Garland <cagarland@...> To: astrolrner@yahoogroups.com ...
1196 French, Rica
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Jan 14, 2006
6:59 pm
There are three Braille astronomy books: _Touch the Stars_, _Touch the Universe: A NASA Braille Book of Astronony_, and _Touch the Sun: A NASA Braille Book_....
1197 Castle, Karen
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Jan 14, 2006
11:51 pm
Hi A number of years ago I was asking about this sort of thing at our school. We have people who work on helping students with learning and physical...
1198 Heather Bradbury
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Jan 15, 2006
2:53 am
Hi You may want to consider getting in touch with Bernhard Beck- Winchatz at DePaul University. He was part of the team that developed Touch the Universe. He...
1199 snupnhomer@...
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Jan 15, 2006
2:54 am
Because the class is going to have an enrollment of around 200 students, I will more than likely be using powerpoint. The text won't be a problem I think,...
1200 mabans@...
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Jan 17, 2006
3:00 pm
Hi, Tina, I have given a talk to a group of teachers on possible resources to teaching Astronomy. One of them is visually impaired and intends to teach ...
1201 Judi James
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Jan 17, 2006
8:34 pm
If your student has some sight, could a monitor for your power point be set up for the student's use? I had a student who found this helpful. Judi James ...
1202 Julia Olsen
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Jan 17, 2006
9:35 pm
I suggest you contact SERCH (Southeast Regional Clearinghouse) via their website at http://serch.cofc.edu/ as they are a NASA broker and would be an excellent...
1203 Geoffrey Holt
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Jan 17, 2006
9:51 pm
I believe the machine Karen Castle was talking about is called a thermal expansion machine. Here's an article: http://www.nfb.org/bm/bm03/bm0305/bm030507.htm ...
1204 snupnhomer@...
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Jan 19, 2006
3:34 pm
Hi Thanks for all the tips. It turns out I have 2 visually impaired students. Both are legally blind, but have travel vision. I have no idea what travel ...
1205 Dave Bruning
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Jan 19, 2006
7:47 pm
Tina, I had a legally blind student in one of my astronomy classes years ago. Legally blind only means they have worse than 20/200 in the central acuity of the...
1206 Julia Plummer
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Jan 19, 2006
8:47 pm
Hello, I am involved in developing a middle school astronomy unit, and there is a desire to use software to enhance aspects of the classroom activities dealing...
1207 Matthew Ganis
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Jan 19, 2006
9:05 pm
... Have you looked at the CLEA stuff ? (http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/physics/clea/CLEAhome.html) I'm interested in hearing about others as well...... ...
1208 Joseph Masiero
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Jan 19, 2006
11:31 pm
My advisor formerly worked with SpaceWatch (a Near Earth Asteroid Survey) and gave me these suggestions for software. Joe ... Looking up known objects near a...
1209 T F Slater
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Jan 19, 2006
11:35 pm
Many of you have asked about an advanced-level teaching workshop on ASTRO 101. We've just received approval and confirmed dates to make this happen so start...
1210 snupnhomer@...
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Jan 19, 2006
11:41 pm
Thanks. I had just wanted to make sure that if the students needed special resources that I had time to get them before we actually started covering the meat...
1211 snupnhomer@...
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Jan 19, 2006
11:43 pm
I think the other thing I was looking for was tips with the Powerpoint slides. It's a class of 200 and I'm not writing on an overhead or I'll get a migraine....
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