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...
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Bruce Bayly
brucebayly2000
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...
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T F Slater
astronomer_tim
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...
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Jordan Raddick
jraddick
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...
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Jatila van der Veen -...
jatilav
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...
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Robert A. Knop Jr.
robert.a.knop@...
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...
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Juan Cabanela Ph.D.
cabanela
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...
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Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
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...
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Erin (Weeks) Bardar
e_weeks
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...
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Jordan Raddick
jraddick
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,...
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snupnhomer@...
tinanhomer
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...
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Catherine Garland
cagarland76
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...
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Sheron Snyder
sheronjohn
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 ...
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snupnhomer@...
tinanhomer
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 ...
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French, Rica
ricadink
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_....
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Castle, Karen
kgc023
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...
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Heather Bradbury
hbradbur@...
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...
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snupnhomer@...
tinanhomer
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,...
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mabans@...
mabanss
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 ...
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Judi James
jj2m7s
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 ...
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Julia Olsen
y2kmustang2003
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...
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Geoffrey Holt
gholt@...
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 ...
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snupnhomer@...
tinanhomer
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 ...
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Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
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...
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Julia Plummer
jremmulp
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...
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Matthew Ganis
ganis0920
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...... ...
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Joseph Masiero
masiero@...
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...
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T F Slater
astronomer_tim
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...
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snupnhomer@...
tinanhomer
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...
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snupnhomer@...
tinanhomer
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....
