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...
John Keller
jkeller@...
Dec 14, 2005 6:14 pm
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(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...
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT College Astronomy Teaching Excellence Workshop Held from 9am-5pm, Saturday and Sunday, February 11-12, 2006 Tucson, AZ - Pima Community...
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...
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...
... 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...
Robert A. Knop Jr.
robert.a.knop@...
Jan 5, 2006 6:38 pm
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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...
... 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...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Jan 5, 2006 7:31 pm
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Dear Astrolrner Readers, In the fall of 2005, we conducted a multi-institutional study of students' understanding of concepts related to light and spectroscopy...
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,...
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...
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...
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 ...
Thanks guys I've been trying to find Touch the Stars without much luck. Tina ... From: Catherine Garland <cagarland@...> To: astrolrner@yahoogroups.com ...
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_....
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...
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...
Heather Bradbury
hbradbur@...
Jan 15, 2006 2:53 am
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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,...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Geoffrey Holt
gholt@...
Jan 17, 2006 9:51 pm
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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 ...
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...
Dave Bruning
david.bruning@...
Jan 19, 2006 7:47 pm
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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...
... 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...... ...
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...
Joseph Masiero
masiero@...
Jan 19, 2006 11:31 pm
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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...
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...
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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