Hello fellow astronomy educators, Being your guest moderator for the Center for Astronomy Education astrolrner listserv for the past year has been a great...
Patrick, You have done a great job. Thanks for all your efforts to keep us all advancing the teaching of astronomy. Tony George Astronomy Instructor Columbia...
Dear Astrolrners, As part of my sabbatical project I’m updating the content delivery part of my online classes. To help with this, I’d like to ask any of...
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Nov 7, 2011 7:10 pm
Dear Members of the CAE Community, Well, it is hard to believe that the Fall semester is quickly winding down, we here at CAE are quickly ramping up for Spring...
WHAT: "Protecting Our Dark Skies" Workshop at the AAS Conference WHEN: Sunday, 8 January 2012 from 9:00am-4:00pm (with a lunch break) WHERE: Room 12B at...
Astrolrnerphiles, The upcoming AAS meeting in Austin (1/8-1/12) has a number of workshops relating to helping new astronomers in their career paths, be they...
The non-profit Astronomical Society of the Pacific announces the publication of the papers, handouts, and resources from the national conference on teaching...
Patrick I missed this posting from two weeks ago. THANKS YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!! As our moderator for the past year you have truly elevated the...
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Nov 16, 2011 4:09 pm
Dear Members of Astrolrner@CAE Community, I am sure many of us already know that we have had a changing of the guards with respect to our Astrolrner@CAE Guest...
Newest batch of multiple-choice questions (3) from this semester on the Milky Way: http://waiferx.blogspot.com/2011/11/astronomy-quiz-question-spiral-arm.html ...
As a part of an online reading assignment between the first and the second midterm, I had my students answer a "keep-quit-start" online reflection: Enter a...
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Nov 17, 2011 1:30 pm
Patrick, great idea! Along similar lines but perhaps different intent, how about asking students what ABOUT THE SKY/SPACE might you Keep, Quit, or Start...
What: "Science Tools for Data – Intensive Astronomy" Workshop at the AAS Conference When: Sunday, January 8th 2012 from 12:00pm – 2:00pm Where: Austin...
Hello all, I am very excited to be your new moderator and to carry on in the great tradition of my predecessors. I hope that you all have gotten a chance to...
I teach high school astronomy and hybrid online astronomy. Here is an experiment I am trying this semester with my traditional astronomy class. I give one...
Amy, Welcome as our new moderator. Also, thanks for sharing your experience with NASA stickers. This term was my first experiment with them in my class. I...
After attending a CAE workshop and hearing the suggestion of using NASA stickers in this way, I started doing this but with a wider variety of materials, in...
It's always revealing to see, hear and read what the students think about the course. Patrick's periodic keep-quit-start polls are great. Particularly, as Ed...
Here is an earth/space science teaching workshop series you might really enjoy! Tim Macdonald Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 1:16 PM Subject: [Cuttingedge]...
Dear Amy, Welcome to the wonderful world of moderation--and great discussion prompt! I've been giving out the NASA stickers (h/t to Ed Prather and Gina...
With the second midterm graded, here are sample student responses (rubrics and grading distributions as well) to a new batch of essay questions. Many of these...
Magdalen (and others with a Canadian accent...), You can get a stack of Canadian Space Agency logo stickers by sending a request to promo@... (Thanks...
I suppose this is only open to Canadian students/institutions? -- "Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are...
As a part of an online reading assignment before their Sun/stars/galaxies/cosmology midterm, students listed three topics they found interesting (and explained...
I would like to obtain a masters in astronomy if possible to expand my qualifications to teach astronomy at my college. I checked around and found two...
Hi Jim, I got my masters in Astronomy from Swinburne. I HIGHLY recommend them. It was a fantastic experience and I learned so much. As a result, I am now...
