NITARP tutorials

Done ones

• First NITARP Tutorial: WISE and the WISE Archive: Part 1: WISE overview - what is the mission, the big picture (20 min); Part 2: the WISE archive - how to access the archive (20 min); Part 3: questions - questions from those online and on the phone (8 min)

• Second NITARP Tutorial: ds9: Part 1: ds9 overview - what is ds9, etc (10.5 min); Part 2: the first half of the ds9 demo - getting it started, basics of usage (19 min); Part 3: the second half of the ds9 demo - more advanced tips and tricks (25 min)

Planned ones with dates

• Skynet, and Skynet Junior Scholars - Vivian Hoette - Feb 28, 3:30 pm Pacific time - http://skynet.unc.edu/ - registration form

Hoped-for ones

(in no particular order, in various stages of planning)

• Spitzer, the SHA, the enhanced products - Luisa
• Planck, and its archive - release in March?- Peregrine?
• NASA Exoplanet Archive (and by extension, Kepler and CoRoT) --??(*)
• WISE asteroids and comets.
• APT, from 'what is photometry' through latest bells and whistles. may be 2-parter. (Varoujan and Russ??)
• finding data at other wavelengths - Skyview from goddard. finderchart. 2mass. other archives?
• Spatial resolution??
• LCOGT http://lcogt.net/ -- JD Armstrong(*)
• Guidance on getting research into the classroom??
• Edubites overview?? - Carolyn
• Excel?? many tutorials already online at YouTube - get a NITARP alum teacher to do one on "things you should know about Excel but were afraid to ask?"
• HOU http://www.handsonuniverse.org/ - Alan Gould??
• SED tool - Sally Seebode
• Chandra ds9 labs http://chandra-ed.harvard.edu/ - Kathy Lestition et al.(*)
• SDSS labs http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/proj/teachers/ - ??
• how to come up with project ideas
• Micro Observatory http://mo-www.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/ - Susan Sunbury et al.(*)
• ISAC http://iasc.hsutx.edu/ -
• MAST?
• NRAO teacher opportunities?
• WWT http://www.worldwidetelescope.org - Pat Udomprasaert??