NITARP tutorials

Held roughly monthly. You need to register so that I can mail you the relevant phone numbers and join.me links just prior to the tutorial. Archived here and on YouTube if you can't attend live.

Done ones

Now moved off to new website here.

Planned ones with dates

• Fifth NITARP Tutorial: Chandra ds9 labs http://chandra-ed.harvard.edu/ - Terry Matilsky (Rutgers) - Tuesday April 16, 4pm EASTERN=1pm PACIFIC .. note that this is earlier than the other tutorials have been

Terry Matilsky (Rutgers) will teach us all about the really nice Chandra data analysis activities available here. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TUTORIAL REQUIRES SOME ADVANCE WORK FROM YOU, because it will assume some knowledge as a prerequisite. You need to:

1. Obtain and install ds9 and verify that it works on your computer.
2. Have some operational familiarity with ds9, at the very least having watched the January ds9 tutorial above, or equivalent.
3. Read the core pages from the Chandra 101 pages here.
4. Pre-register here.

• Sixth NITARP Tutorial: Media Relations for Teachers: Getting your NITARP (etc) story into your local media - Tim Spuck and Ardis Herrold - Tuesday May 14th, 4pm pacific time = 5pm mountain = 6pm central = 7pm eastern

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 maybe even CoRoT??) -- Solange(*) "after May"
• WISE asteroids and comets.
• APT, from 'what is photometry' through latest bells and whistles. may be 2-parter. (Varoujan and Russ)(*) "after April"
• 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?? Guidance on curriculum development??
• 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?"
• Getting started in programming - ?? - Python in the classroom - someone at Yerkes?
• HOU http://www.handsonuniverse.org/ and http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/outreach/activities/Explorations/ http://www.globalsystemsscience.org/software/download - Alan Gould, Carl Penneypacker?? - particularly interested in HOU legacy of extensively tested labs; newer opportunities such as IASC and Skynet are also represented in the list here, but separately from HOU.
• SED tool - Sally Seebode
• 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.(*)
• MAST?
• NRAO teacher opportunities - Sue Ann Heatherly (*)
• WWT http://www.worldwidetelescope.org - Pat Udomprasaert??
• NOAO RBSE lessons http://www.noao.edu/education/arbse/arpd
• Zooniverse projects and lesson plans