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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.
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Held semi-regularly. 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.
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=Done ones=
 
=Done ones=
  
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*'''''First NITARP Tutorial: WISE and the WISE Archive''''' (Nov 2012): Done by Luisa Rebull (SSC/IPAC).  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPKUcyFWOY4 Part 1: WISE overview] - what is the mission, the big picture (20 min); [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rTTyc-RXKc Part 2: the WISE archive] - how to access the archive (20 min); [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbAJc8tS2RE Part 3: questions] - questions from those online and on the phone (8 min)
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'''Now moved off to [http://nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu/resource/8 new website here].'''
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*'''''Second NITARP Tutorial: ds9''''' (Jan 2013): Done by Luisa Rebull (SSC/IPAC). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QBwrKbEtc Part 1: ds9 overview] - what is ds9, etc (10.5 min); [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1zic8msSM0 Part 2: the first half of the ds9 demo] - getting it started, basics of usage (19 min); [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVwW-8h2drw Part 3: the second half of the ds9 demo] - more advanced tips and tricks (25 min) ([https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFBPd184Q0FEaGcwVlJJRGxkXzZ5NWc6MA feedback form] if you are still interested in giving feedback, even if you didn't attend live.)
 
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**Download ds9 from here: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/site/Download.html
 
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**Having problems making ds9 start up on a Mac? Make sure you have X windows (also called X11) installed - it is free, though if you get it from the App Store, it will make you give them an address. Also try [http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.7.4 this site].
 
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**[http://chandra-ed.harvard.edu/install.html More help on installing ds9 from Chandra] (may be dated).
 
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**NB: for Mac OS 10.8 (snow leopard) users: No formal X11 support is provided for this OS version, but it appears that DS9 version 6.1 will still work even with 10.8. '''Mac users of 10.8 ONLY should install 6.1.'''
 
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*'''''Third NITARP Tutorial: Skynet''''', and Skynet Junior Scholars (Feb 2013) - Vivian Hoette (Yerkes Observatory) - http://skynet.unc.edu/ - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0W5JCPK9s8 One big YouTube file] - 53 min.
 
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Skynet is a distributed network of robotic telescopes operated by students, faculty, and staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Vivian told us about Skynet in general, how you can use it, and more about her program called Skynet Junior Scholars. [https://sites.google.com/a/starsatyerkes.net/skynet-work/using-afterglow/4vesta Web page Vivian constructed prior to the telecon].  NITARPers who missed the Tutorial can email Luisa or Vivian for the password information and access to Skynet. The Skynet-developed online tutorials mentioned during our tutorial are [http://skynet.unc.edu/ASTR101L/index.php?content=vids here].  ''We had LOTS of technical glitches with this one. Sorry about that. If there is demand, we will redo this tutorial.''
 
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*'''''Fourth NITARP Tutorial: IASC''''' (March 2013) - Patrick Miller (Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, TX) and Denise Rothrock (Madisonville HS, NITARP Class of 2012) - http://iasc.hsutx.edu/
 
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IASC, the International Astronomical Search Collaboration, is an educational outreach program in astronomy designed for high schools and colleges.  IASC ("Isaac") provides images taken the night before at ground-based observatories from around the country.  Students download these images the next morning and search for asteroids, primarily Main Belt asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.  Occasionally, they will discover near-Earth objects and Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit. Your students can participate in this program along with 500 schools from 60 countries.  They can make original discoveries that, in time, can be officially named. Patrick Miller (Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, TX) and Denise Rothrock (Madisonville HS, NITARP Class of 2012) will share with us information about IASC and how you, too, can be involved.  The program is provided at no cost to you or your students...IASC is free.
 
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE3BVdxDJFQ Whole honkin' thing (56 min)] OR
 
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyNFVwOv65w Just the part on Asteroids and Why You Should Care (23 min)],
 
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKZ-UT5N9X4 Just the part on IASC and what it is (19 min)], and
 
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgQazoTUYaw Just the part with the live demo of the IASC software (15 min)]
 
  
  
 
=Planned ones with dates=
 
=Planned ones with dates=
  
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*'''''BONUS April Tutorial''''': SOFIA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program. Application available now, due May 3! Coral Clark (SOFIA) and Chelen Johnson (NITARP and AAA alum) will tell us about the [http://www.sofia.usra.edu/Edu/programs/ambassadors/ambassadors.html AAA program] on April 9, 4pm Pacific=5pm Mountain=6pm central=7pm eastern. Pre-register [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Vj1UdvKEzgLhoQ8_8fjAagqYMvG7TVRkCusltw6_FQ0/viewform here]
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(consensus seemed to be you preferred asynchronous ones, so ones where you can attend are now few and far between.)
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*'''''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
 
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Terry Matilsky (Rutgers) will teach us all about the really nice Chandra data analysis activities available [http://chandra-ed.harvard.edu/ here]. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TUTORIAL REQUIRES SOME ADVANCE WORK FROM YOU, because it will assume some knowledge as a prerequisite.
 
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You need to:
 
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#Obtain and install ds9 and verify that it works on your computer.
 
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#Have some operational familiarity with ds9, at the very least having watched the January ds9 tutorial above, or equivalent.
 
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#Read the core pages from the Chandra 101 pages [http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/chandra101.html here].
 
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#Pre-register [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jqIfopX604xBop9Dc_uxbPqo5tcljJAHD-FAn9eu8q0/viewform here].
 
  
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*'''''Sixth NITARP Tutorial: TO BE CONFIRMED''''': Getting your NITARP (etc) story into your local media - Tim Spuck and Ardis Herrold - May?
 
  
 
=Hoped-for ones=
 
=Hoped-for ones=
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*Spitzer, the SHA, the enhanced products - Luisa(*)
 
*Spitzer, the SHA, the enhanced products - Luisa(*)
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*Planck, and its archive - release in March?- Peregrine?
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*Planck, and its archive - Peregrine?
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*NASA Exoplanet Archive (and by extension, Kepler and maybe even CoRoT??) -- Solange(*) "after May"
 
 
*WISE asteroids and comets.  
 
*WISE asteroids and comets.  
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*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?
 
*finding data at other wavelengths - Skyview from goddard. finderchart. 2mass. other archives?
 
*Spatial resolution??
 
*Spatial resolution??
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*LCOGT http://lcogt.net/ -- JD Armstrong(*)
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*LCOGT http://lcogt.net/ -- JD Armstrong  
 
*Guidance on getting research into the classroom?? Guidance on curriculum development??
 
*Guidance on getting research into the classroom?? Guidance on curriculum development??
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*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?"
 
*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?"
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*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.
 
*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
 
*SED tool - Sally Seebode
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*SDSS labs http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/proj/teachers/ - ??
 
 
*how to come up with project ideas
 
*how to come up with project ideas
 
*Micro Observatory http://mo-www.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/ - Susan Sunbury et al.(*)
 
*Micro Observatory http://mo-www.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/ - Susan Sunbury et al.(*)
 
*MAST?
 
*MAST?
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*NRAO teacher opportunities - Sue Ann Heatherly (*)
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*NRAO teacher opportunities - Sue Ann Heatherly
 
*WWT http://www.worldwidetelescope.org - Pat Udomprasaert??
 
*WWT http://www.worldwidetelescope.org - Pat Udomprasaert??
 
*NOAO RBSE lessons http://www.noao.edu/education/arbse/arpd
 
*NOAO RBSE lessons http://www.noao.edu/education/arbse/arpd
 
*Zooniverse projects and lesson plans
 
*Zooniverse projects and lesson plans
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*ds9 - Robert Marshall: "..creating ds9 regions files: everything from looking at example code, then creating text from an excel file, to adding carriage returns so regions files can then be read in properly using ds9."
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* Astropix, FITS liberator - robert
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*color selection to find objects you care about - luisa
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*NGSS
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*(ideas for) ways to get your NITARP experience back into your classroom - this would have to be live, a panel discussion or other sort of roundtable.
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*(ideas for) ways to manage your finances when in NITARP or self-funding to AAS - not sure how best to handle this one.

Latest revision as of 23:59, 16 January 2015

Held semi-regularly. 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

(consensus seemed to be you preferred asynchronous ones, so ones where you can attend are now few and far between.)


Hoped-for ones

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

  • Spitzer, the SHA, the enhanced products - Luisa(*)
  • Planck, and its archive - Peregrine?
  • WISE asteroids and comets.
  • 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??
  • 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/ 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
  • 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
  • ds9 - Robert Marshall: "..creating ds9 regions files: everything from looking at example code, then creating text from an excel file, to adding carriage returns so regions files can then be read in properly using ds9."
  • Astropix, FITS liberator - robert
  • color selection to find objects you care about - luisa
  • NGSS
  • (ideas for) ways to get your NITARP experience back into your classroom - this would have to be live, a panel discussion or other sort of roundtable.
  • (ideas for) ways to manage your finances when in NITARP or self-funding to AAS - not sure how best to handle this one.
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