SATURDAY 21 June 2008
Check in at Aurora College.
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SUNDAY 22 June 2008 MORNING
All Conference sessions held at Yerkes Observatory;
New HOU conference attendees meet in
~8:15 am in Aurora cafeteria to find out how to get to
Yerkes
8:30 AM Registration at Yerkes Observatory; Informal
meetings
9:00 AM Welcome - Vivian Hoette, Carl Pennypacker, Alan
Gould
9:05 AM Introductions - All (1 minute intros)
9:30 AM NASA Wide Angle Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
asteroid research project development (Session I)
Bryan Mendez - Overview All - Discussion of GOALS:
Define the WISE HOU collaboration
What will WISE provide? (how much data? software--automated?)
What will HOU do with them?
10:30 BREAK
10:45 Begin to define WISE HOU curriculum
What are the existing resources (HOU Asteroid Research
and IASC)?
What do we want to change?
11:50 LUNCH
SUNDAY 22 June 2008 AFTERNOON
1:20 Rich Lohman
-- Construction of my home observatory
1:40 Carl Pennypacker
-- Salsa J for Macs and PC's
2:10 Jenifer
Perazzo
---Progress on the HOU-5th grade Light and
Phases of the Moon Module My very intimate observatory
2:45 BREAK
3:00 Alan Gould
--Progress on revised HOU high school course: A Changing
Cosmos
3:30 HOU-WISE project (Session II) workshop
Outline the curriculum
Identify/discuss WISE content that is new
for
IASC/HOU asteroid search, e.g.
---Accurate diameter info
---Picking out NEOs
---Analyze Light Curve - Rotation
---Analyze Light Curve - Shapes/terrain
---Finding the lost asteroids/rediscovery
---Use 2Mass for rediscovery and rotation??
4:00 BREAK
4:15 HOU WISE Project workshop (continued)
Begin work
on draft activities
4:45 Sharing activities, ideas, pertinent to HOU teachers
5:15 DINNER
7:45 PM Rich Lohman, Glenn Reagan, Alan Gould
---Introduction to HOU (getting new users up to speed...)
All Attendees
---Other break-out discussions as needed
9:30 PM - 4:17 AM :^) Observing with telescopes, weather
permitting
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MONDAY 23 June 2008 MORNING
8:45 AM WISE asteroid research project development (Session
III)
---Draft activities (continued)
---Scenarios for implementation
what is the context of the WISE activities in a HOU course?
10:30 BREAK
10:45 WISE asteroid research project (Session IV)
Plan for further formative development and field testing
11:50 LUNCH
MONDAY 23 June 2008 AFTERNOON
1:20 Carl Pennypacker
---International Year of Astronomy, the Galileo Teacher
Training Program, and Reaching 100 nations with Global
HOU
1:40 Steve Carpenter
---Progress on the "Modeling Jupiter Moons" unit.
2:15 HOU IP 2.0 Image Processing software update and
workshop
3:00 BREAK
3:15 WISE - telecon with
mission scientists - Clarify technical issues
4:15 Open-ended sharing--teaching methods and experiences
5:15 DINNER
7:45 PM Rich Lohman, Glenn Reagan, Alan Gould
---Introduction to HOU (more advanced session, if needed)
All Attendees
---Other break-out discussions as needed
9:30 PM - 4:22 AM :^) Observing with telescopes, weather
permitting
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TUESDAY 24 June 2008 MORNING
8:45 AM WISE asteroid research project development (Session
V)
---Further develop/refine draft activities
---Identify points for assessment items relevant to content
(in
addition to attitudinal changes)
Attitudinal questions,
e.g. how exciting is it to have access to WISE data?
10:30 BREAK
10:45 Other HOU Research: IASC, Supernovae, Exoplanets,
Cataclysmic Variables, Blazars
11:50 LUNCH
TUESDAY 24 June 2008 AFTERNOON
1:20 Bob Holmes
--New 50 inch astrograph at ARI
--Student near earth object observations; awards for HOU students.
2:00 Carl Pennypacker
---"Building the Dome A Antarctic Observatory."
2:30 Start wrapping up HOU-WISE asteroid research project
development—define work to be completed rest of summer
2:45 BREAK
3:00 HOU freebies: HOU Explorer, English and Tri-Lingual
Editions;
A Changing Cosmos; Hands-On Solar System;
Uncle Al's Kepler Starwheels
3:45 Open-ended sharing--teaching methods and experiences
4:30 New resources from NASA Kepler EPO:
Name in Space; FOSS Transit Tracks;
Online Simulation: Exoplanet Transit Hunt
5:15 DINNER
7:45 PM All Attendees
---Other break-out discussions as needed
9:30 PM - 4:02 AM :^) Observing with telescopes, weather
permitting
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WEDNESDAY 25 June 2008 MORNING
8:45 AM As needed:
---Continued work on
WISE asteroid research
project development draft activities
---Open-ended sharing--teaching methods and experiences
10:30 BREAK
10:45
---
Define features for next update of HOU IP (3.0)
--- Telescope Network Developments
11:45 CONFERENCE ENDS |
