wp4 outreach towards education and the general public
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WP4 Outreach towards education and the general public. Massimo Ramella INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste. CoSADIE Tech Forum 3, Trieste, March 12 – 13, 2013. Consolidation of outreach activities. CoSADIE use cases (focus on education ) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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WP4 Outreach towards education and the general public
Massimo RamellaINAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
CoSADIE Tech Forum 3, Trieste, March 12 – 13, 2013
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Consolidation of outreach activities
CoSADIE use cases (focus on education)
• Explore the sky w/ Messier using Aladin• Mass of Jupiter using Stellarium• Zodiacal constellations using Stellarium• Star clusters I using Aladin• Star clusters II using Aladin
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Consolidation of outreach activities
CoSADIE tutorials for the general public
• 6 - Explore the Sky with Stellarium • 7 - Discover Astronomical objects with Aladin
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VO Edu within elementary schools:More experiences in 2014
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Consolidation of outreach activities
• VO Edu within major EPO projects in Italy
• Italian network of remote telescopes• Italian Astronomy Olympiads
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VO Edu & EUHOU – MW
• Access to data and use of software tools• Virtual learning best practices• Strategies to enter the school system
VO for a European Edu Network
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VO for a European Edu Network
VO Edu (WP4) linked to the Astronet EPO WG
Astronet current mission:
• establish a permanent mechanism for planning and coordination in European astronomy • follow-up and implementation of the Roadmap
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VO for a European Edu Network
From the Astronet community:
• Great interest in VO data but also in publishing educational data in VO
• Great interest in VO tools
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VO for a European Edu Network
Actions undertaken, also as IVOA EduIG:
• develop a Virtual observatory Educational Service Publisher and Archive application (VESPA, Francesco Cepparo, this afternoon)• organize an Edu-IG & SVN repo for tutorials (Giulia Iafrate & Marco Molinaro, next talk)
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Sustainability
Issues:
• Declining political interest toward investing into astronomy in schools • Long time scale needed to enter a nation-wide school organization• Cost of translating EPO products exceeds funding, yet translations are essential
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WP4: