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OLI Chemistry free for COVID-19 impacted institutions

CMU's OLI Chemistry may be helpful to educators moving courses online due to coronavirus. These materials are free for use by Covid-19 impacted institutions. The courseware covers General Chemistry I and General Chemistry II. Each module includes short amounts of texts, worked examples (including interactive worked examples), a multitude of thoughtfully scaffolded practice problems (with adaptive and targeted feedback), and assessments. The integration of these components provides a seamless and interactive learning experience for your students. The courseware also provides instructors with data on student performance, which they can use to adapt their instruction to student needs.

We will be holding webinars to give an overview of the courseware and discuss ways this free resource may help with the rapid transition to online instruction necessitated by Covid-19. The first webinar is scheduled for Friday, March 13 at 1 pm EST. Please RSVP to if you would like to attend, or if you have any other questions.

ChemCollective Resources

The ChemCollective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests. Teachers can use our content for pre-labs, for alternatives to textbook homework, and for in-class activities for individuals or teams. Students can review and learn chemistry concepts using our virtual labs, simulations, and tutorials. The ChemCollective is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon who are interested in using, assessing, and creating engaging online activities for chemistry education.

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Scientific and scholarly pursuit are hindered when primary sources are un-cataloged or accessible only by visiting cultural heritage institutions. The Field Book Project seeks to promote awareness of and access to thousands of scientific field notes in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and holdings at the National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Libraries. It began in 2010 as an effort to bring to light these hidden collections with a goal to catalog 5,000 field books and provide online access to those records, a goal graciously funded by the Center for Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR). At this point, the Project has cataloged over 9,500 field books and digitized over 4,000. They are available from the Smithsonian Institution Archives website and the Smithsonian's Collections Search Center, and those that have been digitized are also available at the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).

The project began as a partnership between Smithsonian Institution Archives and National Museum of Natural History led by principal investigators Anne Van Camp, Smithsonian Institution Archives, and Rusty Russell, National Museum of Natural History. The ensuing interest from the research and scholarly communities has since driven our efforts to extend the Project and increase the usefulness of these unique resources. Four years after the Project's start, the Archives and National Museum of Natural History joined with the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Smithsonian Libraries to increase the visibility of the field notes to the global biodiversity research community through BHL.

What is a field book?

Field books are original records of scientific discovery. As such, they are primary source material that describe a range of information including the activities performed during the observation and collecting of specimens, the native environment for those specimens or events surrounding or related to the field collection of specimens or observations during field research.

The traditionally handwritten field documentation in the nineteenth century began to include other forms as technology advanced. As photography equipment became easier to transport, for example, the documentary value of photography became a useful form of field documentation. The Field Book Project catalog a variety of field note formats include photography, film and audio materials.

Importance and challenges of field books

Field notes are significant sources of information related to scientific discovery. They provide rich data for researchers to understand how biodiversity has changed over time and space. They enhance information associated with specimens by providing details regarding dates, localities (for geo-referencing), and associated event data. For example, field diary entries may describe habitats, meteorological events, personal observations, and emotional declarations. These additional data allow us to assess the intrinsic value of specimens, as well as use information in new ways: reconstructing historical ecologies, clarifying specimen's provenance, and re-discovering localities.

Field books as an object type are located and described in a wide variety of ways. They can be found in rare book collections, libraries, archives, and museum departments. Field book descriptions can range from brief folder level descriptions in finding aids to having no descriptions at all. Regrettably, field book collections are often distributed across departments within an institution or even across multiple institutions with no centralized access point, complicating researcher's ability to discover and access them. Furthermore, although generally considered archival documents, field books are just as frequently managed in museum collections, science labs, and discipline-specific libraries. These various types of custodianship result in a myriad of descriptive practices with varying levels of detail, further compounding access and usability issues.

To overcome these challenges, we have worked closely with the custodians of these unique materials to identify, catalog, and digitize these hidden collections. Our workflows and practices have been community-developed as we work with the different Smithsonian departments with field book holdings, and collaborate with other institutions through the BHL Field Notes Project.

Funding

Additional grants have enabled the Field Book Project to expand its objectives to meet researcher demands including funding from Save America's Treasures, the Smithsonian Women's Committee, the Arcadia Foundation and CLIR. Current funding is the gift of the Arcadia Foundation.

Questions? Email us at ferranter@si.edu

We are thankful for the other organizations that have helped with this effort:

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Stellarium is a planetarium software that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars. It's easy to use, and free

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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

features

sky

default catalogue of over 600,000 stars

extra catalogues with more than 177 million stars

default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects

extra catalogue with more than 1 million deep-sky objects

asterisms and illustrations of the constellations

constellations for 40+ different cultures

calendars of 35+ different cultures

images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)

realistic Milky Way

very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset

the planets and their satellites

all-sky surveys (DSS, HiPS)

interface

a powerful zoom

time control

multilingual interface

scripting interface

fisheye projection for planetarium domes

spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome

graphical interface and extensive keyboard control

HTTP interface (web-based control, remote control API)

telescope control

visualisation

several coordinate grids

precession circles

star twinkling

shooting stars

tails of comets

eclipse simulation

supernovae and novae simulation

exoplanet locations

ocular view simulation

3D sceneries

skinnable landscapes with spheric panorama projection

customizability

plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescope control and more

ability to add new solar system objects from online resources...

add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...

presentations

news

system requirements

minimal

Linux/Unix; Windows 7 and above; macOS 10.15 and above

3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL 1.3 or OpenGL ES 2.0

512 MiB RAM

600 MiB on disk

Keyboard

Mouse, Touchpad or similar pointing device

recommended

64-bit operating system

Linux/Unix; Windows 10 and above; macOS 11.0 and above

3D graphics card which supports OpenGL 3.3 and above

1 GiB RAM or more

1.5 GiB on disk

Keyboard

Mouse, Touchpad or similar pointing device

Moderately dark environment (deep shadow or indoors)

developers

Project coordinator: Fabien Chéreau
Graphic designer: Martín Bernardi
Developers: Alexander V. Wolf, Georg Zotti, Guillaume Chéreau, Ruslan Kabatsayev, Worachate Boonplod
Sky cultures researcher: Susanne M. Hoffmann
Collaborators: Jocelyn Girod and everyone else in the community.

financial support

Many individuals and organizations are supporting the development of Stellarium by donations, and the most generous financial contributors (with donations of $250 or more) are Laurence Holt, Astronomie-Werkstatt "Sterne ohne Grenzen", John Bellora, Jeff Moe (Spacecruft), BairesDev, Vernon Hermsen, Triplebyte, Marla Pinaire, Satish Mallesh, Vlad Magdalin, Philippe Renoux, Fito Martin.

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You can learn more about Stellarium, get support and help the project from these links:

acknowledgment

If the Stellarium planetarium was helpful for your research work, please cite the following paper in your acknowledgment:
This research has made use of the Stellarium planetarium

Zotti, G., Hoffmann, S. M., Wolf, A., Chéreau, F., & Chéreau, G. (2021). The Simulated Sky: Stellarium for Cultural Astronomy Research. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 6(2), 221-258. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.17822

Or you may download the BibTeX file of the paper to create another citation format.

Please note that the software has several releases since these fundamentals were published:

git

The latest development snapshot of Stellarium is kept on github. If you want to compile development versions of Stellarium, this is the place to get the source code.

books

Documentation and description of the sky cultures, state March 2022, plus a lot of additional research:

supporters and friends

Stellarium is produced by the efforts of the developer team, with the help and support of the following people and organisations .

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(NOTE: Some of the findings presented in this talk have been referenced in an ongoing debate among social scientists about robustness and reproducibility. Read “Corrections & Updates” below for more details as well as Amy Cuddy’s response.) Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that “power posing” -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident -- can boost feelings of confidence, and might have an impact on our chances for success.

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Great Web 2.0 tools to support you in the classroom

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As educators, the use of Web 2.0 tools is transforming our work, and more specifically the way we support students in the classroom. As schools bring more technology into their classrooms, teachers will in turn strive to put more technology in their students' hands. That is, if they are prepared to do so.

Web 2.0 Tools are online software programs that allow users to do a number of different things. They can be used to teach curriculum content, store data, create/edit video, edit photos, collaborate and so much more. These programs are often free and are used by teachers, students, and sometimes parents, both in and out of the classroom, on a pretty regular basis.

The question then becomes, are educators prepared to use these tools? How can educators best plan to incorporate Web 2.0 Tools into their classroom? How can they best plan to ensure effective tech integration? How can they be sure that the tool remains a support piece to their instructional practice, rather than a replacement?

These are important questions that we need to be able to answer for our own work, but more importantly so that we can continuously strive to be a 21st century educator for our very important clients: our students. The use of Web 2.0 Tools to support instruction is vital. How we use these tools is going to make a critical difference in how we measure our students success and how they are supported to meet 21st century skill sets.

If you are new to this concept, don't feel bad. Embracing the use of tech integration in our daily work beyond word processing and power point presentations is still new to many educators. However, it's important that we accept the fact that Web 2.0 tools are here to stay. The sooner we learn to harness their wonderful power, and how they can bring learning alive in the classroom, the better.

As we talk about Web 2.0 tools, one point I want to stress is that we need to remember that it's not about the specific tools themselves that we use with students, but why, and when the tool is needed. Ideally there also needs to be a culture within the school that values technology use in the classroom. As a former school principal, I can guarantee you that the leadership in the school must also be modeling the use of technology, providing professional development in this area, and seek to build a school community that enables and values the effective use of technology for teaching and learning.

In the spirit of technology for teaching, I want to offer you 8 great Web 2.0 educational tools that I encourage you to seek out, practice with, and learn to incorporate into your work in the classroom. Will it take time to learn to use these tools? Yes. Are the benefits worth the time? Absolutely!
8 Great Web 2.0 tools to support you in the classroom:
Glogster is a great creativity site whose tag line is "poster yourself". A 'glog' is basically an online poster web page. Students can combine text, pictures, graphics, video, and audio to create an interactive online poster. They can click and drag items out of Glogster's resources, choose their own backgrounds, pictures, text boxes, videos, web links, and more! Glogster has a very simple-to-use interface. The final glog can be hosted by Glogster or you can embed it into a wiki, blog, or class web site. ( click here to watch a 2 minute EdTech Talk about Glogster.)

This site was designed specifically for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each of their students with their own, unique blog. Kidblog's simple, powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs.

Linoit is a great service that provides its registered users with virtual "stickies" that can be placed on a canvas or bulletin board area. Both lino users and non-registered guests can post stickies on the canvas. The great thing about linoit is that you can use it at three levels: public, limited access and private.( Click here for a sample of one of my recent canvases.)
LiveBinders
Livebinders were created so that anyone, but especially educators, could do with digital information what we do with the papers on our desk - organize it into nice containers - like 3-ring binders on a shelf. With these online-binders, you can also upload your documents and easily combine them with your links in a neat and organized way. (Here's one of my livebinders.)

This web tool is an easy solution for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus. With Skype, students can learn from other students, connect with other cultures, and expand their knowledge in amazing ways by communicating through their computer with a webcam.

This is a fun and easy-to-use tool for creating short, visual stories. Students can select artwork, drag and organize photos, and add their own text. These creations can then be published on the web with adjustable privacy settings. There is also the option to allow comments, which is perfect for teachers to encourage student collaboration. (Here's one of my Storybirds.)

VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slideshow that allows students to comment on images, documents, and video through text, video, and audio files. Teachers can set up groups and classes as well as moderate comments, embed to blogs, and export to audio files. It is an easy way to differentiate instruction while providing engaging choices to "show" learning, engage in conversation, and think openly and critically about content. ( Click here to see "What's a voice thread anyway?")

Teachers and students can generate word clouds that show prominent words in any body of text. Just enter text you have gathered from students, or even a URL, to see a summary of what the text is about. Wordle also allows you to change the appearance of your word cloud by the shape, font, color, and organization. ( Click here to see a short video on how to use Wordle in the classroom.)
Wetoku
Wetoku is a web service or Web 2.0 tool out of Korea that provides a simple platform for interviewing someone via the Internet. Collaborating globally is a must for our students and connecting can be a challenge. Wetoku makes doing an interview as easy as filling out some basic information, creating an interview session and then sending the creative interview session's URL to the interviewee. Once the recording is done, the interviewer can embed the copy of the URL into a blog or website. You will need a web-cam to use this tool. ( for a video on how to use wetoku.)

Okay, what do you think? Still not sure where all these Web 2.0 tools fit into your school or district standards? Well for those who are still skeptical, ISTE has developed a great set of educational technology standards for teachers. These standards, called ISTE NETS, seek to move beyond the tool and address the bigger picture of technology in the classroom and in the professional practice. You can take a look at them here.

I hope you've enjoyed taking a look at these 8 amazing tools!

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