Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Participants
- Welcome and Opening Address
- Astronomy Education: an International Perspective
- Special Lecture: Sundials in London – Linking architecture and astronomy
- 1 University Education
- 2 Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
- Distance Education in Astronomy: At-a-distance and on campus, a growing force
- Teaching Astronomy at the University of South Africa
- A Multi-Resource System for Remote Teaching in Astronomy: its aims, its design, the point of view of the learners
- Use of the World Wide Web in Astronomy Teaching
- On-Line Resources for Classroom Use: data and science results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other missions
- Bringing the Universe into the Laboratory – Project CLEA: contemporary laboratory exercises in astronomy
- Project LINK: a live and interactive network of knowledge
- Computer as a Tool in Astronomy Teaching
- Mathwise Astronomy and the Teaching and Learning Technology Project: aiding or degrading education
- A Virtual Telescope for the Open University Science Foundation Course
- The Presence of Multimedia in Astronomy Teaching
- 3 The Student Learning Process
- 4 Planetarium Education and Training
- 5 Public Education in Astronomy
- 6 Teaching Astronomy in the Schools
- Posters
- Final Address
- Authors
Use of the World Wide Web in Astronomy Teaching
from 2 - Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Participants
- Welcome and Opening Address
- Astronomy Education: an International Perspective
- Special Lecture: Sundials in London – Linking architecture and astronomy
- 1 University Education
- 2 Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
- Distance Education in Astronomy: At-a-distance and on campus, a growing force
- Teaching Astronomy at the University of South Africa
- A Multi-Resource System for Remote Teaching in Astronomy: its aims, its design, the point of view of the learners
- Use of the World Wide Web in Astronomy Teaching
- On-Line Resources for Classroom Use: data and science results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other missions
- Bringing the Universe into the Laboratory – Project CLEA: contemporary laboratory exercises in astronomy
- Project LINK: a live and interactive network of knowledge
- Computer as a Tool in Astronomy Teaching
- Mathwise Astronomy and the Teaching and Learning Technology Project: aiding or degrading education
- A Virtual Telescope for the Open University Science Foundation Course
- The Presence of Multimedia in Astronomy Teaching
- 3 The Student Learning Process
- 4 Planetarium Education and Training
- 5 Public Education in Astronomy
- 6 Teaching Astronomy in the Schools
- Posters
- Final Address
- Authors
Summary
I discuss the burgeoning World Wide Web and how it can be used to aid astronomy teaching. I supply a list of a variety of useful Web sites.
The World Wide Web was invented 5 years ago at CERN, which is now translated as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, as a way of aiding access to information from remote sites. The invention of graphic interfaces, notably Mosaic by a group at the National Supercomputer Center in Illinois and then Netscape Navigator as a private development by many of the original Mosaic people, led to an explosion in use of the Web. Millions of people around the world are now able to access information from over 100,000 Web sites.
There is much astronomical information on the Web, though that information make up only a small fraction of all the information available through this medium. The astronomical information is of many varied types, from images of observations to tables of data to lesson plans to journal articles. The question for us to address here is how best to make use of this information for astronomy teaching. Even with the increased resources available at our desktops, the individual teacher remains an important part of the educational enterprise.
One set of alternatives deals with whom the Web information is aimed at. To present new Web data in class, it is useful to have a means of projecting computer information on a screen, which is most often done with an LCD projector panel.
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- New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , pp. 68 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998
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