Twittering from the NASA IPY Meeting II

We are back at Goddard today for day 2 of the NASA IPY education and outreach meeting...

Polar Palooza!! http://tinyurl.com/yvjd8e

Check here to see if NASA IPY's Polar Palooza is coming to a place near you http://tinyurl.com/237jcb

the Polar Palooza tagline is "Stories from a changing planet" There will be all sorts of folks who will be part of the tour

oooo! LRO is featured in Polar Palooza when it comes to St Louis Oct 2008

Next talk is on "Exploring Local Landscapes" using Satellite images. The focus is on urban areas

They will use GIS, GPS and remote sensing to connect students to studies in polar regions. The program is out of the University of Toledo

They will use Landsat images available through America View http://www.americaview.org/

Exploring Landscapes student present their research projects at regional science meetings.prizes are "trophies as big as sports trophies!"

Next IPY project collaboration of Windows to the Universe http://www.windows.ucar.edu/ and National Earth Science Teachers Association

National Earth Science Teachers Association National Earth Science Teachers Association http://www.nestanet.org/php

Checkout IPY project Postcards from the Field http://www.windows.ucar.edu=/people/postcards/penguin_post.html

US Satellite Laboratory IPY collaboration . They have a number of cool projects http://www.us-satellite.net/

Most of US Satellite's projecst are for schools ....Signals of Spring, 3-D view include teacher training and classroom support

My NASA Data has IPY related data sets http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov

Twittering from the NASA IPY Meeting

I am currently sitting in the NASA International Polar Year education and public outreach meeting. During the meeting I am twittering the meeting highlights....here are my tweets from the from the first session.

in the IPY meeting! Jim Garvin is talking about polar regions on the Moon and Mars http://tinyurl.com/2eqhz9


Wow! Jim has the new LRO spacecraft visualization! Really cool (in a geeky sort of way) http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov

now Jim is talking about Mars polar regions here's Jim http://tinyurl.com/28orru

I want Jim Garvin's Moon and Mars visualizations! We are meeting in GSFC's Science Visualization Studio http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Geeking out at high res images from MRO http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/ of the north polar region of Mars

now Jim is talking about Phoenix mission. It launched 2 weeks ago. Check out the video http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/videos.php


Check out the NASA and IPY Video
http://ipy.nasa.gov/multimedia/m000000/m000000/m000015/index.html

NASA Antarctic researcher Bob Bindschadler is talking about LIMA ..Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica http://lima.usgs.gov/

LIMA: Faces of Antarctica is the education project that will introduce people to Antarctica. Website launches 10/07 http://lima.nasa.gov/

Now the guy from Earth & Sky, Ryan Britton http://www.earthsky.org/

Earth & Sky do radio shows on NASA polar science in english and spanish and podcasts over the next two years. Also social networks: MySpace

Lots of good discussions at lunch ... Now back to Twitter!

Now the GLOBE presentation http://www.globe.gov with a focus on the earth systems science projects

GLOBE Seasons and Biomes http://tinyurl.com/yr7zan

Bob Myers is talking about ESSEA http://essea.strategies.org/ Earth Systems Science Education Alliance online courses for science teachers

The ESSEA courses evolved from just online to combination of online and face-to-face. 3 courses K-4, 5-8, 9-12

Over 1700 preservice and inservice teachers were trained between 2002 and 2005 through ESSEA semester long courses

NASA IPY ESSEA project is to update K-4 course with polar themes and add some polar content to middle and high school courses

Teachers interested in taking an ESSEA course check out current course offerings http://essea.strategies.org/participants/offerings.aspx

DEW Digital Earth Watch...lead by museum of science in Boston with 6 partners uses plant health to monitor the environment

Now one of our projects Sharing IPY to Librarians and Afters School programs

This IPY project builds on "Explore fun with Science" http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/