zerog spinning toys
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Presentation I gave for Discovery Education. It was the final EdTechConnect webinar http://www.denblogs.com/discovery_educator_networ/2007/05/last_edtechconn.htmlTRANSCRIPT
http://explorerschools.nasa.gov/
Competitive Application Process Up to 50 schools accepted each year 3 year program Professional development opportunities Access to NASA personnel and programs Learning opportunities
http://zerog.jsc.nasa.gov/
Weightless Wonder Process
Began Application August
Deadline 2nd week of September
Announcement October
Then the work began...
Challenges for The Project
Multiple schedules Multiple locations Multiple drafts Multiple parts to the
document Multiple Distributions
Solution = Google Docs
Access from multiple locations Collaborative Ability to publish and share to a wide audience
http://docs.google.com
Google Docs
Google Docs
Publish Multiple Ways
BlogsUnique urlSave as MS Word, OpenOffice, PDF and more
Sharing The Experience
Sharing The Experience
Easy Access Journaling Low Cost Collaborative Expandability
http://www.blogger.com
http://www.flickr.com
http://video.yahoo.com/
http://zerogteam.blogspot.com
http://www.flickr.com
Overview
Six Experiments Hula Hoop on the arm Can you Hula Hoop Gyroscopic Spin Jump rope with the Hula Hoop Throw a Frisbee at a target Drop a Frisbee from your head and catch behind
your back
Overview
Collect Video Data for 1G (Earth Gravity)
Collect Video Data at 0G (Weightless Wonder)
Compare The Data Present The Results
References
Sites NASA Explorer Schools http://explorerschools.nasa.gov/ NASA Zero Gravity Experiments http://zerog.jsc.nasa.gov/ Google Docs http://docs.google.com/ Blogger http://www.blogger.com/ Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ Yahoo Videos http://video.yahoo.com/ Bibme http://bibme.org
References
Works Cited
Factoryjoe. "Blogger beta on Flickr - Photo Sharing!." Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing. 16 Aug 2006. 19 May 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/217116319/.
Glango. "yahoo_video on Flickr - Photo Sharing!." Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing. 2 Jun 2006. 19 May 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitestripes/158632369/.
Reder. "Flickr Gamma on Flickr - Photo Sharing!." Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing. 16 May 2006. 19 May 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/azureluv/148839544/.
Created at www.bibme.org
References
Software Used
OpenOffice.org Impress http://www.openoffice.org/
Picasa http://picasa.google.com/
SnagIt http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp