 So if you don't want to be recorded make sure to turn your video off now Otherwise you we you might end up on you So welcome to this special edition and enrichment webinar from the NASA nightstand network This webinar we welcome Jessica Swann to our webinar who will take us on a tour of a catalog of digital resources to help bring NASA Jessica Swann manages the Infiniscope teaching network or ETFs Jessica spent 10 years as a science educator teaching high school earth and space biology Additionally she taught geology through an online She's been working on her NASA educational programming since 19 since 2010 in designing curriculum since 2002 Her passion is developing science literacy through her focus on bringing high-quality relevant engaging NGSS related curriculum and training to formal and informal educators. We kind of like to think of all of the night sky network Astronomers that we work with as educators because you're engaging people and helping them understand The universe a little bit better So we're all educators on this Jessica earned her BS in science education at Wright State University and her MED in educational technology at Grand Canyon University. Please welcome Jessica Swann Well, thank you so very much for that amazing introduction. I am incredibly excited to be here with you all today. I do have an incredible suite of Digital resources that I would like to kind of walk you through today It's not just going to be a hey go here and check these things out I really want to take some time and dig into some of these digital resources So if there is a resource or two that you are interested in using possibly on a cloudy nights Let's say you have people coming and it's a cloudy night You can't set up the telescopes the way you intended It would be fantastic to have something like this in your back pocket that you could pull out and use at any given time So what I want to do is to go through some of these resources kind of highlight some of the tips and tricks as far as deployment And by deployment, I mean how are you going to use this with people? Maybe point out some of the details that you might miss at first glance So that you're well versed and you will have this as a recording so you can always refer back to it But I just want to make sure that you're well versed on how some of these things work I'd also like to point out some deeper more richer learning experiences that we build Because part of ETX Center philosophy is that we build these digital learning experiences These are full-on educational experiences We use an intelligent tutoring system to identify knowledge gaps and misconceptions of our users and push them down Alternative pathways to try to fill in those knowledge gaps along the way So while that's not necessarily what you're looking for if you are looking to measure Impact of your program. I have a little idea on how you could utilize some of those resources to measure impact So with that I would like to encourage you to interrupt me at any time as I'm going through some of these Experiences and these visualizations if you have questions if you're curious about something Maybe I didn't point something out feel free to you know kind of jump into the chat Let me know what it is that you want to know I want to make sure that you have all of your questions answered before we leave today And with that I am actually going to go ahead and do a quick screen share and I'm going to share with you the Infiniscope website So Infiniscope is actually publicly available when you go to Infiniscope and you'll see our URL up here at the top Infiniscope.org there are two rows of Digital resources. These are space explorations and earth explorations Now these are the experiences that I was telling you about previously that are the full-on learning experiences They're the deep rich Educational experiences that somebody could sit down and play through they can identify those knowledge gaps and misconceptions But when someone is a member of the network also known as you when you join the network What we do is you give you access to additional resources that you can utilize So what I've done here is I've logged into the network and now when I scroll down You'll see past my space explorations and my earth explorations Down to this thing called a visualization library So what we do is we make our visualizations that we build Available to anyone who is a member of our network Oh the quick first question we have here is Mundo Spanos in Spanish It is the majority of it is in Spanish. So let me scroll back up here So our very first product that we've built is where are the small worlds? That's number one out of the gate our first year on this grant And we've used that in a wide variety of capacities I'm going to show you an exhibit version that you can use on cloudy nights But what we did was as a proof of concept. We did do a translation It is this full-on digital learning experience that is built like a And we've translated that as much as we could into Spanish so that if you have a Young student who lives in a bilingual home that maybe has experienced where are the small worlds? They can actually take Mundo Spanos home to their family and they can share it with their Spanish speaking family So it's a great way for them to be able to share a resource that they've experienced So good question Anyway down back down here to our visualization library as I said we make our visualizations available So when we build simulations for these larger learning experiences We want to make those available to our user base to the members of our network So you'll see here I have an entire catalog and I'm going to walk you through a handful of these today As I said, I'm going to tell you a little bit about the tips and tricks Some of these will apply better to you than others But I definitely want to make sure I highlight the ones that work best for you in your capacity And I think what we might want to do is start with Maybe this Apollo 50th anniversary Since we've already started talking about the moon and Vivian is building this incredible resource for you for you to use When we go to any one of these experiences these visualizations that you would like to use You see this little drop-down appears Hmm. You can launch it directly from here just by clicking preview And so when I click preview it's going to open that visualization I Am going to restart and my apologies. It is allergy season here in the great state of Arizona So what I've done here with this particular visualization is I created what I like to call a mashup So this is actually not one of our visualizations It's not one of our simulations, but what I have done is I've taken taken visualizations from the NASA community And mashed them up into a way that we thought you might be interested in using so you see here This is actually the solar system website that is hosted by NASA. So this is fully interactive. I'm just clicking and dragging I Can click here and it gives me a little pop-out of information about that particular landing site But the other thing that I've built here is I can actually take you to the different landing sites So I've embedded this thing called moon track. So I believe Vivian mentioned that you guys you there was a Brian day was supposed to be one of your guest speakers. He in fact is part of moon track I guarantee that that's what he was planning on showing you So what I've done is I've taken moon track and I've zoomed in on this Apollo 11 landing site So we can see it here. We can visit I can zoom in I can zoom out I've provided you some mission info There's a little video here And then we can go back and we can explore other landing sites Some of the landing sites actually have VR enabled So if you happen to have access to a cell phone and you have one of the Google cardboards available or you could have something that's called a dodo case. That's very similar You could have your users Explore in virtual reality just by scanning the qr code that's embedded in a handful Of these landing sites and these qr codes are actually a flyover of this particular site So here's my Apollo 12 landing site and when I click on explore in virtual reality I use that qr code It creates a flyover three dimensional experience in VR Using one of those google cardboards if you've never used google cardboard before they're incredibly inexpensive There may be a dollar or two apiece Um if you get them printed with the name of your program, they're a little bit pricier But they're so really helpful You just pop it right in into the google cardboard and now everyone's able to see in virtual reality And all you need is a smartphone that can scan a qr code And so that's really everything for the apollo 50th visualization Just a quick little interactive something that you can play with maybe it's international observe the moon night You want to talk about this or you're doing programming over the summer for apollo 50th anniversary You have this in your back pocket and you can use it as is So before I move on do you have any questions about this particular visualization? Great, then we will go back to the website and I heard a little chatter about insight So I want to show you the visualization for insight Now I can't take credit for this one either really what I've done is I've taken um Something that was built by the jet propulsion laboratory And I've mashed it up into our system so that you can use it in this full screen experience If you've never used this before This is fully exploratory you click deploy You can actually watch insight deploy. It's solar panels There's no speed up here In real time There we go. It's deployed. I can click and drag Can look at it in three dimension There's also a camera system over here on the left hand side Oops, I can collapse it. Oops, or I could break my computer that will work too I can pop it back out So this is our little camera system. It's just a little context camera camera Context imagery to help us see what where we are You can also look at little different interactive components. You can bring insight to life So you'll see here the arm is blue so I can click and drag the arm Again, I can't really take credit for this one, but it's a great little I have it all kind of in one particular spot for you so you can explore at will So we can look at little individual aspects. I just clicked this little lander here to learn about insight So if I want to learn about the solar panels, I click Gives me some pop-up information You can see it turns blue so I can see exactly what that particular instrument is Maybe I'll go to the context camera And you see there it's that little tiny blue spot. So I'm going to turn around a little bit There it is It's down here Right there in that particular spot. So that is the context camera So I can click on it. So it's fully interactive So it's a fun little thing to play with. Um, we've done this with, um, some kids in in, uh Elementary school and they they sit down. They do they really explore through this and kind of learn a little bit about insights And then they kind of move on it's built perfectly to be one of those little pass-through sort of experiences So that is insight experience and so before I close it out any questions that you might have You could use this as a group. That's a great question Vivian Um, so I could see this used in a couple of different capacities You could use it. Uh, maybe set it up as a kiosk You know, maybe build it as a kiosk mode individual users could come through they could play with the experience or If you wanted to use it on a projection screen, you could do very similarly to what I'm doing right here Um, super easy to play with you can walk them through each one of the instruments Maybe you have a little additional information This is where you get to use your talents and what you know about these specific missions To really kind of draw in all of that extra information for your patrons Any other questions about the insight experience before I pop back over the homepage and move on to our next one Alrighty then we'll just keep plugging away um I'm gonna skip phases of matter here for a minute because I have a really really really cool visualization I think you all are going to be incredibly excited about And it's this stellar nursery stellar nursery is in fact my favorite of all of our visualizations Because number one it's incredibly beautiful and number two as a former classroom teacher It shows all of the aspects of stellar evolution that I could ever have wanted to be able to show some of my students Anytime I bring this it doesn't matter if you are a formal educator an informal educator It doesn't matter who you are everybody. Absolutely loves this thing All right, so you'll see up here. I actually have a couple of little buttons So I have some informational buttons. So questions on how do you use the simulation? And viewing planetary systems. So there is a little tutorial that is built in here to help the user understand So what I'm going to do is I'm going to click new star So you can create a star anywhere here within this line And to create a star all I'm going to do is to click and drag The size of the star can be anywhere between half of a solar mass to 25 solar masses So let's go with Let's maybe go 10 solar masses Oh right on And and it automatically names it So I can click on it. I can zoom in I don't want to reveal these tabs yet And now I'm going to hit play So currently this is on an auto pause feature. You'll see how time is controlled So it is set up on a logarithmic scale. So you can speed up time or slow it down So you'll see here. I have my planetary nebula I'm going to zoom out And then I'm going to go ahead and hit play And you'll see my protostar beginning to form Maybe I'll speed up time a smidge Oh This smidge really went fast There we go And so now I've created my star. I have my little planets rotating around. You'll see I have a jovian out here I can actually see them transiting as they go by It'd be great if we could have some light curves in this one But I have a full experience for that if you're interested in using that for measuring impact So we do have information about the individual star So you'll see here. It gives you how old the star is tells you what the temperature is Um, it also tells you the class of the star You can't remember where we do that Over here, you'll see where it is on the hr diagram Can also see the composition of the star as it goes through fusion And you also get access to the spectra For this individual star now, I will tell you we don't get too deep in the weeds with the spectra We do try to keep it simple because most of our users are not going to be getting Really down into the into the dirty details of the spectra We try to keep it as simple as possible because we do typically Service mostly middle school high school students. So just kind of keep that in mind when you look at the spectra So I'm going to go ahead and move back over here to composition and we'll hit play Because this is my favorite graph to watch You'll see it comes my helium. There goes my hydrogen patience Feel like it's coming soon Oh, here we go starting to expand And you can actually watch it as it consumes some of those inner planets All right, so I've hit that I'm going to go ahead and keep going so it'll expand over here in the chat Yes, I'll agreed kin absolutely my favorite This is I wasn't sure where I wanted to show all of show this to you all But I'm always so excited about it. I have to show you All right, and then we'll do our final step here And even better Is that you can do multiple stars at the same time and you can track multiple stars So I can create that one was 10. I'm going to do this. There's a five I'm going to go 25 And do one more So now hit play pop this out And I can follow each individual one So here's my new planetary nebula So I can kind of pop around and watch them all The other incredibly cool thing about this is that as you create more and more stars You'll actually see the metallicity change So we come over here to the spectra. You'll be able to see the metallicity over time And that is stellar nursery So just out of curiosity, how many of you think that you could find capacity to use this in cloudy night? Programming or just general programming. How would you like to use this? So I really am actually doing some fact finding here. I would love to know How you could use this? What would be the capacity for using it? And if anyone would like to unmute themselves and chat, I think that this would be a great opportunity to hear from you directly If you're having trouble unmuting let us know in the chat because I had to mute some of you earlier on You know, uh, this is kin from, uh, ania, california We get so many Questions about how stars are born or whatever and you know, we're fortunate that we could see nebulas in the sky but having and we have some of the ministers and handouts But the animation is just going to be so much nicer. So I'm looking forward to using it Right, it's incredibly powerful If you can really put a nice visualization in front of somebody That you know, we've actually taken a lot of time and money to build something that that looks good We have astronomers from asu who have provided the data. They've gone through it to verify They've vetted it to make sure that what we are presenting here is Accurate but also not too complex for the average user Um, so absolutely. I think this is this could be a really fantastic tool for you to have in your back pocket To be able to reference at any time or for example, you might have people coming to you asking about black holes now Now that you know, we have we've imaged a black hole You can create black holes with this and so you could do things like little challenges Maybe you have games. Maybe you have multiple of these devices and be like, all right Go create a black hole. What is the size of the star have to be? What is the class of the star have to be? How many stars would you have to have you could list a whole series of challenges Um, excuse me just focused around Just focused around particular events and so in this case, obviously the black hole And so lens says yes presentation on the life of the star. That's great Uh, yes, so harry asked the question of I assume you need network access for all of this to work Um, can any of it work offline? So the answer is no, it does not work offline. I'm very very sorry about that um, so you would need to actually have a Either an ethernet or a or a wi-fi connection to make it work. Good question One other question that I typically get asked is uh, the difference whether or not you can use things like iPads We can use tablets essentially anything that has a track pad So a mouse that you can click and drag that sort of thing Those are the things that will work with any of our visualizations and our experiences The one thing that does not work incredibly well is an ipad So I don't suggest using ipads for the most part my experiences most people are using Chromebooks or tablets as opposed to ipads because ipads tend to be a bit more on the pricey range, but You're welcome to prove me wrong and tell me differently All right, so that is stellar nursery I feel like this is the one that is the creme de la creme of all of the things to talk about So don't run away because I do have other things to talk you about even though I've shown you creme de la creme All right, let's see back over here the chat real quick Is there one on how we figure stellar distances? Can new subjects be requested? Oh, that's a great question So this is a question from dawn So with stellar distances um, you could Remember I said earlier that we have all of these experiences that you could use to measure impact So maybe you do something where you you use stellar Seller nursery In your programming and you'd like to see if people were interested enough in your program to go off and learn more Well, we have this thing that's called celestial jukebox, which is the full-on learning experience This one is it's all about transits, but we use a sound mechanic for transits So transiting objects will make a sound Um, we they actually the user actually ends up deriving Kepler's third law. So there is some formal education compel component to it Um, I have to hit play here in order to be able to move on you can't hear the sound, but I can hear the sound Um I'll show you I'll show you what this looks like in just a moment as we get past the video Everything that we build as far as these full learning experiences We build them to be compelling in some way shape or form Some of them are just strictly visually compelling. So we have something about mars and it's these beautiful 360 degree Images of mars from the three different rover sites This one is compelling and that We have this kind of theme that goes with it about this celestial jukebox And you earn coins along the way as you unlock these achievements Uh, we have like small worlds is a straight up game and I'll show you I'll show you a little taste of small worlds here shortly As this one loads and it's going to make this dinging sound in my ear You'll see that we also you'll see that the little Sound note there that has the x across it So we have tried to make this accessible for those that are hearing impaired So they at least do get a note. So as the object transits you get a note And what we do is we step the user through Helping them understand the distance of an object related to the sound that it makes So they have to decode distance And they have to decode period. We show them how to do those two things differently So here I'm taught that I need to use this mechanic And as I move it it's making this sound and I'm hearing it make the The little sound as it goes And as I move further away my sound gets slower and even further moves much slower I don't want to get too deep into the learning experience But I did want to give you at least a quick taste that we're using the sound mechanics. So the way that I'm The way that I'm suggesting that you use this in order to be able to measure impact is you know You can create bit.ly links And if you own the bit.ly link then you can see how many people have accessed that bit.ly link So what you could do is you could hyperlink The link to this particular learning experience into your bit.ly link And you can give those as handouts give your little quarter sheets or however you send out information with with your patrons as they've come through And if they've accessed that bit.ly link, then you know that it is a direct correlation to they connected to this content as a result of your programming So if they were really super interested in what you've done there with seller nursery or anything else that you've brought to the table Regarding seller evolution and you point them directly to this they go You know how many people you've impacted as a result of that particular programming I like that because I feel like that's a great measuring tool Um, well, I also like it because they're using our content, but that's that's neither here nor there Anyway, so that's one of the full on learning experiences. Um, does that help to answer your question? Um a little bit Don Let's do it. Maybe so Not really. Oh no I'm so sorry Um, oh because you're asking stellar distances. You're not asking about the about exoplanets That's totally my bad. I don't have that. I should have read better Um, I do not have that but I will file that away as a potential topic in the future Um over this next year. We're focusing on things like seasons. We're focusing. We're finishing up releasing stuff around eclipses um We're building a full lesson for stellar nursery, but I don't think we're doing anything with distances on that But I will definitely catalog that as a possible idea. Sorry okay Let's move on to another experience that you might like Not an experience. I'm sorry a visualization Let's do Actually, let's go down and let's look at this exhibit version of small worlds So as I told you before small worlds is actually a full game What we've done here is we've stripped all of the game like mechanic from it And we've used just the simulation with a few little buttons that allow us to kind of explore These objects that are moving in the night sky so I can toggle them on and toggle them off And it gives us a sense of how quickly they are moving in the night sky So the actual experience itself it it's um Very covertly helps the user to understand kepler's third law regarding distance and the speed of the object So here we're just straight up using the objects. So if I turn on the near earth objects There are five near earth objects five main asteroid belt and five kuiper belt objects that we have here Um, these are all from the perspective of the sun And so I'm looking for these dots that are moving across the night sky that are unlabeled And when I click it It's going to take me to it's going to launch my probe And it's going to take me to that world so that I can explore We are in the process of updating because we do have new skins for some of these small worlds And so if I click this that is actually an artifact from the game. So there's an astro caching theme So the users can go out and search for these coins or these astro caches on these different small worlds and collect 15 coins along the way So we tell them where they could go find that Or we can go and find another and let me check the chat real quick How is this different from celestia? I am A dentist I am not familiar with celestia. Can you give me more information on that? So now I'm going to hit my main asteroid belts. So I have one here We also have a new night skybox That we're going to be releasing shortly So the star field will look different. There's one. I'm going to click this one See what we found and I found series I can explore series Got some general information about series Go to find another So denna says that celestia is like a Stellarium where you can move to a planet or galaxy and show the sky from there We do not change the skybox for hours. So when we go to visit it's all It's still the same star star field. So we don't get differences in our constellations That would be how it's different And kuiper belt So just a quick trick. As you know, kuiper belt objects are uber slow So when we click the kuiper belt object, we crank this feed up so that the user can actually Find one of these objects moving in the night sky You'll see I have one moving here I'll leave my mouse there so you can actually see that it is moving off the mouse Have one here Let's make a guess maybe this one Let's see what we got I got Pluto. Yay Super excited And so we can explore Pluto quick easy Nothing too difficult Again, you can set this up in kiosk mode users can kind of come in they can explore a little bit learn about these different small worlds And then kind of move on right I should go and see I might show you a little sneak peek of the new star field If you're interested The new star field is so beautiful. It makes me happy All right, so questions you may have about small worlds then Our little tutorial is just plugging right along All right, so you get to vote. Um Actually, I'm curious. Do you ever talk about craters here on earth? Would it be worthwhile for us to for me to show you the craters of earth visualization? Yes, uh, you'd love it. Okay, great So let me show craters of earth. So this one is actually it's kind of built like a virtual field trip Um, it it actually is contained in a virtual field trip So we have marked a number of crater sites across the planet And so this is actually related to a full learning experience. It's called dyno doom Dyno doom you step into the shoes of walter alvarez and you collect all of his data along the way And ultimately have to identify where the impact is So let me click on one of these so I can kind of show you what it looks like So when I click here, I want to open my image data And so it shows me the crater I can actually make measurements of this crater crater so I can click I can get And it's diameter so you see down here it shows that this one is 13.3 kilometers across Now in the learning experience The reason that this this measurement is in there is because they've actually calculated the size of the impactor And then they've calculated how large the impact would need to be So in order to be able to find the culprit for the extinction event So that's really why we have these measuring features in there But I love it because it's just a great opportunity to be able to help demonstrate where some of these craters of earth are You can show how some of them have been erased over time and maybe do something comparative Maybe you're looking at the moon or you're looking at mars or mercury I mean what the differences are the similarities and differences are between cratering of the planetary bodies Um, and then just the sheer size of them. So I can even do the circumference of Do you see I'm just going to draw up multiple pinpoints along the way All along the edge of the crater Okay, now I'm I'm becoming more of a lumper and less of a splitter, okay And there we go. So I finish it out and it shows that it is 39.8 kilometers in circumference So I can do that for any one of these. I'll take you over to schixalube because I'm sure you're wondering There we go And this one we can't even see the see the impact But if I do click across 184 kilometers And I'm going to clear those points And now I'm going to lump real quick so we can get what the circumference is bad drawing There we go 567 kilometers in circumference. That's pretty It's a really large impact And so it obviously gives you some information. We also give you what the the image Where the image data came from so you can go and reference those if you'd like to in your programming So that is craters of earth in particular crater you would like to visit before I close out pretty simple Okay, so ken says he likes this yesterday He was doing a moon lesson with first craters and we did the pebble and flower demo. That's great I used to you do that with my ninth graders too Kids ask about craters of earth. That's perfect awesome All right Oh, you said meteor crater. I'm sorry don. I'm I'm just now mentally catching up Meteor crater. Let's go there it is Right here in my own backyard number nine Bearings your crater coming up And there it is and 1.34 And then let's do our circumference There's the visitor center There you go. Almost there and last one 3.9 kilometers around If you've never been to meteor crater If you've never been to meteor crater It's so incredible because you're just driving and it's just flat flat flat land And then all of a sudden you see these rises these little mountains like where those come from Then you get up to you're like, oh, because it's the giant impact. It's amazing Oh, let's see Oh You guys are starting to name impact areas that I don't actually know So I know they're not here in the u.s. That you're picking so I have What's this one? I don't think anybody just said that one. Let me try again But I love that you guys are curious about these Come on Okay That one what else do we have? That one's massive. Let's see See if I can actually get Here we go Uh, this is one of the contenders. This is one of the ones and But its age is different So it could have been this one could have been the impactor but the age of it is wrong India Why so tiny? Here we go Two kilometers What else do we have? Oh Oh, this is the new one in russia. There we go Not the new one 100 kilometers All right over to the chat Thanks, Ron. All right, so I'm gonna leave you all to explore the remaining craters of earth. I feel like it's 15 that we've tagged Um, obviously we didn't do them all because we had a specific instructional objective that we were trying to Achieve and we didn't want to give them all of them to have to go and explore and make measurements on But it's a pretty good sampling, you know, you definitely can get all sorts of different ones So I highly recommend you all go check that one out and it's 642 So let me see. I think I have one more that you might be interested in using And that is this phases of matter now before I open up phases of matter Um I'm going to full screen this one like stellar nursery. I just haven't done it yet. So just envision that it's big Okay All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and launch the preview See full screen. You can see it It's massive So what we do is we can choose if we want to drop solid liquid or gas on the surface of the planet And see what it turns to so if I drop gas here It's going to turn into water So solid liquids and gases which you know super easy to do when you're here on earth makes sense You can also Make it carbon dioxide or methane if you want to so if I want to drop like let's go liquid methane Let me drop it here at the equator Turn sustain If I go up here to the poles are the poles cold enough Nope Not cold enough. So what I like about this particular visualization Is you can I like to issue challenges To kids as they come by my table be like hey Figure out where on earth you could drop a methane in order to make it snow methane And see if they can find it But we don't just offer different materials We also offer different bodies So you can go to mercury venus moon or mars I like to take them to mars and have them figure out where water is and so they end up having to drop water There is like two little tiny spots I've done this enough that there are two little tiny spots on the surface of the planet that could support liquid water Um I mean, they're super tiny And like I said, it's going to be a lot easier as soon as I full screen it Because this will be larger a larger interactive There are graphs that are associated with this But I feel like they actually detract from the experience Um here you can play with the temperature and the atmospheric pressure But that has what you see here in this chart actually has zero impact on what's happening here and vice versa So these two things are at work in isolation So what you do is you drop your solid liquid or gas onto the surface of the planet See what it turns to or you can come over here and you can explore On this particular planet or you can come over here and explore How the pressure and the temperature will affect the state of matter. So those are two different interactions And I see we have a question okay and And then there's also this plot graph and we have other reasons that we use this So again, probably more of a distraction than it is a help But yes, this is what I like to do with this one I just kind of play around with it and issue challenges to people as they come by and see if they can figure out Where they can make different states of matter of these different of these different substances Or have them make predictions And then you could open up this graph and you could teach them a little bit about Uh pressure and temperature and its impact on states of matter And that states of matter affect more than just water. So that's a common misconception I even found even among Students that I used to work with that they whenever you refer to solids liquids and gases they really only connect that To water And that's really our fault in the education system because that's really all we teach them So actually applying that to other substances Does them a great service So that is phases of matter Any questions on that one is that one i'm actually curious would anybody use that do you ever talk about that in your programming the states of matter Could you add enough to make greenhouse gases like is that Something that you could visit is it cumulative? It is not cumulative. I know that um We're talking about doing something with greenhouse gases I do have a sim If that's something that you guys are interested in let me know So vivian, maybe you can do a survey and find out if that's something that that your astronomers are Interested in or we could do a quick informal survey here. I think I do have a sim that's that's in the same course as this one I I know that it went through the rebuild because we we converted all of our sims from flash over into html I can look into it and see if we have one. I'm not sure if we do So then that would be that that would be the next question So I see I see a lot of people saying regarding this one that you don't do it not so much Um, but don's is not usually but now you have a tool that you could do it If you had one for greenhouse gases, would you all use it? Don's giving me the thumbs up as is harry and denis. All right, okay That's probably enough data. Um I'll have a chat with the team over the next week or so and see what we can come up with There was a question about sign in can anybody get a sign in jessica Anyone who is a u.s. Citizen can get a sign in as long as they're an educator Yeah, and you all are educators So and it's totally free. Um, so all you need to do let me log out real quick I'll show you what what to do here So when you go to our website again, it's in finish scope.org Go up here hover over educator login and click this sign up And you just fill out this short little web form And then I go in and I manually Create all of your accounts So you'll get a little email from me when we generate your accounts And so you'll use your email address and your temporary password to log in And once you're logged in you get access to all those visualizations and you can use them at your will So jessica, I notice on that on that little survey there that Most of the amateur astronomers are probably Be more informal educators is um, is there a way to Show that I guess other there Yep, could be other And then does that checking other does that change the next Um sort of chop boxes You asked me about the type of institution You could probably just say am an astronomy club. Yep. You can say that you don't need a school No, you address no not at all cool. No That's all I need and then just tell me what typical age groups you usually work with And you know subject shot, you know, you could probably skip that one. That's not incredibly necessary Because you're going to tell me that you're an amateur astronomer here And then even if you could under how did you hear about us? You could do other and then put that it was for this webinar. That'd be great That just helps me keep track of how what kind of impact we have with our outreach Any other questions about your free account? So since these folks are working with a wide range of ages of the general public Um That's not necessarily a choice for grade levels or formal education centers. Right What should they put Since they're more informal working with the general public I would click them all because if you work you're pretty much working with every age group Good question I will show you one other thing that you do get access to when you become a member of a network So it's not just the content, but we actually also have a community space And so if you click on community when I create your account, it takes you to this place called the hive space So this is where all of our educators are coming together and um, you know having conversations. They're sharing resources I do have this informal education tab I'm actually looking to kind of rework some of my discussion boards just based on the way that our conversations are currently flowing But we're also doing some crowd sourcing for svs the scientific visualization studio So this is where our educators are going in and they're tagging video content to make it easier for educators to search the svs site For the content they're looking for for their programming or for their classrooms The other thing I want to show you is I have this community events tab You can actually announce your events here under community events So if you're hosting an astronomy night You can put it here. Make sure that you put in, you know, where your location is so that people that are local can find it Um, each individual member has the ability to be able to turn on specific notifications So if they have notifications on here for community events and they want to know more about Who's hosting events and where as soon as you post here in community events it automatically triggers a notification to them Um, so that they they're queued in to go take a peek and see what's happening in the community event section So that is your section, you know, the only request I have is that you don't tell me about your um Garage sales or you know rummage sale that sort of thing Don't sell your sofa here, but tell me all about your astronomy that you've got going on So Kathy had a great idea. Um, we have tons we have about Between 15 and 20 events a day across the country. Oh my gosh happening astronomy events for amateur astronomy clubs probably about Well between 10 and 15 of those are public Events if you have any interest in pulling those into your feed, you're more than welcome to we have a way to set that up We've done that for other Like when we have world space week, they pull all of our public events into their feed and So we're happy to help work with that if you're interested. Okay. Yeah, we should have a conversation offline. See how we can make that work Yeah There's no need Kathy to do it over twice. We'll try and feed that in Thanks, Kathy Yes, I agree That is a fantastic idea So I want you to know that all of that stuff is also available. That comes also free with your membership So you have access to educators. You can invite them. I have a network of um, I currently have 2,200 educators in my network um, and so the the makeup of the network currently has about 75 formal educators 25 and formal And so I serve as librarians museums science centers and now astronomers So are there any other questions that you all have for me? I hope you all are excited about the free resources and hopefully you find capacity for using them Um, you know, I'm all about making sure that you have the resources that you need to be able to do what you do well And so if there's something else, you know, if you see one of our learning experiences the full ones And we don't have a visualization From that and you go man, I really wish they would give us access to this piece of it. Let me know Um, I typically end up building all of our visualizations Um separate from our regular team So if you just let me know what it is that you're looking for to have as a visualization If we have it I will find a way to build it for you Uh, so don says to be clear the educators that you mentioned could they be tapped for providing presentations at club meetings? um I'm I'm not super clear on what your question is don meaning could you Can you put a call out to the community for presenters to your astronomy club meetings? Because I mean it is the community. I mean you're more than welcome to try to engage with anyone in the community um Yeah, absolutely. You can engage with them. You can actually send personal messages. You can do instant messages There's a chat feature that's associated with our community So you could reach out to individual educators and see if they would be interested in working with you Great question Well, I sincerely appreciate all of your time. I'm so glad that you all were able to make it today I really enjoy being able to share these resources with you Um because I am the community manager if you have any questions comments concerns If you need anything feel free to reach out to me And I will do my best to make sure that you have access to the content that you're interested in acquiring Thank you, Jessica. Maybe you could put uh contact information in uh the the chat if you're Absolutely, and if uh, when you have a moment, maybe you could uh, stop sharing your screen. Oh, yeah, that would be helpful All right Well, thank you so much, Jessica. This is fantastic This is uh some really great resources to be able to use to enhance anyone's outreach efforts And so this is really great. So thank you so much You're very welcome and thank you so much for having me and taking the time to set this up so I could share these resources