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michael ruff

Solar System Exploration: Planets - 164 views

solarsystem.nasa.gov/...index.cfm

PLANETS

shared by michael ruff on 28 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Our galaxy - the Milky Way - is a spiral galaxy with arms extending from the center like a pinwheel. Our solar system is in the Orion arm of the Milky Way. Our Sun is one of about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. And our galaxy is just one of roughly 100 billion in the visible universe.
  • 1Our galaxy - the Milky Way - is a spiral galaxy with arms extending from the center like a pinwheel. Our solar system is in the Orion arm of the Milky Way. Our Sun is one of about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. And our galaxy is just one of roughly 100 billion in the visible universe.
  • michael ruff on 28 Nov 11
     
    Great Image of the Soar System!
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  • michael ruff on 28 Nov 11
     
    Great site!
  • Brandi Knight on 01 Dec 11
     
    I have actually used this site in teaching the Solar System, and based a fourth grade Unit around it.
  • michael ruff on 01 Dec 11
     
    Great SIte
suzanne foxworth

alternative word cloud that works on android - 34 views

I use Galaxy Tabs in class and it is frustrating when nearly all apps are for apple. It is also frustrating when websites do not work from the internet connection on either device. (Yes, I have bo...

Galaxy tab education word cloud

started by suzanne foxworth on 22 Jul 12 no follow-up yet
Bob Rowan

Video: Use Your Galaxy Nexus As A Desktop Computer - Droid Life - 0 views

www.droid-life.com/...xy-nexus-as-a-desktop-computer

android tablet

shared by Bob Rowan on 11 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Bob Rowan on 11 Feb 12
     
    shows a smart phone hooked up to computer monitor, keyboard, etc to be functional desktop PC (running Android OS)
Martin Burrett

Magnifying the Universe - 6 views

www.numbersleuth.org/universe

size scale universe

shared by Martin Burrett on 11 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Jun 12
     
    A great resource for viewing the very biggest and very smallest things in the universe, ranging from galaxies to insects, nebulae and stars to molecules and atoms. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Gerald Carey

Ancient Lives | Transcribe - 45 views

ancientlives.org/transcribe

shared by Gerald Carey on 30 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Gerald Carey on 30 Jul 11
     
    Help the University of Oxford transcribe ancient papyrus rolls - for real. Part of the Zooniverse (ie Galaxy Zoo)
Martin Burrett

SpaceRip - 45 views

ukedchat.com/spacerip

space videos YouTube

shared by Martin Burrett on 17 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 17 Mar 15
     
    A superb YouTube channel with a huge collection of stunning space videos. Explore to planets, the galaxy and the universe.
Nigel Coutts

Overwhelmed by the constant pace of change - The Learner's Way - 15 views

thelearnersway.net/...by-the-constant-pace-of-change

constant change learner teaching learning

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  • Nigel Coutts on 01 Jul 18
     
    Teaching is undoubtedly a busy profession and one where the end of the to do list seems to be forever located in a galaxy far far away. There is always more to be done and as each item on the list is ticked off, three, four or more seem to have appeared. If we ever do get close to the end, we find ourselves reflecting on what we have achieved and the many ways in which it might be improved. 
Caroline Kuhn

From Internet to Gutenberg 1996 - 30 views

www.umbertoeco.com/...nternet-to-gutenberg-1996.html

Gutenberg Humberto Ecco

shared by Caroline Kuhn on 10 Jun 15 - Cached
  • remember books. Books challenge and improve memory
  • (The book will kill the cathedral, alphabet will kill images).
  • During the sixties, Marshall McLuhan wrote his The Gutenberg Galaxy, where he announced that the linear way of thinking instaured by the invention of the press, was on the verge of being substituted by a more global way of perceiving and understanding through the TV images or other kinds of electronic device
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  • the computer has become, first of all, an alphabetic instrument
  • These same teen-agers, if by chance they want to program their own home computer, must know, or learn, logical procedures and algorithms, and must type words and numbers on a keyboard, at a great speed. In this sense one can say that the computer made us to return to a Gutenberg Galaxy.
  • Today the concept of literacy comprises many media. An enlightened policy of literacy must take into account the possibilities of all of these media. Educational preoccupation must be extended to the whole of media.
  • Images have, so to speak, a sort of Platonic power: they transform individuals into general idea
  • who will receive pre-fabricated images and therefore prefabricated definitions of the world, without any power to critically choose the kind of information they receive, and those who know how to deal with the computer, who will be able to select and to elaborate information.
  • This will re-establish the cultural division which existed at the time of Claude Frollo, between those who were able to read manuscripts, and therefore to critically deal with religious, scientifical or philosophical matters, and those who were only educated by the images of the cathedral, selected and produced by their masters, the literate few.
  • With a hypertext, instead, I can navigate through the whole encyclopedia. I can connect an event registered at the beginning with a series of similar events disseminated all along the text, I can compare the beginning with the end, I can ask for the list of all the words beginning by A, I can ask for all the cases in which the name of Napoleon is linked with the one of Kant, I can compare the dates of their birth and death - in short, I can do my job in few seconds or few minutes.
  • Even if it were true that today visual communication overwhelms written communication, the problem is not to oppose written to visual communication. The problem is how to improve both.
  • Caroline Kuhn on 10 Jun 15
     
    Or the Elements of Euclid.
Jac Londe

12/21/12: Definitely Not the End of the World | Wired Science | Wired.com - 29 views

www.wired.com/...lypse-december-21-end-of-world

world science apocalypse

shared by Jac Londe on 11 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • There is not a single iota of evidence that large-scale planetary alignments cause changes in geologic events – like earthquakes and eruptions – on Earth. The only celestial bodies that could play some role – and there is some evidence that suggest that they may, in minor ways – are the Sun and the Moon. This is due to their relative close proximity (especially the moon) and their mass. I’ve covered some of this in my discussion of why the so-called “Supermoons” are silly and play no role in increasing/decreasing geologic events. What about the alignment with the galactic center? The center of the galaxy must exert some force on the Earth (and solar system) or we wouldn’t be orbiting it. However, beyond that fact that alignments like this happen all the time, the force that the galactic center exerts on Earth is ~0.00006x that of the Moon on Earth and ~0.00000037x that of the Sun, doesn’t it seem a little ridiculous to claim that the galactic center can change anything on Earth if the Sun and the Moon cause little-to-no effect on geologic events?
kurt stavenhagen

steindl-rast | zen writ - 12 views

zenwrit.wordpress.com/...gallehr

shared by kurt stavenhagen on 13 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • combine our intellect with will and our emotions, only than can we truly understand the meaning of gratefulness.
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      kurt stavenhagen on 13 Sep 13
       
      Sometimes I think that he tries too hard to separate the intellect from the will. I wonder on a physiological level what this looks like in the brain: are their separate components in the brain for recognition and judgment. Perhaps there are. If so, should those be the terms rather than intellect and will?
  • its not giving up.
  • back to bed again”
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  • haven’t reached them yet
  • Just to be living on this earth in this solar system in this galaxy in this universe is immensely rare and lucky.
  • to recognize is to accept something as true, but to acknowledge is to have a perspective, or how you choose to view that recognizable truth.
  • Some people feel the rain, and others just get wet
  • acknowledgement is perspective.
  • uses the word surprise as a way of saying be mindful and appreciate the little things in life that go on around you
  • ollowing this quote the author goes on to
  • because many of use feel a moral obligation to return our benefactor the favor thus making the seemingly “gratuitous act” a debt that we must repay by giving our own gift.
  • the bonds of interdependence set us free
  • once you can acknowledge a gift for a gift and acknowledge dependence then you’re free to go forward into full gratefulness.
  • yesterday morning my friend, knowing that I’m not an early bird, brought an extra granola bar to class just to give it to me which was a surprise that I had not expected. This was merely a simple surprise that I felt then, but after I thought it over again, this surprise made me realize how grateful I felt for having a such friend
  • By allowing ourselves to be helped in life and understanding that receiving help is not a show of weakness but in fact a show of mindfulness, we open ourselves up to the surprises and pleasures of communicating with people on a regular day basis
  • independent vs dependent. Being considered “legally” independent I have truly learned how dependent I am for others.
  • I always thought why would I hassle someone else for my incompetency
  • that weak need to feel weak in order to grow. We need to put everything out there and grow and learn from our experiences.
  • Letting weakness show is one of the strongest things we can do in order to know ourselves at a deeper level
  • Helping someone, whether it is a friend, neighbor or family member is something one should do out of the goodness of our heart. Everything comes full circle,
  • it is a personal choice to help others, and my way of reminding myself that I am grateful to be here,
  • I know what a horse looks like, feels like and moves like, but every time I go visit, I am still surprised and amused just by watching the horses out in the field.
  • The more grateful you become the more you appreciate life, which in a sense does make you younger because you are embracing living life
  • When my dad and hundreds of others died on 9/11/01 you could notice something different in the air.
  • kurt stavenhagen on 13 Sep 13
     
    "teindl-Rast inspired me to start working on a project that I have been putting off. (ironically when I chose to read this passage I was procrastinating) There is never an ideal or perfect time for any person to start any task. Instead of taking this moment right now, we co"
Virginia Meadow

HubbleSite -- Out of the ordinary...out of this world. - 0 views

hubblesite.org

astronomy earth science stars nebulas comets galaxies blackholes

shared by Virginia Meadow on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Virginia Meadow on 23 Sep 09
     
    Excellent resource for Astronomy education, always up to date.
Kelly Paredes

Tag Galaxy - 33 views

taggalaxy.de

shared by Kelly Paredes on 30 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Kelly Paredes on 30 Nov 09
     
    Neat idea, not sure though that the photos of the "stars/ planets" will confuse the learning. Students may be fixated on the revolving images?
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