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- Gifting a telescope
- Writing good discussion prompts
- Creating effective and engaging online discussions
- Please don’t unfriend me
- NaPoWriMo 2020
- Meteor Shower Season 2019
- Don’t miss the Geminids!
- A naked-eye comet for the holidays (2018)
- Venus in August 2018
- Observing tips for July 4th, 2018
- ES2018 – Creative use of technology to assess students
- ES 2018 – effective group assignments
- ES 2018 – New Canvas gradebook & quizzes
- ES 2018 – Lightning talks – Active Learning
- ES 2018 – keynote: Helping Students Learn In An Age Of Digital Distraction
- News | Celebrate Pi Day, the NASA Way!
- February 15 solar eclipse
- Super purple Moon!
- The Michigan Meteor and possible meteorites
- Elusive Mercury in the Evening
- Morning Planets Conjunction
- The Moon and Aldebaran
- Nexstar 6se/8se “Wing Thing” hand controller holder
- Cassini’s Legacy
- Venus and the Beehive
- Eclipse glasses are not the only safe way to view an eclipse
- Tips for teaching intro astronomy
- Summer solstice 2017
- Saturn Opposition 2017
- Enriching Scholarship 2017 – A Digital Profile of U-M Students
- Enriching Scholarship 2017 – Coaxing Canvas to Support Gameful Pedagogy
- Enriching Scholarship 2017: Inclusive Engagement – From The Classroom To The Meeting Room
- Enriching Scholarship 2017 Lightning and Thunder Talks
- Enriching Scholarship 2017 keynote
- Lyrid meteor shower 2017
- NASA image & Video Search
- Venus brightest around February 16 | EarthSky.org
- Types of Telescopes – Tips for Buying Your First Telescope
- Change…
- Summer 2016 meteors
- Urban Observing June 2016 – Planets version
- Mercury and the Moon binocular challenge
- Earth goes between sun and Saturn tonight | EarthSky.org
- If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system
- Blue Moon of May
- Mars Opposition 2016
- Transit of Mercury May 9 2016
- Jupiter
- Poem for 4/8/2016
- Shadows at dawn
- Magnetic field
- Robin at my door
- Stone
- Flowers in the snow
- Poetry month
- Best Work
- Solar Eclipse 08 March 2016
- Planet 9
- View all the naked eye planets at dawn
- The Moon Occults Aldebaran
- Eating Words
- Comet Catalina’s closest point to Earth
- Spectacular Saturn and Venus
- Meteor Shower
- Urban Observing December 2015
- Taurid fireballs photos and videos | EarthSky.org
- Guide To Binoculars
- November 2015 Urban Observing
- Orionid Meteor Shower
- October 2015 Urban Observing
- Lunar eclipse webcasts
- September 2015 Urban Observing
- Spitzer 12 month calendar for the 12th anniversary
- Celebrating a year at the comet / Rosetta / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
- August meteor showers
- Cider Baked beans
- August 2015 Urban Observing
- News | NASA Hosts Media Telecon About Latest Kepler Discoveries
- New Horizons on NASA TV
- July 2015 Urban Observing
- Geomagnetic storm coming our way | Earth | EarthSky
- Peas and onions with bacon
- June meteors – in daytime!
- June 2015 Urban Observing
- Enriching Scholarship 2015 – Tech & Trends
- Enriching Scholarship 2015 – Keynote
- Enriching Scholarship 2015 – Poster Session
- Time really flies
- May 2015 Urban Observing
- Messenger comes to an end
- Earth Day Meteor Shower – NASA Science
- Evening Gathering April 21, 2015
- April 4 lunar eclipse
- Apple cheese breakfast pie
- Viewing Comet Lovejoy
- Urban Observing January 2015
- Space Weather Enthusiasts Dashboard | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
- Urban observing December 2014 part 2
- Teach Feast 2014: Canvas
- Teach Feast 2014: Assessments
- December 2014 Urban Observing post 1
- Teach Feast: MOOCs
- Teach-Feast 2014: BYO device
- Urban Observing November 2014
- Watch the Partial Solar Eclipse Online | Sky & Telescope
- Partial Solar Eclipse Observing
- A haunting star for the month of Halloween
- Resources for the Oct 8 2014 lunar eclipse
- Urban Observing October 2014
- Griffith Observatory TV on Livestream.
- SkyScience – Earth Science Week 2014 | NASA
- Oct 8 Lunar eclipse
- Oct 8, 2014 Total Lunar Eclipse – Where and when to see
- Kensington Astronomy at the Beach
- Lavender shortbread (whole grain)
- Cosmic Light 2015 Video Trailer – To celebrate the cosmic light coming down to earth | IAU
- Urban Observing August 2014
- CAPjournal 15 Now Available | IAU
- BLOG: What Inspires You? – JPL Education – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- For John
- NameExoWorlds: An IAU Worldwide Contest to Name Exoplanets and their Host Stars | Press Releases | IAU
- Urban observing July 2014
- Buying a Name for a Celestial Object
- Ovation Aurora moved
- Mercury Passes in Front of the Sun, as Seen From Mars – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Enriching Scholarship 2014 – Google Apps in CTools
- Urban observing June 2014
- Google Glass adaptation opens the universe to deaf students — ScienceDaily
- Journal and Review of Astronomy Education and Outreach | A Scholarly Publication of Research, News and Commentary
- A New Meteor Shower in May?
- Enriching Scholarship 2014 – Kickstart your ePortfolio
- Enriching Scholarship 2014 – CTools Hidden Treasures II
- Enriching Scholarship 2014 – Large class engagement
- Enriching Scholarship 2014 – Best Practices for Improving Introductory Courses
- Enriching Scholarship 2014 – Poster session
- Enriching Scholarship 2014 – round table
- Enriching Scholarship 2014 – Lightning talks
- Urban Observing May 2014
- April 2014 Annular solar Eclipse
- Sun day 2014
- Lunar eclipse April 2014
- What is “opposition”?
- Urban observing April 2014
- A Tetrad of Lunar Eclipses – NASA Science
- The case of the disappearing star
- Urban Observing March 2014
- Stargazing LIVE 2014 calendar
- The Teacher’s Guide To Flipped Classrooms – Edudemic
- 3-day Estimated Planetary Kp-index Monitor
- Ocean drifters
- An Eclipse of Regulus, March 20, 2014
- Urban Observing February 2014
- Bright Supernova in M82 – Homepage Observing – SkyandTelescope.com
- Seven Characteristics of Good Learners | Faculty Focus
- @SarcasticRover: This Is Why Mars Can’t Have Nice Things | TIME.com
- Why are women underrepresented in science and what can be done to change this? | Michigan Radio
- Urban Observing January 2014
- NASAs Juno Gives Starship-Like View of Earth Flyby – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Lovely Comet Lovejoy – Observing Blog – SkyandTelescope.com
- Comets presentation
- December Urban Observing
- Space in Videos – 2013 – 11 – Guide to our Galaxy
- Space Images: The Day the Earth Smiled – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Career Profiles | American Astronomical Society
- Comet ISONs Current Status | Comet ISON Observing Campaign
- Mosaic from The Day The Earth Smiled
- Urban Observing November 2013
- Observing Basics: Tips for Moon Watchers | Astronomy.com
- Managing the Deluge of Big Data From Space – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- With departments under threat for few majors, physicists say value isnt reflected in numbers | Inside Higher Ed
- Digital Devices, Distraction, and Student Performance: Does In-Class Cell Phone Use Reduce Learning?
- Advice for Buying and Selling Used Equipment
- Urban observing – October 2013
- Chronograph at the Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor
- 10 Formative Asssessment Strategies for Flipped Environments | Flip It Consulting
- September 2013 Urban Observing
- Discovery of Enceladus
- ePortfolios – an introduction
- Flashcard for low-tech peer instruction
- Cassini Releases Image of Earth Waving at Saturn – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Bright Nova in Delphinus – Homepage Observing – SkyandTelescope.com
- Technology comes second
- This is another test
- Test post
- Urban Observing – August 2013
- Celestia: Home
- Big Data Makes Big Inroads into Schools: Scientific American
- The advantages of insomnia
- summer meteor showers
- Big Dipper to Southern Cross
- Pale Blue Dot: Distant Spacecraft Photograph Earth – NASA Science
- Pluto Science Conference Online, webcast lecture by Alan Stern
- Smile at Saturn
- Moon-Saturn photo op
- Vallis Snellius, July 11 2013
- Stellarium
- WorldWide Telescope dome projects
- Andrew Hazelden’s Blog » PowerPoint Dome Template
- A warning to college profs from a high school teacher
- Venus Buzzes the Beehive – Observing Blog – SkyandTelescope.com
- Urban Observing July 2013
- Optimizing images for Google docs likely to be printed
- A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russells 10 Commandments of Teaching | Brain Pickings
- Dry ice creates strange gullies on Mars
- Supermoon superhype
- on comets that fail to live up to expectations
- A Repeat of the Gamma Delphinid Outburst? | American Meteor Society
- Urban Observing June 2013
- 8 tips for transitioning to clickers when flipping your class with Peer Instruction
- Best evening planets of 2013
- Planetary line up May 2013
- ES 2013 CTools Hidden Treasure
- ES 2013 Tech and Trends
- ES 2013 – Third Century Initiative
- ES 2013 Poster Fair
- ES2013 – keynote – MOOCs at Michigan panel
- Enriching Scholarships 2013
- Anular solar eclipse
- Urban Observing May 2013
- Flowers timelapse | Art for Scientists
- See Saturn at its Best and Brightest – NASA Science
- Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures – YouTube
- Potted plant
- Sunburn
- Rotating a video
- on unexpectedly finding an early daffodil while walking on a foggy morning
- How high up are meteors when they begin to “glow”? | Space | EarthSky
- Time flies…
- How the sky would look if the planets were as close as the moon [8 pictures] – 22 Words
- TED-Ed | Flip your class with proven methods
- Urban Observing – April 2013
- How Big Are Galaxies?
- Mercury in the Morning, March 2013
- A haiku for astronomy in Michigan
- STEM Teaching Methods That Work webinar notes
- ScienceCasts: Sunset Comet – YouTube
- Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Urban Observing March 2013
- OverAPI.com | Collecting all the cheat sheets
- An invitation
- Astronomer to Data Scientist | American Astronomical Society
- pretty moon picture, feb 15 2013
- CAE workshop in Dearborn MI
- Asteroid 2012 DA14 to Zip Past Earth – Observing Highlights – SkyandTelescope.com
- Mercury in the evening, Feb 2013
- Student Comments: Moving from Participation to Contribution | Faculty Focus
- 7 Essential Principles of Innovative Learning | MindShift
- Conjunction of Mercury and Mars tonight
- NASA – NASAs Deep Impact Spacecraft Eyes Comet ISON
- Urban Observing February 2013
- Quick Start Guide to Flipping your Classroom with Peer Instruction – Turn to Your Neighbor: The Official Peer Instruction Blog
- 6 Expert Tips for Flipping the Classroom — Campus Technology
- What the Dead Know by Robert Polito : The Poetry Foundation
- Moon-Jupiter conjunction
- Moon-Jupiter conjunction
- Fatherly Advice for a good class
- Observing Highlights for 2013
- 6 Steps To Find A Job For Soon-To-Be College Grads | Here & Now
- Urban Observing for January 2013
- 12 astronomy trivia for 12/12/12
- A New Meteor Shower in December? – NASA Science
- Rock Comet Meteor Shower – NASA Science
- December offers hundreds of meteors – Astronomy Magazine
- Cosmology: The Origin, Evolution & Ultimate Fate of the Universe « Astronomical Society
- Urban Observing December 2012
- Planetary conjunctions for the end of November 2012
- Catalogue of Double Stars: Redacted Poem « tychogirl
- Solar Eclipse today! view it online
- Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
- Urban Observing November 2012
- Berry custard pie
- Pumpkin Pie
- Create A Graph
- Earth Moon Earth – YouTube
- Watch CAPER #ASTRO101 Virtual Colloquium speaker Dr. Kendra Sibbernsen at tinyurl.com/8p85qyc Oct 23 at 730pm MT – Center for Astronomy & Physics Education Research – CAPER Team
- Moon and Venus, Oct 12, 2012
- Eclipse 2012 – Cairns Great Barrier Reef Official Tourism Website
- Oct 20 & 21 2012 astro events
- Useful Google Docs Features for Science Classes
- Listening to meteor showers
- “Once in a Civilization” Comet to Zip past Earth Next Year | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
- Urban Observing October 2012
- Flipped classroom twitter feed
- Good Things Come From Small Scopes: Scientific American Podcast
- APOD: 2012 September 20 – Sunrise Analemma (with a little extra)
- Great Lakes Association of Astronomy Clubs » Kensington Astronomy at the Beach
- Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator – ColorZilla.com
- Voyager at 35: Break on Through to the Other Side – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Answers in Genes: The Medical Case for Mars
- Blazing a trail with the Perseids
- Letters of Note: Why Explore Space?
- Join Your Local Astronomy Club | Wired Cosmos
- Urban Observing August 2012
- The City Dark | POV | PBS
- 2012 PPSR Conference | Citizen Science Community Forum
- A Good Reason to Wake Up at Dawn – NASA Science
- Mercury in June 2012
- Uncommon Campus
- National Jukebox LOC.gov
- Transit of Venus Resources
- Transit of Venus events in SE Michigan
- Astronomy Tips, Do’s and Don’ts for Beginners | AstronomyLog.com
- Telescope buying advice
- Transit of Venus 2012 Model
- Build a Sun Funnel | Venustransit
- ES2012 – Exemplary Teaching: Using CTools to Enhance Interactive Teaching
- ES2012 notes – Let’s Go Google: An Overview of Teaching with Google Tools
- ES2012 notes – poster session
- May 2012 evening planets and more
- Dear NASA: No More Rainbow Color Scales, Please | Visual.ly Blog
- Saturn’s Moons Javascript Utility – Planets – SkyandTelescope.com
- April 2012 evening planets
- Rubric Resources
- Algol minima
- Getting Started in Astronomy Without Breaking the Bank
- Transit Times of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – Interactive Observing Tools – SkyandTelescope.com
- Jupiter’s Moons Javascript Utility – Interactive Observing Tools – SkyandTelescope.com
- Notes from Carl Wieman’s lecture at UM on March 22
- THIS is why we invest in science. This. | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
- How to read a sundial
- OVATION Aurora
- 12 improvements for a cheap telescope
- Local transit times | Venustransit
- Evening planets March 2012
- The Peer Instruction Network Blog
- Say Hello to the Red Planet!
- Merging Spiral Galaxies – simulating visual appearance – YouTube
- c8 repair – removing the corrector plate
- 589217_scale_of_universe_enhanced.swf application/x-shockwave-flash Object
- Think Outside The Box (The Cutest Response to Creationism Ever!) « Exploring Our Matrix
- The Active Class » Blog Archive » Using clickers with experiments and demos
- Jan 20 2012 CAE workshop notes
- Chocolate Orange Cake
- GLOBE at Night 2012
- Awesome Astronomical Image Search
- The Night After Christmas Sky Show – NASA Science
- The 2011 Geminid Meteor Shower – NASA Science
- How to tell real science from pseudo-science
- Cranberry sauce
- What’s in a name
- Draconid Meteor Outburst and International Observe the Moon Night 2011
- Astronomy at the Beach: A model skygazing outreach event – Daves Universe – Astronomy.com – Online Community, Forums, Media Galleries, Blogs
- radio_broadcasts in the galaxy
- haikus for form fields
- Bertrand Russell speaks to the future
- Neptune Completes One Orbit
- Summer Observing for Urban Observatories.
- Morning planet cluster
- Astropoetry Blog
- Citizen Scientists Making Incredible Discoveries – NASA Science
- Still not doomsday
- Another new theme
- Morning planets
- GLOBE at Night, round 2
- See Mercury at Sunset – NASA Science
- Globe at Night 2011 begins tonight
- Fireflies in the Garden
- I am an atheist…
- Not quite telescope advise
- Seven Things Grownups Think They Know About Whooping Cough But Don’t | Emerging Technologies Librarian
- SBO Catalog
- Planet observing though 2020
- Visible planets retrogrades 2009 – 2020
- Globe at Night 2011
- How deep the Universe | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
- Planets Discovered at the Detroit Observatory (1868)
- Thierry Legault – Partial solar eclipse and transit of the Space Station from Oman
- meteor shower and eclipse for the new year
- Daily Post Curmudgeon
- Happy 2011
- Invisible Astronomy
- winter break
- Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
- Major Meteor Showers
- Turning the Meridian ‘scope around
- Meridian Telescope Harp
- Jupiter at Opposition
- Useful Weather Resources For Observers
- Meteor shower radiant picture
- Amazing Amateur Imaging
- Mercury in the evening
- galileoscope “sale”
- astronomy haiku
- Summer and Ernie Harwell
- Earth Images for Earth Day
- April 2010 Venus and Mercury
- Venus in the Galileoscope
- Telescope Dictionary
- Galileoscope observations
- c8 repair – opening the base part 3: the gears
- Globe at Night 2010
- Cloudy Nights “gear of the year” awards includes the Galileoscope
- Telescope – Beginners Guide: Reflector
- Telescope Beginners Guide: Alt-Az mounts
- a cheap tripod alternative
- Telescope – Beginners Guide: Refractor
- Telescope – Beginners Guide: Reflector vs. Refractor
- Holiday telescope advice from the Bad Astronomer
- Telescopes – Beginners Guide – Parts common to all types of telescopes
- Telescopes – Beginners Guide – Basics
- More things to watch for when buying a telescope
- purchasing a telescope – things to avoid
- improved galileoscope assembly instructions
- JPL “what’s up” podcast
- galileoscope review
- How Galileo made his telescopes
- Galileo’s Telescope
- Galileo and the Medici
- photos of travels
- coming up…
- another blog with lots of astronomy, phyics, and SecondLife
- crossing the bar
- haiku – today’s weather
- astro igoogle tab
- c8 repair – balancing in dec
- Mars Hoax returns
- c8 repair – opening the base part 4: the RA lock
- c8 repair – dec lock
- c8 repair – dec fine adjustment
- c8 repair – opening the base part 2: the bottom and motors
- c8 repair – opening the base part 1
- c8 repair – RA lock position
- c8 repair – introduction and disclaimers
- computers are like radios…
- thinking about numbers…
- HSM4 wrapping up
- filly wins the Preakness
- More on the Spitzer warm mission
- space based astronomy
- Epic Win – Enriching Scholarships 2009 keynote
- spitzer moving to warm phase
- Matsuo Basho – Spring rain
- morning in the Arb
- Elson – Dark Matter
- friends of mine
- daffodils in rain
- fragmentary blue
- Eternity (constellations)
- aurora haiku
- This ground is not for sweet potatoes
- daffodils
- Standing in Thin Air
- National Poetry Month
- Choose something like a star
- When I heard the lern’d astronomer
- a haiku – Meteor
- Second Life – Astronomy Brown Bags
- Second Life and IYA
- first comet of 2009
- IYA is here!!
- SL Astronomy – Elon
- SL Astronomy – History of the Earth
- SL Astronomy – Science School
- planetary conjunction of fall 2008
- science places in SL
- How to Buy a Telescope
- SL Astronomy – David Rumsey Maps
- SL Astronomy – Science Friday
- SL Astronomy – Prospero’s astronomy Gallery
- SL Astronomy – Wolverine Island
- SL Astronomy – Exploratorium
- Switch to Hubble data recorder side B successful
- altering my perceptions of astronomers
- HST data recorder failure
- Current News!
- Poplar Seeds (poem)
- Assesment of the Project Star telescope
- Report From St. Louis – Day 4 – inexpensive ‘scopes
- Report From St. Louis – Day 3
- Report from St. Louis – Day 2
- Report from St. Louis – Day 1
- arrived in St Louis
- What a week
- Phoenix set to land
- Is belief in God Obsolete?
- Hello world!
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