[CoLoCo] TIE 2008

[Neal McBurnett]

I'll do a demo and lesson plan for stellarium - building on what I did
off-the-cuff last year.

-Neal

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:01:28PM -0500, TheZorch wrote:
> I'd also recommend showing off Celestia, the program That gives you a 3D
> animated view of the solar system and galaxy.
> 
> Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:57 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>
>     wrote:
> 
> 
>         Let's do this "three wishes" style.  Like this:
>          - I wish someone would do a demo of setting up and using a Samba
>         server.
>          - I wish someone would demo the flashcard application. (whatever it's
>         called)
>          - I wish someone would demo stellarium. (or whatever it's called)
> 
>         If you'll make three specific wishes, I'll pick one I can do and do
>         it.  :-)
> 
> 
> 
>     Okay. I'm not sure I know what my three wishes would be yet but I'll make a
>     couple anyway.
> 
>     1. I wish someone would discover how to use kig (or similar (what's the
>     best math software like this that runs in windows?)) and design a lesson
>     and demo around it.
>     2. I wish someone would come up with a good lesson and demo around either
>     Stellarium or Celestia.
>     3. I wish someone would come up with a good lesson and demo of GNU Octave
>     (I wonder how well this runs in windows?).
> 
>     If I can have a fourth wish...I wish someone would help me find good FOSS
>     educational software that is still under development (i.e. not dead) and
>     also cross platform.
> 
>     Thanks to all the genies out there considering granting wishes.
> 
>     -jim
> 
>     --
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> 
> 
> 
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