With Chris' approval, I've created a new Forum:
Celestia in Education
Please use this new forum to talk about how Celestia can be used in educational environments, whether in formal or informal settings.
New Forum: Celestia in Education
It'd be nice if the educators actually started using it... I was expecting people to jump straight on the board and start exchanging ideas about how to use Celestia in practice in the classroom or the lecture hall (or even in the field, say at star parties), but it's been a bit quiet so far.
I've started a thread there asking how people use Celestia for education and I've only had one response so far.
I've started a thread there asking how people use Celestia for education and I've only had one response so far.
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Malenfant wrote:It'd be nice if the educators actually started using it... I was expecting people to jump straight on the board and start exchanging ideas about how to use Celestia in practice in the classroom or the lecture hall (or even in the field, say at star parties), but it's been a bit quiet so far.
I've started a thread there asking how people use Celestia for education and I've only had one response so far.
I know I, as well as many of the other educators in America, are just starting our school year. It is a very busy time for us and our answers are apt to be short, even one liners.
I use Celestia primarily as a visualization tool to show students what we are talking about in class. Frank's addon is one of my primary tools to this end due to the vast amount of documentation included, a KEY to educaitonal use. Personally, I believe with the recent work on a more informational Celestia interface by, smack me if I get it wrong, Vincent, is a step in the right direction for educational use. Sadly, for students, just visiting a bunch of stars and planets gets old. There has to be something to learn from visiting an extrasolar planet.
Lesson plans, like Celestia, are probably in development by many of us, but just like my addons, take vast quantities of time that I do not have. I wish I could dedicate some of my school time to it, but it's just not possible with everything you have to cover in a year.
I believe as Celestia is great as is, and it has VAST potential for education. There just has to be more work on those additions. Is the informational overlay going to be part of the next release? That will play a large part in it's educational use.
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Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 3000/333 2.16 GHz
1 GB Crucial RAM
80 GB WD SATA drive
ATI AIW 9600XT 128M
Well don't talk about all this stuff here, talk about it on the education board - at least, do that when you have the time to start a topic ! I'd like to discuss using things like the information overlay (the info patch, yes, with the ultra-verbose mode?) there.
But that's the sort of thing we should be talking about there, definitely
But that's the sort of thing we should be talking about there, definitely
My Celestia page: Spica system, planetary magnitudes script, updated demo.cel, Quad system