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WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a powerful visualization program that lets the public view images from the world's best telescopes in their appropriate context - for example, in a night-sky view that spans the electromagnetic spectrum; or in a 3D of our solar system, Milky Way, and cosmos. For three years, the WorldWide Telescope Ambassadors (WWTA) Program has been using WWT in educational settings, including K-12 and college classrooms. Recent NSF-funding has allowed us to develop WWT-based labs that promote understanding of the Moonâ??s phases and parallax. In this workshop, WWTA leaders will give educators hands-on instruction on how to use WWT-based resources effectively in their classrooms. We will have 12 laptops available for use at the workshop, but we encourage any attendee with their own Windows laptop to install the program prior to the workshop and bring it with them. The program can be downloaded at worldwidetelescope.org. Email pudompra@cfa.harvard.edu with questions.