WWT in Research and Education, AAS Meeting

Learn live, through hands-on demonstrations, how you can use WorldWide Telescope in your research, teaching, and public outreach. 

We will rotate through a repeating schedule of short sessions throughout the day.

10:00    Overview of  WWT
10:15    WWT in Education
10:30    WWT in “Seamless” Astronomy Research
10:45    Interoperability
11:00    Tour-Authoring Basics
11:15    Advanced Tour-Authoring Techniques
11:30    Q&A and One-on-One Support
12:00    Overview of  WWT
12:15    WWT in Education
12:30    WWT in “Seamless” Astronomy Research
12:45    Interoperability
  1:00    Tour-Authoring Basics
  1:15    Advanced Tour-Authoring Techniques
  1:30    Q&A and One-on-One Support
  2:00    Overview of  WWT
  2:15    WWT in Education
  2:30    WWT in “Seamless” Astronomy Research
  2:45    Interoperability
  3:00    Tour-Authoring Basics
  3:15    Advanced Tour-Authoring Techniques
  3:30    Q&A and One-on-One Support (until 5:30)

Overview of WWT  Learn about WWT, new features in the latest release, and get a broad overview of how WWT can be used in your research and teaching. (Curtis Wong/Jonathan Fay)

WWT in Education  Hear about the WorldWide Telescope Ambassadors program, where volunteers use WWT in schools and public venues to teach Science, and find out how you can get involved.   (Alyssa Goodman/Patricia Udomprasert)

WWT for “Seamless” Astronomy Research Demonstration of the API mode of WWT, which provides a plug-in interactive data viewer within webpages and more.  (August Muench/Goodman/Fay)

Interoperability  Demonstration of SAMP, which allows programs like ds9, Aladin, TOPCAT, and WWT all to run while interacting with each other. (Muench/Fay)

Tour-Authoring Basics Learn how to create interactive presentations for your research, teaching, and public outreach.  Topics include how to manipulate slides; insert images, text, and shapes; and add music and narration.  (Wong/Goodman/Udomprasert)

Advanced Tour-Authoring Techniques  Take your Tours to the next level with more advanced techniques like importing your own data, animating objects, and linking slides.  We’ll also discuss elements of good story-telling. (Wong/Goodman)

A limited number of computers will be available for attendee use.  

For a fuller hands-on experience, please bring your own laptop with WWT and/or Silverlight installed   The software can be found at worldwidetelescope.org, and help with installation will be available at the session.  The WWT Web Client runs in any modern browser running Silverlight (PC or Mac).   Only tour-oriented sessions will require the full (free) Windows-based WWT program, running on a Windows PC or a Mac with Windows.

See this handout for a formatted printable version of this schedule.