#  WWT in Research and Education, AAS Meeting 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **January 11, 2011** 

 10:00AM - 05:30PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **AAS Meeting Seattle, WA Room 303**  



 

 



 

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](http://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](http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/AAS_workshop_schedule_white.pdf) for a formatted printable version of this schedule.



 

 



 

 

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