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Welcome!
Education and Public Outreach (EPO):
Interacting with Data in the Browser
Thursday, Aug 13, noon-1pm PDT
Chairs: Amanda Bauer, Lauren Corlies
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020
Friendly Reminders
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020
Friendly Reminders
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020
Agenda and Introductions
Chairs and Presenters:
Amanda Bauer
Lauren Corlies
Scribe:
George Gomez
Chat Monitors:
Kristen Metzger
Ardis Herrold
Support Team:
Blake Mason
Jose Pinto
Agenda
Welcome and EPO Team intro. (5 min)
Getting to know attendees. (0:05-0:10)
Overview of EPO Program and interactive widgets (0:10-0:20)
Demo + hands-on + discussion (0:20-0:50)
Questions and discussion (0:50-0:60)
Speaker: Amanda Bauer
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020
Goals for this session
Please ask questions by raising your hand in Zoom to speak or by typing a question into the Slack channel!
You can also give us feedback through this Google form whenever is convenient! https://forms.gle/CrsLpH95dtPxnHpc7
Speaker: Amanda Bauer
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020
Education and Public Outreach - Mission
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Rubin Observatory PCW 2020 - Intro to Rubin
Rubin Observatory EPO’s mission is to offer accessible and engaging online experiences that provide non-specialists access to, and context for, LSST data so anyone can explore the Universe and be part of the discovery process.
Speaker: Lauren Corlies
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020
Our Novel Approach to EPO
Speaker: Lauren Corlies
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
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Education and Public Outreach Overview
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Rubin Observatory PCW 2020 - Intro to Rubin
Formal Education Program
Website & Skyviewer
Citizen Science Infrastructure
Multimedia Gallery
Suite of classroom investigations that enable students to work with real LSST data
Operations site to communicate science discoveries and all-sky viewer to explore the survey
Videos, graphics, & planetarium videos for use in talks, science centers, etc.
Pipelines and project templates to enable the easy creation of citizen science projects
Speaker: Lauren Corlies
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020
Education and Public Outreach Overview
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Web & logo Design
Interactive Widget Development
Education user testing
Speaker: Lauren Corlies
Vera C. Rubin Observatory | Project & Community Workshop | August 10 - 14, 2020
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HIRING! Astronomy Content Strategist
Main responsibilities include:
Demonstrated interest in communicating Astronomy to the public is the only requirement.
We are HIRING!
Look for the official job posting coming this September! Reach out to Lauren Corlies via Slack or email if you or someone you know may be interested in this position!
Speaker: Lauren Corlies
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020
Over the past year, the Rubin EPO team has built many browser-based tools for directly interacting with real astronomical data, designed around actions familiar to a typical web user. Currently, these tools have been applied specifically to formal classroom “investigations” for students in advanced middle school through college intro levels.
Speaker: Amanda Bauer
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020
Formal Education Program Components
Vera C. Rubin Observatory | Project & Community Workshop | August 10 - 14, 2020
#rubin2020
User Testing is happening now, online
We transitioned to a virtual strategy for the User Testing phase of our educational investigations. Largely successful so far.
Map of Rubin EPO user testing participants, as of August 2020
"The interactive learning through the investigations was a much better way to learn astronomy than to try to just read about it."
"My mind is just blown away with everything that I have been exposed to and learned. I have so many ideas for my students after attending this workshop and I can't wait for the telescope to be up and running!"
"I learned a lot about astronomy and feel much more confidence in teaching the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) astronomy concepts assigned to my course."
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020
User Testing is happening now
We are now testing classroom investigations. If you are interested in participating, contact us at education@lsst.org
We are especially interested in broadening testing with diverse student populations.
Map of Rubin EPO user testing participants, as of August 2020
"The interactive learning through the investigations was a much better way to learn astronomy than to try to just read about it."
"My mind is just blown away with everything that I have been exposed to and learned. I have so many ideas for my students after attending this workshop and I can't wait for the telescope to be up and running!"
"I learned a lot about astronomy and feel much more confidence in teaching the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) astronomy concepts assigned to my course."
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020
Interactive Widgets
These widgets allow people to investigate relationships between images and data points, create their own color images, and visualize 3D structures in the universe, among other things.
Our intention is to embed these widgets throughout our website and social media channels in order to transform a passive experience, like reading an article, to an interactive one where people can explore LSST data themselves.
Our system does the work, not the user’s
Speaker: Amanda Bauer
Vera C. Rubin Observatory | Project & Community Workshop | August 10 - 14, 2020
#rubin2020
Demo and play time!
At the link below, we invite you to explore samples of these interactive widgets.
We’d like to get your feedback on the tools (Are they fun? Are they engaging?)
We’d also like your help to generate use cases for how you might use these tools to communicate science to the general public.
You can provide us feedback during the session on the slack channel (#day4-thu-slot3b-epo) and through this survey form:
Speaker: Amanda Bauer
Rubin Observatory | PCW 2020 | Education and Public Outreach
#rubin2020