Syllabus

Lecture Notes

Labs Activities

Homework Tips for HW, Labs

Links

Since there are already plenty of GREAT astronomy web sites, I tried not to duplicate content, but rather present something in addition (see my Retrograde motion Online labs, the Summary of Stellar Properties, and my Eclipse animations).  And I also employ a lecture style that should get you to look up many of the other sites.

These pages created and maintained by:

Credits:
Many images are my own, shot with a 50 mm camera.
Several images are courtesy NASA (AURA, STScI, HST).  All their images "are obtainable royalty-free."
Star maps were done with Redshift, (c) Maris Multimedia.
Animations were created with Redshift, (c) Maris Multimedia, and GIF construction Set, (c) Alchemy Mindworks .
  

"Yeah, like, I saw the comet Hale-Bopp ... I thought it was pretty cool and it like changed my life and stuff." Feedback phone message, printed in the Scottsbluff Star Herald , Thursday, March 20, 1997

Montage of my solar eclipse photos.  Holzkirchen (near Munich), Germany, August 10, 1999.

Leben auf der Kenai My wife Kate and I are happy to have moved back to Alaska, so find here a detailed map of the Kenai. (created with MS Streets & Routes)

Many thanks go to:
Jackie Gregory, WNCC Multimedia Specialist
Paul Jacobsen, WNCC Multimedia Director

Since my web pages take up a lot of space (especially images), I decided for now to have very few  of my web pages on the KPC server, thus the links presented here point to PHYS-1070 Astronomy at WNCC .  This class at WNCC offers 4 semester credits and covers the solar system and stellar structure and evolution, i.e. about eighty percent of a college astronomy textbook.

The following was used for my presentation at the 2006 Winter Meeting in Anchorage, Alaska (Jan. 21-25, 2006)

Teaching lab sciences online

Is it possible and desirable to teach and learn sciences online? What about the labs? I will discuss the pros and cons of various sciences – Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics – as candidates for online delivery, the advantages and difficulties for assigning labs, as well as the intricacies of various courseware – WebCT and Blackboard – and software and ancillaries, such as Redshift, CLEA, ChemCollective, learner.org’s Mechanical Universe streaming video, and the web sites accompanying textbooks. I have taught Introduction to Astronomy for 14 semesters through WNCC in Nebraska, Survey of Chemistry for 1 semester through KPC in Alaska, and have made my Basic Physics class virtually stand-alone on the internet.

More information and links at http://chinook.kpc.alaska.edu/~ifafv/