From: Jan Wee <jwee@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
Subject: What's Up: November 16-22, 1997
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:03:08 -0600
Dear discuss-lfm members,
What's Up: Week of November 16-22nd...
>>>>>"TODAY ON MARS" AVAILABLE VIA...TAPE, NASA-TV, AND THE NET
If you missed the final Live From Mars *live* telecast which aired
on November 13th (13:00-14:00 EASTERN on NASA-TV and PBS) you may
still access the program:
1) Order a VHS copy of "Today On Mars" from the Passport to
Knowledge office for $19.95 (includes shipping and handling).
Send a check, money order, or purchase order made out
to Passport to Knowledge and send to:
Passport to Knowledge
P.O. Box 1502
Summit, NJ 07902-1502
2) Stay tuned for NASA-TV December Education File schedule
for re-broadcast dates and times on NASA-TV.
3) Contact your nearest NASA Teacher Resource Center to
see if they recorded the program and have it available.
For list of NASA TRC's see:
http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/nasa/accessnasa/precoll.html
4) If you missed the final Live From Mars broadcast "Today on Mars,"
you can view it at any time by going to:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/video/index.html and clicking on
"Video/Audio Archive."
Thanks to discuss-lfm members, Bill F., David G., Ginny D. for sharing
their "Today On Mars" follow-up input!
>>>>>WEATHER WATCHERS UPDATE
Classes around the country are busily collecting weather data (with
instruments determined via Phase 1 of this online collaborative activity).
Students are beginning their second week of collecting real-time data (air
temp, air pressure, wind direction, precip) in their own backyards or using
resources like local weather forecasts or web weather reporting resources
for their region.
Data will be posted online via the LFM Weather Watcher's web pages and
shared by all for follow-up interpretive activities. A Weather Data
input form found at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/events/ww2daily.html
is available for daily submissions of weather data.
Complete info on Weather Worlds is found online at:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/events/weatherworlds.html#2
>>>>>WEB CHAT THIS WEEK: David Mittman, Tuesday, November 18, 1997,
10:30-11:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time
David Mittman has worn three hats during the Pathfinder mission: flight
engineer,
mission planner and flight controller. David will bring us up to date on the
operations of the lander and rover, what the commands to Pathfinder consist of
(specific tasks such as "Call Home!"), and the Deep Space Network's role now
that Pathfinder isn't communicating.
Please be sure to read David's biography and journals BEFORE the chat so that
intelligent questions can be asked!
See: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/team/mittman.html
>>>>>MARS TEAM ANSWERS *YOUR* QUESTIONS through DECEMBER, '98...
The opportunity to send email questions to the men and women of the Mars
team is available now through December 1997. Be sure to check out the
online information and guidelines found at:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/question.html *BEFORE* submitting
questions!
>>>>>FOLLOW-UP ON LAST WEEK'S DISCUSS-LFM TOPICS...
Rhonda T. asked about web chat registration problems... this question
has been forwarded to Sandy Dueck at sandy@quest.arc.nasa.gov who
coordinates the LFM web chats. Sandy will let us all know the answer
to web chat registration logistics and what to do if the online
form doesn't succeed.
Did anyone accept Ginny D.'s offer to do some CUSeeMe videoconferencing
this week? Ginny, please share a follow-up report or info
on how this has been valuable to your students. Discuss-lfm is
a great place to find LFM related collaborative activity partners.
A question was asked about submitting images from Weather Worlds
activities. I have asked Linda Conrad or Sandy Dueck to give us
a response to this question. Please watch the list this week
for an answer!
Thanks to Eileen B. and Sheri K. for responding to Rick's call for
the URL for the Idaho Tech Challenge site.
A reminder... if you ever need to access an archive of PAST discuss-lfm
postings remember that you can see all the interactions via the Hypertext
Archive for discuss-lfm found at:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/lwgate/DISCUSS-LFM/archives/
INFORMATION ABOUT THE UPCOMING 1998 LIVE FROM THE RAINFOREST PROJECT & LIVE
FROM THE POLES EVENT WILL BE POSTED this week to discuss-lfm!
Jan Wee, discuss-lfm moderator
Passport to Knowledge
Live From Mars
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars