with Chris Vaughan

on February 26, 2024

1pm - 4pm via Zoom

e-Certificate available for inservice

and professional development hours*

We are excited to extend an invitation to a 3 hour virtual professional development session tailored for K-12 formal and informal educators, featuring Christ Vaughan, an astronomer, geologist and planetarium expert, on February 26, 2024 at 1:00 PM via Zoom.  

This training will focus on the planetarium software; how to utilize the built-in lessons in astronomy & the earth, create new lessons, display full dome movies, and on the lab itself; how to setup/take down the dome and how to use the projector. 

You can earn 3 hour eCertificate for inservice-professional development hours.*

Once you complete the training, you may

check out our digital starlab for free!

Please know you need a high ceiling

and large area for the planetarium.

Session Details:

• Title: WVSU CASTEM Digital Starlab Training
• Trainer: Chris Vaughan 
• Date and Time: February 26, 2024, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
• Platform: Zoom (Meeting Link to Follow)

Register by: February 20, 2024 by

clicking on the link below.

Agenda

Welcome and Introduction

Part 1 - Optimizing Starry Night system preferences (confirming home location and horizon panorama)

Part 2 - High-Level overview of the user interface, working with cursor tools, using the Toolbar to control the Date, Time, Time rate, and Location (ground and in space)

Part 3 - Selecting objects, getting and displaying information about celestial objects

Part 4 - Manipulating 3D rendered objects, labeling locations, selecting alternate skins on planets/moons

Part 5 - Using the SkyGuide built-in scripted lessons

Part 6 - Using the Options menu for projector setup, annotating the sky, light pollution, all-sky surveys

Part 7 - Working with Application Favorites: Movies, Images, and Simulations

Part 8 - Displaying Fulldome Movies and fulldome YouTube content

Part 9 - The Layered Earth Small Dome (for 3 and 4-hour training packages only)

Part 10 - Tips for inflating and folding away the Starlab dome.