JK's+Links


 * [[image:http://www.sharetheskies.org/gallery/big/trifid_composite.jpg width="160" height="136" align="left" caption="The Trifid Nebula"]]

Astronomy(and other) Links from Jane Kurczak **

**My Portaportal:** [|**Click here**] See the Astronomy category I have at the top of the page.

**Share the Skies official site:** [|**Click here**] Be sure to check the resources page for info about a variety of educational resources. [|**ftp://203.38.213.13/**] Enter your login and password for the telescope. You will either see a screen of folders open, or a directory list. If you see the directory list, you will need to click on "Page" over to the right and click the link to "Open FTP site in Windows Explorer". Navigate to your folder(will have your name on it), and copy/paste your pictures from it. PLEASE be careful of others' folders, that you don't disturb them!
 * Here is a link to the ftp site for retrieving your pictures from the telescope:**

[|**http://www.thinkfinity.org/**] Thinkfinity has lesson plans and interactive resources of high quality(National Geographic and the American Association for the Advancement of Science are partners)
 * Thinkfinity Search: **

** Using GoogleEarth: GoogleEarth's User Guide:** [|**http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/**] **GoogleEarth Blogspot:** Note the advice to see the tutorial from the GoogleEarth Sky interface--we're going to do that. [|http://googleearthuser.blogspot.com/2008/01/sky-tutorial.html</span]

**Check out some of the videos that came up at Teacher Tube on Astronomy (You could also try Blip.TV)--** ** Here's one that gave me some ideas about how to bring engagement(via technology) into this study.(You can use the search feature here to look for others at TeacherTube. There were some pretty good ones--I liked the Bad Astronomer--Questions from Kids, some from NASA, and some from Disney, and Jupiter Moons with Project Clea. See what you can find! For a fun one(elementary), check out the Planetary Rap!): media type="custom" key="1112273"**