New blog post on my research

Hi students - If you want to know a little bit more about my research, I was recently part of a project that had a press release.  You can read more about it here:  http://plavchan.blogspot.com/2016/01/micro-resonator-laser-frequency-combs.html

Terrestrial Planets; Noah Jermain, Braden Boatright, John Dickerson

Click on the link below to view our presentation! 

https://youtu.be/v4OH14a4MHA

Terrestrial Planets; Alex Wollard, Barri Wishne, and Parker Padgett

Click this link to see our project!

Ryan Engert and Brock Yocum Terrestrial Planet Project

Ryan Engert and Brock Yocum Project Link

Planet X in the News

Students, you have have heard about the "discovery" of a new "Planet X" in the news.  I wrote a blog post about it today on my new research blog.  Read it here:

http://plavchan.blogspot.com

Extra Credit idea

My wife passed along this astronomy-themed embroidery idea from Pinterest that you may be interested for extra credit ideas:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/223209725259362309

Also, there is a whole blog devoted to astronomy-themed fashion run by Emily, someone I went to graduate school with at UCLA:

http://www.startorialist.com/

Examples of presentations

AST 113 students:  Today in class at the end I briefly presented a demo on how to post to the class blog, and how to make a presentation with audio to share online.

Here are two examples of video presentations for this class on the Terrestrial Planets (what we will cover next week).   This will give you a good idea of what is expected in the course.

The first is a Powerpoint presentation that was made into a movie with an audio track added:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IyOmY4zek8

The second example is a Prezi presentation with audio added:

https://prezi.com/eqjrmpdrye9g/the-terrestrial/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Here is a Microsoft tutorial on adding audio to a Powerpoint presentation:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Record-a-slide-show-with-narration-ink-and-slide-timings-3dc85001-efab-4f8a-94bf-afdc5b7c1f0b

Here are two FREE tools for adding voiceovers to screen captures of presentations:

https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
https://screencast-o-matic.com/home

Also, here are some Youtube tutorials on different ways of adding audio to a presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1tPMViAc94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJluqvstRcc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdj5Cfe2Hvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npMuCWOvmVE

Finally, here are some tutorials on posting to blogger.com and writing comments too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOaqJmmamzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfDcwI2OdcQ

Link to the Course Website

Here is a link to the course website:

http://exo.missouristate.edu/ast/113/

Brightest Shining Supernova

Interesting news on MSN thought you might enjoy this.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/exploding-star-shines-brighter-than-any-supernova-seen/ar-BBod3Rl?ocid=ansmsnnews11

AST 113: Modern Astronomy Class Blog

Welcome to the Spring 2016 class blog for AST 113: Modern Astronomy at Missouri State University. Here we will post the class group projects (links from Prezi, or Google Slides, etc.) and other material, ask and answer questions. Keep the posts respectable for your classmates sake, and I'll moderate. - Prof. Plavchan