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 WorldWide Telescope for Interactive Learning

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, allowing anyone to make use of professional astronomical data to explore and understand the universe. As of early 2010, the new WWT Ambassadors Program is recruiting astronomically-literate volunteers, including retired scientists engineers—all of whom will be trained to be experts in using WWT as a teaching tool. Ambassadors will give volunteer presentations at public libraries, community centers, museums, and schools, demonstrating WWT's power to help laypeople visualize and understand our universe. Ambassadors will learn how to create and publish guided "tours" of astrophysical concepts, which allow users to display beautiful astronomical images in their proper context in the night sky, while demonstrating the physical principles at work in those images.

Tour creators will be able to draw upon and link tours to highly vetted multimedia content from NOVA, the renowned PBS multi-platform series produced by WGBH. Virtual tours will be freely available and centrally managed in order to form a comprehensive astronomy curriculum for both formal and informal educational use. The tours will be searchable and distributed online from popular websites such as NOVA Online and WGBH Teachers' Domain, touting almost 400,000 registered users.

WWT Ambassadors will help to increase science literacy in the general public while forming intergenerational connections within their communities.

Read more:http://www.nbbinoculars.com/blog/

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