http://explorerschools.nasa.gov/

Competitive Application Process Up to 50 schools accepted each year 3 year program Professional development opportunities Access to NASA personnel and programs Learning opportunities

http://zerog.jsc.nasa.gov/

Weightless Wonder Process

Began Application August

Deadline 2nd week of September

Announcement October

Then the work began...

Challenges for The Project

Multiple schedules Multiple locations Multiple drafts Multiple parts to the

document Multiple Distributions

Solution = Google Docs

Access from multiple locations Collaborative Ability to publish and share to a wide audience

http://docs.google.com

Google Docs

Google Docs

Publish Multiple Ways

BlogsUnique urlSave as MS Word, OpenOffice, PDF and more

Sharing The Experience

Sharing The Experience

Easy Access Journaling Low Cost Collaborative Expandability

http://www.blogger.com

http://www.flickr.com

http://video.yahoo.com/

http://zerogteam.blogspot.com

http://www.flickr.com

Overview

Six Experiments Hula Hoop on the arm Can you Hula Hoop Gyroscopic Spin Jump rope with the Hula Hoop Throw a Frisbee at a target Drop a Frisbee from your head and catch behind

your back

Overview

Collect Video Data for 1G (Earth Gravity)

Collect Video Data at 0G (Weightless Wonder)

Compare The Data Present The Results

References

Sites NASA Explorer Schools http://explorerschools.nasa.gov/ NASA Zero Gravity Experiments http://zerog.jsc.nasa.gov/ Google Docs http://docs.google.com/ Blogger http://www.blogger.com/ Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ Yahoo Videos http://video.yahoo.com/ Bibme http://bibme.org

References

Works Cited

Factoryjoe. "Blogger beta on Flickr - Photo Sharing!." Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing. 16 Aug 2006. 19 May 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/217116319/.

Glango. "yahoo_video on Flickr - Photo Sharing!." Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing. 2 Jun 2006. 19 May 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitestripes/158632369/.

Reder. "Flickr Gamma on Flickr - Photo Sharing!." Welcome to Flickr - Photo Sharing. 16 May 2006. 19 May 2007 http://www.flickr.com/photos/azureluv/148839544/.

Created at www.bibme.org

References

Software Used

OpenOffice.org Impress http://www.openoffice.org/

Picasa http://picasa.google.com/

SnagIt http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp