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Morrison Planetarium Story @ MaximumPC.com

Started Oct. 23, 2008

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Michael G. Neece replied to Rovy Branon's discussion 'Planetarium Positions' in the group Astronomy Career Center
Know something about astronomy and physics? Like teaching science students? Like working with a Starlab dome? Prepared to catch a flight TONIGHT, TOMORROW or MONDAY? Teach a summer course to gifted middle school students in Texas for 3 weeks for ...
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David Williams replied to Rovy Branon's discussion 'Planetarium Positions' in the group Astronomy Career Center
I am proud to announce that Annette Lee has accepted this position at St. Cloud State University! She has a vivacious personality and will be a great contributor to the planetarium community.
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Atlantis Shuttle Launch to Hubble
NASA video of the launch, very nice in high quality.
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Employment Status (can pick more than one):
Formerly worked in a planetarium, Professor
Just for fun, what are some words that describe you (can pick more than one)?
geek, gamer, parent
About Me:
I am the Executive Director of the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab in Madison, WI. I spent 8 years as a multimedia programmer at the Kelly Planetarium at Discovery Place in Charlotte, NC (unfortunately one of those IMAX combo planetariums that IMAX eventually ate).

I started moderating DOME-L while working at the planetarium and also started Planetarium.Net in the early days of the Web. I love this community and I am happy to be in a role where I can still provide a measure of support!

I am also an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University-Bloomington where I teach Instructional Technology online.
Website:
http://www.situativity.org

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Planetarium.Net Has Launched!

We have now launched the new Planetarium Network at http://www.planetarium.net! The extended beta test has brought in more than 300 astronomy educators, planetarium professionals, and space science experts. This social network is intended to serve as a working platform for everyone who has a passion for astronomy education, planetariums and space science.

What will the Planetarium Network become? That is up to all of you - I am only here as a humble guid… Continue

Posted on November 25, 2008 at 12:21pm —

Rovy Branon

U.S. Elections today - Vote!

If you are in the U.S., I hope you plan to vote today!

Posted on November 4, 2008 at 7:44am — 1 Comment

Rovy Branon

From Wired Magazine - as Mars Phoenix reaches the end...a contest!

R.I.P. @MarsPhoenix: The Twitter Epitaph Contest



"To mark this exciting, crowd-pleasing, Tweeting trip to the Martian north pole, we thought it'd be fun to mark the occasion with a Mars Phoenix Twitter-style epitaph contest. That means that these particular virtual headstones must be under 140 characters. Beyond that, it's up to you how you want to memorialize the mission."

See how to enter the contest by … Continue

Posted on October 30, 2008 at 10:44pm —

Rovy Branon

Moving into Launch Mode

While still tweaking around the edges, we are now moving into launch mode for the site. I will post more about what this means in the future but we are already seeing exciting, explosive growth!

What you can do to continue to help:

INVITE
This is a social network. Invite others already in the network to become your friends! Invite others, who are not yest in the network, to join. One big difference between this site and Dome-L is that I would like it to include a broader audience. This means t… Continue

Posted on October 13, 2008 at 10:48am —

Rovy Branon

Testing, testing, 1,2,3

Just a quick word to say we are pushing the limits of Ning at the moment so expect some strange layouts, graphic issues, etc. We are also trying some different graphical elements and some are not going to work :)

It is fun to see it come together but expect the unexpected for the next few days!

Note that any content you upload should remain but where to find it might change.

Posted on October 8, 2008 at 3:49pm —

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At 8:20am on March 25, 2009, Jeffrey L. Hunt said…
Hey, Rovy:

We have interest in putting together a group that wants to share animations. Does the site have space to handle large files?

-=-
Jeff
At 8:53am on November 8, 2008, Steven LJ Russo said…
Rovy. I

I am trying to set up a group for Chronos users, but every time I try to set it up, I get an error message that says that the web address I am trying to set up cannot contain spaces or numbers. But I DON'T have any spaces or numbers in it.

Steve
At 10:08pm on October 14, 2008, Lois J Wolf said…
Rovy, I'm thrilled to be a part of the beginning of the PN!
At 1:32am on October 11, 2008, Frank Gear said…
Well done Rovy
Although I am in the UK it is great to be able to keep in touch with like minded people
At 1:35pm on October 10, 2008, Elizabeth S. Wasiluk said…
Yes, but it took a while!
At 8:25am on June 10, 2008, Alan Gould said…
What determines whether or not I appear on the main "Members" page?
At 8:31pm on May 30, 2008, Ken Miller said…
Hi Rovy,

Thanks for letting me in. Will be interesting to see where this goes.

One bit of input: when I logged in, I had to choose between astronomy educator, retired, work in a planetarium, etc. There was no "vendor" option, so I signed in as an astronomy educator, which I still think of myself as being. But it might be useful, in the spirit of "full disclosure" to let us vendor folk identify ourselves for others who might read our input and think that we were someone other than vendors to the industry. It's not my intention to ever hide that. I'm proud of the work I do, and I hope other vendors will identify themselves as well.

Thanks,

Ken
 
 

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