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NASA’s Exploration Design Challenge
 Posted on Jun 12, 2013 11:48:33 AM | Denise Miller
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NASA Education has hundreds of lesson plans and classroom activities that enhance the practical application of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. These lessons can be used at anytime. But on occasion, NASA Education offers special opportunities that involve your students in NASA’s mission.

The newest opportunity is the Exploration Design Challenge. Students around the world from grades K-12 are invited to research and design ways to protect astronauts from space radiation. After students complete the activities, their teacher registers the students on the Exploration Design Challenge site and downloads their certificates of participation.

Students who participate will have their names flown on the test flight of the new Orion spacecraft next year.


NASA's associate administrator for education Leland Melvin invites students to participate in the
NASA Exploration Design Challenge.


If you have never been involved in a NASA challenge before, the EDC is a good place to start. You may have time this summer to plan and prepare for participation in the 2013-2014 school year. The EDC site has videos, downloadable guides with background information, safety procedures and data collection charts.

Join teachers and students from more than 30 countries in the Exploration Design Challenge.



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School’s Out for … Professional Development
 Posted on May 30, 2013 10:37:39 PM | Denise Miller
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How often has someone who is not an educator told you, "I wish I were a teacher so I could have summers off"? Who has summers off?! As a teacher, I usually taught summer school, took classes or participated in professional Screengrab from Building a Video Podcastdevelopment. Then I would plan for the upcoming year. Summers off? Probably not.                 

As you're planning your summer, consider learning how to create a podcast with students. The Do-It-Yourself Podcast tutorial videos allow for on-demand professional development. Watch the videos when you have time. Follow the steps to create an audio or video file. Pause, rewind, and replay the video at your own pace to follow along.

Happy summer! I hope you do have time to relax and enjoy it!

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Learn How to Make Podcasts!
 Posted on May 08, 2013 01:43:13 PM | Denise Miller
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I'm excited to introduce the DIY Podcast Tutorials!

After months of work, we are proud to roll out a series of videos to assist you with using the DIY Podcast site.

Screenshot from the DIY Podcast Tutorial video

The series consists of six videos that begin with answering the question "What is a podcast?" and end with demonstrating how to make audio and video podcast files with the DIY Podcast resources.

Watch the processes of creating podcast files and start using technology in the classroom.

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What's With the Green Screen?
 Posted on Apr 18, 2013 08:48:23 PM | Denise Miller
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Maybe you've wondered why many of the experts in our videos have a green background. Its purpose is to allow your students to add a "special effect" by inserting an image or video. This technique is used to do weather forecasts on the news and to create special effects in feature films.

The green screen effect is not just for the pros at the networks or in the film industry -- it's for you and your students too. Check your video editing software to find how to do it. Some editing software comes with a green screen tool. Others require a plug-in application.

Below are two examples of adding a photo background and a video background to a green screen interview. I am using clips and images from different modules. (Why not mix them when you can?) The clip is from the Colonel Mike Fincke video in the Exploration Careers module. The background image is from the Micro-g image gallery in the Fun in Microgravity site. The video background is from the Space Station video clips gallery.

Just creating a podcast or video offers the opportunity to be creative, but students can be even more creative by adding special effects to their video podcast.












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NASA’s Digital Learning Network and Careers in STEM
 Posted on Feb 28, 2013 09:32:23 AM | Denise Miller
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Career planning can be fun for students. They can dream about their futures as they create a multimedia project with the Exploration Careers module. The experts featured in the clips tell interesting stories about their careers at NASA. But with NASA's Digital Learning Network™, students can speak with NASA experts via a videoconference.  

"NASA Careers in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics)" is a DLN event that covers the following topics:

•    The many careers at NASA.
•    The difference between a job and a career.
•    What does an engineer do?
•    NASA scientist.
•    NASA astronaut.
•    Working for NASA.
•    What does NASA look for in its workforce?

The event has pre- and post-conference activities to prepare for and follow up after the event. Schedule a DLN event now.

Digital Learning Network: NASA Careers in STEM

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NASA y Tú and You
 Posted on Jan 17, 2013 09:47:38 AM | Denise Miller
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¿Quiere usted inspirar la próxima generación? Do you want to inspire the next generation? The NASA y Tú or NASA and You website features inspirational videos of NASA people representing a variety of STEM careers.



Hispanic professionals at NASA discuss their work and their backgrounds in both Spanish and English. A downloadable poster has some of their stories on the back.

NASA y Tú poster with Spanish textNASA and You poster with English text


Download the NASA y Tu poster in Spanish or English

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Exploration Careers DIY Podcast Module
 Posted on Dec 03, 2012 12:26:41 PM | Denise Miller
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When I was teaching, one of my students' favorite days was Career Day.

It was a big deal. The entire eighth-grade class researched careers that interested them and then created their own resumes. On Career Day, they dressed "professionally" and had job interviews with volunteers from the community.

The event was interdisciplinary, but it was mostly English- and social studies-related. I taught science and math. If I were still teaching, I would use the DIY Podcast: Exploration Careers module to involve my science classes.

Two people dressed in spacesuits work in the desertThe new module features NASA experts who make human exploration possible. We have highlighted each of them in previous modules. But in this one, the experts talk more about what they do on their jobs and how they came to that position. They describe some of the most interesting things they have done while working at NASA. Everyone has a story.

We also have clips from NASA human resource specialists. These are the people who choose students for internships and hire new employees. One of the specialists, Karen Burton, gives interview tips and hints on how to prepare now for a future career. The other, Chris Randall, is a former aerospace engineer who came to NASA as an intern. Now he is the director of the Pathways Program at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The Pathways Program is the new internship program that has replaced the cooperative education program at NASA. Randall gives insight on the type of worker NASA will be looking for in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields.

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