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[Kevin Govender]

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Subject: 	13th Issue of Astronomy Education Review Published On Line
Date: 	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:17:37 -0800
From: 	Andrew Fraknoi <fraknoiandrew at fhda.edu>
To: 	afraknoi at astrosociety.org



Announcement
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13TH ISSUE OF JOURNAL FOCUSING ON
ASTRONOMY EDUCATION NOW AVAILABLE

Astronomy Education Review (AER), the
web-based journal/magazine about
astronomy education and outreach,
announces the on-line publication of
its 13th issue, now complete on the
Web at http://aer.noao.edu. There is no
charge for reading or downloading the full
articles in the journal.

The table of contents is below.

When you go to the AER site, you will see
that the next issue is already under way.
You can find the full 13th issue by clicking
on ?back issues? and then on ?vol. 7, no. 1."

AER actively solicits interesting papers and
articles on all aspects of astronomy space
science education and outreach. The journal
gets between 130,000 and 270,000 hits per
month from every state of the U.S. and over
90 other countries.  All papers are refereed
and a set of guidelines for contributing to
AER is available on the web site.

We are also delighted to announce that, as of
2009, AER will become a journal of the American
Astronomical Society.  The transition should be
seamless and we continue to accept papers and
announcement for publication in either the last
issue of 2008 or the first issue of 2009.  More
information about the change of publishers will
be available in the months to come.

Sidney Wolff and Andrew Fraknoi, Editors

________________________________________

Papers and articles in the current issue include:
________________________________________


* "The First Big Wave of Astronomy Education 
Research Dissertations and Some Directions for 
Future Research Efforts" by Timothy Slater, University of Wyoming

* "Development and Implementation of a Lab Course 
for Introductory Astronomy" by Nate McCrady and Emily Rice, UCLA

* "What Are They Talking About? Lessons Learned 
from a Study of Peer Instruction" by Mark James, 
Federica Barbieri, and Paula Garcia, Northern Arizona University

* "An International Asteroid Search Campaign" by 
J. Patrick Miller, Hardin-Simmons University, et al.

* "Images on the Web for Astronomy Teaching: 
Image Repositories" by Andrew Fraknoi, Foothill College

* "The Interactive Astronomy Textbook" by 
Christopher Fluke and David Barnes, Swinburne University of Technology

* "Distance to the Center of the Milky Way 
Galaxy: An Experiment for Intermediate-Level 
Students Using Research Data and Professional 
Analysis Tools" by M. T. Fitzgerald, Monash University, et al.

* "The Seasons Explained by Refutational Modeling 
Activities for Pre-service Teachers" by Valérie Frede, Paris Observatory

* "Astronomy at Home" by George Mumford, Tufts University

* "Good Reading from Other Sources on Astronomy 
Education and Outreach (Published in 2007)"

plus other papers, a book review, announcements, and more


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Andrew Fraknoi, Chair, Astronomy Program
Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Rd.,
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022, USA

Telephone: (650) 949-7288
E-mail: fraknoiandrew at fhda.edu
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