The Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee *** YOUR BROWSER DOES NOT SUPPORT JAVA AND SO CANNOT DISPLAY THIS APPLET *** Netscape 3.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0 or later support Java Java Credit: Michael Ewert Dr. Guidry 602 Nielsen Physics Phone: 865-974-7810 guidry@utk.edu Course: Astronomy 161 Semester: Fall, 2002 Office Hours: 10:00-11:00 M; 2:00-3:00 TR; other times by appointment Course Description Course Schedule OJTA Class Newsgroup Astro Pict of Day Virtual Online Labs Midterm Exam Final Exam Student Websites

If you are not familiar with the use of the World Wide Web, here is a comprehensive introduction to the use of the Web in education. (This site is advertised for K-12 education, but the content is relevant for Web educational issues at all levels.)

• Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
• AP of Day (Archives): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
• Earth and Sky: http://www.earthsky.com/
• StarDate: http://stardate.org/
• Violence in the Cosmos: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/index.html
• The Nine Planets: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/
• Planetary Pictures: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/picturelist.html
• SEDS Galaxy of Images: http://www.seds.org/galaxy/
• Views of the Solar System: http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/homepage.htm
• Abrams Skywatcher's Diary: http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/diary.html
• Astronomy Magazine Sky Events: http://www.kalmbach.com/astro/astronomy.html
• Sky & Telescope Bulletin: http://www.skypub.com/news/news.shtml
• Space Calendar: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
• Astronomy Lecture Notes: http://www.astronomynotes.com
• Network Resources: http://www.hq.eso.org/online-resources-paper/rrn.html
• Expanding Universe (classified search tool): http://www.tpl.toronto.on.ca/TRL/astronomy/index.html
• AstroWeb: http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html
• The Astronomy Cafe: http://www.theastronomycafe.net
• Astronomy Homework Help: http://members.aol.com/gca7sky/astrohelp.htm
• Astr Pict of Day Education Links: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
• Marshall Space Sciences Home Page: http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/

If you are not familiar with how to use newsgroups, see the discussion in the webTeacher Tutorial. An FAQ is a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers) for a newsgroup.

• UT Astr 161 Newsgroup: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/newsgroups/astr161/index.html
• UT Astr 162 Newsgroup: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/newsgroups/astr162/index.html
• General Astronomy: news:sci.astro
• Amateur Astronomy: news:sci.astro.amateur
• Professional Astronomers (Moderated): news:sci.astro.research
• Hubble Space Telescope: news:sci.astro.hubble
• FAQ for sci.astro: http://sciastro.astronomy.net/
• FAQ for sci.space: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/space/top.html