Here, There & Everywhere
April 7
Here, There & Everywhere (HTE) materials, developed by the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC), shows how our knowledge of familiar processes can be applied to help understand similar behaviour on grander scales, and in very different environments.
Thinking about everyday examples from the world around us helps form our basic understanding of physics. A tactile and Braille poster series mounted on polystyrene helps to provide connections with the collection materials for additional audiences. The seven topics covered in the HTE Braille/tactile poster series include eruptions, shadows, wind, erosion, outflows, seeding and spirals. Audio files of the text from the Braille panels are also included.
BSL Glossary - Making Sense of Astronomy
April 4
"Making Sense of Astronomy" is a Scottish Government Talking Science grant-funded project, working with Deaf scientists and linguists to help make astronomy more accessible to the Deaf community by creating new British Sign Language specific to astronomy. This British Sign Language Glossary for Astronomy curriculum terms can be found on the Scottish Sensory Centre website."
Crash Course Astronomy by Phil Plait
Phil Plait (AKA the Bad Astronomer) teaches you astronomy in a series of 47 videos with English captions (and many in other languages too). Welcome to the first episode of Crash Course Astronomy. Your host for this intergalactic adventure is the Bad Astronomer himself, Phil Plait. We begin with answering a question: "What is astronomy?"
Phil Plait writes Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science evangelizer, and author of Death From the Skies!
ESOcast
With almost 100 videocasts by the European Southern Observatory, with captions in many different language, ESOcast is a video podcast series dedicated to bringing you the latest news and research from ESO – Astronomy made on planet Earth. Here we explore the Universe's ultimate frontier with our host Doctor J, a.k.a. Dr. Joe Liske. The ESOcast is offered for download in several formats: standard (.mov, .mpeg, .mp4, .m4v) and HD (High Definition). HD is rapidly evolving into one of the leading video formats in the video on-demand market. Information on the specs of the available video formats is accessible on the Video Formats Page.
Caption your videos
Captioning is the process of converting the audio content of a broadcast, webcast, video, live event, or other productions into text and displaying the text on a screen, monitor, or other visual display system and makes audio and audiovisual material accessible providing a critical link to communication, information and education (from National Association for the Deaf Captioning for Youtube and a couple of useful tips on how to caption a video for free.
