Workshops and Schedule
Talks Session 1 - Thursday at 3:40 PM Colin Hutcheson, "Creative Use of a Dome" Traditionally a planetarium has been used for just stars, but we can do so much more with it. This will show some of the ways Thinktank has been using the dome, and expanding its offering to diversify its audiences and increasing awareness. Kristy Henscheid, Ph.D., "How to Get Computer(s) to Build Captions for Your Show" Creating captions to make recorded narration in your shows more accessible does not require time-intensive manual transcription! I'll demonstrate my workflow using YouTube to generate captions with timings that can easily be popped into Digistar. 
Talks Session 2 - Friday at 9:30 AM Adam Hofer, "5 Years of Unisphere" A short talk about the 5-year existence of the Unisphere. What is unique about this planetarium, and what are its problems? Including the presentation of current work.Dr. Valerie Rapson, "Reflections on Teaching a College Course in Digital Planetarium Operation" In Fall 2023, SUNY Oneonta offered its first college credit class in Planetarium Operations. Starting with an introductory knowledge of astronomy, students learned how to operate a Digistar planetarium system, present planetarium shows to people of all ages, and design their own planetarium content using Control Panels, Show Builder and Scripting. In this talk, I will share an outline of the course, my experience teaching the class, some of the work my students produced, and discuss the new Planetarium Operations microcredential being offered to SUNY Oneonta students this year. Talks Session 3 - Friday at 3:15 PM Emma Rasmussen and Dr. Jeannette Lawler, "Using a Planetarium for Inquiry Style Learning" A planetarium provides a unique opportunity to allow students to interact with astronomy. Logistic constrains of astronomy make it difficult for teachers to design activities that allow astronomy students to make their own observations and come to their own conclusions. Astronomical objects' visibility is inconveniently timed, requires expensive, difficult to operate equipment, and is weather dependent and student's ability to explore on their own is limited by our inability to travel through space and time. A planetarium allows an instructor to remove all of these barriers so that students can investigate and explore the universe. However, designing such activities require the instructor to anticipate student questions and pre-program the system. We're demoing and reporting on a set of instructional activities created to use the planetarium to facilitate interactive, inquiry style learning. Approximate Friday Dinner Schedule* Subject to change as we're working around the comet! 6:00 PM - begin dinner 6:45 PM - Welcome, DUG Awards (zoomed & recorded) about 7:15 to 7:35 comet viewing (people online: please excuse us for a few minutes!) 7:40 PM - Hashimoto Award (zoomed & recorded) 7:45 PM - Keynote Address by Justin Bartel and Amy Barraclough (zoomed & recorded) 8:45 PM - Door Prizes (not zoomed) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-conference Workshops (7-9 October) Cosm is offering 22 pre-conference workshops; these workshops are free for Digistar users who are registered for the DUG conference. We have hands-on training facilities as well as our EC Dome (LED dome) for a variety of workshop experiences. The list of workshops for DUG 2024 can be downloaded here. Please read before registering. Workshops are available to in-person and remote delegates; space is limited for in-person attendees. For hands-on workshops, we limit two people per workstation to enhance the hands-on experience. If you are bringing a Digistar laptop, you may be asked to use your laptop and share with one other delegate in order to maximize the number of people who can attend workshops. If you are unwilling to do this, please respond “no” on the registration form when asked if you are bringing a Digistar laptop to DUG. Zoom links will be provided to remote attendees the week before the conference. Workshops that do not meet minimum enrolment may be cancelled or combined. DUG Workshops (7-9 October)
Conference (9-11 October) Tentative Schedule
Post-Conference Trip (12 October) Join us after DUG for an excursion to Utah Olympic Park and Park City. Post-conference outings are a great way to get to know your fellow Digistar users and unwind after a busy conference week! Cost to register: US$45 Registration fee includes transportation from, and returning to, E&S, Utah Olympic Park tour, and a box lunch. Additional activities and meals are optional and extra. We've kept the base price of the trip as low as possible so the overall experience can be as affordable (or extravagant!) as you like. Trip Highlights
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