Cosmic Collisions or Random thoughts from Joel

Hello everyone! It has been a couple of weeks since I posted anything in the blogosphere. Tom has been making me feel bad as he has managed to keep up and I have not. So, what have we been working on? Great question and I am so glad that you asked. The virtual world is about to be invaded by Cosmosphere Educators. We just got a few new toys and now we are ready to start playing with them. Each educator has been asked to make a video of some sort...kind of educational in nature...that we can put out on the web. It is a test to see what we can really do and what we can really offer all of you out there. Here are the Teacher Tube links for each of the four videos that I have put out there so far.

Howie George: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=584379e8c1a90f4ae6f1

Demetree Gaines: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ee5480519c6642b42bac

Tom Holcomb: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=265f1e20f51f5d17d1e2

Joel Walker: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=bd478980a1a4518f5981

Check these fun and short videos out and let me know what you think. We know that we have some pretty cool stuff to put out there for the public and for educators. We just need to know what format to put it in. We could amuse ourselves for months with this technology, but it won't mean much if no one needs it or uses it. Right now we are thinking about doing gallery tours, behind the scenes artifact stories and science demos that cover a wide range of sciences. It should be a lot of fun, but input would be helpful. Be kind though. These were our first attempts and a little rough. We will get better... I promise.

Make sure that you watch the launch tonight. It should be very cool and our CEO is down there now so we should get some good pics and video. I will get it on the website next week. Have a great weekend and keep reaching folks...we have a long way to go!