Astronomical kit for the visually impaired, Spain Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/visually-impaired/ Astronomy for a better world! Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:32:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Astronomical kit for the visually impaired, Spain Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/visually-impaired/ 32 32 Final report: Astronomical kit for the visually impaired https://astro4dev.org/tf2a-2013-report/ Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:32:37 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=10901 Download and read the final report here (in PDF).

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]]> “Touch of the Universe” activity led in India https://astro4dev.org/touch-of-the-universe-activity-led-in-india/ Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:55:18 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=9699 A report of activity from a recipient of the “Touch of the Universe” kit, Divyadarshan Purohit from India “It was very keen demand for a long time for useful system with help of which we can show the sky to the visually impaired. The IAU-OAD & University of Valencia have recently developed a specially designed [...]

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]]> Overview of the project https://astro4dev.org/overview-of-the-project-6/ Tue, 08 Oct 2013 08:09:09 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=4693 Project title: Astronomical kit for the visually impaired, Spain Project leader: Dr. Amelia Ortiz-Gil Follow the project here: http://astrokit.uv.es/ The goal is to develop a kit with different astronomical activities to help communicators and teachers in reaching children with visual impairments. The kit will consist of: (a) “The sky in your hands“, a planetarium program [...]

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]]> Distribution list https://astro4dev.org/distribution-list/ Tue, 08 Oct 2013 08:00:50 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=8915 Mani (India) Antonieta Garcia (Chile) DIVYADARSHAN D.PUROHIT (INDIA) Lynnette Foster (South Africa) Musso Sebastián (Argentina) ALESSANDRO MARTINS (BRAZIL) Chuck (USA) Cassius A. M. de Melo (Brazil) Juan Camilo Buitrago Casas (Colombia) Rebecca Carvalho (India) Saeed Sadeghi Mehr (Iran) Cecilia Scorza (Germany) OAD (South Africa) Pedro Russo (The Netherlands) Lina Canas (Portugal) Felipe Robaina Bressiani (Brazil) [...]

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]]> “The sky in your hands” user manual https://astro4dev.org/the-sky-in-your-hands-user-manual/ Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:40:51 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=8817 Please download the user manuals in: English: The Sky in your Hands Manual (.pdf) Spanish: El Cielo en tus Manos (.pdf) French: Le ciel dans les mains (.pdf)

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