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Videos for Astronomy Education and Outreach Practice Best Videos for Astronomy Education and Outreach Practice Chris Impey Jenny Calahan Keywords Steward Observatory, Steward Observatory, Science communication, YouTube, video, University of Arizona, USA University of Arizona, USA education, outreach, social media, astronomy, [email protected] [email protected] space, STEM, undergraduate students Matthew Wenger Alexander Danehy Steward Observatory, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, USA University of Arizona, USA [email protected] [email protected] Carmen Austin Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, USA [email protected] This paper presents an unusual project in which astronomy videos were created for education and outreach with students playing a central role, from initial conceptualisation to final distribution of the videos on the Internet. Seventy videos were produced over the past three and a half years, on subjects ranging from tours of local observatories to complex concepts like adaptive optics. Students learned skills such as time management, interdisciplinary teamwork and optimising commu- nication of technical information to the general public. Most of the videos have a strong student voice, and students’ expe- rience with social media helped in reaching other young audiences. This paper describes the organisation, management and workflow of the project. The time and money required to create educational astronomy videos are also discussed. The Rise of Video an obvious tool for science education and nology”) Smarter Every Day, Sci Show, outreach. The video medium allows story- Veritasium, Minute Physics, NASA, Minute The meteoric rise of video content on the telling, conveying a vivid sense of place, and Cody’s Lab (Reemer, 2018). internet over the past decade has trans- and in the example of astronomy, display- formed the way people learn. Videos are ing the visual beauty of the Universe. The Astronomy has long been well served routinely used for personal improvement, use of short-format videos delivered over by long-format (television episodes) vid- providing how to instructions for a myriad the Internet and created without any profes- eos from national media producers such of tasks, informal learning through massive sional production capabilities has grown as PBS/NOVA and National Geographic. open online classes (MOOCs), and formal rapidly and can potentially reach very large A sense of the landscape for astronomy instruction in online classes offered by col- audiences. TED talks on science are a well- videos comes from searching YouTube leges and universities worldwide. MOOCs known example (Sugimoto & Thelwall, with a Chrome browser set in the anon- in particular have harnessed the power of 2013). Audiences are not restricted to col- ymous mode (to avoid bias due to user video content for education (Margaryan et lege or high school students but include preferences or viewing history). A search al., 2015; Reich, 2015), including the teach- adult free-choice learners (Rosenthal, for “astronomy” returns 2.9 million results, ing of astronomy (Impey et al., 2016). At 2017). Early research indicates that with about 5000 new videos added every the epicentre of this rapid growth in video although professionally produced YouTube day. The most popular videos at pres- content is YouTube, a website started in science content dominates in terms of ent are from the Astronomy Crash Course 2005 and operated since 2006 by Google. number of videos, user-generated content series, hosted by Phil Plait and created by YouTube is the second most popular web- is significantly more popular (Wellbourne PBS Digital Studios. There are 47 videos site in the world, with 400 hours of content & Grant, 2016). There have been limited in this series, ranging from ten to 15 min- uploaded every hour, and a billion hours experiments with student-generated sci- utes long, with a total of 9.5 million views. of content viewed every day (Zhou et al., ence videos (Wang & Shao, 2016; Hoppe The umbrella channel Crash Course, 2016). et al., 2016), but factors that drive engage- started by John and Hank Green in 2006, ment with science videos are still being has over seven million subscribers and is Broadband Internet and smart phones are measured at this level (Wade & Courtney, approaching a billion total views. Other now available to the majority of the pop- 2013; Yoo & Catrambone, 2016). The most astronomy-specific channels include Sci ulation in the United States and a rapidly popular science channels on YouTube as Show Space, with a million subscribers, growing fraction of the world’s population of 23 July 2018 are (searched with the cate- and Vintage Space, which is more about (Lee et al., 2015). Thus, video has become gories “education” and “science and tech- space flight than astronomy. Amusingly, 32 CAPjournal, No. 24, October 2018 CAPjournal, No. 24, October 2018 three of the most commonly viewed vid- astronomy through the appealing medium He has 1.1 million subscribers and his eos are songs with astronomy in the title of short-format videos, (2) conveying cut- videos have had 210 million views since by rock groups Metallica, Pink Floyd and ting-edge astronomy research being car- 2006. Our tour of the Steward Observatory Blue Oyster Cult. Other astronomy videos ried out at one of the world’s major obser- Mirror Lab got nearly a quarter of a mil- with over a million views are single lectures, vatories and (3) providing undergraduates lion views on this site within two weeks of typically an hour long, from various public with opportunities to learn new skills, prac- being posted, several times the total num- events and television shows for a national tice teamwork and apply their creativity to ber of views of the Active Galactic Videos audience. astronomy. YouTube channel (at the time the video was launched). This boost to the project high- Students involved in the project enthusi- lights the role of prominent social media The Project: Active Galactic Videos astically embraced the idea of systemat- influencers in drawing attention to a new ically creating a series of videos to com- video channel. From the outset, undergraduate students municate astronomy concepts to wide played a central role in the current project. audiences and to highlight the research The lead author (Impey) had been working going on at Steward Observatory, which Project Management with students on education and outreach is one of the world’s prominent astron- for a decade and had occasionally created omy centres. The title selected by the stu- The Active Galactic Videos activity is part educational astronomy videos for teach- dents for the project, the associated web- of a larger education and outreach effort ing non-science majors at the University site and the YouTube channel was Active centred in the Department of Astronomy of Arizona. A lot was learned from the pro- Galactic Videos. The YouTube channel was at the University of Arizona, which includes duction of videos for two MOOCs. The first, launched on 21 July 2015. As of late July the development of astronomy content for Astronomy: State of the Art, has been avail- 2018, it hosts 68 videos and has around the Teach Astronomy website and support able on Udemy since March 2013 and has 6100 subscribers and 110 000 total views for two MOOCs, as described earlier. Over had over 62 000 enrolments. The second, (Figure 1). While viewership is modest, it is twenty undergraduate students have been Astronomy: Exploring Space and Time, has rising and the audience will grow as new employed to make videos over the past two been running on Coursera since February content is added and the site is promoted and a half years. Most of the students are 2015, with over 75 000 enrolments. The through social media networks. juniors and seniors with a full class load, project management team also includes able to work 10 to 15 hours per week. The the second author (Wenger) acting as The Active Galactic Videos project got a project is supervised by the first author, education manager, and the fifth author big boost at the beginning of 2018 when a distinguished professor of astronomy (Danehy) web programmer and devel- one of our videos was featured in a guest and an associate dean of the College of oper. From its inception, this project has spot on the YouTube channel operated by Science. Day-to-day management is han- had multiple goals: (1) disseminating the British science populariser Tom Scott. dled by the second author (Wenger), a full- time member of the Steward Observatory scientific staff with the title of Education Manager. At the beginning of the project, astron- omy majors and minors were mostly hired. We quickly discovered that our students excelled at developing ideas for videos and creating the associated content. We also found that many of the best astron- omy students had hobbies such as singing and photography in addition to their sci- ence training. These students with varied backgrounds in music, English, film and television and acting produced the best videos. Beginning in the second year of the project, we began to specifically hire students who were non-science majors. We matched students with majors in film- making, cinematography, sound design and creative writing with students major- ing in astronomy to create the best and most well-received videos. When we first hired students with sound and video exper- tise, we had them recommend video and Figure 1. The YouTube page of the Active Galactic Videos project (viewed July 2018). The homepage is set to highlight new releases and provide a sampler of the content. Below that are the most popular videos and the sound equipment that would improve the various playlists with videos grouped according to themes. Credit: Active Galactic Videos production value of our project. There was Videos for Astronomy Education and Outreach 33 Videos for Astronomy Education and Outreach Final Video Approved Video Pitch Upon approval of video Grant 2016), we chose to explore a range • Students brainstorm video ideas.
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