+Avivah Yamani +Indonesia langitselatan Online to Offline : Translating Media Usage To Real Life Public
+Map of Indonesia Google map Indonesia is a tropical country with 17,508 island With a population over 245,613,043 people Indonesia internet users: 39,600,000
World Population: 741,426,860 Indonesia Facebook Population : 40,515,180 Position no #2 after US, Jakarta is in position no #1 for cities with the largest users. (17 484 300) data & image socialbakers.com
World Population : > 300,000,000 Indonesia Twitter Population 5,616,000 Twitter: Indonesian does not stop tweeting on weekends Indonesia is the 3 rd most active country credit : salingsilang.com Twitter Heat Map: http://aworldoftweets.frogdesign.com/
According to Salingsilang.com report of Indonesia Social Media Landscape, the reason are : Free Press and Freedom of Self Expression More affordable access (mostly from mobile device) Sense of community and important priority on relationship (friends and families) WHY Indonesia people so active in SOCIAL MEDIA?
The Fact that Indonesia has the largest users in Social Media make it important to communicate astronomy through social media. The question is How to communicate astronomy to the users and get their attention?
The implementation langit selatan means southern sky Build an online media name langitselatan Astronomy education and popularization media
Why is astronomy important? Astronomy has a strong relation with daily life such as navigation, calendar, agriculture etc. Astronomy and culture. Each country have their own interpretation about celestial objects. Astronomy touches on the largest questions peoples have in life. Do we have friends out there?
Fact in Indonesia.. In Indonesia, we usually dealing with people who has : Curiosity in current issues, false issues & hoax Curiosity in astronomy events and its relation with belief. Interest on astronomy competition.
What we do? (to) Communicate the discoveries and achievements in astronomy into public (to) Build astronomy awareness among public (to) Deal with misconception as well as hoax in astronomy (to) Support formal and informal science education (to) Provide a bridge between scientific astronomical community and world society
langitselatan & social media langitselatan implement social media as a standard in its service to share the content as well as form a community, based on live interactions & discussions. FACTS: Blog & Forum member: 2129 Visitors from 2007: 3,360,926 Facebook fans: 3168 Twitter follower: 1076 Social network is the biggest referrers to the site
Referrers Site in langitselatan from 2007-2011 93431 50581 Kaskus Forum 108611 112031 50641 Google langitselatan.com Lintas Berita Facebook
langitselatan Facebook Page Insight
Impact from Social Media to real life Inspiring more students to build new groups of amateur astronomy in facebook as well as in schools. Schools invite us as their guest teachers Hold school science camp for astronomy Hold star party and astronomy session during community gathering Become resources for schools and news media Motivate students to be creative
Online to Offline We analyze our website statistics and use it as reference to build material Step by Step : 1. Knowing the school curricula 2. Build material base on school curricula for astronomy 3. Give astronomy experience to teachers and students 4. Build awareness and creativity environment in schools
Elementary to Junior High Curricula Recognize celestial object from observation Identification of the change of the moon every day. Understanding the sun, solar system, rotation & revolution of the earth and moon, gregorian & hijri calendar Solar system, Sun as the stars, orbital motion of the earth, moon and satellite.
LS implementation Kindergarten : Story telling about moon, sun or constellation 1st-2nd grade : comparison of celestial objects and scale of the universe, introduction to solar system, difference between planet & star 3rd - 4th grade : Moon Phase, Earth Cycle, Introducing solar eclipse and moon eclipse. 5th - 6th grade : Introducing the night sky constellations, Solar System, Introduction to skymap. Hands on : planisphere & water rocket 7th - 9th grade : Solar System, Sun - Earth interaction, Basic Telescope and how it works, Earth Atmosphere. Hands on : Telescope making, water rocket All : Sun Observation / Night sky observation ; Basic Physics, Calendar
On Going & Future Project Offline community gathering Small libraries Mobile library & observatory to introduce astronomy in rural area Building hands on activities online resources & books Collecting starlore stories and build online resources.
Acknowledgment I would like to thank : CAP SOC & LOC for the grant & support Astro Book Drive, ESO, NASA for books and education material. You Are Galileo Project for telescopes.
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