Multi-media

Here is a range of web-based multi-media that I have produced, led a team to produce, or enabled / assisted students to produce:

 * 1) ALTC New Media for Science -- This project aims to get university science students creating videos, podcasts, blogs, and wikis. I lead the project team, which is working under a $200,000 grant from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
 * 2) World-Wide Day in Science -- A global career guide in science created by students for students.
 * 3) A Day in the Life of Science -- WWDS materials created by UNSW students as a class project.
 * 4) OnSET -- Student-run science webzine, Australia's first and a leading student science publication in use of multi-media.
 * 5) SciBiz -- PhD student research in science, engineering, and medicine profiled for potential industry sponsors/users of their research.
 * 6) SkillCity -- Materials for teaching communication skills and insights across a range of university disciplines.
 * 7) You Tube: SCOM2021 -- Student videos produced by my class in session 2 2009.
 * 8) New Science Journalism -- A project by Alison Binney to explore feasibility of student journalism on science and environment.
 * 9) What makes first-year university science so alienating? -- Videos from a workshop by Sheila Tobias:
 * 1. Decription of the research.
 * 2. Sum of findings.
 * 3. Empathy.
 * 4. Missing overview.
 * 5. Rigid sequence.
 * 6. Demo's not clear.
 * 7. No oppty for debate.
 * 8. No chance to ask.
 * 9. Exams intellectually barren.

.......10. My new blog on WordPress -- This blog addresses a range of thoughts, from expert-nonexpert communication to pedagogy to 'modest proposals'.

A video on internships.
It is a great introduction for students who are intrigued with the idea of completing an internship, but they are hesitant to start. Though the video focuses on science students considering an internship, it could apply to many fields.

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One more website -- the Science Communication Program at the University of New South Wales.
You will see links to a range of web pages and other multi-media that illustrate my students' output. For example, here is a creative, short, Flash animation advertising an introductory subject in science communication.

'Yours truly' was captured in a web video talking about the World-Wide Day in Science project.
I was filmed as part of a set of web videos titled -- 'FutureStory.' That was launched recently to fit with National Science Week here in Australia (each August).

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===This blog for nonscientists describes research at the Garvan Institute conducted by a PhD student, Dessi Mladenova, who took my class, STRE6020 Communication in Professional Management, at UNSW.=== The class is part of the Australian government's Commercialisation Training Scheme, a program to train PhD candidates in how to commercialise their research. I teach a core subject in that program, a subject where students build a website representing their research for a business audience (www.scibiz.com.au). The effort gives the students practice in project management, communication, teamwork, ethics, critical thinking, etc. As a result of that experience, the Dessi took up the opportunity to blog for the Garvan Institute, where she does cancer research.

SCITED New Zealand
Here is a video of me explaining the 'negotiation of expert status' for a non-specialist audience -- "Why Should I Listen to You?". Expert status has been the focus of my research, consultancy, and strategies for teaching for the past thirty years. The video was recorded as part of the SCITED lecture series at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. The SCITED series will be a library of short videos on topics in science presented for a non-scientific audience. It is a production of the Centre for Science Communication the U of Otago. The Centre is one of the largest science communication departments in the world, having developed from the world's leading program in natural history film making.

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