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    33 results for "ABT":

    • Storytelling and Science: What's ABT got to do with it?
      Storytelling and Science: What's ABT got to do with it? (Blog Post)
      Storytelling and Science: What's ABT got to do with it? ... Rebecca Wenker If you had to group Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, and the writers of South Park...
    • "In this room, it’s playtime!" Creative inspiration at the Citizen Science conference (part 1)
      "In this room, it’s playtime!" Creative inspiration at the Citizen Science conference (part 1) (Blog Post)
      ...onference. Caroline co-presented a Communicating Data Workshop, during which she discussed narrative storytelling and the ABT form . Professor Kevin Ripka then led participants through several engaging data visualization activities. He urged us to...
    • Annual IAN Retreat at Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center
      Annual IAN Retreat at Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center (Blog Post)
      ...ternational Landscape Ecology Conference where I delivered an after dinner talk. On one side of the cards, Randy Olson 's ABT (. . . and . . . but . . . therefore . . . ) format solicited feedback in a structured narrative. There were some really...
    • Building coastal resilience through stories
      Building coastal resilience through stories (Blog Post)
      ... sure way to connect with a broad audience, as the success of Hollywood blockbuster movies shows. Randy Olson created the ABT template to help people give their ideas the structure of a story. In his book, “ Connection: Hollywood Storytelling Meet...
    • CMC Data Interpretation Course in Richmond, VA and Carlisle, PA
      CMC Data Interpretation Course in Richmond, VA and Carlisle, PA (Blog Post)
      ... "and, but, therefore" framework in storytelling, followed by an activity where we guided participants as they drafted an ABT statement of their own to accompany their diagrams. It was trickier than participants expected. They were challenged to b...
    • Co-development of the Belmont Forum synthesis document
      Co-development of the Belmont Forum synthesis document (Blog Post)
      ...roduced the participants with conceptionary and the A-B-T rubrics. We asked each project teams to come up with an 80 word ABT statement to describe their projects and to nominate visuals that we could include in the document. This was no easy feat...
    • Communicating science with marine laboratory and field station directors at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
      Communicating science with marine laboratory and field station directors at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (Blog Post)
      ...D . . . BUT . . . THEREFORE . . ." statement rubric developed by Randy Olson . Mike DeLuca and Nancy Rabalais scanned the ABT cards and selected three for the audience to vote on and the winner was the tongue in cheek observation about the Lillie...
    • Countdown to elevator pitch 3…2…1 “GO”
      Countdown to elevator pitch 3…2…1 “GO” (Blog Post)
      ...gement Training and leadership training, Online ). We followed these rules and added Randy Olson's AND, BUT, THEREFORE or ABTS storytelling technique found in his book " Houston, We Have a Narrative ." This technique enhances the story and removes...
    • Evolution’s hero vs. a historical footnote: A new Narrative Index sheds light on Darwin vs. Wallace
      Evolution’s hero vs. a historical footnote: A new Narrative Index sheds light on Darwin vs. Wallace (Blog Post)
      ...ul way to assess the ability of these scientists and politicians to connect with their audiences. Randy has developed the ABT structure for delivering a message. ABT is shorthand for a sentence structured with ". . . and . . . but . . . therefore...
    • Hello and Goodbye: The brief in-person encounter with my online class
      Hello and Goodbye: The brief in-person encounter with my online class (Blog Post)
      ...uals and clear stories about science, the videos, due to their additional audio, were especially powerful in their use of ABT, descriptive visuals, and the use of narration and music. However, each type of presentation thoroughly exhibited the too...
    • Integrating science, message, and design
      Integrating science, message, and design (Blog Post)
      ...n. A few themes have emerged from this experience as we wrangled with the science, the design, and the and-but-therefore (ABT) narratives. Design projects evolve in different ways. Storyboards are a useful approach to planning a publication's narr...
    • It’s the Circle of Science:  How to Move Your Audience
      It’s the Circle of Science: How to Move Your Audience (Blog Post)
    • More Conversations with Randy Olson about the use of narratives in science
      More Conversations with Randy Olson about the use of narratives in science (Blog Post)
      ...s. The narrative index focuses on a ratio of ‘buts’ vs. ‘ands’, based on the ‘. . . and . . . but . . . therefore . . .’ (ABT) that Randy developed in his book ‘ Houston, We Have a Narrative ’. Randy has analyzed numerous passages from a range of...
    • Narrative literacy for science communication
      Narrative literacy for science communication (Blog Post)
      ...communication (using causality, temporality and character). Selection of key words can enhance science communication. The ABT format (" . . . and . . . but . . . therefore . . ." template) provides compelling narrative structure. Active titles enh...
    • Rachel Carson versus the Zombie Horde
      Rachel Carson versus the Zombie Horde (Blog Post)
      ...e” are used to link together the ideas that are a story’s building blocks.This is the basis of Olson’s and-but-therefore (ABT) template and the related metric the narrative index (NI) . Carson’s audience included educated, ambitious women who, in...
    • Randy Olson’s new book: “Houston, We Have a Narrative”
      Randy Olson’s new book: “Houston, We Have a Narrative” (Blog Post)
      ...n ________________makes sense, except in the light of ___________________.” The sentence tool is the previously described ABT tool of using “. . . and . . . but . . . therefore . . .” in describing research findings. The paragraph tool follows the...
    • Science Cafe and science communication training in Boston
      Science Cafe and science communication training in Boston (Blog Post)
      ...lling narrative, using techniques such as employing active titles, using the “. . . and . . . but . . . therefore . . .” (ABT) template, and creating word clouds. We talked a lot about identifying and communicating effectively to your primary audi...
    • Story telling tools - The history of communicating well 
      Story telling tools - The history of communicating well  (Blog Post)
      ... and understanding of the information you're presenting. The framework for telling a story includes: And, But, Therefore (ABT) . Three basic words that help to set up the background, create the conflict, and finish with a resolution. You begin wit...
    • Talking with graduate students about how to get a job
      Talking with graduate students about how to get a job (Blog Post)
      ... to develop a short "elevator speech" about their thesis projects using the " . . . AND . . . BUT . . . THEREFORE . . ." (ABT) rubric [ youtube ] developed by Randy Olson . I found it interesting that students invariably produced an ABT statement...
    • Tell a compelling story: Talking about science communication to landscape ecologists in Baltimore
      Tell a compelling story: Talking about science communication to landscape ecologists in Baltimore (Blog Post)
      ... "Nothing in conservation makes sense, except in light of people". The other side of the 'fill in the blank' card was the ABT template (" . . . and . . . but . . . therefore . . ."), which is also the central theme in Randy Olson's book. The ABT s...
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