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Storytelling and Science: What's ABT got to do with it?
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)
...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
...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...
Annual retreat fuels new thinking and cross-pollination of ideas
...Photography This year’s retreat consisted of several key activities that will help IAN become a better organization – the ABT phrase exercise, the Snap exercise, and the IAN report card project. ABT – And, But, Therefore The point of this exercise...
Co-development of the Belmont Forum synthesis document
...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
...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...
Evolution’s hero vs. a historical footnote: A new Narrative Index sheds light on Darwin vs. Wallace
...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...
Gather ‘round folks, it’s story time!
...telling don’t often go together. [BUT] Without an engaging story we lose our audience very quickly. [THEREFORE] Using the ABT template will keep the audience engaged while learning about science. Who knew that something as simple as using three po...
Hello and Goodbye: The brief in-person encounter with my online class
...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
...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
More Conversations with Randy Olson about the use of narratives in science
...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...
Rachel Carson versus the Zombie Horde
...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”
...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
...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...
Science of Science Communication IV: What Future Conferences Should Consider
...ouston, We Have a Narrative addresses this issue directly. For example, the “ . . . and . . . but . . . therefore . . .” (ABT) template that Randy advocates provides a rubric for developing a storyline. Randy and I have done some analyses of the A...
Story telling tools - The history of communicating well
... 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...
Talk Less, Show More: Communicating Challenges and Successes in a Changing World
...kshop used to describe the Chesapeake Bay. We also had attendees generate an “. . . and . . . but . . . therefore . . .” (ABT) statement to practice developing strong narratives associated with messages to community groups. We were impressed at th...
Talking with graduate students about how to get a job
... 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
... "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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