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Dugong oil vat, sand mining and Geoff Moore

...ommunity Heritage Award for 2010, for the Online Heritage Trail . Geoff Moore volunteering at the museum. Geoff told the story of the large cast iron vat that the museum recently acquired. The vat was made in Falkirk, Scotland between Edinborough...

"Rainbow Literature": Peer reviewed, colorful science communication products

...rocess of each product. Since much of the content of IAN Science Communication products is scoped out in advance using a storyboard approach, establishing active titles (which are intensely edited), sourcing visual elements and nominating word cou...

Dashboard books on fire: Communicating fire management creatively

...oduction, and conservation, often illustrated with carefully chosen photographs. Andrew and I had read " Fire: A Brief History" by Stephen Pyne , a wonderful book about the relationship of humans with fire and the different cultural perspectives....

Storyboarding to generate a science newsletter

Storyboarding to generate a science newsletter ... As part of the Healthy Waterways Alliance launch in Mackay, Queensland , a...

Dr. John Snow and Jack Maple, kindred spirits

...nd have left a legacy that transcended their lives. Two wonderful books recount their achievements; " The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World ", written by Steven John...

Sea turtles, dugong and a major city skyline

..., healthy seagrass meadows supporting turtles and dugong, and a city skyline easily visible from Moreton Bay. There is a story of encountering dugong in Moreton Bay which was recounted by Thomas Welsby in his book ' Sport and pastime in Moreton Ba...

Discovering Southeast Queensland waterways and rediscovering Liz Clarke

...lusion in the book and for developing conceptual diagrams for each vantage point. Liz used the tapes to write a cohesive story for each location, and the book was assembled by Eva and Cath. A couple of things became apparent to me in the productio...

Some Healthy Waterways history

Some Healthy Waterways history ... The Healthy Waterway Partnership started out as the Brisbane River and Moreton Bay Wastewater Management Study (BR...

Conceptual diagrams in a chapel

...d the ancient use of symbols that humans have used to depict the world around them. From cave drawings to Pacific Island storyboards to woodcuts used by Victorian Englishmen like Charles Darwin, people have been using symbols to represent objects...

Experiential education: Changing the way we teach

...ield trips is the immersive nature of the experience. It is not one hour of language, one hour of math and one hour of history. It is the concentrated study of a single subject for a significant period of time (days to weeks to months). This conce...

South East Queensland 2011 flood newsletter

...s from 1893, it demonstrates that this is a regular occurrence for the Brisbane River. As an interesting footnote to the story of the Paluma is that a contract was tendered for relocating the ship back into the Brisbane River, but instead of havin...

Queensland floods; 2011

...ourtesy of AP: Dave Hunt. The flood levels were roughly equivalent to the 1974 event which was a defining point in the history of the region. In 1974, a degraded tropical cyclone (the Southern hemisphere version of a hurricane) dumped a lot of wat...

Conceptionary in action: Learning through play

...teaching using a blackboard, talking while drawing can be quite effective, so adding illustrations can greatly augment a story. Finally, the team building aspect of working together in groups can be important, particularly with groups of people wh...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 8 - Communicating Science Effectively poster

...me, as the plenary talk was being delivered, Dr. Charlotte Young from Envision Synergy quietly recorded the seminar as a story board on a large colorful poster in the back of the room. Following the seminar, I was able to view her graphical interp...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 7 - O Canada!

...er posts in this series: 1. Part 1 – Science Communication 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 6. Part 6 - Five step p...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report cards

...er posts in this series: 1. Part 1 – Science Communication 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 5. Part 5 - Report card examples 7. Part 7 - Oh Canada!...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 5 - Report card examples

...a. Other posts in this series: 1. Part 1 - Science Communication 2. Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements 3. Part 3 - History of Science Communication 4. Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards 6. Part 6 - Five step program for environmental report c...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 4 - Environmental Report Cards

...ee big reasons. One is they are a really good peer pressure motivator, because peer pressure motivates human change. The story I'll give here is the Chesapeake Bay Report Card. Over on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay; there was a grade of "D m...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 3 - History of Science Communication

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 3 - History of Science Communication ... PART 3; History of Science Communication There is a history of effective science communication that actually changed the world. If we th...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 2 - Incorporating visual elements

...ctively communicated their concerns. But, that's kind of hindsight, and it was ultimately tragic. I would like to tell a story of good science communication that really worked out. There was a physician called John Snow who lived in London in the...

Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 1 - Science Communication

...t I get will be bloodshot. So, I'll just go on autopilot, because I'm going to ignore your bloodshot eyes and tell you a story about what we are doing with our Integration and Application Network . Hopefully as the caffeine kicks in, you might be...

Notes from Zanzibar; Communicating science workshop

...ural science groups and social science groups to scope out various East African coastal issues. We began to develop some story lines and mocked up storyboards so that we could produce science newsletters. Conceptionary in action with Maricela de l...

Discussion following Bill Dennison's seminar on Challenges and advantages of using citizen scientists for environmental monitoring

...nother set of talks to be included are topics of general interest to each group (e.g., bacteria, fisheries, Chesapeake history). ... Bill Dennison...

Communicating Science to Effect Social Change

...science communication can actually make you a better scientist for the following reasons: 1) By envisioning the complete story; you can pick up missing elements. An example is putting together a conceptual diagram relating to the causes of a harmf...

How maps can lie: Chesapeake watershed stream health

...tle of this blog post, "How maps can lie" refers to the ability of someone to choose 'green dots on top' for a good news story vs. 'red dots on top' for a bad news story, depending on their intent. The Chesapeake Bay Program chose the 'green dots...

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