blogging while brown about science
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My talk about STEM Blogging and using social media to share STEM with under-served audiencesTRANSCRIPT
June 18-19, 2010 - Washington, DC
Beyond Gossip, Hip Hop, Hair, and Politics: Bloggers as Change Agents and Educators
…about SCIENCE
Objective
1. Initiate dialogue about STEM2. Share online STEM engagement strategies3. Encourage participation in STEM activities
to connect under-served audiences to STEM via social media
Initiates a Dialogue about STEM
1. How is science communicated to the African-American community?
2. What is the best way to communicate science to this community?
Dialogue
Science Blogging
• The future of science communication• Interact directly with scientists and
researchers• Offers rare access to science and engineering
professionals at every career level• Quick dissemination of information about new
discoveries and technologies
Dialogue
Share online STEM Strategies
• Communities• Comments• Carnivals (and Memes)• Contests• Cross-posts• Connections
Share
My Online Communities
Share
Share online STEM Strategies
• Communities• Comments• Carnivals (and Memes)• Contests• Cross-posts• Connections
Share
Blog Carnival Submission Site
Carnivals
Share
(and Memes)
• Wordless Wednesdays – photo meme• Spotted on Sunday (S.O.S)
• Tune in Tuesday• Sunday Inspiration
Share
Share online STEM Strategies
• Communities• Comments• Carnivals (and Memes)• Contests• Cross-posts• Connections
Share
Blog Your Way to Antarctica
Cross-posting
COE ExchangeBlog for the University of Missouri in Saint Louis
College of Education
Share
Share online STEM Strategies
• Communities• Comments• Carnivals (and Memes)• Contests• Cross-posts• Connections
Share
Encourage Participation in STEM
• Read STEM blogs & carnivals• Follow/Fan page STEM Bloggers• Communicate• Network• Experiment
Participate
STEM BlogsScience Blogs (General topics)• Not Exactly Rocket Science• Science Cheerleader• 49 Percent• Scientist Mother
SES: Science, Education & Society
• Thesis With Children• Life’s A Lab! Science Chicago• Science Careers by AAAS• Science4Citzens
Science Blog Hives• Scienceblogs by SEED• Discover Magazine
• Urban Science Adventures! ©• One Brown Girl• Outdoor Afro• Rooted in the Earth• The Joy Trip Project• The Urban Birder
Outdoors, Nature, Environmental Education
Participate
• On Becoming a Domestic & Laboratory Goddess
• Terra Sigillata • Science to Life (archive)• Science with Moxie• Reconciliation Biology
Physical Sciences• All of My Faults are
Stress-related• Asymptotia• Physics for Girls• Geoblogs aggregator
Life Sciences Blogs
Marine Blogs• Deep Sea News• The Oyster’s Garter (archive)• Southern Fried Science• Save Our Sharks
Tech and Math• BDPA Education and Techno
logy Foundation• Tech, Tech, Boom• But You’re A Girl!• Diary of a PhD Student• Do You Speak Math?
Participate
Acknowledgements
• Blogging While Brown Conference Organizers & Sponsors
• Minority Postdoc• SCOPE Missouri• Wayne Hicks and BETF• David Kroll of
Terra Sigillata • Cynthia Louden of
A Shimmy in My Spirit
• Callie Herd of Planning & Preparing for College
• Cathy Moore, P. Hanson, Laura & Tom Kent, Dorothy Jones, Mattie Clayton, Jasmine Clayton, Allison Clayton, Mark Lee
• Online Science and Outreach Communities
• My blog readers & supporters