[Enviro-lunch] EnviroLunch: SciComm Links from Michelle Gilmore (UC Merced)

[Fernanda Santos]

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From: Michelle Gilmore <mgilmore2 at ucmerced.edu>
Date: Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:36 PM
Subject: EnviroLunch: SciComm Links
To: Rebecca Abney <rlever at ucmerced.edu>, Fernanda Santos <
fsantos4 at ucmerced.edu>


Hi Rebecca and Fernanda,

Thank you for inviting me to present at EnviroLunch! I’ve compiled a list
of resources and helpful links below. Could you please forward this to last
week’s attendees or the EnviroLunch community?

Kind regards,

Michelle



*Science Communication Resources & Inspiration*

·         http://sharingscience.agu.org - tools, tips,events, Q&A, and
community for sharing earth systems science with lots of audiences
(schools, media, policymakers, twitter, etc.)

·         http://www.compassonline.org/ - science communication trainings;
consider requesting a group training

·         http://TED.com - videos of presentations for non-specialized
audiences; consider some playlists from the science and medicine category,
for instance



*Plain Language Resources & Inspiration*

·         http://www.plainlanguage.gov/howto/wordsuggestions/simplewords.cfm
- word swap-out recommendations

·         https://readable.io/ - paste in some text or a URL and learn how
easy or difficult your text is to read

·         https://xkcd.com/1133/ - (AGU has a session each year based on
this!) Up Goer Five, a diagram of the NASA Saturn V rocket using the 1000
(ten hundred) most used English words

·         http://splasho.com/upgoer5/ - (helpful for submitting for that
AGU session!) if you’re feeling inspired, use this text editor to write an
explanation of your research with only the ten hundred most used words



*Slide, Graph, Video Design Resources & Inspiration*

·         http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/map/animation/
about-building-animations-in-arcgis.htm - creating animations/videos in
ArcGIS

·         http://paletton.com– a color scheme coordination tool

·         http://www.slideshare.net/ - a virtual library of presentations,
infographics, etc.; keep in mind that 1) anyone can upload so quality is
not controlled, and 2) some presentations are designed for an oral
presenter while others are designed to be stand-alone without voiceover

·         http://www.slideshare.net/CrispyPresentations/five-
killer-ways-to-design-the-same-slide - examples of different slide designs
presenting the same information

·         Infographic, flyer, and video-making sites to look up, maybe even
just for inspiration:  piktochart, infogram, animaker





Michelle Gilmore

Outreach Manager

Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory

University of California, Merced

w: criticalzone.org/sierra <http://bit.ly/1OioFoW>

f: facebook.com/ssczo <http://on.fb.me/1WVsAOx>

t: @SSCZO <http://bit.ly/1orlNkr>
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