EVENT PROGRAMME GUIDE

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TIMES SESSIONS
8.30am Registration and Coffee
Time to relax and spend time meeting other participants

9.00am Welcome to Country and Introductions

Aunty Josie Agius
Community Networker and Elder


Andrew Gregson
Co-Founder, ScienceRewired


Kendall Benton
Co-Founder, ScienceRewired


Ben McKenzie (host)
Actor, scientician, comedian and ScienceRewired host

9.20am Special Guest
We open ScienceRewired with insights from one of the leading figures in the online science blogging community.
Bora Zivkovic
Blog Editor at Scientific American


LIVE video connection with New York, USA

9.45am Session 1 – Online Science Communicators Survival Guide
Communicating science via online platforms comes with its own particular traps and pitfalls. So what should communicators be on the lookout for? How can we avoid the snares of misconceptions and misinformation?

Ben McKenzie (facilitator)
Actor, scientician, comedian and ScienceRewired host

Professor Barry Brook
Founder, TREND


Dr Paul Willis
Director, Royal Institution of Australia


Jacqui Hayes
Digital Editor, COSMOS Magazine


Philip Roetman
Institute Manager, University of South Australia’s Barbara Hardy Institute

10.45am Session 2 – Crowdsourcing in Science with Foldit
An insight into the revolutionary new computer game enabling individuals to contribute to important scientific research.
Prof. David Baker
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington.


LIVE video connection with the Baker Laboratory, Seattle

11.15am Morning break

AUDITORIUM
CITIZEN SCIENCE 		THINKING SPACE
SCIENCE EDUCATION 		BOARDROOM
COMMUNICATING SCIENCE 		TOWER ROOM
EXPLORING SCIENCE

11.30am Session 3A – Digital Citizen Science Platforms
Discover how citizen science is making use of digital mediums to engage with the public and address key scientific questions.		 Session 3B – Global Digital Classrooms
Join Dr. Joshua Drew and his past-students as they share their experiences using digital technology to link-up geographically dispersed classrooms in the name of education and marine conservation. 		Session 3C – Demystifying YouTube
Have you ever wondered why no-one is watching that science video you uploaded onto YouTube? Find out how to make the most of this online platform.		  
Dr. John La Salle
Director, Atlas of Living Australia


Ms. Kirsten Gottschalk
Human spokesperson for theSkyNet and Outreach and Education Officer at The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research

 Dr. Joshua Drew
The Department of Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology at Columbia University.


LIVE video connection with Columbia University.

 Dr. Derek Muller
Creative Director at Veritasium Films

12.30pm Session 4C – Maintaining Online Communities and Growing Them
In June 2012 ScienceAlert’s Facebook page became more popular then NASA and CSIRO combined with over 1.3 million fans!

Discover the lessons learned on the journey from small time science website to social media behemoth.		 Session 4B – Online Science as an Education Tool
What is the value and what are the limitations of using online avenues for science education? Panelists will explore the issues and discuss the latest digital teaching tools available.		 Session 4A – The Future is in Their Hands – Mobile Technologies in Remote Australia
How are Indigenous communities in remote regions of Australia engaging with digital technologies? What role has the Australian Government played in this? We’ll also examine how some communities are using mobile technology to create and share knowledge and why this is important. 		Session 4D – Exploring Science in Society
The workshop will use dialogue & deliberation methods currently being trialled under the STEP framework, winner of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Core Values Project of the Year award in 2011, to consider the role of science in addressing problems like climate change, obesity, global security and an ageing population.
Chris Cassella
Managing Director, Science Alert		 Nigel Mitchell
Manager of Online Professional Learning at the Australian Science Teachers Association

Robert Thomas
Project Manager for Enabling Technologies – Public Awareness at the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research, and Tertiary Education

 Dr. Laurel Dyson
Senior Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney

Paul Gardner-Stephen
Founder of ServalProject.org and Humanitarian Telecommunications Fellow at Flinders University

 Dr. Wendy Russell
National
Enabling Technologies Strategy, Public Awareness Section – DIISRTE

Cobi Smith
Researcher at Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science

1.30pm Lunch – including a video deconstruction workshop with Dr. Derek Muller

2.30pm Session 5 – World’s Fastest Citizen Science
How awful is a bad handshake? How important is a good one? Everyone knows that handshakes are a crucial part of social interaction. In this session we’re going to find out the exact dynamics of the world’s best handshake.

Dr. Will J Grant
Graduate Studies Convener at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science

AUDITORIUM
CITIZEN SCIENCE 		THINKING SPACE
SCIENCE EDUCATION 		BOARDROOM
COMMUNICATING SCIENCE 		TOWER ROOM
EXPLORING SCIENCE

3.15pm Session 6D – Big Data: Visualising the Facts
In the world of Big Data, being able to crunch volumes of numbers is not enough. You need to be able to explore the data, discover insights, engage your audience and communicate these insights to them.

This session explores the process, techniques and thinking behind the work Flink Labs visualised for the ASC showing engagement of 400 science projects around Australia. 		Session 6A – Explore – Gaming for Good
Explore hands-on how creative thinking combined with gaming platforms can be used to disturb destructive patterns of behaviour and affect real change for people and nature.		 Session 6C – The Power of the Podcast
What do you want your listeners to know? What can you produce, in a feasible manner? What can podcasting do that other social media mediums (or other traditional forms of outreach) can’t provide?		 Session 6B – Remote Technology Workshop
A remote laboratory allows students and educators to access real lab apparatus across the internet, using data acquisition instrumentation and cameras so that the remote apparatus can be controlled and monitored.

Step outside of the box and get hands-on with this remote laboratory demonstration. Share your views on present and future applications of this technology.
Ben Hoskens
Founder, Flink Labs		 Ms. Deborah Cleland
PhD Student at the Fenner School of Environment and Society – Australian National University

Cobi Smith
Researcher at Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science

 Ms. Kylie Sturgess
Director of Token Skeptic and author of The Scope of Skepticism: Interviews, Essays and Observations From the Token Skeptic Podcast		 Ms. Bridgette Dang
Chief Operating Officer, Labshare Institute

4.15pm Afternoon tea break

4.45pm Session 7A – Debunking Myths: Citizen Science is not a Viable Means of Undertaking Research
Contentious approach or valid means of research? Will ‘crowd sourcing’ your research leave your projects wide open for criticism, invalidate research or create a richer set of data from a much broader audience?		 Session 7B – Learning Design in Transformational Computer Games
Transformational games are digital computer and video applications purposefully designed to create engaging and immersive learning environments for delivering specified learning goals, outcomes and experiences.

In this workshop we will unpack some of the issues as we discuss the learning and game design principles explored and used to develop a 3D computer game which aims to engage lower secondary students with science and nanotechnology.		 Session 7C – COSMOS and the iPad: How We Did It And What We Learned
92% of tablets in Australia are iPads – with the rapid growth in user adoption of mobile computing Wilson da Silva explores how the COSMOS team developed their app and the factors that can make or break a content strategy for science content and reader engagement. 		 
Ben McKenzie (host)
Actor, scientician, comedian and ScienceRewired host

Ms. Deborah Cleland
PhD Student at the Fenner School of Environment and Society – Australian National University

Dr. John La Salle
Director, Atlas of Living Australia

Dr. Laurel Dyson
Senior Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney

Ms. Kirsten Gottschalk
Human spokesperson for theSkyNet

 Associate Professor, Karen Murcia
Director, Center for Transformational Games, Edith Cowan University		 Wilson da Silva
COSMOS, Editor-in-chief

5.45pm Session 8 – Is Social Media the Panacea for Science Engagement?
Are the diversity of social technologies providing a valid means for education and engagement with the public or merely a vehicle to water down and trivialise the role of science in society.

Ben McKenzie (Host)
Actor, scientician, comedian and ScienceRewired host


Nigel Mitchell
Manager of Online Professional Learning at the Australian Science Teachers Association


Cobi Smith
Researcher at Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science


Chris Casella
Managing Director at Science Alert


Matthew Levinson
Senior Communication Adviser, Lord Mayor Clover Moore

6.30pm Event close and networking in the Future Gallery
 

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