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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


9.30am 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


Dr Catherine Simpson
Director Science Communication, Macquarie University


Professor Barry Brook
Founder, TREND


Dr Paul Willis
Director, Royal Institution of Australia


Jacqui Hayes
Digital Editor, COSMOS Magazine


10.30am Session 2 – TBC


11.00am Morning break – including delegate debate


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 Lasalle
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
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Field Museum of Natural History


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Live video connection with Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Dr. Derek Muller
Creative Director at Veritasium Films


12.30am 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 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 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 4D – TechNYou participatory workshop
More detail to come on the session w/c 21st August
Dr. Laurel Dyson
Senior Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney
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

Chris Cassella
Managing Director, Science Alert


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


2.30pm Session 5 – World’s Fastest Citizen Science
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 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 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.

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 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 science projects around Australia. Using a biological metaphor, they created an online interactive visualisation showing over 400 science projects being undertaken within Australia.
Ms. Deborah Cleland
PhD Student at the Fenner School of Environment and Society – Australian National University
Ms. Bridgette Dang
Chief Operating Officer, Labshare Institute
Ms. Kylie Sturgess
Director of Token Skeptic and author of The Scope of Skepticism: Interviews, Essays and Observations From the Token Skeptic Podcast
Ben Hoskens
Founder, Flink Labs


4.15pm Afternoon tea break


4.45pm Session 7A – Debunking Myths: Citizen Science is not a Viable Means of Undertaking Research Session 7B – Reward and Recognition Platforms for Science 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.
 
Dr. Will J Grant (Facilitator)
Graduate Studies Convener, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science

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

Dr. John Lasalle
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

Neeraj Sharma
Head of Strategy for VIVO Miles


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Live video connection with VIVOmiles, London

Wilson da Silva
COSMOS, Editor-in-chief


5.45pm Session 8 – Is Social Media the Panacea for Science Engagement?

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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