Post Made on Behalf of Clarissa

Blogs as an Outreach Tool

So there are so many different types of outreach, I thought maybe we could focus on either of the following:

1) Blogs as a medium to communicate science painlessly to the public.

- Here’s an extension of what we talked about last week, a blog for biology teachers: http://blogging4biology.edublogs.org/

- A blogger who interviews scientist doing outreach as her form of outreach:

http://jendodd.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67:interview-with-eva-amsen&catid=42:science-outreach&Itemid=54

- And a page of web resources for communicating science effectively to the public:

http://opa.faseb.org/pages/PolicyIssues/commscience.htm

2) Blogs as a yet another tool to reach out to those anti-evolutionist folks (or for them to reach out to us!).

- One interesting thing you find with these types of blogs is often very short posts followed by extended comments. Check out the following three links for examples:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/2009/02/evolution_vs_creationism.html

http://blog.news-record.com/opinion/letters/archives/2008/05/most_true_scientists_do_suppor.shtml

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/02/12/1791814.aspx

Framing Science (http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/ ) is an interesting blog I found that has commented on both of the above and uses the blog as a media tool to connect science with politics.