blogging while brown about science

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

Blog Carnival Submission Site

Carnivals

Share

http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit.html

http://carnivalofevolution.blogspot.com/

http://scientiablogcarnival.blogspot.com/

http://bookcarnival.wordpress.com/

http://festivalofthetrees.wordpress.com/

http://carnivaloftheblue.blogspot.com/

http://scientiae-carnival.blogspot.com/

(and Memes)

• Wordless Wednesdays – photo meme• Spotted on Sunday (S.O.S)

• Tune in Tuesday• Sunday Inspiration

Share

http://www.wordlesswednesday.com/newhome/

http://outdoorafro.com/

http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/



Share

Blog Your Way to Antarctica

http://www.collegescholarships.org/our-scholarships/blogging.htm

http://www.blackweblogawards.com/categories/

Cross-posting

COE ExchangeBlog for the University of Missouri in Saint Louis

College of Education

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http://www.everydaycitizen.com/dlee/index.html

http://www.blogher.com/user/23395/posts

http://www.talkingscience.org/

http://ybpguide.com/author/dnlee/

http://coeexchange.com/?author=41

http://blogs.aibs.org/copus/author/danielle-lee/



Share

Encourage Participation in STEM

• Read STEM blogs & carnivals• Follow/Fan page STEM Bloggers• Communicate• Network• Experiment

Participate

http://www.usasciencefestival.org/

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

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/

http://www.sciencecheerleader.com/

http://im-geiste.blogspot.com/

http://scientistmother.blogspot.com/

http://sciedsociety.blogspot.com/

http://sciedsociety.blogspot.com/

http://kidsndata.blogspot.com/

http://sciencechicagoblog.com/

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/

http://scienceforcitizens.net/

http://scienceblogs.com/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/

http://1browngirl.blogspot.com/

http://outdoorafro.com/

http://dianneglave.wordpress.com/

http://www.joytripproject.com/

http://urbanitybirder.blogspot.com/

• 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

http://scienceblogs.com/isisthescientist/?utm_source=bloglist&utm_medium=dropdown

http://scienceblogs.com/isisthescientist/?utm_source=bloglist&utm_medium=dropdown

http://scienceblogs.com/terrasig/

http://scienceblogs.com/sciencetolife/

http://sciencewithmoxie.blogspot.com/

http://reconciliationecology.blogspot.com/

http://scienceblogs.com/stressrelated/

http://shearsensibility.blogspot.com/

http://asymptotia.com/author/cvj/

http://physicsforgirls.blogspot.com/

http://geoblogs.stratigraphy.net/

http://deepseanews.com/

http://theoystersgarter.com/

http://www.southernfriedscience.com/

http://save-our-sharks.blogspot.com/

http://betf.blogspot.com/


http://www.techtechboom.com/

http://butyoureagirl.com/

http://ah460.blogspot.com/

http://doyouspeakmath.blogspot.com/

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

http://www.bloggingwhilebrown.com/

http://www.minoritypostdoc.org/

http://scopemissouri.org/


http://scienceblogs.com/terrasig/

http://www.ashimmyinmyspirit.com/

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