Communication Resources
Getting Started
Utah State University Writing Center
The Writing Center conducts face-to-face or online tutoring sessions.
Research Communication Training from the Graduate School
- Communication Best Practices
- How to Design Slides and Posters
Communication Science on the Radio
NPR science reporter Joe Palca discusses unwrapping science on the radio.
A website to share, search, and discuss today’s research. Provides tools for making a video with tutorials about how to make various types of videos for sharing your science.
Tips and best practices for communicating science using a blog.
Creating Podcasts
Creating YouTube Video
Communicating Science Websites
- COMPASS
- Sharing Science
- Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- ComSciCon
- Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
The Center for Innovative Design and Instruction (CIDI)
CIDI offers a wide range of workshops including video production, online teaching and instructional design. In addition, CIDI has a video and audio recording studios as well as recording equipment that can be reserved.
K.M. Everson – Blog on designing scientific posters.
Local Venues
Located in Logan, Utah Public Radio, a service of Utah State University, broadcasts news, information, public affairs, and cultural programming 24 hours a day.
Located in Logan, The Herald Journal provides a print newspaper as well as an online site for local and national news.
Utah State University’s student newspaper.
Science Unwrapped is a free, monthly presentation series, open to the public, hosted by Utah State University’s College of Science.
A local service club which provides a venue for presentations.
The Human Library offers ‘living books’ to be checked out for a conversation.
Area High Schools:
- AMES Academy
- Cache High
- Fast Forward Charter High School
- Green Canyon
- InTech Collegiate High School
- Logan High
- Mountain Crest
- Ridgeline
- Sky View
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Classes & Seminars
Utah State University Courses
- ITLS 5215 Digital Video Capture and Production
- ITLS 5230 – Instructional Graphic Production I
- ITLS 5290 – Multimedia Production for Instruction and Training
- BIOL/PSC 6950 – Navigating Science’s Terra Incognita: Communicating to Non-Scientists
- WATS 6400-Communicating Science
- WATS 6860-Partnering with Beaver in Restoration Design
- ENVS 6410 Translational Ecology
- ADVS 5650 – Science Communication
- BIOL 6750 007 Science Writing Workshop: Dissertation Improvement/Enhancement Grants
- WATS 6400-Communicating Science