Meeting notes: 2nd June 2021
Present: Katie, Daryl, Adrian, Hannah, Allison
Summary: Confirming slide format, slide audience, and deciding on future use/goals of slide deck.
Things I want to report/discuss:
- Current slides:
- Format: How much writing on slides? What should be in speaker notes?
- Audience: Not all slides will have the same audience, maybe label them by difficulty level? Some research will easily transfer to younger audiences, some won’t.
- Thinking of focusing more on physics concepts in slides, and identity / humanizing aspects in notes?
- How much 'humanizing' information to add
- Will this info belong on a slide? On the website? Speaker notes?
- Will we use quotes from professors?
- How will this link with consent/privacy
- Review advice from Ash from Biodiversify Summary:
- Give people the option to not be searched by identity / let them choose what identities they want to be public (also asked for consent from everyone) How do we want to navigate privacy and consent?
- Humanizing information helps students connect
- Wordpress: no previous experience
- IUSE → (improving undergraduate STEM education initiative) measure the success of your slides in the classroom , this ensures future funding and can promote the use of your slides, you can also include research done before about inclusion of representative scientists and its effect on learning outcomes and/or belonging
- Alternatively: create a bank of ‘evidence’ available alongside slides (?)
- Our differences in intent and audience: They focused on humanizing biology, and sex/gender topics in biology. Our audience is more for the general inclusion of a more diverse set of physicists
- Go over responses to google forms, and how I should adapt them for a wider audience.
- Do we want to add a section for humanizing information? Quotes?
- Right level of “engagement”?
- https://www.iamascientist.info/collection
- Note: there will be plenty of slides from submissions. I think submissions are the most valuable. I won't focus so much on researching, but will probably rely on submissions. I might only try to feature indigenous scientists.
Summary of discussion points:
Slide format and audience:
- Create slides at various ‘levels’ of knowledge, focusing in undergraduate 100-400 level classes
- Offer a few options (if possible) of concepts to present even within one ‘level’.
- Create one slide as an introduction to the researcher -> image, where they work, short synopsis of research area, societal impact of work. Try not to separate the researcher too much from their work!
- More information >> Less information: people who use the slides can pick and choose what they wish to feature, easier to delete unneeded content than create extra content.
- Possibly remove the header on slides?
- Include speaker notes with more detailed information about science, maybe resources as well.
- Identify researchers by their location of work and not necessarily origin.
Google form:
- Allow for duplicate responses in google form (ie. same scientist twice), this may provide more depth on a researcher.
- Move questions about societal relevance to the first page in google doc, but make it optional to fill out.
- Send slides back to faculty that recommended them for a check-over and feedback.
- Aim for internal circulation first, then expand.
Future thinking:
- On the future website, allow people to be able to download the entire slide deck as a whole for ease of use.
- Possibly create a feedback form for people who have used the slides or downloaded the slides. (allow for anonymous submission)
- Circulate the google form by first contacting the operator and CC’ing Daryl and Adrian