Get Ready For a Truly Experimental Day at the Intersection: Live Workshop Training

Tomorrow, I'm one of three teachers and trainers at an all new, day long NSF sponsored science communication workshop entitled Science: Becoming The Messenger. (There's also an advanced half day session on Thursday, designed to further develop the skills of a smaller, specially selected group of communicators). I'm playing many roles at the workshop, but one of them is teaching two installments of a breakout session entitled "Writing for the Public"--which covers things like press releases and opeds, but is most heavily focused on the use of new media. The first session of the breakout will be from 130 to 3 pm ET, and the second is from 315 to 445 pm ET. Why does this concern you? Although the participants don't know it yet (unless they read this blog), by the end of each hour-and-a-half breakout session a live blog post will be produced here about one individual workshop ...