We’ve started using a new toy here at I’m a Scientist. It’s called Storify and is “a way to tell stories using social media”.
Storify allows you to build up a story by gathering media such as tweets, blog posts and photos in one place. You can re-order the content how you like, and add descriptions and commentary to explain what’s going on.
Creating a story of the event will be helpful in a few ways:
Firstly, it will provide commentary during the event, all in one place. Anyone interested in the event, from teachers to scientists and sponsors, can easily get a feel for what I’m a Scientist is about.
Secondly, we’ll have a record of the event to look back on. Whilst we follow what’s being said about I’m a Scientist on sites such as twitter at the time, it’s easy for updates to get lost and forgotten after the event. By creating a record on Storify we can remember the event, keep a note of great questions and answers, and different people’s reactions and opinions.
We’ve embedded our Storify feed on the I’m a Scientist site, so have a read!
Today was the first eviction day. I was in a Health and Safety meeting at the crucial time this afternoon, and I was checking my email/twitter feed so often that I think I might have missed something important to do with wearing masks. And tomorrow afternoon I’ll be in the middle of interviewing PhD students at the critical time. None of this is helping my nerves, and neither was the Machiavellian student who added, “answer this question or I’m voting for Eoin”.
Nice one Steve! I particularly like the student question on a recent live chat ‘does our teacher count as a scientist?’ Of course they are, but you could almost hear them sweating in the background on our answer!