Highly Recommended Books
Dean, Cornelia. Am I Making Myself Clear? A Scientists Guide to Talk to the Public. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Hayes, Richard and Daniel Grossman. A Scientist’s Guide to Talking with the Media: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Mooney, Chris and Sheril Kirshenbaum. Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
Olsen, Randy. Don’t Be Such a Scientists: Talking Substance in an Age of Style. Island Press 2009.
Recommended Books
Bell, Philip, et al. Ed. Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places and Pursuits. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 2009.
Best, Joel. Social Problems. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008.
Chittenden, Dave, Graham Farmelo, and Bruce V. Lewenstein. Ed. Creating Connections: Museums and the Public Understanding of Current Research. Walnut Creek, CA:AltaMira Press, 2004.
Diamond, Judy. Practical Evaluation Guide: Tools for Museums & Other Settings. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1999.
Heath, Chip and Dan Heath. Made to Stick: Why Some Ides Survive and Other Die. New York: Random House, 2007.
Falk, John and Lynn Dierking. Learning from Museums. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2000.
Farmer, J. Doyne. “The Everyday Practice of Physics in Silver City, New Mexico.” Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist. Ed. John Brockman. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004.
Fenichel, Marilyn and Heidi A Schweingruber. Surrounded by Science. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 2009.
Blogs and Internet Resources
Not Talking Like a Scientist – Alli Coffin – who is a guest speaker for our class! http://communicatalyst.blogspot.com/
Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education http://caise.insci.org/
Science Café’s http://www.sciencecafes.org/
Science Buzz http://www.sciencebuzz.org/
Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science http://www.copusproject.org/index.php
Education Resources Information Center http://www.eric.ed.gov/
Citizen Science Central http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit/
Association of Science Technology Centers http://www.astc.org/
Informal Science http://informalscience.org/
Institute of Inquiry http://www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/about/index.html
Data Visualization http//www.informationisbeautiful.net/
Overcoming Bias http://www.overcomingbias.com/
Explain it in 60 seconds http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000253
Communicating Science with AAAS http://communicatingscience.aaas.org/Pages/newmain.aspx
