The entire Deep Sea News team will be spending the next couple days at the Science Online 2011 conference in North Carolina. Along with copious doses of Kraken rum, lusty singing of sea shanties, and turning the hot tub into a mighty wave pool, we’ll be participating in the following sessions: **Technology and the Wilderness** . . . → Read More: The Deeplings at Science Online 2011
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By Dr. M, on  January 18th, 2010  5 comments  Conferences, Ramblings, Scientist!  Charlotte Observer, Duke, Raleigh Sewer Monster, Science Online, Youtube Marine researchers Craig McClain and Kevin Zelnio, both of Duke University, run a Web site (DeepSeaNews.com) that experienced an enormous spike in readership when the Raleigh Sewer Monster became a two-day Internet wonder (its Youtube video has more than 7 million hits). They had better information than many print sources, and they now take that . . . → Read More: KZ and Dr M take over print media
Lot’s of great things to link to and discuss Check out Southern Fried Scientist’s write up in the Observer on science advocacy Miriam completes the DSN trinity Meaningful communications = sharing what matters most 11 Things I learned at ScienceOnline 2010 Check out KZ and I at the Nature Blog Network, DSN is the featured . . . → Read More: A flurry of excitement
Bora Z addresses the largest crowd of geeks the Triangle has ever seen Bora Z addresses the largest crowd of geeks the Triangle has ever seen By Kevin Zelnio, on January 24th, 2009 6 comments Conferences Book Reviews, Editor, Journalism, Rebecca Skloot, Science Online, Science Writing, scio09, Structure, Tom Levenson The last session of Saturday I spent in a room with ~30 other eager individuals wishing to be imparted magical advice on how to make the leap from blogging (essentially for free for most of us) to getting paid to write articles. The session How to become a (paid) science journalist: advice for bloggers was . . . → Read More: Science Online ’09: From Blogging to Paying Bills
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 24th, 2009 7 comments Conferences, Education, Environmental Sciences Blog Carnivals, Collaborative Global Sites, GrrlScientist, Nature Blogging, Science Online, scio09, Writing Bright and early Sunday morning, I hosted a session on Nature Blogging with GrrlScientist of the fantastic blog Living the Scientific Life. It was a great pleasure to work with her on this session and I want to thank her for putting most of the thought in behind it. It was well attended and well-participated . . . → Read More: Science Online ’09: Nature Blogging
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 22nd, 2009 5 comments Conferences, Expeditions, Scientist! Adventure, Best of Zelnio, Field Work, Live Blogging, Research, Rick MacPherson, Science Online, scio09 Karen, myself, Anne-Marie, Talia, Meredith from the panel. Rick and Vanessa are out of frame. After a most wonderful lunch (thanks Science Online sponsors!), it was time for the first of two sessions I was co-moderating. This session was a fun one to plan and execute on how to post from strange places. Co-organizer Karen . . . → Read More: Science Online ’09: Blogging Adventure
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 21st, 2009 9 comments Conferences, Education College Teaching, home school, Online Tools, Open Source, Science Online, scio09, wiki The third session I participated in was Teaching College Science: Blogs and Beyond moderated by Brian Switek, of Laelaps and Dinosaur Tracking, and Andrea Novicki, at Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology. Brian “live blogged” the conference notes onto the session’s Science Online wiki page. The audience was split into groups of 4 where were we . . . → Read More: Science Online ’09: Blogs in College Teaching
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 21st, 2009 5 comments Conferences, Education Creepy Treehouse, Facebook, High School, ning, Online Tools, Science Online, scio09, Teaching Baker Class at Science Online '09 The second session i attended at Science Online ’09 was a fantastic discussion of how social networking sites, blogs and other online tools and media are used in high school biology instruction. What was so great about this discussion was that the panel was composed of high school science . . . → Read More: Science Online ’09: Miss Baker and Her Students
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 20th, 2009 3 comments Conferences, Open Access Impact Factor, Open Access, plos one, Science Online, scio09 Note: This was liveblogged at the time, but the wifi crashed under the weight of 200 simultaneous livebloggers. ——————————————————————————————————— As many readers know, we are staunch proponents of open access. Craig being an academic editor at PLoS ONE and myself writing extensively on the benefits of open access, especially to taxonomy. Open Access is not . . . → Read More: LiveBlogging Science Online ’09: Open Access
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