Science Communication Conference – Evaluating Online Engagement

Here are the key links, tips and tools from the session at the Science Communication Conference.

Tip One & Two:

myphpadmin – a web tool to help you extract the data from your website

SQL a query language to help you get the right data quickly, and a friendly SQL tutorial

Tip Three:

Wordle – a simple word frequency visualisation tool

Tip Four:

Google Analytics – a free and powerful web analytics tool to see how people are using your site

Tip Five:

Google Fusion Tables – very powerful data handling tool that also allows you to map quickly and easily – Google account required

Tip Six – Widening Participation

IDACI – upload your postcodes to find your Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index score and rank – England only

Polar3 – how many young people are participating in higher education?

GCSE5+ – how well are school performing academically

Tip Seven

Mailchimp – go visit the email and CRM email chimp

Tip Eight

SurveyGizmo – a powerful online integrated survey tool

Tip Nine

WordPress – the world’s favourite web publishing platform

Tip Ten

Twitter

Gephi – a wonderful geeky network visualisation tool

@psychemedia – someone who really knows about gephi – Tony blogs here: http://blog.ouseful.info/

An alternative suggestion from @DrTristanBunn was NodeXL

What can you do?

I want to take part with my class ❯

I want to take part as a scientist ❯

I want to find out about funding I’m a Scientist ❯

What is I’m a Scientist?

I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here is an online activity where school students get to meet and interact with scientists.

It’s a competition between scientists, where the students are the judges.

Students challenge the scientists over intense, fast-paced, online live Chats. Then they Ask the scientists all the questions they want to, and Vote for their favourite scientist to win a prize of £500 to communicate their work with the public.