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title: 'PSY1018 Scientific Communication Workshop (Wednesday (9/14) 3pm-4:15pm)'

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# PSY1018 Scientific Communication Workshop (Wednesday (9/14) 3pm-4:15pm)

<span style="color:grey">Topic:</span>   Science communication and preparation for final projects

<span style="color:grey"><span style="color:grey">Theme:</span>  </span>  Visual communication

For the purpose of the workshop, students had to read in advance a paper titled: *A pilot choral intervention in individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum conditions; Singing away loneliness* by Laura H. Adery and Sohee Park  (2022). So, what is actually a paper? A combination of text and images. How are text and images structured, and how could they be structured differently? Let’s conceptualize what it is we are trying to make.

<span style="color:grey">Overview of the elements of a video essay:</span>  For example, a recurrent pattern or a trope, split screen, annotation, etc. Every visual conveys information. The human brain can attend to images and words simultaneously, as opposed to its inability to follow multiple texts.

Example of past paper prototypes – and how these can be remade in iMovie using stock footage. Canva is another video editing tool. You can easily create a video in Canva by selecting a background, uploading audio, and using the Canva available stock footage. 

<span style="color:grey">Q:</span>    Can you combine Canva and iMovie?

<span style="color:grey">Hands-on workshop: </span> Paper prototyping. The table is a stage, and each element is a character.

<span style="color:grey">Exercise:  </span> Collaborative tournament 3 songs time (approx.10 minutes). In pairs, select a work table and develop visuals to illustrate an excerpt from the paper, and then practice presenting before another pair. There are four excerpts corresponding to the 4 different parts of the paper INTRO/ METHODS/ RESULTS/ DISCUSSION.

<span style="color:grey">Tools: </span> Scissors, color paper, markers.

<span style="color:grey">Round 1 </span>  — Live discussion tournament practicing presenting before another group and then deciding which group performed better and who should continue to the next round.

<span style="color:grey">Round 2 </span> — Each table should choose 1 team to proceed.

<span style="color:grey">Round 3 </span> — Final presentations of the winning group from the INTRO/ METHODS/ RESULTS/ DISCUSSION tables.

<span style="color:grey">Takeaway: </span>  Using visuals as tools, as a visual schema to lead the presentation, rather than just reading the text.
