<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">New England Aquarium and Buttonwood Park Zoo are partnering to offer a unique one-day climate communication training using specially designed visual narratives. Read on!</span><br></div><div style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:15px;margin:0px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px"><strong>Visualize Change...</strong></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px">...and learn ways you and your team can engage audiences with topics of climate and ocean change-</div><ul style="padding-left:20px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px"><li style="margin-left:15px">using narratives with global data visuals.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">using the best practices based on targeted social and cognitive research.</li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px"><strong><u>When, Where and Who</u></strong></p><ul style="padding-left:20px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px"><li style="margin-left:15px"><strong>April 28, 9:00-4:00 - </strong>Buttonwood Park Zoo, New Bedford, MA </li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px"><strong><u>What</u></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px">You can expect to gain:</p><ul style="padding-left:20px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px"><li style="margin-left:15px">Four <em>visual narratives</em>, suitable to be used on a spherical screen (such as Science on a Sphere®, Magic Planet®, or HyperGlobe®), flat screen, or handheld tablet.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Theory, based on social and cognitive sciences, used to develop the <em>visual narratives</em>.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Opportunities to practice and models for training other colleagues to use these materials.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">A toolkit to take back to your institution - including the four <em>visual narratives</em>, background information about the theoretical basis for each narrative, relevant climate and ocean science information and videos that illustrate each visual narrative being used by an educator.</li></ul><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px"><strong><u>About Visualizing Change: Training and Tools to support Informal Educators</u></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px">Visualizing Change is a 3-year grant funded by NOAA’s Office of Education to help build capacity in the informal science education field to more effectively use global data sets to communicate about climate change, its impact on coastal zones and marine life and how people are working to use scientific information to shape our world.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px"><strong><u>How</u></strong></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px">To register, please use the link (<a href="http://goo.gl/forms/MA06fb0QVl" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/forms/MA06fb0QVl</a>) and we will be in touch!</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:LatoRegular,Lato,Arial;font-size:20px;line-height:27.5px">This is a FREE one-day workshop. Lunch will be provided. Participants are responsible for travel costs. </p></div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr"><div>Annette Brickley<br>Science Education Consultant</div><div>New Bedford, MA<br><a href="tel:207-951-6273" value="+12079516273" target="_blank">207-951-6273</a> (mobile)<br></div></div></font></span></div></div></div></div>
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