Podcast Idea

Adobe Flash Player sounds like a fun tool to use in order to put on an animated skit of some sort to spread the word of science. I feel like we could make a short YouTube clip that would have a central narrator or character finding out information about science that is not commonly known, but information that would be valuable and of great interest to the public. I also thought we could maybe use Facebook in order to make a site of some sort that people could follow, update and comment on in order to keep the talk going about science.

After reading through some of the great podcast ideas from my peers I have thought of a few of my own. I really liked the "student survey" idea of making a short "vod"-cast (sorry sara) with clips that are very brief but give off a common impression. Maybe having a few scientifically-focused questions asked to people around campus that are commonly misunderstood by the public. Pose the question in the beginning of the scene, then show what everyones' two second answer is, and then show the truth, whatever that may be, and then show some reactions. I thought this might be good because if there are misconceptions about science, health, the swine flu, whatever, we could set the record straight while at the same time put it all in a vodcast to spread the word about science. I think its important to find information that would be shocking to most so they will be tempted to spread the word. It could potentially spread depending on what information we could dig up. It would be best to have something that most people believe as common knowledge or what would produce common assumptions that we can then prove wrong.