Public Text

Students can earn up to 5 extra credit points by creating a document that communicates their research findings to a broader popular audience. The document may be in one of four formats:

• Online Write-Up
• Infographic
• Podcast Story
• Online Video

Students can use the works in these formats they have identified through their Popular Science Responses as models. To help establish their document's context, students must submit a comment with their submission that includes links to three similar peer popular science pieces.

Public Texts should be informative, cohesive, and engaging for a popular audience. Resources for each format and stock media links are provided below.

• Online Write-Up

  • Canvas text entry assignment instructions
  • Word for the web
  • Google Docs
    
    

• Infographic

  • Spark infographic templates
  • Canva
  • Piktochart
  • Easelly
  • Infogram
  • Venngage
    
    

• Podcast Story

  • NPR's Starting Your Podcast: A Guide For Students
  • Anchor
  • Audacity (and Audacity portable)
    • Audacity user's manual
    • Audacity tutorials
  • Audition
    • Creating podcasts using Audition tutorial
    • Create your own podcast Audition how-to
    • Audition tutorials
      
      

• Online Video

• Spark
• Premiere Rush
  
  

• Stock Media

  • Creative Commons Search (images)
  • Unsplash (images)
  • Pexels (images)
  • Pixabay (images)
  • Barnimages (images)
  • ccMixter (background music)
  • Freesound (sound effects)