Prof. Dawn R. Bazely: An Idle

  Apurba Koley                 

World is too small than the imagination of a student, when I heard this I thought what a stupid quote! I think imagination of a student who belonging from a Bengali medium just a valueless dream. I always assumed to show off my imagination because I have some fear that if I’m wrong every one laugh at me, some time I also thought that is there any value of my imagination? My fear and assumption always make a question mark. After meet Prof. Dawn. R. Bazely , I got inspired and came to know something new that help me to improve my skills. Luckily we got her about 3 months as our teacher, that was a short time but we learned a lot from her. She contributes a lot to our department in the field of education and Science Communication. She has changed our mindset towards study by telling us ways for effective learning about Canadian Biodiversity and Science Communication. We also enjoyed a nice tour to Durgapur Steel Plant with her and migratory bird watching to Ballavpur Wildlife Sanctuary. At first we came to know about Unconference and how it helps to gather great ideas. We learnt how Blogging, Twittering, Instagram are used in Science Communication and how Wikipedia pages can be edited.

What is Science? We gave her big definitions of it but she described science through Cooking. That was a simple speech to understand science. 

About Unconferences

The topic of our Unconference is Science Communication. We made different groups to discuss each different kind of science communication method and questions. We used Sticky note for note our ideas. Five Sticky notes were taken by everyone and wrote different thinking about science communication on each note. It was very interesting.




Strategies for improving PowerPoint  presentations

We learned various skills to improve our PowerPoint Presentations. Presentations containing picture is more attractive. It is difficult to read the slides and hear speech at same time. So we should  make the PowerPoint using  more picture that emphasizes  the speech that is easily  understandable to listeners. 

According to Dawn di “the less  word and more pictures make  your presentation more interesting”. And one more thing, we should add take home massage at the end of the presentation. 

Wikipedia Editing

We all accessed Wikipedia for various information but we don’t know that we can edit the Wikipedia pages. It was so interesting. We made Wikipedia accounts and posted pictures on Wikimedia commons. We also edit a Wikipedia page.

Really, I never can forget those moments with her. She would be our teacher forever and would be in our memory as well. She is very appreciative and inspiring in nature. She is very responsible and supported me a lot in completing my works.

I also want to thank Prof. Shibani Chowdhury to give us this opportunity and also
Dr. S. Balachandran to helps us to apply the skills in our courses that we learned from her.