Master the feedback process to improve your own work, strengthen your science communication team, and make yourself an invaluable collaborator.
Giving and receiving feedback is one of the most important parts of any creative process, but we rarely talk about how to develop your skills at these two essential processes. Receiving feedback can be challenging: it's difficult to hear criticism of your work, and proposed changes can often be hard to understand. Understanding where feedback comes from and how you can employ it is the quickest way to improve your entire creative process and cultivate a collaborative environment for your whole team.
At the same time, recognizing the challenges of receiving feedback allows you to give much better feedback, as well. Knowing your limitations as a reviewer and appreciating the impact your notes will have makes your feedback more precise, more productive, and much easier to implement.
This workshop will give you new tools to think about giving and receiving feedback that will make you a better science communicator and collaborator. These tools are applicable across any media, and we'll use examples from video, podcasts, and print media. Students will also have a chance to bring their own short samples to apply these techniques right away.
Key Learning Objectives
- New ways to approach reviewing and giving notes on creative science communication work
- How to communicate your feedback effectively and constructively
- Interpret and implement feedback from others, even when you receive conflicting notes
- Better ways to collaborate
Who Should Register?
Anyone who produces or provides feedback on creative science communication work; creators, reviewers, and collaborators. SciComm professionals at any level and background knowledge will find this course of value.
Instructor
Andrew Sobey
Andrew is a Washington, DC based filmmaker and science communicator. His nonfiction and experimental work has screened at film festivals around the world, including Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Rooftop Films Summer Series, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Athens International Film + Video Festival, and many others. He is a Supervising Producer for American Chemical Society's Reactions, a PBS Digital Studios series, and Headline Science. He has previously been a City of Bothell Arts Commissioner, host of the Seattle Documentary Filmmakers Happy Hour, Projects Director for Seattle Arts Nonprofit One Reel, and Editor & Animator at Laundry Service. You can see his work at http://www.andrewsobey.com/
