Course description

This is a free two and a half hour course that provides an introduction to storytelling and gives practical tools to shape narratives to communicate about and engage with citizen science. Citizen science is  a form of active public engagement in science.

This course is designed to inspire and support anyone interested in creating a compelling story out of their projects, experiences or work, with the purpose of connecting with different audiences. We want to ignite your curiosity and motivation to try storytelling in your local contexts. No prior knowledge in storytelling or creative writing  is needed for this course. 

This course will give you the ground and tools to look in a different way at how you can communicate about your current project and how to craft a story that matters and connects to different audiences. It will also provide examples of stories and resources for you to study further and deeper. 

By the end of this course, you will:

• Understand the value of stories and how they can help you connect with people when using it for communicating citizen science; 
• Identify the elements that make a compelling story and be able to discover them in your project or your experiences
• Explore possible narratives that are valuable to your context
• Craft possible plots and stories and a way to share them in a compelling way.

At the end of the course, there is a 10-question quiz. If you score 50% or more in this final quiz, then you will earn a course completion badge.

Click here to enrol in this course and use enrolment key StoryCitSci to do so. Once you enrol you will be able to take quizzes and receive a badge upon successful course completion.