Teachings

We develop and teach workshops on topics such as science communication, infographics, visual language, videography, smartphone videography and so on.

What we did:
Development workshop
Teaching
Mentoring

Workshops

Our team was invited as guest lecturers to the ‘Agroecologists without borders' course, D-USYS, spring semester 2024. We have conducted four workshops on various topics such as ‘Infographics and EcoDesign’ for lecturers and ‘Storytelling’, ‘Infographics’ and ‘Smartphone Videography in Science Visualisation’ for students.

Infographics for Lectures/Students

Video workshop for ‘Open Access Audio-Visual Archive in Animal Sciences’ project with student teaching assistants.

Storytelling for Students

Graphical Abstract for the Graduate Collective Workshop

Teachings Labs

(currently in development)

The Edumedia is currently developing several so called “Teaching Labs”. The courses will be open to everyone at ETH and they will be facilitated as hybrid formats.

The second part of the courses will consist of hands-on implementation workshops:

When finished the first part of the Teaching Lab,
ETH teachers can apply to the second part with:

  1. Hands-on bottlenecks out of the classroom

  2. Concrete ideas out of their discipline

  3. Innovative first thoughts on how to create innovative media material or learning activities for their teaching.

The first part of the LET “Teaching Labs” will be open online and self-paced for all ETH teachers.

The courses from the EduMedia will have a strong focus on:

  1. Media competencies and future digital skills

  2. Applied media studies and educational theory

  3. AI and visualizations

  4. Skills and know-how for own media productions such as smartphone videography, simple animations, science educational visualizations

  5. Science & educational videos

  • Images, data and infographics are essential in science communication. But how do I choose or produce the right image or infographic for my research? And how do I visualize my data convincingly?

  • Everything we see and hear in the web is either based on audio or visual informations. If the two of them come together - audiovisual - then we talk about video, film or other moving image formats. The diversity of these formats are immense and are continously increasing with new technology and storytelling.

    How can we at ETH embrass into this diverse world of audio and visual formats? What can we adapt and use in our daily lives as teachers and scientists at ETH?

  • The smartphone as a film instrument. What and how can I get most out of my smartphone for filming? How do I easily create videos with my phone? And what tipps and tricks exist to create simple but beautiful camera images and movements?

  • How can you create simple but powerful animation videos for your teaching?

  • Visualizing Science

    ETH Communication Academy: One day workshop for researchers and teachers to explore new ways of science communication for research and education.

    Workshop will happen again in Fall 23, please check Communication Academy Websites for deadlines.

  • Didactica: Visual Storytelling for Education

    Recurring didactica course at ETH/USZ on visual storytelling for science education. Next course in Fall 23. https://www.didactica.ethz.ch/

  • D-USYS Umweltsysteme Tiktok-like Videos for Science Communication

    B.A. students of D-USYS produce tiktok-like shortest shorts for science communication.

    Guest lecture on the history and future of science videos We accompany and mentoring all student groups in their own first science video production.