Thinking about Timothy Snyder’s “Don’t obey in advance”
This might be the most powerful message I have ever come across, or maybe I just heard it at the right time, but Timothy Snyder’s “Don’t obey in advance” resonates…
Category: pondering
On writing my teaching portfolio
About a year ago, I started writing a teaching portfolio to apply for LTH’s “pedagogical academy”, which, when successful, comes with the title of “excellent teaching practitioner” (ETP). During the…
Rambling a bit about why I am blogging, and about why I love watching Latte (#kitchenoceanography, of course!)
So, for anyone coming to this blog post because of the nice stratification you see at the bottom of the latte in the picture above — do you know the…
Blogging hiatus. Or: If there was a law against blogging about oceanography, would you protest it?
Some of you have noticed that during January and February, I did not write a single blog post. The reason for that is that I was sick. Sick enough to…
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning – torn between the scholars and the teachers
On finding my role in my new job. As many of you know, I’ve changed jobs a couple of months ago, and I am now in a position where I…
Happy half Birthday!
Adventures in Teaching and Oceanography has been around for a full 6 months today! Adventures in Teaching and Oceanography has been around for a full 6 months today! Can you…
Help! Equation of State?
Is there an equation of state for hypersaline water at very cold temperatures? A friend of mine is looking to calculate changes in density of a hypersaline Antarctic lake from summer…
Oceanographer at heart.
Happy Valentine’s day! The rose is red, the violet’s blue, The honey’s sweet, and so are you. […] I originally wrote this post to announce me starting my new job. I…
Oceanographic concepts and language (part 4)
On how it always helps to speak the same mother tongue as your teacher. As you might have realized from previous discussion on the topic of oceanography and language (part…
Letter tubes and hydrostatic pressure
How less than 25% of the tested students give consistent answers to these problems. This is already the third blog post talking about the paper “Identifying and addressing student difficulties…
Cartesian divers – theoretical considerations
A bit more reflection on cartesian divers. When I wrote the two previous posts, I had known cartesian divers for a very long time in many contexts, for example as…
Oceanographic concepts and language (part 3)
What level of proficiency do you need to communicate about science? This post is not strictly about oceanography, but I started thinking about it in the context of a class…
Oceanographic concepts and language (part 2)
How to make lectures in a foreign language less scary for the students. The class that I have until recently taught in Bergen, GEOF130, is taken by students in oceanography…
Student cruises (part 5 of many, or – thank you to a great mentor)
The first student cruise I ever taught while being taught by one of the greatest teachers myself. As you might have noticed from the last four or so blog posts,…
Oceanographic concepts and language (part 1)
About teaching in a language that is a foreign language for both your students and yourself. Most of my teaching so far has happened in English to mainly non-native English…
Dangers of blogging, or ice cubes melting in fresh water and salt water
When students have read blog posts of mine before doing experiments in class, it takes away a lot of the exploration. Since I was planning to blog about the CMM31…