Podcast recommendation: The Broken Copier!
Some time at the end of last year, I came across something on Marcus Luther’s BlueSky that stuck with me. It was something related to his slow reading of “Becoming…
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My learning diary for the MOOC “Paths of transformation: sustainability in higher education”
When my friend Robert sent me the link to a MOOC on “Paths of Transformation: Sustainability in Higher Education” (in German only, sorry!) yesterday, I jumped at the opportunity to…
Developing “principles for quality education” to guide course development. Where does one even start?
I’ve been feeling inspired by Karolinska Institutet’s “Principles for Quality Education“, and I would like to develop something similar for my own work, and the group I work in. I…
Some thoughts on yesterday’s Grand Seminar “Exploring the complexities and potentials of environmental communication”
Yesterday, I attended the Grand Seminar on “Exploring the complexities and potentials of environmental communication” organised by LU Sustainability Forum, BECC and MERGE at Lund University that my friend Terese…
Project presentations in the “Inclusive Classroom” course today
I am just coming home after the final presentations in the course “The Inclusive Classroom – UDL”, and this afternoon was the absolutely perfect example of why Lund University needs…
Teaching about, with, in, through, for sustainability?
This morning on the bus I was browsing bluesky, and came across a post by Kyle Bartlett, suggesting a framework for how to think about Education for Sustainable Development with,…
Thinking about neuropsychiatric disabilities and inclusive teaching after a seminar today
In today’s third meeting of the “Inclusive Lund University” course, Linda Stjernholm talked about “neuropsychiatric disabilities and inclusive teaching”.
“The importance of the room” — thoughts on a presentation by Marie Leijon today
Today, I spent my lunch break in an online presentation on “the importance of the room” given by Marie Leijon from Malmö University as part of the “Accessibility Tuesday” series…
Rethinking student belonging and well-being at universities
A couple of days ago, I attended the workshop “Rethinking student belonging and well-being at universities” (recording available here) organised by the Erasmus+ project BELONG. Here are some thoughts!
My summary of a seminar about learning support for students with disabilities at LU
This afternoon, we had the second seminar in the “Inclusive Classroom” course, this time on “learning support for students with disabilities at LU”. Emma Carlsson and Philip Johansson visited us…
Taking the course “Climate Activism 101”
I am taking the open “Climate Activism 101” course, organised by Robert Kordts for Scientist Rebellion Bergen. Here, I am summarising my impressions and take-aways from the first meeting today!
Kick-off of “Inclusive Classroom (UDL)” course
New academic year, new courses starting! Today, the “Inclusive Classroom (UDL)” course, that I am involved with together with Lotta Åbjörnsson and Håkan Eftring. My role is mostly to give…
Using Kate Raworth’s “doughnut of social and planetary boundaries” to kickstart sustainability conversations?
I am really late to the party of “doughnut economics”, but I just discovered this great conversation starter on sustainability!
#WaveWatchingWednesday
Here comes the recap of two very exciting trips: To the 31nd AIDA World Championship in Pool Freediving, and to Kreidesee in Germany, where we did some freediving ourselves. Enjoy!
Reflections on “How do I cultivate a sense of joy, passion, and purpose in my teaching, and how do I share that with my students?”
Mark Carrigan recently asked quesions for a reflective teaching practice on his blog, and one really resonated with me: “How do I cultivate a sense of joy, passion, and purpose…
Reflections on a seminar on “Introducing Sustainability Competencies”
This morning, I participated in an online seminar on “Introducing Sustainability Competencies”, run by my awesome colleagues Steven Curtis and Terese Thoni. Here are my reflections (and if you are…
The paradoxes we are confronted with when teaching for sustainability, and attempts at dealing with them, using Liberating Structures
Today, I tried two new “liberating structures” in my “teaching for sustainability” course: First the “Wicked Questions“, where we surfaced some “opposing-yet-complimentary” strategies that we need to pursue simultaneously to…
Exploring another serious game for teaching for sustainability
Yesterday evening I joined a group of 14 teachers who met up to learn from, and support, our colleague, Ester Barinaga, who wanted to try a new game for teaching…
Thinking about presents?
How about giving books about waves or the ocean to your loved ones? We have an illustrated book about waves specifically for kids, or a photo guide to wave watching…
An office as an analogy to explain the three brain functions
In last week’s seminar on inclusive teaching, Louise Morreau, psychologist at the student health services at Lund University, gave an inspiring presentation and used such a great image to talk…
Recommended watching: The myth of average (Todd Rose)
I recently watched “the myth of average” by Todd Rose, and he makes the most convincing argument for not designing teaching for “the average student” in hopes of that making…
Very preliminary thoughts on AI tools and teaching
This morning, I attended Rachel Forsyth’s presentation on “Handling the impact of AI tools: LU working group recommendations”, and here are some notes.
10 years of “Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching”!
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of my blog, “Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching”! This blog is a pretty detailed documentation of my development as a teacher over the last…
Dive camp bingo
While on the Bingo trip to nudge people (see here for example for fieldwork activities for students, or Universal Design for Learning for teachers), why not make one for the…
About my “Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching“
Welcome to my blog, where I mostly write about Interesting ideas on learning and teaching: I write about my own ideas and experiences, but also about literature, conversations, conferences, … that…
Learning and Teaching
For all of you who don’t fancy wading though wave watching and kitchen oceanography blog posts in search of those posts on teaching and learning in higher education (I usually…
MPOWIR webinar on “career pathways combining education with oceanography”
For all of you who prefer reading a short-ish blogpost over listening to a nervous Mirjam on a recorded video call on “Career pathways combining education with oceanography“: Read the…
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Exciting life update! Joining GFI as adj assoc prof! :-)
It’s been in the making for a while, but I am super excited to announce that I will be joining the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen as an…
Pop-up beach walk
Strong west winds aren’t the best for traditional wave watching on the east coast, but we got beaches in places where we usually don’t have them! Pretty exciting, especially since…
#DryTheory2JuicyReality featured in our university’s newspaper!
We’ve had a busy couple of weeks at #DryTheory2JuicyReality with our new rotating table, our seminar presentation last week, attending BOOT in Düsseldorf, and more, all in the name of…
Happy #CTDAppreciationDay!
For #CTDAppreciationDay, I am re-sharing a video that Sindre Skrede (find him on twitter or vimeo for many more exciting pictures and movies!) and I made in 2011 (!!). I am still super…
Burning soap bubbles
The other day I was thinking about fun experiments to do on a Birthday party for kids (won’t spoiler here whose kid that might be, and also, coincidentally, it was…
Networking event for online science communicators tomorrow!
Anticipation is rising, just one more sleep and then it’s finally here! The networking event for online science communicators that Alice (see her blog, twitter, Instagram — see, we are serious…
#DropPhotography. Art or physics? Art AND physics!
When I take pictures of drops, they look like the picture below (which I showed in a blogpost yesterday), but I see tons of physics everywhere. Ring-shaped waves! Drops jumping…
Favourite quote by Miriam Goldstein: “The ocean is strong and powerful and it likes to rip things up”
I am so lazy (or so efficient?) that even my doodles are multi purpose. Like this one, which is one of my three favourite ocean-related quotes I promised to illustrate…
New favourite ocean quote: You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop
As part of my blog’s 6th Birthday celebration, I asked you to submit your favourite ocean quotes so I could illustrate them for you. This is what Benjamin suggested (and…
Six years of “Adventures in oceanography and teaching” today!
Celebrate with me by sending me your favourite ocean-themed quote and I will illustrate my three favourites and mail them to you as postcards! To motivate myself to start sketching…
Vorticity and Rossby waves
Usually when we talk about waves on this blog, we talk about surface- or sometimes internal waves, but my waves almost always oscillate vertically. Today, we’ll mix things up a…
New role: Associate Editor at Frontiers for Young Minds!
When I meet new people and am asked the compulsory “and what do you do?” question, I sometimes struggle to answer. I am wearing so many different hats! Depending on…
Foggy morning in Kiel and thoughts on the accessibility of the images I post
I don’t want to do the actual statistics, but it feels like most of what I post is completely dependent on people being able to see the images I post.…
Understanding ocean physics using different senses: Making waves in a sandpit
For me, participating in the Science in Public conference was so inspiring! Not only because of the conference itself, but also because of the people I met there. In a…
Funded! “Ocean currents in a tank: from dry theory to juicy reality”
Remember how Joke, Torge and I were working on building an affordable, home-made rotating tank to use in ocean dynamics teaching only last weekend? That session was inspired by a proposal that…
Photo comics for scicomm from the central Greenland ice sheet? Yes, please!
Do you remember how I started experimenting with an app that made sketches from photos to see if reading waves might be easier from sketches than from photos? (Btw, approximately…
“Live rich now”: advice by Marie Forleo and David Bach, and how it relates to my life
On living the dream — and getting there, through the nightmare (ok, not quite as dramatic, but you get the idea) I’ve been a fan of Marie Forleo‘s for many…
5 years of blogging on “Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching” today!
5 years of “Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching”! Today I am celebrating my blog’s 5th Birthday! 5 years of documenting my “Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching”. That feels both like…
Awesome outreach collaboration to continue: We won a Bjerknes Visiting Fellowship 2018!
We are excited and grateful for a great opportunity for continued collaboration that has recently presented itself: Elin won a Bjerknes Visiting Fellowship 2018 for me to visit her and…
Volcano tour on Terceira
This is neither “oceanography” nor “teaching”, but so much “adventure” that these pictures still deserve their spot on “Adventures in oceanography and teaching”. I did a tour into two (non-active…
Discovering Google Earth Engine
Remember we did an expedition learning course in Kiel bight a while ago? I wish I had known about Google Earth Engine then already. Even without signing up (which I will do as soon as…
Huckepack
Absolutely fascinating to watch: The German Maritime Search and Rescue Service’s tug driving up on one of their larger vessels. Good thing I volunteered to watch all our equipment at the…
The blogging hiatus
You may or may not have noticed that my usually very regular blogging has been sporadic at best for a while, and that currently I am blogging a lot more…
Asymmetric propeller blades
On a recent flight to Copenhagen (actually, to Bergen, but that’s another story) I happened to sit with a great view of one of the plane’s propellers. And it struck…
Happy Birthday, dear blog!
Wow, three years ago on this day I started this blog, and this blog post is post no 477. Can you believe that! And even though I had planned to take the…
A touristy post about my trip to Heligoland
I recently went on a trip to Heligoland, Germany’s only island that is far away from the mainland (70 km in this case). It was a great trip, and I…
Home-Made Geophysical “Globes”
Today I am excited to share with you a guest post about a super cool tool for geoscience teaching and outreach that I will definitely be using in the future (if…
Why moist air is lighter than dry air.
Why is moist air lighter than dry air? This seems pretty counter-intuitive at first, but then really isn’t. I promised to do a post on why moist air is lighter…
If waves spread equally in all directions, then how come we see linear wakes?
If waves spread equally in each direction along the water’s surface, then how come ships (or ducks) have wakes that are just those long lines of waves and not circular at…
Using art in your science teaching. The why and the how.
Using art in your science teaching. The why and the how. This is a blog post that I wrote for the EGU’s blog’s “educational corner”. Check it out here.
The importance of playing in outreach activities.
Some time ago, I wrote two blog posts on the importance of playing in outreach activities for the EGU’s blog’s “educational corner” GeoEd. Both have now been published, check them…
Judging at a youth science competition. Or: Colourful bubbles!!!
Last week my colleague Uta and I had the pleasure to act as a judges in the largest German youth science competition, “Jugend forscht“. Jugend forscht has been around for…
Producing a MOOC about the ocean
I’ve recently been lucky enough to be involved in the production of the MOOC “One Planet — One Ocean: From Science to Solutions” by the excellence cluster “Future Ocean” in…
A vision for open door classrooms
A vision for open door classrooms. Or maybe a reality in some places already? At the very least something to aspire to! While browsing the materials connected to the #MOOCMOOC, I got…
For the best hands-on outreach experiences, just provide opportunities for playing!
For the best hands-on outreach experiences, just provide opportunities for playing! Have you seen my blog post over at GeoEd on four steps to designing and implementing hands-on outreach activities? Go…
Combining the adventures of an Antarctic research cruise with exercises and experiments for school pupils
Combining the adventures of an Antarctic research cruise with exercises and experiments for school pupils. Are you still reading Elin’s blog? You definitely should! Many new experiments and exercises up…
Designing and delivering instruction “Gagné-style” #MOOCMOOC
Are you interested in learning how to design instruction? Then there is a MOOC that might be really interesting for you! The “MOOC MOOC: Instructional Design” started yesterday, and for…
On being a multipotentialite (did you know the term even existed?)
A slightly different post today to mark the 400th blog post on “adventures in oceanography and teaching” (can you believe it? In words: FOUR HUNDRED!). Since this blog has become…
Why blogging is addictive (for me, at least)
As you might know, I never planned on starting a blog. I just started it on a whim one day, and have been hooked ever since. When I re-read the…
Awesome light fixtures – are my favorite, as is – pretty pink lunch box.
Sorry guys, I don’t have the time to come up with great hands-on experiments right now. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to discover (and a lot of…
Would you believe it? Two years of “adventures in oceanography and teaching” today!
I find it really hard to believe that I have written about my adventures in oceanography and teaching for two years already. And what a journey it has been! It…
Hovmöller diagrams explained
Have you ever wondered how to best explain Hovmöller diagrams? You know, those diagrams that have time on one axis and then longitude or latitude on the other, and that show…
What does the awkward silence mean?
I really want to recommend a blog post by Paul T. Corrigan that I recently read on “Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed”: When students don’t answer a question, what…
300 adventures in oceanography and teaching!
Because I have a blog! Can you believe that this is post no. 300 on “adventures in oceanography and teaching“? That means more than 25.000 views, consistently more than 50 views…
Design of experiment – why?
This is a skill we need to learn a lot more systematically than we currently do! I have recently started working on a small teaching unit on the design of…
Last chance to let me know what ocean/climate demo you would like to see!
Folks, before we are all off to our well-deserved breaks (and I am starting my blogging break early because, you know, life and work and that kind of stuff): Take…
Stages of group development
Why you need a good storm in order to perform with a group. We’ve all made the experience of having to work in groups. Sometimes it is fun, sometimes it…
Set me a challenge: What ocean/climate topic would you like to see a demonstration on?
Really! Let me know what demo you would like to see! It’s officially almost Christmas and I am sure you are looking forward to a bit of a break over…
How to plan a course from scratch
Where do I even start??? A very helpful concept, which is completely contrary to how most people approach course planning, is “backward design”. Instead of looking at all the cool…
Communicating climate change to young people
How do we talk about climate change in a way that will engage young people? I don’t know about you, but I sometimes get slightly tired of talking about climate…