accessibility – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Playing with simulations of dyslexia, colorblindness, and more

mglessmer — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:03:33 +0000

We want new engaging web content for the Inclusive LU project, and I wanted to try how easy it really is to use AI for coding (turns out: very!), so I have built a page that — at first glance — looks exactly like this post, but when you hover different sections, things start happening. […]

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Now published: The book “Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences”!

mglessmer — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:52:01 +0000

Feels like a very long time ago, but Kjersti, Hans-Christian and myself contributed two vignettes to the book “Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences“, which has now become available! Considerably longer versions of what we ended up being able to publish in our vignettes are available on my blog: “Fieldwork bingo cards” (Daae […]

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“The importance of the room” — thoughts on a presentation by Marie Leijon today

mglessmer — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:15:56 +0000

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 at LU, and I am very glad I did! So many things to think about! Since the presentation was in Swedish and I cannot yet […]

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Thinking about “Universal Design for Learning”

mglessmer — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:16:33 +0000

Something that has been on my mind a lot lately is how to make learning situations welcoming and accessible to all students. A very obvious response is to the “accessible” side of things is to think about UDL: “Universal Design for Learning” (Brand et al., 2012). The general idea is that, instead of making accommodations […]

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