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December 12, 2018
Dr. G’s #AGU18 Spotlight – Thriving Earth Exchange Story Slam
“AGUs Thriving Earth Exchange is when scientific knowledge and community wisdom come together, where scientists do not stand for people but stand along side them. This is new – this is a movement.”
July 17, 2018
Stitching Hope for the Coast – communicating coastal optimism for Louisiana
We’re asking anyone to knit, crochet, quilt… create anything with yarn or fabric that represents hope for the Louisiana coast. We’re creating a group on Ravelry, have a website (http://tinyurl.com/stitchingcoast) and hashtag (#stitchingcoast) ready to go, and now, we just need needleworkers! It doesn’t matter the age or level of ability or where you live.
March 27, 2014
TEDx says get ready… but keep your device off
I’m off to TEDxPhiladelphia tomorrow. I am ready to be inspired by speakers with solutions to great challenges and innovative ideas. I have attended and blogged about previous TEDxPhilly and TEDxPhiladelphiaEd events, and I always bring away great stories to share with students. I have been receiving many emails leading up the event with suggestions that I dress casual, pack light, and then there’s this: Unplug » Sounds crazy to us, too …
March 26, 2014
2014 TLT Symposium at Penn State
Another year, another great Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium (known as the TLT Symposium) held at Penn State! This is “the” event for faculty, graduate students, and instructional designers from across all campuses of the university to come together to share their best practices and innovative approaches to using technology in the classroom – whether that classroom be face-to-face, blended, or fully online. I blogged about the TLT Symposium …
March 20, 2014
From TED: 3 rules to spark learning
Ramsey Musallam’s TED talk is described as the following: “It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of “pseudo-teaching” to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules to spark imagination and learning, and get students excited about how the world works.” What the description does not share is that he …
March 16, 2014
Taking Google Earth beyond the “dirt”
In 2006, oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle had a conversation with the Google Earth and Maps director that set our Google views on an exciting path forward. Dr. Earle stated (in her words from a blog post): “You should call Google Earth ‘Google Dirt’. What about the ¾ of the planet that is blue?” Zip forward to February 2009, when Google launched Ocean in Google Earth which now allows us to …
March 15, 2014
Different tech tools used to find missing Malaysia Airlines jet
It is when events such as the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 remind us of large our planet is and the challenges of exploration – or in this case, pinpointing the location for rescue/recovery of this plane and the 239 people on board (as I write this post, the flight has been missing for eight days). There was one report that a crash site had been determined through …
February 18, 2014
My first run with Nearpod
Today was a really special (and exhausting!) day for me. I spent the day in the classroom of a good friend and colleague, Theresa Lewis-King. Theresa teaches at AMY Northwest, a middle school in Philadelphia. Last fall, Theresa wrote a mini-grant and obtained three iPad minis for her classroom. She knows I use technology with my students, and she was looking for ideas of how to use the iPads in …
February 2, 2014
GoldieBlox is back – thanks to online voting
Last year, I wrote a blog post about GoldieBlox and the use of a Beastie Boys song to promote their toys to help girls develop an early interest in engineering (see Is a parody copyright infringement or fair use?). The chatter about GoldieBlox company diminished in the news – but then, it has come back in a big way – with its own Super Bowl commercial! Thanks to Intuit and …
January 30, 2014
Pick A Student
Picture this… you are sitting in class, taking notes while the professor is lecturing, and then, she pauses and turns to the class to ask a question. She is waiting for an answer. What do you do? You avoid eye contact so that she doesn’t call on you. You bury your head in your laptop, or you start texting on your cell phone… Sound familiar? So, how is the faculty …
Laura Guertin is a Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences at Penn State Brandywine in Media, PA. Her research focuses on how technology can enhance teaching and student learning in introductory-level geoscience courses for non-science majors. Her blog focuses on geoscience education/outreach, science communication, and technology tools in the classroom, online, and in the field.