GeoEd

GeoEd: One example of how playing works in outreach activities!

Mirjam S. Glessmer February 26, 2016

For the best hands-on outreach experiences, just provide opportunities for playing! Credit: Mirjam Glessmer

This month’s GeoEd post is brought to you by Dr. Mirjam S. Glessmer. Mirjam, is a physical oceanographer and now works as Coordinator of Teaching Innovation at Hamburg University of Technology. Mirjam blogs about her “Adventures in Teaching and Oceanography” and tweets as @meermini. Get in touch if you are interested in talking about teaching and learning in the geosciences! In my last post, I tal ...[Read More]

GeoEd: For the best hands-on outreach experiences, just provide opportunities for playing!

Mirjam Glessmer January 29, 2016

Mirjam performing a demonstration in front of a group of school-aged children. (Credit: Mirjam Glessmer)

This month’s GeoEd post is brought to you by Dr. Mirjam S. Glessmer. Mirjam, is a physical oceanographer and now works as Coordinator of Teaching Innovation at Hamburg University of Technology. Mirjam blogs about her “Adventures in Teaching and Oceanography” and tweets as @meermini. Get in touch if you are interested in talking about teaching and learning in the geosciences! “For the best hands-on ...[Read More]

A Challenge to communicate

Sam Illingworth December 29, 2015

In this guest post, Sam Illingworth, regular contributor to GeoLog on all things science communication and education, discusses whether it is the responsibility of all geoscientists to communicate their science and research and challenges you to make some time to get involved in public engagement in 2016. As researchers it is very easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of our scientific endeavour ...[Read More]

GeoEd: How do we make climate predictions – An idea for an outreach activity

Mirjam Glessmer November 27, 2015

Icebergs . Credit: Caroline Schmidt (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This month’s GeoEd post is brought to you by Dr. Mirjam S. Glessmer. Mirjam is a physical oceanographer, who during her PhD at GEOMAR Kiel, Germany, became more and more interested in understanding how people learn and hence did a Masters of Higher Education in parallel to her PhD. During her PostDoc at the University of Bergen, Norway, she became involved in teaching both university courses, teac ...[Read More]