Global Academic
Bringing the Warner Writing Camp model to FBS to build community Last week, Puji and I, with logistical help from a committee of her colleagues and with generous financial support from AMINEF/Fulbright host engagement project funds, introduced UNNES Faculty of Languages and Arts (FBS) to the Warner Writing Camp model. Back at the University of…
How’s the food over there? Are you able to get what you need, especially given your diet? What do you miss most from home? What are your favorite Indonesian foods? I get these kinds of questions often, and this entry shares some of my responses. A true joy of travel involves sampling foods from different…
Since coming to Indonesia in September, I’ve been connecting with and learning from university lecturers and students, teachers and young people in elementary, junior high, and senior high school classrooms, fanfiction writers, pre-service teachers, policy academy instructors, concerned parents, literacy researchers and more – and when I tell them that I study young people’s digital…
A Warner School – Fulbright Reunion One weekend last month (14 – 18 November) provided an opportunity that Puji and I had been looking forward to for a while – a chance for us to visit Yanti Sri Rezeki in her city/university! It was a reunion of three University of Rochester/Warner School Fulbrighters – as…
I am thrilled to be able to report that last week, Puji and I began collecting data for our research project: The Digital Literacies of Indonesian Secondary Students: An Exploration to Inform Their Educators. After many delays, we were able to get into two junior high schools and one senior high school on Thursday and…
What I’m learning from all of these opportunities to share and connect with researchers, students, teachers, and teacher educators To say that I’ve had a busy speaking schedule since starting this adventure in the Southern Hemisphere might be as much of an understatement as saying that the climate here in Java is “warm.” It started…
The Critical Processes of Negotiating Access and Developing Understanding “All research protocols and permission documents will be created and translated into Indonesian, and human subjects research approval will be secured, prior to departure.” (Lammers, 2018, p. 3 of Fulbright Project Statement) I had such a lofty plan for what the timeline of my research in…
One of my English department colleagues here at UNNES graciously invited me to attend the wedding reception for his niece a couple of weeks ago. What an amazing opportunity for another cultural experience here in Indonesia! On a hot Sunday afternoon, hundreds of us gathered under tents in the family’s neighborhood to celebrate the marriage…
There’s nothing better than working with a room full of educators trying to make connections between research and their practice! Saturday was the UNNES English Department’s free workshop for local teachers, an annual service project that connects the research and practice of the university with educators from around the area. Working together with the committee,…
Speaking with a group of future language teachers Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet with a class of undergraduate language teaching students here at UNNES – they were in a class called “Teaching Indonesian to Foreigners.” I was invited by their teacher, and my language tutor, Ibu Wati, to talk with them about American…