Global Academic with expertise in Pedagogy, Digital Literacy, & Qualitative Research Methods
As I draft this post, education and life remain disrupted by COVID-19, right now mostly due to the rapidly spreading omicron variant. The University of Rochester’s spring semester has been moved online to help slow the spread in Monroe County, where the 7-day average for new cases has continued to climb to numbers we’ve not…
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…
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…
Last week in Brisbane, Australia, I had the opportunity to participate in the Association of Internet Researchers Conference and the pre-conference gathering of the Young, Creative, Connected Network. We met on the beautiful urban Gardens Point campus of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), adjacent to the Botanical Gardens, in Brisbane city center. Both events created…
Just a week after arriving in Semarang, I had the pleasure of giving a keynote at the 8th International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation organized by the English department at UNNES. This is a big event for this department, drawing presenters from around the region, including from Malaysia, Bangladesh, Australia, India, and…