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…
Tag: Keynote
Why I Plan to Keep Talking about Digital Literacies in Indonesia
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…
Remembering a Jam-Packed Weekend in Pontianak
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…
International Public Lectures, Plenary Speeches, and Workshops, oh my!
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…
Reflections on Indonesian Research Conference Culture
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…