by Lev Horodyskyj and Roberto Greco | 3 October 2023 | Field Notes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Sustainable States: Brazil Tags: Over the past few years, we’ve been developing and running Sustainable States (formerly Greenworks Games), an environmental diplomacy role-playing game. Originally slated to take place between Indonesian students and American...
by Lev Horodyskyj and Roberto Greco | 26 September 2023 | Field Notes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Designing Better Student Projects Tags: The point of education is to provide students with knowledge and skills that they can use to build successful lives and societies. But we often fall short in accomplishing that goal by limiting our teaching to transmitting...
by Lev Horodyskyj and Roberto Greco | 12 September 2023 | Field Notes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Deep Field Outreach Tags: It was rainy and dark by the time we arrived at our destination deep in the Atlantic Forest of São Paulo state, Brazil. Most of the road from Campinas, where we work as visiting faculty (Lev) and associate professor (Roberto) at the...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 3 August 2021 | Field Notes, University of the Virgin Islands
Lack of Curiosity Killed Schrödinger’s Cat Tags: The grand finale of my modeling lab sequence at the University of the Virgin Islands in spring 2021 was going to be a 3D model of the orbitals of the hydrogen atom. Although often portrayed as tiny balls orbiting...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 15 June 2021 | Field Notes, University of the Virgin Islands
@Home Modeling Tags: Imagine that you’re taking a movie-making course. On the first day, you learn that movie-making requires writing a script, auditioning actors, framing your shots, editing, audio remixing, special effects, post-production, and distribution. ...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 12 January 2021 | Field Notes, University of the Virgin Islands
Home Labs Tags: US Virgin Islands | USA Labs. They are often a dreaded component of science courses. They tend to be long, highly technical, and not particularly creative either in terms of experimental approaches or report write-ups (not if you want a good grade,...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 5 January 2021 | Field Notes, University of the Virgin Islands
Observation Journals Tags: US Virgin Islands | USA A new chapter begins at the University of the Virgin Islands on St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Quality online science teaching has always been difficult, even more so during a global health emergency. What can make...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 21 April 2020 | Field Notes, Universitas Khairun
Infrastructure Gap Tags: Indonesia My Fulbright field location, Khairun University in North Maluku, Indonesia, was a deliberate choice. When I initially applied for the program, I had intended to work on an island on the outskirts of mainstream Indonesian society,...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 14 April 2020 | Field Notes, Universitas Khairun
Eastern Indonesian Classroom Experience Tags: Indonesia I discovered I would be teaching my first class at Khairun University about twenty minutes after it started. “Sometimes the teachers just don’t show up,” my host, Dr. Halikuddin Umasangaji told...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 7 April 2020 | Field Notes, Universitas Khairun
Island Time Tags: Indonesia Flexibility. That is the key to surviving Indonesia, I was told at my Fulbright Scholar orientation in Jakarta in early February. Things operate at their own pace and in their own time. I was familiar with this concept based on traveling...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 18 February 2020 | Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Field Notes
Major-Based Projects Tags: Arizona | USA Victoria presents on sign language for aliens, with Taylor (left) and Lauren (right) It is no secret that many students in general education science courses aren’t there because they want to be, or if they are, quickly...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 11 February 2020 | Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Field Notes
Puzzle Projects Tags: Arizona | USA Successfully engaged students who definitely are not faking their enthusiasm. My favorite course that I have ever taught was the lab component of the Introduction to Cosmology course at Chandler-Gilbert Community College last...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 4 February 2020 | Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Field Notes
Digitizing Labs Tags: Arizona | USA Now entering the field site (architecture at the Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Chandler, Arizona) This past fall, I had the opportunity to teach two classes of Introduction to Solar System Astronomy at Chandler-Gilbert...
