Teaching |

I teach my students to become critical readers and proficient writers. In many of my undergraduate classes, students have to write several engaging urban and environmental news blogs . They are encouraged to follow environmental news stories in major newspapers or research case studies in other reputable media outlets, often cross-referencing it with the academic materials we discussed in class. You can check out some of the urban and environmental news stories my students have written about on the following blog sites:

More recently, I have begun to use ArcGIS StoryMaps to enable students to become multimedia storytellers. A prime example of this is the GeoStorytelling Ballona StoryMap Collection created by my Learning Cluster students in Winter 2025.

Another great student-created site to check out is the “Moved by Nature” webpage that documents our Winter 2020 Learning cluster trip to Sweden and Denmark. We visited nature schools and studied the Scandinavian approach to outdoor education.

Finally, the students in my Winter 2023 Learning Cluster on Outdoor Equity created the “Whose Nature” webpage where they document our field trips to Joshua Tree National Park and several other regional state parks.