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Zuyd University

My diploma/degree/proof-I’m-a-teacher says that’s what the ‘school’ I’m graduated from in 2007 is called in English and today, that was the location for another lecture about Galaxy Zoo, citizen science, the discovery of Hanny’s Voorwerp and how my life changed ever since.
 

One of my former teachers asked me to come to school (remember, in Dutch we call everything from primary school to university ‘school’) to be an example of how far an open attitude can bring you and to tell a group of teachers-to-be how you can learn, discover and be amazed through this online astronomy project, which you can use with a group of kids as well.
 

It was funny to be in the same classroom I took classes not that long ago, but to be in front of it now. This group of students were in their third year, so I knew some of them and they knew me, as I was in my last year when they were in their first. Anyway, it was a nice bunch as they actually chose to learn more about science, rather than being told to come and listen to me.
 

I still had some automatic accounts left from the event we did in NEMO, so we used those to try classifying galaxies right after a few good questions. They did very well and it was a good morning.
 

There’s no photographic evidence though, but here are the pictures from this month’s Dutch magazine for schools called ‘Didactief’. Last April I did an interview for them and the photographer came to see me at the event in NEMO. It’s a nice piece and I’ve updated my pages too. Oh, and I want to end this with thanking everyone who recently told me they really like my blog, it’s very motivating and I really appreciate it.

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Credit: Allard de Witte for Didactief.

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Credit: Allard de Witte for Didactief.

4 Comments

  1. marcel | Posted June 29, 2009 at 10:14 pm | Permalink

    It was indeed a fascinating lecture… compliments, you do that very well Hanny!
    Students were interested and had fun classifying!
    A good example of an educational GZ project…
    My colleague (who invited Hanny to do the lecture) sent me a mail saying:
    ‘Now THAT was an interesting meeting this morning, wasn’t it?’

  2. Graham | Posted June 29, 2009 at 10:15 pm | Permalink

    Cool and nice poster :)

  3. tommy | Posted June 29, 2009 at 10:56 pm | Permalink

    Well done, Hanny. :)

    Hey, I recognise that room, and the poster that refused to stand up….lol

  4. Hanny | Posted June 30, 2009 at 6:19 am | Permalink

    Thanks guys! 😀
    @ Marcel: how nice he said that, thanks for sharing!
    @ Tommy : You are even in the last picture! 😉

 

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