About Bart Van Bossuyt
Bart Van Bossuyt
Geography and sciences teacher with a keen interest in visualization
Who I am
I hold a master's degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a master's degree in Sciences: geology, both obtained at Ghent University (BE).
After eight years managing several pharmacies, I was ready for a new challenge: teaching high school. By a quirk of fate, in 2004 I ended up with my visionary mentor Adrien Van den Bossche (at Don Boscocollege Zwijnaarde), who by then was already creating digital worksheets for his students.
When Flash animations were no longer available, I started creating interactive content myself in html5. After all these years I still like teaching a lot. Changing career was one of the wisest moves I ever made.
Feel free to contact me at my gmail address: bartvanbossuyt (you have to add the rest yourself) or on LinkedIn.
Enquiry based digital learning
Enquiry based digital learning is complementary to traditional learning and field or lab experiments. It can be a powerful tool to help students understand 3D relationships or reduce the complexity by making use of proper interactive visualisation.
The tools I develop are intuive, can be used on either tablet, ChromeBook or laptop and require thinking and action by the students. They are in no way mere gimmicks.
Workshops, awards and press
- Setting up the new interactive geography website https://aardrijkskunde.dbz.be/, astronomy chapters - august 2023
- Online article on SchoolIT on the new geography website - september 2023
- Best practice example in Digitale Didaktiek. Hoe? Zo! - march 2024
- Workshop on enquiry based digital learning in plate tectonics at CNO, UAntwerpen - february 2024
- Workshop on enquiry based digital learning in astronomy at CNO, UAntwerpen - november 2023
- Presentation on 3D modelling at XR Inspire, Thomas More Hogeschool - january 2024
- Demo on browser visualisation at MAFEA (Making Future Education Accessible) - february 2024
- Two workshops on the Sciences teachers' convention - february 2024
- ICT Champion award at ICT Praktijkdag - february 2024
- Interview in Klasse - march 2024
- Interview in De Gentenaar - march 2024
- Short presentation on augmented reality in general education at SETT - march 2024
- SETT Award 'Digital learning' - march 2024