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Welcome to mortempo. This is a blog on digital tools in education written by a teacher in Norway. I write in both English and Norwegian on how ICT and digital tools affect my teaching. I'm currently doing a masters thesis in didactics, and posts reflect this. All photos used are my own and are to be found at Flickr.

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Sep 02
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Back to school

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It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, but I hope to come back stronger as the weeks progress. Summer has been fantastic with friends and family, home and abroad.

I was back at work three weeks ago and I feel it’s good to be back in the swing of things, and I’m excited to continue building up a school as we are in our third year now. I will continue experimenting and exploring the opportunities of using digital media in my lessons. An increasing number of the students have laptops, digital cameras, smartphones and what not. We need to take advantage of this. Kids use these tools on a daily basis, and school has to become competitive using its first and foremost advantage – knowledge.

I am also happy to report that I’ve finally got my hands on an iPhone 3G, and I must admit I’ll never go back to old school mobiles ever again. It’s a different world altogether. Bless my Sony Ericsson K810i – it was a fantastic phone. Thing is, iPhone is just part phone, part everything else. Of course, it’s not flawless, and some flaws are frustrating. I hope to write a post with a personal review after some more weeks of testing and working with it.

Now to sharpening pencils.

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September 3, 2008

Velkommen tilbake! Har savna dine innlegg her asså…
Grabba med iPhone, gleder meg til fyldigere kritikk av produktet etterhvert :-)

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