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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.
>This entry is a translated version of an entry at my academic blog.
I have now completed my multimodal poetry montagé and with Løvland’s and Van Leeuwen’s theories in mind, I now wish to reflect upon the process and product. I chose Whitmans’ poem for its initial simplicty, however I must ad that the fact that [...]
How do you engage students to discover good reads, use digital tools, talk in front of their peers AND teach them some Japanese phrases? All in one day?
Today I had a very good day as a teacher. I had four lessons of English as I had to make up for two lessons I lost [...]
The early evidence suggests, that digital immersion may alter Net Geners’ visual systems, especially the speed of their visual reflexes. It may also alter the way they like to take in information and what they remember. But does it also affect the way they think?
(p. 106, Tapscott. Grown up Digital)
In English today I taught [...]
Testet ut bruk av Glogster i kveld som publiseringsverktøy. Det minner meg om andre publiseringsverktøy som Prezi eller Wordle og Tagul. Det fine med Glogster er at det kan minne om den tradisjonelle veggavisen/posteren som mange lærere er vant med. Jeg kan se for meg Glogster som en nyttig verktøy for elever til å publisere [...]
On Friday in Religion, Ethics and Morals I decided I wanted to focus on the massive catastrophe unfolding in Haiti after the earthquake on Tuesday Jan. 12th. In order to this in two lessons I decided to set up three groups, three collaborative documents in GoogleDocs with the following keywords:
Haiti’s Colonial Past
Range of devastation after [...]
Clay Shirky skriver i Here Comes Everybody (2008) hvordan vi alle er i ferd med å bli kringkastere, eller “media outlets”, eller er i stand til å være det etterhvert som terskelen for å ta bilder, filme og gjøre lydopptak med billige og enkle verktøy, som for eksempel mobiltelefonen, er blitt lavere. Som forfatteren og [...]
Det er skrevet mye om iPhonens funksjonalitet som lesebrett, og i jula fikk jeg endelig litt tid til å forsøke å lese en ebok i sin helhet på plattformen. Jeg lastet ned Kindle for iPhone og lastet ned et utvalg av bøker og kjøpte to, Paul Austers Invisible og William Goldings Lord of the Flies. Den [...]
I have used my iPhone 3GS (Engadget’s review) a lot for both stills and video recording, but I have been looking for a separate camcorder as a firstime father as well as a teacher. I had Flip Mino (first gen), and was rather happy with it, until I lost it/misplaced it. That’s why I invested, perhaps [...]
Having an exam tomorrow I felt I needed an overview of topics to be tested on (history of science and philosophy). I needed the bigger picture, sort of speak, and after using large sheets of paper to draft ideas, concepts, names and – isms I wanted to see if I could transfer the same intuitiveness [...]
Don Tapscott discusses the future of education at TEDxToronto.
