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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.
Nytt skoleår går av stabelen i morgen etter en lang og fin sommerferie. Som lærere flest så tumler jo hodet med nye idéer og tanker om hva som kan gjøres bedre neste år. Det er viktig å sette seg mål som en kan strekke seg etter med det for øyet å forbedre sin egenkompetanse og [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Very inspiring poem and presentation for teachers at the beginning of a new semester. What Teachers Make View more documents from Scott Schwertly.
Etter jeg hadde rettet tentamen for hele ungdomstrinnet denne uka kjente jeg at jeg måtte finne en måte å konfrontere elevene med den evige utfordringen rettskriving og staving er for en stor andel av elevene. Spesielt på norsktentamen (vi er en internasjonal skole) så forekommer mange orddelingsfeil, anglismer og generelle feilstavelser (skjelden, alldri, kansje, intresangt [...]
Today I created wikis for my classes next year and invited other teachers to join me in the effort. I have debated a bit with myself in terms of which platforms to go for, but I landed on Wikispaces for teachers. It’s easy to use and manage. The alternative was Google Sites, which I have [...]
Today we had a English Writing Day with ninthgraders. We have recently introduced them to the Gmail/Calendar/Docs environment by creating an account for each student. The tasks themselves were posted in a shared document. All they had to do was to create a new document themselves and start writing. They were free to use spellchecker, [...]
