Welcome
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 [...]
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 [...]
Very inspiring poem and presentation for teachers at the beginning of a new semester.
What Teachers Make
View more documents from Scott Schwertly.
Grammatical Competence and Models of L2 Learning
On Thursday, Nov. 19, Google presented their idea of the OS, which could if it succeeds take over Netbooks’ OS and then in turn compete with Windows 7. I am fascinated with how Google aims to make things easier, with clean interfaces and intuitive use. I find myself wondering why I keep filling up my [...]
In this essay I will present the main content of two books attempting to address the increasing need to acquire cultural and intercultural skills and competence. I will focus on aspects of the two books which is relevant for my profession as a teacher in an international secondary school in Trondheim, and then go on [...]
I received my Google Wave invitation a couple of weeks ago and I have been able to experiment a little bit with it. As a lot of people do not have access to the preview/alpha version of Wave, it is actually limited to how fun/practical it is yet. Nonetheless, I have been able to play [...]
