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This site was a lifesaver after I by accident deleted an important essay. Fortunately I had kept a PDF-version of it, but using Google Docs I could only get a Rich Text copy – which didn’t solve my issue of getting an editable copy. Enter Convert pdf to word! This site enables the user to [...]

With the abundance of information overflowing the web and our daily digital lives it is a gust of fresh air when you come across something simple and clever as Daily paper.li which generates a daily newspaper based upon your Twitterstream (or Facebookstream). Scanning and skimming the web for information is an important skill, and should [...]

[ALIGN=justify]<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/mortsan/337292117/” title=”Swingin’ by mortsan, on Flickr”><img src=”http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/337292117_2dbe766be5.jpg” width=”500″ height=”333″ alt=”Swingin’” /></a> [I]The Internet can be a complex and spiderweb-like place to find relevant and reliable information. [/I] Searching for information becomes increasingly an omnipresent activity for students and teachers alike. But how much do we actually know about how search functions? When I asked [...]

>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 [...]

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 [...]

Farlig Litteratur on Prezi Dette er et undervisningsopplegg for 9. trinn i norsk. Utgangspunktet er ytringsfrihet og litteratur med litteraturhistorisk bakgrunn og åpning for klassediskusjon om grensene mellom det offentlige og det private (Knausgård). Bør Vær Varsom-plakaten gjelde for forfattere også, eller er “alt lov” for forfattere? Jeg har lagt inn lenker til NRK Skole [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]