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Time. I want to talk about time – and how to teach it. This term is coming to a close and I have had some good experiences with my 8th grade. In Social Studies we have worked on population distribution, migrational patterns and other aspects of globalization. The use of Gapminder when working on population [...]

I am currently taking a course in Nordic literature through online studies with the University in Bergen, Nordisk. This semester we are reading and studying Nordic literature from the Viking Age and up to 1900, from Snorre Sturlasson to Henrik Ibsen. There’s lots to read and books are heavy as well as expensive. Of course [...]

This blog of mine has been up and running, on and off, for nearly three years. I have written in both English and Norwegian – and I keep asking myself why I write English as Norwegian is my native tongue. Since 2005 I have become quite an avid user of online content, social networks such [...]

This past week we started our topic on Population Contrasts as we are working on Globalization in Social Studies. I used Hans Rosling’s Gapminder as a topic starter. I set up projector and a big whiteboard – and had the bubblecharts speak for themselves before I complimented it with a lecture and follow-up questions. Gapminder [...]

Today we conducted our national tests in English. These tests are the government’s attempt to monitor the qualitative progress of schools and their students. State of affairs. There are testing in three subjects; Maths, Norwegian and English. The latter is an online test with reading comprehension with point-and-click multiple choices as well as interactive texts [...]

Couple of weeks back Apple released their iTunes version 8.0 update, and I have had some time playing around with it. There are good news and bad news, well perhaps not bad, but definitely quite intrusive. What’s good? Genius – automatically generated playlists. I have been a keen last.fm user for a couple of years [...]

I fought the hopeless war for many years. Not until 2001, when I realised I had survived the omnious Y2K and found myself in Tokyo, I bought my first mobile. I cannot say I haven’t looked back since, because I have. Mobiles have been bought with various user experiences. My very first phone was a [...]

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 [...]

The development of the social Internet has personally given me a richer social, creative and intellectual life. Here’s some examples: 1. Running competitions with friends living other places using Nikeplus+iPod.2. Realizing I was standing next to a close friend in a big crowd through pictures and videos at Flickr.3. Discovering new music from friends and [...]

Jonathan Harris’ and Daily Life’s project Universe gives the net user a hint of what’s in store for us. By a more interactive and socially intuitive approach and utilization of the metadata available out there he has created a fascinating modern take on ‘constellations’. Mr. Harris believes that internet is in its infancy now, stumbling, [...]