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I have used Twitter for a while, and it’s a neat little net app. Only a few of my friends use it, so it’s a limited social networking device for me personally. It bears resemblance to the status field in Facebook, and what is fascinating is how ‘short is the new loud’. Twitter restricts its [...]

Easter holiday’s over and it’s back to work. Read up on books, can absolutely recommend Morten Strøksnes’ Automobil as well as Davis Vise’s The Google Story. Preparing a presentation I’ll be having on Monday for colleagues on digital learning tools after lectures and workshops on the ECIS conference in Madrid which I attended in November. [...]

On Thursday this week I had a lecture in Norwegian class on “Farlige Bøker”, dangerous literature in regards to the freedom of speech and violating it in different contexts and how it has been challenged in Norwegian literary history as well as in world literary history. Names such as Agnar Mykle, Salman Rushdie and Anna [...]

The Norwegian daily Aftenposten writes that the Norwegian school is catching up on the digital revolution. Exemplified by VLEs (Virtual Learning Environments) like It’s Learning and Fronter (along with minor platforms (in Norway) such as Moodle, PedIT and Microsoft Learning Gateway) teachers, students and parents alike can keep up to date on assignments, projects, events, [...]

It’s been a busy week with Ski Days and parent conferences and I haven’t been able to post anything here in the past week. Saturday’s here and I try to sort out some paperwork and get time to read up on the weekend newspapers while I hope to benefit from the glorious spring weather outside [...]

A cool, nifty and useful feature in Mac OSX Leopard is the Screen Sharing app. It’s a bit hidden away for some reason, but a well known feature in iChat. Screen Sharing in Finder let’s me access my stationary Mini Mac in my livingroom from my Macbook laptop. This is particularly useful when I need [...]

I have been an avid newspaper buff since my early teens. My parents subscribed to Aftenposten and the local newspaper, and in my early years I read both tabloids VG and Dagbladet, as well as the montly popular science mag Illustrert Vitenskap. An naturally, as this is back in the modern stone age in terms [...]

In these times of grading fixation in education it is interesting to come across the outspoken critic and author Alfie Kohn. Mr. Kohn has written a number of books on the negative effects of rewards and punishments of grading. He is also skeptical of the traditional system of homework. In his book The Homework Myth: [...]

A common New Years resolution is getting better organized, and I’ve been looking for many ways to keep my act together as a teacher and in private. But, in spite of all the calendars on my mobile, on my Macs and my physical organizers like my Teacher’s organizer, I still find it hard to stay [...]

Monocle has an interesting look at a different approach to book publishing this month on their stylish and informative online magazine. Instead of going large like Barnes & Noble, Amazon and the other giants the proprietor Bodo von Hodenberg has opened a book store in Berlin based upon the highly successful website 25books.com. The idea [...]