A Visit to Siduskoli, Akureyri, Iceland Rosa Eggertsdottir, University of Akureyri While Sallie Harkness and Steve Bell were visiting Akureyri last autumn they had the opportunity to observe a 2nd grade class where Margret Baldvinsdottir and Sara Svanlaugsdottir (see photograph) were team teaching. “Beginning Literacy” is a fairly new literacy programme, available to schools since ...

At the invitation of Gudmundur Kristmundsson Steve Bell spent one afternoon – September 27th 2005 – with a group of international students from Finland, Denmark and Germany. The Storyline introduced was about visiting tourists to Iceland and, in pairs, the students created a lifesize visual of these foreign visitors. They will have the opportunity to ...

Akureri 24 September 2005 Everyone was taken by surprise at the enthusiastic response of Icelandic teachers to the proposal for this conference. Over 300 delegates, around 10% of the teaching population in Iceland, applied, and many had to be turned away because of lack of space in the conference centre. The programme had been carefully ...

Rósa Gudrún Eggertsdóttir has sent me information about an Icelandic Storyline Conference to be held in the University of Akureyri on 13 November 2004. This is designed as a national conference for Icelandic teachers but Sallie Harkness and Steve Bell have been invited to present papers in English. You can reach all the information about ...

Björg Eiriksdottir, of Kársnesskolí, Kópavógur, has organised many Storyline courses for teachers in recent years and in 1997,1999 and this August 2002 solved a programming problem with a rather ingenious course design. Two Icelandic tutors partnered two Scottish tutors. On the Monday and Tuesday each pair presented a Storyline 1 course to 30 teachers. On ...