| A
short history of Storyline in Iceland |
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 Several
important international conferences, held at Jordanhill College
in the late 70s and early 80s helped the staff tutor team to make
contact with educators who showed interest in Storyline as a strategy
for integrating the curriculum. The Director of Inservice for
Kennáraháskoli Íslands, Rósa Björk
Þorbjarnardóttir, invited the Jordanhill tutors to
present a Storyline course for the first time in 1981 and there
have been regular visits ever since, many organised by Guðmundur
Kristmundsson. He was the organiser of a course in Akureyri in
1987 which was the subject of a published report for the Council
for Cultural Co-operation of the Council of Europe written by
Steve Bell.
Two educators,
Björg Eiriksdóttir, a teacher in Kópavogur
and Rósa Eggertsdóttir an adviser in Akureyri have
used Storyline as a special study for their Masters' degrees,
the former at Jordanhill and the latter in Cambridge. Two teachers
have also taken postgraduate Diplomas using Storyline, Maria Steingrimsdóttir
and Sigrun Guðmundsdóttir.
Björg,
of Kársnesskolí, Kópavógur, has run
many Storyline courses for teachers in recent years and in 1997
and 1999 helped to solve a programming problem with a rather ingenious
course design. Two Scottish tutors, each partnered by an Icelandic
tutor, were invited to give courses. On Monday and Tuesday each
pair gave a Storyline 1 course to 35 teachers. On the Wednesday
two new Storyline 2 courses were started, taught only by the two
Scottish tutors while the two Icelanders finished the Storyline
1 courses. On Thursday and Friday the Storyline 2 courses were
completed with the paired teams again. Each course was therefore
able to have three days with the middle day overlapping.
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New Storyline
Website
Bjorg
Eiriksdottir, a teacher and leader of the Storyline Team at Karsnesskoli
in Kopavogur, Iceland, has created a new website at www.simnet.is/storyline
This should provide even more support for the many Icelandic teachers
interested in working with this approach.
First
Icelandic Storyline Conference
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 planned, mainly by the Akureyri University group
of Rosa Eggertsdottir, Maria Steingrimsdottir and the Head of Research,
Trausti Thorsteinsson, although they also worked closely with Gudmundur
Kristmundsson and Bjorg Eiriksdottir based in Reykjavik.
Storyline
Course in Teachers' University - Reykjavik
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 develop
their ideas with Gudmundur as their course develops.
Icelandic Storyline
Conference
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 the programme by clicking on
Courses in Kársnesskolí,
Iceland
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 the Wednesday a new Storyline 2 course was
started, taught only by the two Scottish tutors while the two Icelanders
finished the Storyline 1 courses on their own. On Thursday and Friday
the Storyline 2 courses were completed with the paired teams again.
Each participant was therefore able to have a full three-day course.
It is of great value that the courses are based in Kársnesskolí
where several teachers are now experienced in using Storyline. Their
classrooms were visited and their topics presented as case studies within
the course programme.
Icelandic
Storyline contact:
Guðmundur Kristmundsson
gudkrist@khi.is
