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Storyline – Education for Sustainable Development in Entebbe, Uganda

Oct

2008

Ylva Lundin From the 10th to 19th of October 2008 I had the privilege to visit the fantastically beautiful and hospitable country of Uganda. The purpose of my visit was to give a full day workshop on how Storyline can be used to reach learning for sustainable development. The workshop was part of a conference ...

Storyline CD

Oct

2008

Glasgow City Council Education & Social Work Services Ruth Barr, Quality Improvement Officer in Primary Education with the above Council, has been instrumental in a new initiative to produce a CD which provides rich Storyline resources for teachers at the upper stages of primary school. The very experienced authors, Lesley Dunlop, Creative Arts Link officer ...

Book Launch in Aberdeen University

Sep

2008

On Saturday morning 27th September 2008 a very successful Storyline Book Launch and Seminar was held in the MacRobert Building of Aberdeen University. The attendance was larger than expected and was supported by lecturers and students as well as teachers. Sallie Harkness made a presentation describing the use of Storyline for teaching in the Early ...

Royal Danish Ballet Teacher Education

Sep

2008

Cecilie Falkenberg is this year engaged in designing and conducting an educational course for those of the Royal Danish Ballet’s dancers who teach ballet by using their rich experiences to help pass on their knowledge and skills to younger performers. Cecilie and her colleagues in KLEO, University College Copenhagen, have designed a new education that ...

Courses in Germany

Sep

2008

From 9th to 13th September 2008 four courses were presented to German primary teachers and probationers who teach English as a second language. From February 2009 all class one pupils in the primary schools in Nordrhein-Westfalen will be introduced to English. Gisela Ehlers, IQSH Kiel, director of a highly successful Comenius project using Storyline for ...

Book Launch in Edinburgh

Sep

2008

‘Storyline – Past, Present and Future’ edited by Steve Bell, Sallie Harkness and Graham White (2007, Glasgow, Enterprising Careers, University of Strathclyde) This featured articles and papers from the 3rd International Storyline Conference held in Glasgow in 2006. A very successful book launch was held in the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, last Wednesday. Twenty-one participants ...

Danish Members of Parliament Visit Scotland

Aug

2008

Committee of Education Study Visit 13 members of the Danish Education Committee visited Scotland this week from 26th to 29th August to find out more about the new Scottish Curriculum for Excellence and also about Storyline. On Wednesday 27th August at LTS headquarters in Glasgow they had a presentation from members of the Learning & ...

Storyline in South Korea

Jul

2008

Sulany dos Santos is a Brazilian Lecturer who worked for many years as a teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) in a university in South Brazil. During this time she had introduced Storyline into her teaching. Because of her husband’s work she moved with him to live in South Korea and was invited ...

“Stepping Out of the Picture”

Jul

2008

Marie Jeanne McNaughton shows how the Storyline approach may give Drama practitioners an added dimension to their work. This article is based on her paper published in Storyline – Past, Present & Future ed. By Bell, Harkness & White and published by Strathclyde University. Also contained in this edition of the journal is a very ...

American Visitor

May

2008

Wendy Emo, an Academic Advisor/Instructor in the College of General Studies of South Dakota State University recently met with Sallie Harkness and Steve Bell for an informal Storyline seminar in Glasgow. Wendy is a doctoral student working at distance with the University of York in England. At the end of a study visit there to ...