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Project Management using Storyline

Jun

2004

The three PhD student/lecturers pictured from the left, Markus Hällgren, Niklas Wahlström and Andreas Nilsson work in Umeå School of Business, Umeå University and are responsible for the designing of a new 20-week distance learning course on Project Management together with Tomas Blomquist, Ph.D who is missing from the picture. Some years ago Markus attended ...

Three Storylines for Road Safety Gothenburg Road Traffic Department

Jun

2004

Some time ago on this newspage it was mentioned that Camilla Henriksson of Gothenburg Road Safety Department had commissioned Ylva Lundin to design three Storyline Topics for use with children of different age groups on themes linked to road safety. Just recently these topic outlines have been translated into English – click on the covers ...

A Student-Centred Instructional Model

Jun

2004

One of the helpers on the STANIL courses was Asst. Prof. Chanathip Pornkul of the Faculty of Education of the Rajabhat Institute Suan Dusit. She has written a book on a strategy she has called CATS -knowledge Construction, knowledge Application, Thinking process, Story-based learning. In 1998, the CATS model was developed and first implemented in ...

More News from Huamin Primary School, Singapore

Jun

2004

Jessie Siva, a class teacher in Huamin School, writes “I’ve great news. As you know (see news item below) my students and I took the ‘Letter’ Storyline to great heights. We invented some games to promote Singapore and some of these have now been developed commercially. A bazaar ‘Wacky Inventor’s Tournament’ was held where pupils exhibited ...

Three Presentations in Luleå

Jun

2004

Sanna Ranweg was responsible for organising two Storyline courses and one lecture during week 8 in her home town of Luleå in the north of Sweden. Thirty-two participants attended the Storyline 1 course held at the university and twenty-five came on the Storyline 2 course on the designing of topics. The interest for this approach ...

Norwegian Teachers visit American Community School, Cobham, England

Apr

2004

On Wednesday, the 14th of April, 35 Norwegian educators from Askollen skole, Drammen, Norway visited the American Community School, Cobham, England. The purpose of their visit was to learn about effective teaching strategies including Storyline. Rebecca Plaskitt hosted their visit sharing about a current historical Storyline, multiple uses of math manipulatives, and ideas for teaching ...

Foreign visitors in Aberfoyle Primary School

Feb

2004

Steve Wretman and Helena Moreau, editors from the Skolbarn (Schoolchildren) teachers’ magazine published in Sweden enjoyed a morning visit to Aberfoyle Primary School last week, Tuesday 2nd March. They were especially interested to see the Rain Forest Storyline which filled the Primary 1/2 classroom. After chatting to the children they spent some time interviewing the ...

Storyline Visit by Faroese Students

Jan

2004

The Scottish wintery weather made four visitors to Aberfoyle Primary feel at home. The foursome – Katrina Joensen, Friogero Olsen, Bergtora Neilsen and Ester Poulsen – are from the Faroe Islands. And they are in Aberfoyle working with the pupils as part of their four-year teaching degree. The students are working with two classes at ...

Report of two one-day courses on planning literature based Storylines

Jan

2004

Skarpnacks skola, Stockholm, Sweden by Sallie Harkness I am most grateful to Mait Adegaard, Vice Principal of Skarpnacks Skola for organising these courses and for inviting me to Stockholm where she was a gracious and enthusiastic hostess. Staff at Skarpnacks Skola are experienced Storyliners and have, in the past, enjoyed attending courses delivered by Steve ...

First Storyline Course in Turkey

Dec

2003

Serkan Güney, a Turkish teacher, came into contact with Storyline through his sister Selma who is a teacher in Aarhus, Denmark. This led to his participating in the International Storyline Conference 2 in Elsinore, Denmark, in November 2003. Since returning to teach in Turkey he has used Storyline successfully in his own classroom which has ...