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First news of Storyline in Turkey

Jun

2003

Serkan Yaþar Güney is an elementery school teacher in Bilkent University Preparatory School, an international school in Ankara, Turkey. He teaches 4th and 5th graders in social studies and science. He heard about the Storyline method 3 years ago and shortly afterwards decided to experiment with it. He is presently completing his master’s degree at ...

Storyline Provides a Lifeline in Post-War Kosovo

Jun

2003

A personal reflection by Sallie Harkness Storyline was first transported to Kosovo (previously part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and now under the administrative control of the United Nations) by Danish colleagues Anelise Rasmussen and Ingelise Jorgensen. Topics used as exemplars on their courses were ‘the Community House’, ‘the Flower Shop’ and ‘Trucking’. In ...

New Storyline books in Norwegian

Apr

2003

Tor Arne Wølner of the Vestfold College of Education has just informed me that two new books have been published by the University Publishers in Oslo this August. The authors are Liv Torun Eik, Janne Fauskanger, Knut Rune Olsen and Tor Arne Wølner. To keep up to date with all the Storyline literature available in ...

Storyline to train Nurses in Denmark

Jan

2003

In January an article about the use of the Storyline method was published in the Danish nurse magazine “Sygeplejersken”. The article is written by Eva Hoffmann who is a nursing teacher on “Den sønderjyske sygeplejeskole” in Sønderborg. Eva Hoffmann tells in the article about her experiences with using the Storyline method in the education of ...

Retirement party of Dr Eckhard Kohls

Jan

2003

Leader of IQSH Neumünster, Schlwesig-Holstein Dr Eckhard Kohls who was responsible for organising the first Methode Glasgow (later Storyline) courses in Germany during the 1980s retired on Friday 13th January. At his retirement party held in the Kulturzentrum Marstall in his home town of Ahrensburg, his family, friends and colleagues gathered to pay tribute to ...

New Book by Beate Grabbe (in German)

Dec

2002

Dr Beate Grabbe is well-known to many Storyline practitioners as a very experienced teacher, former headteacher, lecturer, educational psychologist and author. I have had the pleasure of working together with her on many Storyline courses which she organised in Hamburg and Pinneberg. She was also responsible for organising the Golden Circle Seminar of the European ...

Activate the Attic

Nov

2002

This is a series of materials designed for the functional teaching of mathematics through the solving of open-ended problems based in architecture and design. Assessment is naturally and functionally integrated in the methodology. The material encompasses elements from the storyline method and also incorporates the concepts of aesthetic learning processes and democratic values. It is, moreover, inspired ...

Storyline in Toensberg

Sep

2002

Toensberg, situated to the southwest of Oslo, used to be a whaling harbour. The penguin sculpture, which decorates the harbour walk, is a reminder of the town’s link with the Antarctic. This attractive seaport has now become a centre for Storyline education. A very active team led by Liv Torunn Eik and Knut Rune Olsen ...

TRAS Conference, Norway

Sep

2002

Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica, September 2002 400 delegates attended this three-day conference on the Early Registration of Language Difficulties. The participants, mainly educational psychologists and speech therapists, were treated to a variety of presentations from prominent keynote speakers and given opportunities to choose from a menu of workshop/seminars. One of these was a Storyline course for ...

Courses in Kársnesskolí, Iceland

Aug

2002

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 ...