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Successful 6th International Storyline Conference, Glasgow March 2015

Mar

2015

The conference attracted 250 delegates from 20 countries. It was sponsored by Glasgow Education Authority, Strathclyde University and Storyline International. A full report will be following to highlight the very positive response to the full programme. The organisers are greatly indebted to the many presenters for the high quality of all the presentations and the ...

5th INTERNATIONAL STORYLINE CONFERENCE

Aug

2012

University of Iceland, School of Education. 9th – 11th August 2012 Almost 200 participants from more than 17 countries attended this very successful conference held over three days in the University of Iceland. The Dean of the School of Education, Jón Torfi Jónsson, was the first keynote speaker and also welcomed us very warmly ...

Iceland Conference 2012

Jun

2012

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Beginning Literacy

Nov

2011

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 ...

Icelandic Visitors

Mar

2009

Magnea Ósk Böðvarsdóttir and Kristjana Jónsdóttir, teachers working in Grindavik Primary School, Iceland, made a study tour to Scotland on 23rd & 24th March 2009. The programme started with an informal Storyline seminar at Ross Priory, University of Strathclyde, and then an afternoon visit to Killearn Primary School, Stirlingshire, where they were welcomed by the ...

New Storyline Website

Nov

2005

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.

Storyline Course in Teachers’ University – Reykjavik

Sep

2005

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 ...

First Icelandic Storyline Conference

Sep

2005

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 ...

Icelandic Storyline Conference

Nov

2004

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 ...

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 ...