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Storyline as a stimulus to dialoque (in Norwegian)

Jun

2004

“Knut Åge Teigen, a teacher at Ringstabekk skole, has written an essay on Storyline as a vehicle for tolerance and dialogue. The essay was the written exam for the course in Religion, “Can you learn dialogue?”, at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. The Storyline described and analyzed was called “Rainbow Street”, based on ...

News from Oslo

Jun

2004

A message from Marit Storhaug, an associate professor at the faculty of Education at Oslo University College. “We are nine colleagues in both social science and science education. We work in an interdisplinary way with environmental issues in a course called ‘Nature, Society and Environment.’ This year we got a ‘quality prize’ for the best ...

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 ...

International Business Development Using Storyline

Aug

2003

Haram Upper Secondary School Introduction Storyline 1999-2003 We were first introduced to the Storyline method at a conference in Aalesund on the PILOT project. The municipality of Haram shortly after gave a course on Storyline to its primary school teachers. The course was held at our auditorium, and Haram Upper Secondary School was invited to ...

Freja and Eskil – New Danish Reading System

Jun

2003

Once again Jørgen Frost introduces a new reading system for the introductory period of school. Taking his starting point in Nils Hartmanns novel about two children from the Danish Middle Ages, and in the principles of Comprehensive reading, he offers a refreshingly new approach for tomorrow’s balanced teaching in reading. A beautiful book for reading ...

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 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 ...

Pupils write about Storyline in 9th grade Norway

Jun

2002

From Knut Aage Teigen, Ringstabekk school, Oslo It was a cold morning in November. The residents of Rainbow Street were in shock. “What had happened during the night in this peaceful street? Who would do such a terrible thing?” On the window of the grocer’s big red painted letters were screaming “Immigrants = Parasites”. In ...

New building material and Storyline

Jun

2002

While attending the Seminar of the Norwegian Storyline Network in Vestfold College of Education recently I met Arvid Undebakke, the managing director of a company called Percolo A/S. He showed me a new building material which he has designed withillustrations of how it had been used together with Storyline. Arvid explained: “The notches on the ...