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Comenius Project

Jun

2002

Kumi Tømmerbakke, a Primary 7 class teacher in Løkeberg school in Haslum, Norway, has recently reported a very interesting visit made to Gloucester Primary School in Peckham, London, as part of a Comenius project. A school in Italy, “A. Gandiglio” situated in Fano, completes the group of three schools connected to this project for a ...

International Energy Project

May

2002

Ringstabekk School, Norway A new multinational energy company, ENERTIBE, was established in Baerum, Norway, last autumn. The company has branches on all continents and you’ll find ENERTIBE in countries such as USA, China, South-Africa, Chile and India. It’s all about green and alternative energy and ENERTIBE tries to follow up what was discussed at United ...

A Norwegian Resource Centre for Storyline

May

2002

Kvinesdal Upper Secondary School now has several years of experience in using Storyline for teaching students at that level, something which is not so common in Norway. In May 2002 it was decided that the school would become a Resource Centre for Storyline teaching in Norway. Courses are now being offered in ordinary classroom teaching ...

Norwegian article in Danish Journal

Jun

2001

The title of the article is “Reflection makes us wiser – Experiences at Ringstabekk school in Norway”. The main point in the article is to describe how the teachers at Ringstabekk learned about Storyline and how they have integrated Storyline into their own work. First of all two teachers attended a course about storyline with ...

Intercomprehension in Language Teacher Education

Jun

2001

Britt Ulseth of Østfold College of Education, Norway is the coordinator of a Lingua-A project under the Socrates programme Intercomprehension in Language Teacher Education. ‘From Language Teacher to Teacher of Languages’ aims at offering tools to enhance pluralinguilism in the foreign language classroom. Intercomprehension is a key notion and the development of language and cultural ...

Storyline Courses in Vestfold College of Education

Jun

2001

This leaflet has been produced in Norway by a Storyline team in Vestfold College of Education to inform about the principles behind Storyline and giving the reasons for using it as an educational strategy. It is also used to advertise the variety of Storyline courses being presented by members of staff at the college. Vestfold, ...

“Bridging the Gap” impresses Norway!

Jun

2001

Can Storyline help bridge the gap between the generations? The answer is most certainly,’Yes! This was impressively demonstrated when teachers from Ringstabekk skole in Norway last Monday met up with Pip Tench and Ged Stanton at St. Thomas Moore High School in Newcastle, England. We got to see several examples about how young pupils were mixed ...

Save the Children Publication

Jun

2001

Knut-Rune Olsen and Liv Torunn Eik, have written this Storyline teaching material about the Save the Children organisation in Sri Lanka and Ethiopia. All children have the right to go to school! That is the message they want to get across and in their opinion Storyline designs can help to motivate children’s learning with the ...

A New Book

Jun

2001

A new Norwegian book has just been published which describes Storyline as experienced by members of staff at Ringstabekk skole in Bærum, Oslo. Ringstabekk has been a Project school since the early 70s and it is only in recent years that they have been experimenting with Storyline as a strategy for their teaching. The book ...

Criticism of Storyline in Norwegian Journal

Jun

2001

A lively debate has been stimulated by a paper written by Nina Goga, published in the Teachers’ Journal, Norsklæreren No 1 2001. In it she details her rather critical views of the Storyline approach. This has encouraged a lively debate that has resulted in two further articles being published. The first written by Knut-Rune Olsen ...