Lorna A Reid As a class we have approached Storyline as pupils, fully participating in the activities and becoming engaged with the characters we have created. This has given us insights into how children might feel as they are involved in their Storylines. This is probably the best class we have attended over the four ...
Knut Age Teigen Snöball Film, Norway How can students learn a foreign language through the Storyline approach? A new film from Snöball Film documents how this is done in an 8th grade class at Ringstabekk skole in Bærum. The students had been learning German for half a year when their teacher, Ulrikke Smith, introduced Storyline ...
Sigurd Bergflødt Nearly seventy students with teachers from Oslo University College met Steve Bell and Sallie Harkness at the Pearce Institute in Govan, Glasgow on Tuesday 6th October 2009. This was the fourth year in a row that we got our annual introduction to the Storyline method. The previous years we`ve had an introductory course ...
Todd Stewart-Rinier One of the most valuable components of Storyline is collaboration. The social skills that develop through working and problem solving with others in a Storyline are exactly the kinds of collaborative skills that are necessary in larger arenas. Increasingly the problems we face are such that they require collaborative solutions: within communities, between ...
Task based teaching für die Arbeit mit heterogenen Lerngruppen, Martinshaus, Rendsburg This popular annual workshop course is organised by Gisela Ehlers of the Institute for Teacher training in Kiel. It attracts teachers of general subjects working in primary and secondary schools who also wish to teach English as a Second Language. The course started with ...
Bodø University College, Norway Anne Grete Solstad is a lecturer in pedagogy / educational theory at Bodø University College in Northern Norway. She knew of Storyline from the writings of Liv Torunn Eik of Tønsberg University College but she says that the “revelation” came after attending the 3rd International Storyline Conference in Elsinore, Denmark in ...
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA. Maria & Michael Haglöf, Swedish Participants Maria & Michael Haglöf are teachers at Älvboda Friskola, Stockholm, Sweden and have had a long association with and interest in the use of Storyline in the classroom. This summer they attended the 4th International Storyline Conference in Portland, Oregon. The conference planning ...
Edith Mark PhD, Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University, Denmark Some years ago I became interested in the use of narrative to help encourage children to communicate in situations where we were discussing sensitive issues. Shortly afterwards I read about the Storyline approach to education. I noticed that an American workshop course was being run by Storyline ...
Inga Riedel This Storyline has been designed by me and then implemented by a seventh grade class in a lower high school (Hauptschule) in Schleswig Holstein, Germany. Starting with a fact file of Hurricane Katrina, the students decided to rebuild an area of New Orleans – the characters, the houses and shops. The Storyline has ...