One thing I’ve really liked in the student weblogs I’ve been grading is that there are a lot of posts that are really useful. It’s so different from exams where only the examiners are ever going to see all the work students […]

Torill’s kronikk about weblogs was printed in Dagbladet on Saturday, but you can read it online if you didn’t buy the paper that day. Well, if you can read Norwegian you can read it online. Otherwise you’ll just have to look at […]

I was eighteen the last time I was single. My girlfriends are all neatly coupled off now, but their reactions to my recently acquired single status speak volumes of what might lie underneath the clean surfaces of their lives. —Whatever you do, […]

Belzebob’s collection of MoveableType codes for inclusion in your templates is compact yet sufficient for most purposes. In Norwegian.

The conference blog for the Digital Storytelling Festival almost makes me wish I was there. Fact is, I’d rather be on my own, personal summer holiday, resting. In exactly two weeks, I’ll be sitting down to dinner in a converted monastery in […]

Perhaps having comments in your blog is like renting out part of your home?

A heavy sheet of copper, bronze and gold hangs down her back. Her face is as strong as her hair and yet she reads from her essay as all Norwegian poets do: with monotonous tonality, randomised pauses and a dogged disregard for […]

Gonzalo writes about a 911 survivor mod for Unreal, and Jesper writes about the beauty of the crash mode in Burnout 2. Interesting juxtaposition of the ethics and perhaps aesthetics of enacting a horrific and probably doomed role. (Still assessing, still busy)

I was a burning knot of fury when I went to my Alexander technique lesson this morning. By the end of the class I was calm again, and everything felt so much more tangible. It’s like magic. And I don’t get RSI […]

Jon, Jenny, Torill and Eirik have all been discussing comments (to allow them or not). I can’t discuss a thing until I’ve got through the huge pile of student work I have to assess before Friday. I reckon self-assessment has a lot […]