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 […]

This joke is sadly true, and explains why we Norwegians are all thrilled that summer’s here, although it’s only about 10?C today… It’s light until 11 pm though! That’s pretty good! I got the joke in email and can’t find it on […]

CSCL stands for Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, and there’s an international CSCL conference every year. This year it’s in Bergen. Three of their student volunteers have just had to cancel and so they’re looking for extras: anyone in Bergen who’s willing […]

Elin‘s starting blogging again! Yay!

Torill explains why she doesn’t have comments in her blog. It’s in Norwegian, but the main arguments are: Comments require more maintenence, you might get trolls, and you probably have a legal, editorial responsibility for what’s in the comments so you really […]

Power-up is a computer games symposium in Bristol July 14-15. July 14 is my daughter’s birthday, and we’ll be in the South of France hoping for Bastille Day fireworks to celebrate her seventh anniversary, so I’m definitely not going – but it […]

Why does it cost three times as much to buy one article online from the New York Times as it does to buy a whole newspaper, on paper, in Norway? And it’s nearly six times the cost of an Australian newspaper. Do […]