I found this quote in Trevor Scholz’s blog (and may I say that post is a lovely example of how you can blog a classroom discussion using links and narration – students, please try to emulate that!): A recent survey conducted by […]

I’ve been so impressed by the utvidet arbeidsplan (“expanded work plans”) my daughter’s been bringing home from school after the latest reform of schools in Norway that I’ve tried to make one for my students. The idea is to give them a […]

I found an unusual blog by chance: NÂgons mamma – nÂgons dotter (that’s Swedish for “Someone’s mother – someone’s daughter”), written by a woman in jail. She writes her blog posts in letters to her daughter, who posts them to the blog […]

In today’s class we’re going to look at the transition to print and we’ll discuss how technology and culture interact – and we’ll do some more blogging, too. Easy reading this week: just chapter two of Bolter’s Writing Space, which is about […]

Hm. My iMac is being fixed, and the repair person rang and asked for my password so he could fix it. Should he actually need that? Can’t they boot off a CD or something and not need access to my personal files? […]

Students blogging in our Critical Approaches to Technology and Society course: Robin Hamdi Alex Cristina Olav Catello Morten Bradley Lene ÿistein Sindre John Marius Iselin Derek Ole Johan Alessandro Maja

I dreamt that only one student showed up for the first class of Critical Approaches to Technology and Society this morning. I did the lets get to know each other thing just for him, I showed him how to use a blog […]

Hey, Kristine J¯rgensen, Bergen girl who studied at my university (though at Infomedia not our department) and is now finishing her PhD in game studies in Copenhagen, is Microsoft Norway’s new xbox gaming lifestyle specialist! Congratulations, Kristine!

Oh dear. I just posted a photo of the cherry blossoms on the tree I walk past on my way to work, and on a whim, did a search for “cherry blossoms in january“. They’re everywhere – Bergen, Paris, New York, Massachusetts. […]

A journalist rang me last night with questions about YouTube – Marika suggested he call me, he said, which was cool (thanks Marika!), because unlike last summer, by now I do know stuff about YouTube, more than enough for the two brief […]