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Educational Consequences of Media Development

Posted in My teaching on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For those who missed the 6th National Conference on sexual abuse of children in digital media, it is now possible to view all the contributions on our Tv Web.
For those of you out there who does not understand Norwegian, the conference had one presentation in English: “Educational Consequences of Media Development”, by Beata Godejord, PhD. [...]

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A bit of this and that

Posted in My teaching on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Internet is filled with resources one should know about, especially if you are in the field of distance education. For a nice and comprehensive list of Web 20 applications, take a look at my good friend Tom Erik Holteng`s blog.
Some links I have come across today is VSide, a 3D world calling itself the [...]

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OpenID

Posted in My teaching on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The ability to identify people online is an old topic, and within the field of preventing sexual abuse of kids in digital media it`s quite important. One group of Social Informatics students at Nesna University College showed the participants of the 6th National Getting Involved conference how easy it is to create false Norwegian National [...]

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Welcome to the 2nd day of the conference

Posted in My teaching on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Welcome to day 2 of the 6th Getting Involved Conference!
The opening of the second day of the conference is at Wednesday the 16th of April, 09:15 hour, and the last of that day`s speakers will appear at 14:45. For those of you out there who does not understand Norwegian, we have one presentation in English [...]

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Welcome to the conference – Day 1

Posted in My teaching on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Welcome to day 1 of the 6th Getting Involved Conference!
The opening of the conference is at 10:15, and the last of today`s speakers will appear at 15:30.
Follow the live feed of the conference at the conference WebTV page.

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Teacher Education – The biggest threat to children?

Posted in My teaching, tagged , on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Is today´s teacher education up to speed on the world of our kids? Is it able to give teacher education students the knowledge necessary to link Piaget, Vygotsky and different pedagogical theories to the media reality of our children?
If not, how can we expect teachers to help prevent abuse, sexual and otherwise, of children in [...]

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