The final version of my degree assignment for the teachers’ education program has been accepted and is now posted here in my blog. This means that I can look forward to a holiday free from work! (Apart from the fact that I am thinking of analyzing a computer game as a literature assignment and I might have to start playing a bit over Christmas… It doesn’t sound like too much of a sacrifice, though…)

Yesterday I defended my degree assignment for the teachers’ education program. Now, all I have to do is to make a few changes (one comment concerned how I was a bit too optimistic about the possibilities of the computer and the internet – I’m not too surprised about that), and then I’ll publish the final version here in my blog.

Here is a helpful introduction to some different virtual environments. (Via Klastrup’s Cataclysms)

If you’re interested in the relationship between ICT and the humanities (connects to my previous entry) and know Swedish, my supervisor Patrik Svensson has recently published an article on the topic in HumanIT.

For a course on theories and methods in the humanities that I’m taking I’ve been asked to reflect on the role of the humanities in today’s society. Read some of my thoughts in the extended entry…
(Oh there is more…)

… are always fun to work with. I had an opportunity to do this earlier today as Stephanie and I held our course on constructivist learning. Blogger worked the way it’s supposed to, and the partcipants seemed excited about trying out some of the tools we had shown. It was also great to see how well the live blogging went… We had set up a group blog in which they were encouraged to comment on things that were being said and to ask questions or link to other web resources. Even though only one of the participants had blogged before, they seemed to get a grip of the concept almost right away. I think using the group blog was a good introduction to blogs. It gave the participants a better idea of what blogging was about before they were given the task to create their own.

On the note of live blogging: Patrik Svensson live blogged from an event in Brisbane which was taking place at the same time as our course, so we could use his blog as an example of how this is actually happening…

For the course on Thursday we are using Blogger. It is easy to use, and it is free – two important factors if you want to use it in schools. It seems, however, as if it is not completely reliable. Today I’ve had severe problems trying to refresh the group blog we have created to view the changes I’ve made (Error 500). I hope this is just a temporary problem which will be solved by Thursday…