education in norway
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Niels Damgaards innlegg på IASL 2009 i Abano Terme in Italy 2. Sep 2009TRANSCRIPT
Education for you!Niels Damgaard
Norway
Who is...Niels Damgaard- Senior adviser at Biblioteksentralen in Oslo- former teacher and school librarian 70-95- working with librarians and teacher-education from 96
Editor for IFLA- Newsletters 06-07Editor for Nordic NING for TL/LT 08-Active member of IFLA, ENSIL, YSL1 and YSL2Contact:SKYPE: skolebibliotekTwitter: /[email protected]
What is this about?•School libraries in Norway •Basic course for school librarians, University of Agder•Courses for school librarians and teachers, Biblioteksentralen, 2004-2009 •The Web 2.0 School •Experiences from International Online course Your School Library. •Spring 2009 Conference for School Librarians in Norway, Biblioteksentralen, March 2009
•How to cooperate to get a common focus on raising the level of competence of school librarians in Europe?
•Discussion.
A Vision of Students Today
Norway - fish in oil?Norway 4,8 mill15/km² -2.500 N->SOslo-Padua: 1004 miles = 1615 km
4000 primary schools K-91000 under 100 pupils600 upper secundary schools
75 % under 7 hours in the sl/week (av. 5,4)
HiA to UiO
Internetbased education sinse 963 studys (3*30 credit)
1. School librarian - basic2. School librarian - litterature3. School librarian - information literacyBefore 3 semesters - now 2
Findings1. Many students 8-9002. Many very positive3. Many think it was hard to study on
their own4. Many liked the studypointsystem5. Many of the students have now left
their school librarian posts6. Many became head of schools/ or
other adminstative posts later!
BS
Upper secundary schools- librarians - and teachers- 5 days- assignments in-between- local tailored- 14 out of 19 counties- from 2004-2009- more than 400 schools- net: http://www.bibsent.no/vgs (closed)
Findings1. Well recieved in 13 0f 19 counties –
many free of charge
2. Many liked the close connction betweentherory and pracsis
3. Many start with better cooperationbetween librarians and the teachers
4. Many think there was a lot to do betweenthe days
The Web 2.0 school
Internetbased over 10 month- theme: Web 2.0 and the library- used a wiki for adminstration: http://biblioteksentralen.wikispaces.com/web20skolen
- 3 kinds of attendees: physical, virtual and asyncronic- everthing recorded in real-time- therory and workshops
Findings1. Many of the students tryed out to be
virtual students – and like this!
2. The workshop in the afternoon was more difficult to do for the homesitters
3. The study and pracis of the web 2.0 toolswas exiting – but
4. Not many used the tools after the cource
Norwegian conf. 09
Started 3 month before in a NING2 days in March- 1 ½ days normal- ½ unconferance with 8 big and 4 small themes
All recorded (podcast and video)Still debate 3 mdr. after
YSL1 and YSL2
First YSL feb - 2 talk/daySecond YSL juni-juli - 1 talk/day-use of SOSIUS for administration-http://my.sosius.com/yourschoollibrary/information_literacy_with_web_2.0
1 Feb 09: 250 – 2 June 09: 120
Findings1. In the first YSL1 apr. 250 attendees
was very active
2. YSL2 was to late into the summer –on the north part of the world –and more silent
3. The content was perhaps to high/ too ”web 2.0” for the ordinary SL
Working togetherworldwide ONLINE ?
Via NINGS – sharing ressources
Via RSS exchange of information
Via Wikis – working together
What now...•What do we define as suitable subjects for international skills development of school librarians, that come from a variety of different systems in the European countries? •In what form should these actions have to include the target goals? •Is it important to offer larger courses, or is it better to offer many small courses that can be directed towards new subjects and challenges as we go along. •Is it important to get credits, or is it enough to get a diploma. •We can perhaps use Grundtvig- or Minerva EU-programs as active participants.
Debate
I invite you to start this debate here in Italy– and that we schedule a workshop next summer, so persons with interest can get together (physically – or virtually) to debate these interesting questions!
Or on [email protected]
