Tønsberg – Norways oldest town

Tønsberg – the town where I live – is the oldest town in Scandinavia. It was established in 871. There was a castle at a small mountain in the middle of the town which was the seat for the Norwegian Kings. Today it is a town center for appr. 100.000 people. It is situated by [...]

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Digital natives – a review

I belong to the generation of digital immigrants. I have grown up in a none-digital world, have been introduced for digital tools, but it is still like a foreign language to me. Now we have the first generation of digital natives – now aged between 12 and 30 – who take the digital technologies for [...]

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Norwegian traditions

The students got a crash-course today about Norways history and norwegian trations. Here you can see a picture of me and a collegue at the Folk Museum out at Bygdøy. We are both wearing our tradtional costumes, hers is from the western part of Norway, mine is from Vestfold – the county where the Oslo [...]

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A new LATINA-course

I was very excited to meet the new group of LATINA-students. Though the students came from very different backgrounds last year, we had a very good team. How will it be this year? We are a group of 12 students and six teachers. The students come from China, Nepal, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine and Poland. To [...]

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