Well, here I am again. I had to try out the advanced challenge on the teacher challenge as well.
My life as a blogger hasn't been to intense yet. I do hope that it will turn into something exciting over the next months as I am really eager to try out a lot of new ideas.
The first blog I ever started was a photo-blog for my son, who was born in May 2007. It was a very private blog, with a password, so that only people I knew could read my posts and look at the photos. Last year I taught Swedish at the Technical University in Dresden, Germany and got an offer to join in on a series of courses for language teachers on ICT and Web 2.0 tools. That's when I started this blog. Unfortunately for my poor blog my second son was born in March of 2010, and my blogging faded away amidst changing nappies, not getting enough sleep and caring for my two wonderful sons.
Right now I want to restart my life as a blogger, both to enhance my own learning and reflection, and also to try and find ways to use it for my future students. I am starting here at my Teaching Swedish blog, since my plan is to build up some sort of basic online "Swedish for beginners" course during the first half of this year. My second project for this year is to explore how I can use ICT to teach math.
Hello Anna, great to have you on board. Blogging can be time consuming and often family and life in generaly prevent us from using it as we should. However, we look forward to having you as part of this challenge and hope that it will motivate you and that you can spare some time to be part of it. I assume that there is a Norwegian language and that Swedish would be a second language for students there. I see that you are interested in using ICT in mathematics. If you contact me or remind me I have some great sites from a fabulous maths 2.0 teacher that I could find for you.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment Anne. Well, you're right about Norwegian and Swedish. But I don't think I could teach Swedish here in Norway, since they are so much a like. There actually is a campaign to talk "Scandinavish" so that we can keep our small language populations in the battle against English. My plan is to develop courses with germans in mind, this since I have taught Swedish in Germany the last couple of years. And by the way I would love to have some math sites to add to my library!
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ReplyDeleteI love the look of your blog - the color and swirls seem very upbeat. I also love the idea of you keeping a blog that will be "Swedish Lessons". I think it will be a hit.
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