Lars Egelands blogg

Today I  attended two of the presentations of learning design: Agnes and George’s and Olenas.

Agnes and George wanted to show us how to get access to music resources. Agnes pointed out that music is not only music videos, but also recordings, scores and texts about music. Music is not only something you can find for free on the internet, but  there is also valuable resources in libraraies and archives.  George and Agnes presented some very find slides that contained links to good music-resources. And they also introduced advanced search in google Scholar. Until now we have only searched widely on Google, getting 100.000 hits. What if you are searching for a special article – a narrow subject? Then you can use Google scholar and the advanced search to reduce the number of hits and get5 exactly what you are looking for. It was a nice presentation, but with a little to much subjects to be learned.

Olenas project was about sustainable development. She started with showing the term translated to all the languages used by the Latina-students and staff. Then a film, which was a little bit to long. Then a definition on sustainable development – and she pointed out that it is not only about environment, but also about quality of life. What good does it do to human beings if the environment is sustainable, if they can not be supported with the food and other things that they need for living. In the US I have met people that think that man does not belong in nature. My view is the opposite: We shall take care of the nature, so that we can use it and harvest from it – in all generations to come.

Olena asked all the students to make a list of problems concerning sustainable development in each Latina-country – and solutions. That was very interesting, and I would have liked to discuss that further!

Two good presentation!