LATINA Fall is coming to Oslo.
After our training sessions in the West Bank and Gaza i September, and a series of on-line lectures in October and early November, our Palestinian participants are coming to Oslo November 21-25. In one of our sessions I will ask them to carry out an information search on the web, based on questions asked by teachers in Norwegian schools.
I have listed the original questions in Norwegian here. Below I give the English versions. I have introduced a few changes to make it easier to search in English, but left the basic structure unchanged.
- Where can I find information about the Silurian period?
- What are the main stages in the life cycle of the (North Atlantic) cod?
- I need facts about pop music, and especially about Michael Jackson’s music!
- How did the Incas view time, and which symbols did they use?
- How did the industrial revolution influence sosial and economic conditions in Ireland, and how can that explain the emigration to the United States?
- What is “bad faith” in Sartre’s existentialist perspective?
- How has the architecture of Ancient Greece influenced modern society?
- What kind of food and nutrition is typical for Rwanda?
- Traditional dishes or foodstuffs from Rhônes-Alpes (the French region)
- What was the climate like during the Pre-Cambrium?
- The historical origins of public health in Manchester
- I need information about refractometers and spectrometers: what these methods are, how they are defined, and how they are used.
- How are the cells of plants and animals built up?
- Contradictions between Freud and Sartre in their concepts of freedom
- Why is ergonomy important?
- The condition of Christianity in the Roman Empire
- What is the biological structure of viruses?
- What is important in an hermeneutical investigation?
- How do the various traditions in Islam differ from each other, and how do these differences influence today’s society?
- Can all animals swim?
Resources
- PS 9/09. Skills and commitment. Learning under new conditions.
- PS 7/09. Blogging in context. Using blogs in teaching and learning.
- PS 6/09. Learning from LATINA. From shortage to surplus of knowledge.
- PL 63/09: The net is a conversation. It is easy to predict the future of the web – if you understand its social impact
- PL 17/09. Understanding Wikipedia. Encyclopedic exercises for LATINA students.
- The future of digital reference services. Blog post from 2005
