The Norwegian Schoolnet

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The Norwegian Schoolnet
the Internet portal for primary and
secondary education Petter Korseth The
Norwegian Board of Education pk_at_ls.no
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History

• Launched 15th October 1996 as a measure under IT
  in Norwegian education, plan for 1996-1999
• Continued under ICT in Norwegian education, plan
  for 2000-2003
• Relaunched 23rd November 2000

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Structure

• Start page
• Learning environment
• Network of networks

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Organisation

• Team (3 man-years, 5 people)
• Area editors (around 100 in-house/external)
• Purchase of services

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Statistics
- content

• 7.000 links
• 1.500 documents for download
• 700 articles (covering more pages)
• 450 dictionary entries
• etc.

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Statistics - page views
May 2001 May 2002
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Statistics
- page views
August 2002 August 2001
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Traffic development
- user sessions
August 2002 August 2001
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TeacherICT

• ICT Competence Development
• Political goal 40.000 teachers / 2 years
• 12.500 registered this year
• Schoolnet to function as cooperation platform

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Learning environment

• School Mail (personal e-mail)
• School Bag (personal storage)
• School Room (collaboration rooms)

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School Mail
- free, non-commercial e-mail service for
students and teachers

• web or mail client access
• send and receive e-mail
• advanced functions
• away messages
• automatic forwarding
• inbox rules
• search
• etc.

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School Bag
- personal storage space on the Schoolnet

• calendar
• schedules
• folders for
• notes
• favourites
• documents
• assignments

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School Room
- private collaboration rooms on the Schoolnet

• Invite others
• Share files, notes, favourites etc.
• Assign each other tasks
• Common calendar, discussions and chats