Goodnight iPad

This made me laugh (and think). Watching the fear in your eyes as we collected your phones in the evening at the camp, made me think how many of these gadgets we surrouond ourselves with every day, and maybe night? I think I need to get this book...

Behold! Great article!

Ahhh... this is why this blog is so useful, I can reach you whenever I find something and I do not have to wait until our next lesson (of which there are too few). I found a GREAT article, here! I have earlier recommended a book, Once, by Morris Gleitzman. He is a great author of books for teens and children. And in that article, he gives you his top 5 tips on how to write a great story! Read and learn, print and store for next year, or practise during summer. Maybe you even want to enter a short story writing competition?

To top it off, here you can read a short story by Gleitzman!

America's Dead Sea

Sometimes it seems like the fear we have when it comes to our environment is all about the future. It is important to be reminded that the things we do to our planet affects us here and now as well. This is from World Press: 

"Salton Sea in the Colorado Desert of Southern California is a former tourist destination that has turned into an environmental disaster. Born by accident 100 years ago when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal, the lake soon became a popular resort. Yet with no outflow, and with agricultural runoff serving as its only inflow, the lake’s waters grew increasingly toxic. Though the resort towns were soon abandoned, the skeletons of these structures are still there; ghost towns encrusted in salt."

Isn't this scary and sad? Watch a short film here, notice how cleverly they use the old soundtrack with the new pictures.

LEGO

I bet you all have some. I have plenty, my two boys love it. I showed you this post earlier, a way to creatively use LEGO. I came across this patent drawing from 1958, isn't that cool? Imagine what a great invention that has been.

As the nerd I am I have started collecting LEGO buildings for my sons. A combination of great architecture and toys, what a great way to learn about wonderful buildings! The first we bought was the LEGO Guggenheim museum, which is a wonderful museum in New York City, designed by an architect called Frank Lloyd Wright. read the story behind the building here, believe me, it's a building worth recognizing.

(BTW this was also very cute. Get it?)

Pic from here.

Meet Tavi Gevinson

A couple of weeks ago one of my friends sent me a video and asked me if this could be interesting to you all, and I knew it would be. Tavi Gevinson is a 15 year-old girl who started her own fashion blog. This speech is called "A teen just trying to figure it out" and is such an honest, beautiful speech about how society and media tell you young girls what you should be like, when it really should be all up to you.

You are all at an age where you really are just trying to find your place in class, school and in the world. I hope this speech inspires you to realize that the choice of who you want to be, is all yours.

Thank you so much 9cdef for lovely days at Oksnøen, you were fantastic! I hope you had as much fun as I think you had. Enjoy the weekend, see you monday.