HELGA HOEL'S ENGLISH PAGES

WHO WRITES THIS? 

Helga Hoel, retired teacher from July 1, 2011 after 22 years of teaching at Trondheim Katedralskole, Norway e-mail address: helhoel at online.no

• English teachers in Norwegian upper secondary schools (and possibly elsewhere).
• My former students (+ anyone else who finds it interesting).
• Since May 1997 there have  been 1 161 139 hits on this web site (that is per May 14, 2012). It has been accessed from 189 countries and/or territories, proving beyond doubt that English is a world language. Since 2003 there have been about 100 000 hits annually.  In 2010 there were 85 645 hits.

• English pages for Norwegian Upper Secondary Schools
• Relevant links for the First Year course in English in Norwegian upper secondary schools.
• Relevant links for the International English course in Norwegian upper secondary schools
• Relevant links for the 3 Engelsk A in Norwegian upper secondary schools 1997 -2007
• Relevant links for the English B and A2 courses for the International Baccalaureate diploma  2000-2007
• Teaching World War I literature for English B and A2 for the IB diploma
• English Language Excercises relevant for several levels
• Pages by students:
• Good essays written by my students - (avdeling for gode elevbesvarelser)  additions in 2011
• Modernized fairy tales
• Information about Norway, project work made by class 1AAD 1998/99 at Trondheim Katedralskole for Shoko Senior High School in Yokohama, Japan
• My report about the e-mail project work 1AAD made in 1998/99 with and for a class in Japan
• 1AAA  students introduce themselves to a class at Schottengymnasium in Vienna 2004/2005
• 1AAA writes about aspects of Trondheim Katedralskole for their partner class in Vienna, January 2005
• Post-colonial pages:
• Teaching the Commonwealth, background and literature, a teaching unit for the English II course, alternative A, the final year in Norwegian upper secondary schools. (Only a summary in English)
• A list of Post-Colonial Literature Based on 100 (!) English textbooks for secondary school use printed in Norway from 1977- 2011.  1  addition in 2011
• A list of Indigenous People's Literature in English Textbooks for Norwegian Secondary School Use. 
• The legacy of Queen Victoria in statues and names from around the world. A pictorial tour.
• Articles and an interview:
• An article on "Tony's Story", a short story by Leslie Marmon Silko
• An article on Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve's fiction for children
• An article on  "Nordamerikanske indianartekster i læreverk for 1. kl." (Only available in Norwegian)
  
• An article on "Everyday Use", a short story by Alice Walker
• An article on East African Literature. (Only available in Norwegian)
• Artikkel om Femrite i Uganda (Only available in Norwegian)
• An interview with Vandana Shiva made in Trondheim, March 1997
• A personal profile, English and Norwegian versions
• My Norwegian pages consist of the following documents:
• Norsk som andrespråk (Norwegian as a second language) reorganized September 2003
• Norsk i 3AAA ved Trondheim Katedralskole 2003/04
• Nord-Sør-kunnskap valgfag 2007/08
• Biletteppe vove av Ragnfrid Rise Hoel (Tapestries woven by my mother)  Virtuelt galleri (Virtual Gallery open 24 hours a day)
• Ragnfrid Rise Hoel, biletvevar i 25 år. Artikkel tidlegare trykt  i Bøgda vår i 2006
• Bror min, Ola Øyvind Hoel  har frå sin vevstad lagt ut kopi av gamle rettsdokument samt nokre årsverk med slekts- og gardshistorie frå Oppdal, som far vår, Ivar Hoel, skreiv etter at han vart pensjonist
• Februarrevolusjonen på Filippinane 1986. Transkripsjon av eit lydbrev eg sendte foreldra mine
• Pages I have written or edited about an exchange programme between Trondheim Katedralskole in Norway and Lomwe Secondary School in Tanzania:
• A NORAD-supported exchange programme for schools. Trondheim Katedralskole, Norway - Lomwe Secondary School, Tanzania, English and Norwegian versions
• The students' journals from our excursion to Tanzania in February 2008
• The students' journals from our excursion to Tanzania in February 2010 
• Report to NORAD from the exchange excursions to and from Lomwe Secondary School, Tanzania and Trondheim Katedralskole, Norway in the spring of 2008
• Report to NORAD from the exchange excursions to and from Lomwe Secondary School, Tanzania and Trondheim Katedralskole, Norway in the spring of 2010 

The Centre for Continuing Education  at NTNU, Trondheim gave a university-credit course in computer assisted learning for language teachers the winter of 1996/97 conducted by  Dr. Finn Bostad at the department of applied linguistics. He made us build home pages as home work and we were not allowed to sit for the exam without having created a home page about some educational topic we had actually taught in our classes with some computer assistance. That home work constitutes the beginning of these pages. Later I have found a website useful to communicate ideas to students and colleagues alike, and I am still exploring this medium.