Welcome

In conection with the Online cource YourSchoolLibrary feb 20.09 to March 1,  I will present myself here:

Niels Damgaard at work!

I am a national senior advisor working in Norway with teachers and librarians preparing these for running a school library in primary – or in upper secondary schools. But I am NOT an English teacher and never been one, and I am still learning English, so don´t point fingers of my bad English writing 🙂

I am educated teacher from Denmark and have been working (on the floor) as a teacher (mostly with immigrants) in Danish as a second language – and with setting up and running school libraries in Denmark, Greenland and Norway i 15 years. I have been headmaster on a very little school on a  small island – Christiansø far out in the Baltic Sea – and headmaster on a school for children from Bosnia coming to Denmark in the 90´ties. The last 12 years I have worked  in a nationalNorwegian company – Biblioteksentralen – providing everything the Norwegian public libraries needs to build up and maintain its libraries.

In 10 year I have been a extern lector on the University of Agder (Southern part of Norway)  running courses on Internet for teachers and librarians who works – or want to work in the public schools of Norway. The last year I am running a 12 month course – the Web 2.0 School – one day a month – providing education for librarians working with the new tools.

In this moment I am preparing a Norwegian conferance for school librarians from 26.-27. of March 2009 – and we expect more than 100 attendees to listen to e.g. Dr. Ross Tod and a lot of other famous (in Norway) persons.