lara.isLára Stefánsdóttir M.Ed., Curriculum vitae (November 2004)

Office: Hafnarstraeti 93-95, 600 Akureyri, Iceland.
Telephone: 354-460-3100, 354-896-3357
Internet: lara@lara.is http://www.lara.is

 

Current

College and universities attended:
The University of Education - M.Ed. on laptop use in a Senior High School - graduation October 2003
The Iceland University of Education – diploma – Pedagogy 1999
The University of Iceland - Pedagogy and education for upper secondary school teacher diploma 1992
The Computer College (TVÍ) (Now named University of Reykjavík) - graduation 1989
 

Part time courses:
1995: University of Cincinnati, Technology and Transformation in Education. (Online)  
 Many development courses nationally and internationally on site and on-line.
1993: NATO. Instructional design (Grimstad, Norway)
1992: Institute of Education, University of London. Online Education and Training. (Online)

Employment and teaching experience:  

Okt 2003: Working partly for Ţekking hf on solutions for educational institutions on ICT in education and partly self employed as consultant and online teacher.

May 2003: Ran for parliament for the Alliance party (Samfylkingin) and will be the 1st alternate for my party in my constituency until 2007. (Will work as normal unless the parliament members have to take a leave for more than a week then I need to go to the parliament).

From January 2002: Established lara.is and working on various projects, teaching and activities.

1998 - 2002: Senior High School at Akureyri. Head of ICT department and teacher. In 1999 the school was selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research as one of three pilot schools developing IT into education, leading that project in the school. The program will be ongoing until year 2002.  

2000-2004: Assistant project director of Kidlink (http://www.kidlink.org)

1999
 Worked on developing IT into the national curriculum presented by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research spring 1999.

Manager of Multi Language Area in Kidlink.  

1998 - 1999
 Representing the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research in IDUN II (Information technology and data pedagogy in education) participating on behalf of the ministry in the group, which is coordinated by the Nordic council of ministers. IDUN II is the succeed of IDUN.  

1997 Educational district service for primary schools. Consulting on IT and mathematics in education.  

1995-1997 Work on freelance basis from December 1995.

  • Ministry of Education and Culture: Developing IT strategy for Icelandic schools from preschool to university level. Published March 1996.

  • Internet educational consultant for Telia in Sweden as well as some educational institutions in Iceland.

  • Representing the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research in IDUN (Information technology and data pedagogy in education) participating on behalf of the ministry in the group, which is coordinated by the Nordic council of ministers.

  • Representing the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research in the Nordic School Network - Odin participating on behalf of the ministry in a group organized by the Nordic Council of ministers.

  • Assistant Project Director of Kidlink, at December 1996 - July 1999.

  • Teaching various courses (see later)

  • Established Kidlink in Icelandic language.  

1992-1995:

  • One of the establishers of The Icelandic Educational Network (ISMENNT), working role: Educational director. Ismennt connected over 90% of Icelandic schools to Internet by the year 1993.

  • Representing Iceland in a Nordic group on "Adult education and new technology". Financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

  • Joined Kidlink on-line project for kids aged through 15 in 1993, established Kidforum a topic work for kids being first manager of Kidforum, first project included over 500 kids from 16 countries. Elected as board member of Kidlink on behalf of the Europe continent 1994-1998  

1988-1992: "Fjolbrautaskolinn vid Armula" (Upper secondary). Teaching computer science. Responsible for the school computer system and development.

1987-1988: Axel software, programming for school grades, attendances, etc.

1985-1986: Microtolvan, programming commercial software.

1977-1985: Import manager for the Association of Electrical Contractors in Iceland, importing electrical material.

Online courses tought via Internet (1991-2003), examples:

  • Students and laptops in Junior High Schools

  • In-service courses for teachers on behalf of various institutions such as the Icelandic Educational Network, The University of Iceland, The University of Education in Iceland

  • How to teach online (online courses and on site for teachers in upper secondary schools and universities)

  • Internet in Education (online and on site)

  • Beginners courses on Internet, tools (such as e-mail, searching the www, how to create web pages – online and on site)

  • Distance education on-line for teachers from Baltic countries at The Nordic Folk Academy

  • Distance education on-line for teachers in Slovenia for Soros foundation and the Ministry of Education in Slovenia (combined online and onsite course)

  • Kidlink, how to use Kidlink in the classroom (online and on site as well as guest lecturer in various university courses for teacher students)

  •  IT and curriculum (students in master program at the University of Education – Reykjavik)

  •  IT for unemployed women, Women’s Educational Central at Akureyri

  • Various IT courses for officials in Akureyri city.

  • Courses for junior high school students:

  • Pascal programming

  • Database design

Book written: Odd de Presno, Lars H. Andersen, Lara Stefansdottir, 1995, Netheimar, Published by authors. Reykjavik. Iceland. (Icelandic)

Articles: Written many articles 1991-2002 on IT and Internet in Education. For further information and examples look at my papers

Talks at conferences (1991-2003) on various subjects such as IT in Education, On-line distance education, Kidlink, develop in Iceland as well as in: Ĺland islands, Brazil, Denmark, Faeroe islands, Norway, Peru, Puerto Rico, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, UK, USA. Further information in my papers