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Education portal. Lars Barstad and Mariann Klingberg, Information Section. www.stortinget.no. Launched 1996 Mainly documents; some fact sheets. Grew bigger and better over time Criticism: difficult to understand, especially for young people. Aim: to make it more easily accessible
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Education portal Lars Barstad and Mariann Klingberg, Information Section
www.stortinget.no • Launched 1996 • Mainly documents; some fact sheets
Grew bigger and better over time • Criticism: difficult to understand, especially for young people
Aim: to make it more easily accessible • Main target group: teenagers, especially upper secondary school students • Plain language
Simple information about the Storting • Of interest to all groups – not just teenagers • Difficult words directly linked to a dictionary. • Designed to be more appealing to young people
Information presented in four different sections: • "Democracy and power" • "What does the Storting do?" • "How does the Storting work?" • "How can you participate?"
Also contained a quiz with questions about the Storting • www.tinget.no launched in 2005
Generally very positive feedback • Good help in learning more about the Storting in particular, and democracy in general
Problems • Student interviews with MPs However • Few classes took part • Intention to have regular news updates However • Little time for this • Same articles on front page for too long
2008: main website replaced • Everything new, information texts rewritten • Easier to understand than those on www.tinget.no • More modern design
Main purpose of www.tinget.no now gone • Needed redesigning to be worth keeping • Decided to close it down • Some features moved to ordinary website
The solution Back to the mother ship
An education portal • Same address as www.stortinget.no • But still standing on its own
Content plus Moving towards a 3rd generation website?
Reusing stortinget.no features • Frequently Asked Questions: main entry point to fact pages • Easier access to programme for sittings, public hearings and parliamentary documents • The MiniTing and 2050 • Online application forms • Information and tasks that help prepare and conclude the visit
Reusingother features • Embedded Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/stortinget) • Twitter and identi.ca updates (www.twitter.com/stortinget and www.identi.ca/stortinget) • Sharing content to other websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.
Reusingfuture features • Facebook updates from the Storting’s Facebook page? • Feeds from MPs’ (active) blogs? • Game and quiz
Target group • Upper secondary school students (16-18) • Teachers
Thankyou for listening! web@stortinget.no