Curriculum Vitae
Annett Hillestad - Cand Paed
Sofienberggt. 5, 0551 Oslo Phone: 91386430 Mail: annetthi@ulrik.uio.no Date of birth: 10.04.1971
Employment History
2005 – Ongoing
Research Fellow at The Dep. of Pedagogic,
University of Oslo
Working on my PhD, and teaching the Tool 3100,
and Tool 1100 course.
2003- 2005
Coordinator for the Bachelor degree
programme TOOL - Technology,
Organisation and Learning. 100%.
• Employed to pedagogically enhance the start up of a
new interfaculty bachelor programme. This involves
participating in team-teaching activities and coordinating the interdisciplinarity within the
programme. I also assist the Tool-board with
various administrative tasks.
2000-2002
The UiO Career Centre. Information Officer/
Career Counsellor. 60%.
• The Career Centre helps students make the
transition from student life to working life, and
assist employers wishing to attract UiO students.
Providing counselling, workshops, lectures and
career fairs are some of the offered services. The
Centre is small, so all employees take part in most
of the activities, but my main job responsibility was
to assist students coming to the Centre on a one-toone basis.
1998
Pedagogical Psychological Service, Furuset
and Oppsal, Oslo. Educational Councellor.
50%.
•
After my internship I continued working at the
office for 6 months, where I was responsible for
conducting the assessments of pupils with special
needs enrolled in one medium sized school in the
district. The assessment suggests whether the pupil
needs special education, and what kind of tuition
should be provided, as regulated by the Education
Act.
Referees
Names and contact details available on request
Education
1995–2003
Cand Paed from University of Oslo
Master thesis: The thesis investigates the
relationship between the user interface and the users
understanding of the personal computer. The thesis
work was supported by ITU (Network for ITResearch and Competence in Education) with a
grant and placement in their forum for master
students. The complete thesis can be downloaded
from: http://folk.uio.no/annetthi/
Internships :
Pedagogical Psychological Service, Oslo. 8 weeks.
The School at the Children and Adolescent’s
Psychiatric ward, Ullevål Hospital, Oslo. 3 weeks.
Torshov Resource Centre for Complex Learning
Difficulties and Social and Emotional Problems,
Oslo. 3 weeks.
Aetat, The Public Employment Service, Department
for Employment Counselling (ARK), Oslo. 3 weeks.
1990–1997
Cand Mag from the University of Oslo
The degree is composed of subjects from the Faculty
of Arts (History and Literature) and the Faculty of
Education (Pedagogic).
1988-1990
International Baccalaureate from Pearson
College, Vancouver Island, Canada
English A, European History and Art
(Higher Level)
and
Mathematics, Physics and Norwegian
(Subsidiary Level).
Informal IT-skills
• Have used different versions of Windows, Mac and
Linux, but I’m particularly familiar with Microsoft
Office software. Know just enough HTML in order
to maintain my own web pages. Limited Unix-skills.
• Use Classfronter (LMS) and Vortex (webbased UiO
system) to communicate with the Tool-students.