education portal

Education portal

Lars Barstad and Mariann Klingberg, Information Section

• Launched 1996

• Mainly documents; some fact sheets

www.stortinget.no

• 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 MPsHowever• Few classes took part

• Intention to have regular news updatesHowever• 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

www.stortinget.no

• 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

Reusing other 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.

Example: Twitter

On the education portal

On the education portal

Reusing future 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

Thank you for listening!

web@stortinget.no