Andrés at Joensuu

Program

In a homage to the Spanish most acclaimed chef, Ferran Adriá, we will have a deconstructed programme where sessions (flavors) are separated and reorganized in a delicious way. If arrangements go as expected, they never do, we will have invited short talks from Sri Lanka, Spain, Ireland and Finland. See you tomorrow. If you want to take part online let me know in advance, so we can test it.

PhD Day 20th March

10:00 - 10:40 Andrés Moreno, Dr Hewagamage, Antti Rantaeskola, Francisco Moreno, you …E-learning around the world (Sri Lanka, Finland, Spain)

10:40 - 11:00 Welcoming words by Erkki Sutinen

11:00 - 11:30 Marjo Virnes, PhD in Progress: Process of data analysis in Grounded Theory (GT) study

11:30 - 11:45 Next PhD meeting discussion

11:45 - 13:00 Everybody,Lunch at Aura

13:00 - XX:XX Philip Land, Ireland, ICT for social development in Ireland: Idea seeking

If you want to discuss about the topics or the schedule itself use the comments section!

Call for Participation

PhD progress reports

The next PhD day will be dealing PhD progress reports from at least Marjo and possibly Jussi. As there are slots available, if you want to say anything about your PhD (methods you are using, papers you are writing,…) please contact me to arrange the best way to present your message.

For those presenting, I will appreciate if they could send me something for the others to read before your presentation.

Theme of the day:E-learning

I will like to ask the participants of the PhD day and the readers of this blog, to share their experiences in e-learning in other parts of the world. How is e-learning organized in other universities? Which roles can be found in e-learning departments and e-learning platforms?…

Please, comment to this post with your experiences and reflections.

Online participation

Online participation is possible, please email amoreno@cs to arrange it. Adobe connect is the preferred method. However, skype can be considered as well if Adobe solution is not good for you, e.g., linux user.

Tentative program

PhD Day 20th March

10:15 - 10:30 Welcoming words by Erkki Sutinen

10:30 - 11:00 Marjo Virnes, PhD in Progress: Process of data analysis in Grounded Theory (GT) study

11:00 - 11:30 Philip Land, Ireland, To Be Confirmed

11:30 - 12:00 Jussi Nuutinen, a Nutting Surprise

12:00 - 13:00 Everybody,Lunch at Aura

13:00 - 13:30 Your Name Here, Free Slot

13:30 - 14:00 Andrés Moreno,E-learning in Sri Lanka, and other opportunities

14:00 - 14:15 Next PhD meeting discussion

Some time ago I attended the rather dense PhD defense of a colleague from my group. His PhD has already been graded and awarded. I’d just present him with a portrait of that great day!

Starting a promising career my other self has become a TV actor. After some unpredicted changes in its course, fate got me a very short acting role in Finnish series. Set your recorders for autumn 2009 (no worries I will remind you later) when a great episode of Karjalan kunnailla would be aired.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

For a variety of subconscious reasons the above quote is bouncing inside my head in its original language, English. Problem is: I don’t know where I picked it up from. I googled the quote this morning. They are the introductory words to Dicken’s novel “A Tale of Two Cities”, which I watched three years ago as represented by the students of Joensuu Uni. However, I cannot recall the quote from then, and maybe I have read it somewhere else.

Connected somehow, this afternoon when I switched on my mp3 player, it started playing “Tale of Two Cities” by Chris Von Sneidern, from his album “California Redemption Value”. Nice melodies and lyrics…

Lastly and connected again somehow, Elemer, who starred the “Tale of Two Cities” play, was one of the conversation topics today at lunch. He recently moved to Lisboa, and is getting married somewhere in Finland. Here you can see him acting at his best!

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