News at the Joensuu EdTech Research Group

Carolina Islas: it matters what you discover

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:30:43 +0000

Week 6, 2012 Joensuu, Finland Preparing a lecture is actually challenging. For me, the defiance is also personal because I enjoy to learn and I often dislike to be sitting in a lecture room. On Monday night, a friend of … Continue reading →

Carolina Islas: organizing posts

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:44:58 +0000

Week 5, 2012 Joensuu, Finland After deciding to stick to this blog, one thing I want to achieve is to organize its posts. When I started boggling I was clueless of my own posts: how would they look like?, about … Continue reading →

Carolina Islas: south korea amusement parks

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:01:18 +0000

Week 4, 2012 Joensuu, Finland Oh, my playful me! As much as I enjoy learning, traveling, discovering, being in the nature,…. I also like amusement parks. Actually, I should write a post of my last trip to Disney, even if … Continue reading →

Carolina Islas: are we making the correct questions? (sequel)

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:41:11 +0000

In a previous post I was focusing myself on one specific question. However, today, while preparing my lecture on mobile learning I read an inspiring post from Cameron D. Norman: Asking if Technology Can Reinvent Education is the Wrong Question. … Continue reading →

IMPDET Updates: PhD Day - January 2012

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:50:09 +0000

The first PhD Day in year 2012 will be held Friday, January 2, 2012, 10-12 at the edTech lab, School of Computing. For details about the programme, please visit https://wiki.uef.fi/x/DiD9

Carolina Islas: books in your professional life

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:28:32 +0000

Week 3, 2012 Joensuu, Finland My memories tell me that I always have liked books. However, books for study are another issue. In my first semester on my first University (yes I have been in several of them ) my … Continue reading →

IMPDET Updates: IMPDET Wiki Space

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:13:59 +0000

Resources and information related to the IMPDET programme is now being collected to the IMPDET Wiki Space at UEF. The IMPDET Wiki can be found from https://wiki.uef.fi/display/IMPDET/IMPDET+Wiki+Space

Roman Bednarik: The designer’s “I think the controls are intuitive”-claim

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:19:56 +0000

When I hear or read that line, it’s like a red flag in front of a bull, a warning light. It’s translation is: “Hello user experience, haven’t seen you for a while, but I got it right.”

The best addition to it is: “…and no manual is needed.”

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Carolina Islas: fulfill a promise

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:43:20 +0000

week 13 of 2011 Joensuu, Finland Main activity: writing, writing and more writing On April 1st, I fulfill a promise to submit a refurbish article to be reviewed again. I hope at the end this article will succeed! However, I … Continue reading →

Clint Rogers: How does current money/economic system control your life & this world in ways that are systematically unhealthy?

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:23:40 +0000

Have you watched this yet? IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How does current money/economic system control your life & this world in a way that is at it’s core is systematically unhealthy? What alternative economic systems might actually promote health, peace, social good? (It’s 2+ hrs, but worth more than most movies you may take time to watch in the [...]

Clint Rogers: Patch Adams, a “Scientist of Joy”, and Global Health and Humanitarian Summit

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:08:33 +0000

Clint Rogers: News from Brussels - Questions for You and the E.U. that can change the future!

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:20:39 +0000

Clint Rogers: Can I Share With You Something Amazing? (about Dr Naram and my Dad)

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:34:12 +0000

Roman Bednarik: My recent interesting links

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:31:54 +0000

With our researchers we recently talked about ways to share interesting stuff. Email is for other purposes, but here: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/roman.bednarik you can find a list and feed of the things I found interesting. Send me yours!

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Roman Bednarik: Why is a white-text-on-black theme a poor choice?

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:24:10 +0000

Try to read such text in low light, such as in the evening with just a little reading lamp on. Try a wider paragraph width, larger line-spacing. A 150% of this blog will make it too.

Then look away from the text. You won’t see a thing, but just nice blinds, all ‘burned’ into your retina. The recovery of vision seems much longer than from a black-on-white scheme (reading a newspaper on a direct sun).

And why do I then use the scheme? It looks good. But after this experience, I am considering a change to basic.

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Clint Rogers: From Ghana - Top 7 Reasons Why Most ICT4D Projects FAIL

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:14:10 +0000

Clint Rogers: 7 Days of Silence — India

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:52:06 +0000

Clint Rogers: Questions about Identity: Who are You? And Why do you think so?

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:44:26 +0000

Clint Rogers: Do you agree? Freedom to Fail vital for Success

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:52:42 +0000

Teemu H. Laine: Reviving UEF @ SA

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:09:17 +0000

Strangely enough this blog seems to become active only when the author is located in South Africa. I arrived here on Monday and this time with my better half. Our aim is to endure enjoy South African winter for three months while doing a fair bit of research/studying and also experience the world cup atmosphere. I will stay mostly at Meraka/CSIR and occasionally visit also University of Pretoria. Among writing some papers and proceed with my main course of research, I will enjoy the following appetizers and desserts as well:

Adding some intelligence to UFractions in form of smart blocks with Andrew Smith and Thato Foko from Merak
Come up with new project ideas with Thato
Seek to collaborate with Serious Game Research Group at UP
Work on the future version of TekMyst
Prepare for Autumn evaluations of LieksaMyst and Heroes of Koskenniska
Visit Tanzania to support Bagamoyo mobile game development (more on this in an undefined future post)
Visit Zambia to do some voluntary teaching of basic IT skills

Quite surely I have forgotten many things, and new tasks are likely to emerge as the time passes. Let’s see how well this to-do list holds. Please keep checking up on the page for more stories and hopefully some pictures as well.