Archive for January, 2007

edtech seminar 9.2.2007

Posted in edtech on January 30th, 2007 by roman

Edtech phd day – 9.2.2007, starting 10:30, edtech lab

Program, times are approximate

1. 10:30 – Changes in the edtech meetings – rotating chair, instructions on Web, etc.

2. 10:40 – A message from Erkki: How was 2006 and what to expect from 2007?

3. 11:15 – Tuomo Kakkonen: Towards a Framework for Evaluating Syntactic Parsers.
Ppt here (intra). Background literature: http://www.springerlink.com/content/5n872381h4r64356/

4. 11:45 – Justus Randolph: The most common English-language mistakes in (edtech) manuscripts: What they are and how to avoid them. Ppt here (intra)

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break

5. 13:00 – Jussi Nuutinen: How to find out the right things with a questionnaire? Background info here. Presentation here (intra)

6. 13:30 – AndrĂ©s Moreno: New edtech delta logo. Link here, ppt here (intra).

7. 13:45 – Timo Rui: SciFest – who does what, who needs help. Ppt here (intra only)

8. 14:00 – presentation: TBA

9. Selection of the next chair: “You can be selected even if you do not attend this”

Things to do in Joensuu

Posted in life on January 12th, 2007 by roman

There is one search phrase that repeatedly brings users to my blog. It is “Things to do in Joensuu”, as I would write anything about things to do here. Anyway, at the moment google returns a link to this blog on the second place in the results (of course there is an explanation to this, much more prosaic).

It made me actually think what you would say to visitors, potential students, or job seekers, about how you can spend your time in Joensuu. From the search phrase it is not clear whether they are interested in how to spend their free time, or are they exploring the possibilities of this place in general. Moreover, to answer accurately one would need to know better who is asking.

In any case, I like to think more actively about the things to do in Joensuu:

unlike many other places, Joensuu is a place where one still can, and actively has to, come up himself with things to do.

What are the things you do in Joensuu? We can plan a 10 (cool) things to do in Joensuu list!