SITR Summer School started at TAMK

The three SITR universities in the Tampere Region, Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Tampere University of Technology (TUT) and University of Tampere (UTA) have jointly organised a Summer School on Finnish Language and Culture at TAMK from 2-20 August 2010.

The course consists of contact teaching of Finnish language and lectures on Finnish Society and Culture. Teaching is organised at TAMK on weekdays. The teacher of the course is Henni Huttu-Hiltunen.

Some leisure activities and trips are organized. For example the summer school participants have already been to Tampere walking tour and next week they`ll visit Viikinsaari island, which is a city recreation island for summer activities.


Text & Photo: Annika Haanpää
Trainee / International Services

From Assembly with Love, vol. 1

Greetings from Assembly!

Finally I have enough time to blog about the first day's events, and because pictures equal a thousand words, I've used them quite a lot in this entry. Day started slowly, as we left off an hour later than planned, which was not surprising. We had to make a detour to our driver's home and pick up some gas before finally heading towards Helsinki. We made it to Hartwall Areena without further incident, and so we could start building the booth.

Our van was pretty full as the picture shows. We had e.g. four bean bags, a fridge and a projector screen.


We could not avoid small problems at this point: there weren't enough long LAN cables, we had to move our stuff away from the fire post, cables and backbags littered the floor and on top of it all, our original layout for the whole booth area had to be redone. Everything was sorted out eventually, and the booth is (and has been for several hours now) in full Assembly mode.



The highlight of our stand is the 42-inch TV the people from TiKo have brought. It's used to run their very own Swarms game for Xbox360.

And it is my pleasure to announce that the TTVO interactive tour has been released. Unfortunately we could not release it hear yet, as we didn't get our hands on the touchscreen until today, so we had no chance to test our little show before today. We found out that the movement didn't work as we intended, so we have to fix it before we can run it on the touchscreen. But I hope we get it fixed, because it would be so awesome!


This is the ASUS-sponsored touchscreen which will hopefully run the interactive tour tomorrow. Meanwhile it is showing the TAMK slideshow, which is not bad either..

Text and photos: Eevi Korhonen, 09IMP student
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SITR Summer School 2010 at TAMK on 2.-20.8.

The three SITR universities in the Tampere Region, University of Tampere (UTA), Tampere University of Technology (TUT), and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) jointly organize a Summer School on Finnish Language and Culture in Tampere  August 2-20, 2010.

The course is open for students coming from outside the European Union (EU) and accepted as exchange/degree studies at TAMK, TUT or UTA for the academic year 2010-2011.

This year, course takes place at TAMK. There are 30 participants in the course, and they come from Asia, North-America, Africa and Europe.

The course consists of contact teaching of Finnish language and lectures on Finnish Society and Culture. In addition, some leisure activities and trips will be organised.

Further information (SITR home)

From Assembly with Love, prologue

There's only one day between us and the Assembly. We'll be leaving early on Thursday morning to be at the site building our booth before the hordes of nerds overtake the Arena. We'll be blogging all the way to Sunday, so this announces our at least four-chapter-long tale of booth watching, computers and gallons of energy drink. So stay tuned to this blog!

The preparations for this weekend's event are almost complete! We have finished our masterpiece: The Interactive Tour of TTVO! It's the website/fictional tour we made with Flash to showcase what's it like studying here in TTVO (from the viewpoint of a Media student). Beware, there might be some heavy caricatures and we also had to condense the campus into a single hallway, so your experience will be more of a metaphor than an actual virtual tour.

Above a screenshot as a little taste of what's to come. The website will have its Grand Opening at Assembly, so you'll have to wait a little longer to try it out yourself.

Text: Eevi Korhonen, 09IMP student
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TAMK goes Assembly

Next weekend Hartwall Areena is going to be overrun with computer enthusiasts as the summer's biggest computer and video game related event, Assembly, kicks off. And the students of Media and Interactive Design are going to right there among them. TAMK is one of the sponsors at the event, and the school's participation is being done as a student project, where the students plan and implement TAMK's marketing and presence at the event.

We aren't alone, however. We are cooperating with the Computer Engineering students from the main campus as well as other schools in Finland. TAMK is going to be represented along with other schools that offer game education, KAJAK and Turku Game Tech & Arts Lab. We have a common booth, where we will be showing and playing the games made by the students and giving information on the various programmes in the schools.

Even though this is the first post about the subject, we've been working on the project whole summer. We've been designing badges (see pic), fliers, even got ourselves a sponsorship from ASUS in the form of a touchscreen computer that we will use to run our interactive tour of  TAMK Finlayson campus. We're also going to have sweets and other give outs like any good booth.

If you're at Assembly next weekend, come swing by our booth and say hello! If you can't, follow the blog from Thursday to Sunday, we'll be reporting from the event here!


Story: Eevi Korhonen

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