In Varpala, was it freezing?

Having fun and new experiences in Varpala

We (actually only the german and danish people) went Fishing, little bit of hiking, sauna and dinner (traditional finish food like lörtsy, sausage, nokipannukahvi = coffee made in a fireplace...and so on).


Nice catch :) Pikes, perch and lahna.



Svend showing us his catch, niiiice pike!



Afterwards we went inside to warm up a little bit. then we had coffee or tee and carelian pie with salmon.


Sami, Anne and Esko.

Finished product and visit in a joiner company

Here is one finished product our visitors made during their visit. The model is taken from Olavinlinna's tower. It is made of heat threated beech.

Visit in Ecutiimi Oy, company that makes furniture for restaurants,

-Sami-

Feedback and ideas for SPACE III :)

What can I say, nice week indeed. I'm very happy with our students work. Thank you Minttu, Jani, Erja and Mikko. You speak english well and  you are not afraid to help students from other countries. Beside that you have great ideas we can use in our school :)
PLANNING: We teachers should plan the work in the workshops a little bit better. Working on the workshop went well but it could be even better. 
DOCUMENTING: If we got a new project (SPACE III?) we could document our work better using blog. In SPACE II we finish people used blog to document and it is great way to do it. We posted experiences with german students and teachers when they visited Savonlinna. The first impression was that they were quite excited and interested about it. I am very happy of their work, points for you. Great work! 
TEACHERS ROLE: About teachers work in a foreign country. We should focus better on that too. Teachers might stay too "loose" during the visit? That's my opinion. So work for the teachers too, something that they can use in their home country.

IDEAS FOR THE SPACE III
1. KESTÄVÄ KEHITYS/ECOLOGICAL VALUES :  everyone could present how they are considering egolocical values in their education. 
2. TYÖTURVALLISUUS / SECURITY? everyone could present how they are considering egolocical values in their education. At the moment it is very different in different countries.
3. NEW INNOVATIVE MATERIALS : everyone could present how they are considering new materials in their education. 
4. PLANNING  : Could we use modern technology during planning next visit/product? Video conference before visit?
5. NEW INNOVATIVE or/and ECOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES: 

6. MAKING TUTORIAL VIDEOS TOGETHER? Using modern technology

Those are the first ideas and experiences, we will write more...

-Sami-   

Last day at school

We got happily the clocks finished but the trip is not finish yet. Now we are going to Varpala to see how is t like to fish with nets. Let's see if we catch a fish or two?





-Sami-

Wednesday in the workshop

Today we continued working with the Olavinlinna tower clock. There has been more sanding, waxing, "burning" the SAMI mark and so on.

-Sami-

Experiences and feedback for us

Give us some information, feedback, experiences about your visit to Savonlinna. Here is some clues for you...

1. Working in the workshop
- working generally in the workshop?
- about the work/product? The clock you made...
- how was it working with finish/german students?

2. Generally about the whole week?
- timetable? Flexible or too tight?
- about the visits you have made?
- did you learn to speak english better?
- would you like to come again in Savonlinna? For example to work in a company for 4 weeks?

3. New ideas to continue this kind of project?

We can do this together on thursday morning.

-Sami-

Great work!

Hello, hello!

You have been doing great work! It's nice to notice that there is new posts in SPACE2- blog. I was also pleased that there was several photos from the workshop and construction departments worksite in Miekkoniemi. Nice...!

See you on wednesday!

Regards,

Sami

Nice :)

Hello everybody!

It is nice to notice that all of our guests have made a post in this blog. I hope you will write something about following things:

1. Working in our workshop
- you can comment the product or making of it or both
- too much work?

2. What are your feelings about the finish school or school culture?


3. What kind of trip did you have in Finland and in Savonlinna?


We will talk about those things during the week. And please take pictures and put them in to this blog. We will help you...

-Sami-