Learning by doing

By Zahra Aemaebasir

Somejam2020 is a three-day event which is being organized by Tampere University, Y-Campus, and Tampere High School of Technology.

We, Master and PhD students of Digital literacy Education, are the main organizers of this event under the supervision of teacher @ Sirkku Kotilainen. We are planning such event for the first time and we are nervous, but we have strong and experienced supporters behind us such as our great teacher, Sirkku.

The marketing team consists of three master students trying to figure out the Finnish culture, how to do the marking in this culture and use their digital skills as best as they can. We have interviewed mentors and students and updated all the social media platforms about our project.

As the marketing team, we are trying to popularize this event to a bigger audience and especially to our target groups which are students in the high school and the university.

As the first step, we participated in the promotion event of the high school to recruit the students. We were all excited to be between high school students and try to convince them to experience a workshop with us, international university students.

The teachers really helped us, and the students amazed us since we got 12 enrollments in one hour after the promotion. We are still promoting in the university scale and we hope we provide a good experience for all the participants.

It is an important event for us as well, because we are learning during the whole project either. At some point, we fill disappointed and think we have made mistakes. However, this path is bringing us all together and the bond between us is becoming closer and stronger.