CBU ICT summer school 2009: Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing

Helsinki, Finland, August 17 - 28, 2009

Learnign diary

The number of credits has not been very well defined. But here comes the definition: All students will get 1 credit for a course they have actively participated in.

Only the CBU students will have an opportunity to get one extra credit per course. For this you need to submit a learning diary, which covers the course content and your experience during the summer school including the free time. You may write all courses in one diary or provide a separate diary for each course. The joint one is prefered.

If you have kept your diary by writing your comments, observations and ideas down by hand, please copy them to electronic form for submission.

The size of the final submitted diary should be around 8-10 (or 12) pages. That is approximately two pages per course. However, you are not expected to cover all the courses in the same quantity. If the text is very reflective then even one page per course and one or two for cultural experiences is enough.

Diary content

Issues you should consider in the diary: course content, lecture style, groupworks, exercises, using (foreign?) language(s) in relation with your own background.

The cultural aspect could cover: your impression about Helsinki, other students, teachers, the night of the arts, weekend experiences, etc.

Write the diary more to yourself than to Tiina, even if you eventually submit it to Tiina. Think about storing the diary and reading in again after five years.

Diary submission

Send your diary to Tiina: tiina.niklander@cs.helsinki.fi preferably before September, but at the latest before September 7. (You can write the diary during the summer school in Helsinki and submit it already on Friday morning before the final practise session, if you wish.)

Please remember to put your name on the diary cover or at the end of it

Students of Finnish universities: please do not forget to submit your student id with the diary.

Links for additional information

A technology student oriented short introduction: Keeping a learning diary from University of Plymouth

A more detailed explanation of a learning diary:: How to write a learning diary from Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki