The Flying Teacher

                                                3.09.2018 13h. First 'serious' online test. It was great to have this session before all the forthcoming  exercises and presentations because to be honest the results of start using Adobe Connect were not 100% positive. The basic four pillars of having the whole system working were in my opinion: input & output video and input & output audio. Well, in my case not all of these factors were in total predisposition of working. Although I didn't get a perfect performance of the whole system I could get a general idea of how the concept goes. I got familiar with the different windows and tools within the main screen, the different possibilities when trying to access outer links and the different rules of behaviour or how to show presence/absence. And I realised that as a last...

Time for introductions... Well,I will not try to bore you with my whole curriculum vitae but in brief I can tell that my name is Christian and I'm from Madrid, Spain. Basically my whole career has been dedicated to the tourism and hospitality sector. I studied a Degree in Tourism in Madrid and then a Master's Degree in Hospitality Management at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki.  Professionally I started (among some other summer jobs) as hotel receptionist but in 2002 I began my career as cabin crew for Iberia, the old Spanish national airline. In this position I have been working for 15 years when I decided to establish my residence in Finland on a permanent basis. I then continued flying, this time for Norwegian, from the Helsinki base. I recently promoted within this same company as Cabin Chief/Purser/Senior (however you want to call it). And then next destination... Oulu! I suppose it is a natural process for me and a...

After more than 16 years professionally related to the world of aviation – what better way to start my professional teaching studies in Oulu than... flying to Oulu! And that is what I pretty did on August 28th when I started my studies to (hopefully) become a professional teacher. That day I met a group of people from very different backgrounds both culturally and professionally speaking. I must admit that it was somehow overwhelming how some of them had already a wide professional and academic experience in sometimes very technical issues and degrees. On the other hand I felt relieved that some others were trying to cope with jobs, projects, other studies, families or everything at the same time... just like me. After two hectic days we received the guidelines and basic structure of our studies, we organised working teams, received our first tasks, paperwork, personal introduction – including OAMK working staff – and many, many other th...