The final week and an awesome feeling

Don't even know how to start. I mean the whole course has been fun, but I never thought it could end like this - our last week at school was so much fun!! On Monday we just planned a little bit of our video that we were about to make for the Final presentation and told about it to our teachers. They were all very excited about us making a video for the final school day and said that they are looking forward to it a lot. We also had a couple creative tasks that we did. We had to plan our digital business course our own way into a piece of paper. We got to use our imaginations as much as we wanted and plan the whole course as if there were no limitations. Another task of ours was to imagine ourselves in 2020 - what would we be doing? How would we be like?

Here's our groups outcome of the tasks:

Our team met on Tuesday and we filmed some clips for the video and edited the whole thing ready for Thursday.

And then on Thursday... That's another story...

I came to school all excited since I knew it was gonna be a good day. But little did I know that there was going to be Star Wars music, festival drinks, chocolate and people all dressed up - I mean, wow! It was both the final presentation day and Ilkka's birthday so the whole day was special in every way. Our team was so excited to present our video that we made for the final presentation and we were also excited to see what others had accomplished.

In addition to only going through what each group had done during the course, we also had some nominations for the best blogs (which I got chosen for?!?!!? Still can't believe it!) etc... and some guests introducing themselves. The digital coaches had also prepared a video for us to show about the course and it was funny to watch clips of moments throughout the course.

Got a drink to my hand right after arriving to school:)

The day was just so full of joy and laughter and we were all taken by surprise by the whole arrangement of the final day. Very, very nice!

Ahh, it feels so good and kind of sad to be writing the last post right now. I don't even know how to end this cause I feel like I have so many emotions and so much to say that even though I have decent writing skills, I just can't express myself enough with words. Anyways, thank you Ilkka, Anna and Marjo for the course, thank you all my fellow students and special thanks to my awesome team 8<3 You guys are awesome and we had so much fun!

Our team<3

Here's our final presentation video, enjoy!:)

-Laura

Week 49

Oh my god, you'll never guess what. I totally thought that I had published a post about this week (the week 49), but it appears that I haven't!! How embarrassing.. Oh well, here I am - better late than never, right?

The second last week of the course was the week for both the exam and some lectures, as usual. On Monday we had a few guest speakers: Mika Aittamäki and Niklas Litmala from Rainmaker, who told us about sales and marketing on a deeper level. Why is being good at selling products so important? Why are salesmen needed?

As Mika Aittamäki said: Digital selling satisfies desires but doesn't fulfill needs. That's where the people come to the picture - they fulfill the customer's needs. Another sentence that I caught from Mika's lecture was that "Things that are relevant in your own world, make you buy what you buy".
After Mika's lecture, Niklas talked to us a little bit about Leijona-Akatemia, in which we could also sign up for during the lecture if we were interested. Leijona-Akatemia is meant for students that are interested or passionate about sales. It's a new way to offer coaching and career opportunities that promises students some extra training and a job. I put my name on the email -list that Niklas gave us and got some information about Leijona-Akatemia to my email. I think these kind of opportunities and chances are very useful, even though I wouldn't need to use the service now, but to know about its existence.



After that our dear Ilkka had a little something to say and held another lecture after a short break. What he talked about was some of his own philosophies. He brought up Aristoteles and his famous rhetoric theory about logos, pathos and ethos. These three forms of essential qualities that your speech or presentation must have so that the audience will accept your message. Logos symbolizes sense, pathos symbolizes emotions and ethos symbolizes credibility.

Ilkka also talked about his way of "giving thanks" by writing a gratitude diary, in which he writes down everything that he is thankful for every night before bed time. He also reminded us to always respect, help and start a conversation with new people that we meet.

I always get so inspired by Ilkka's stories and lectures and it is so great to have a teacher like that. I've never actually got any inspiration out of school but this fall it has only been getting inspired day after day at the school lectures. Here is a great life advice by Ilkka:



On Thursday we had the exam (which I actually haven't done yet!!), so we didn't have school.

-Laura