I got out of army and am back again. I hope to be able to continue writing about educational problems in Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School. If you readers have opinions about it let me know and I'll try to cover these.
Enjoy summer
Saturday 9 August 2008
Tuesday 10 June 2008
Podcast
This is my first podcast ever. It is talking about Tallinn University Student Union and Baltic Film and Media School student council.
This will be my last post before going to army in July. I'll try to keep posting as soon as I get back from there. Until then "Be Active"
Enjoy:)
Click here to get your own player.
This will be my last post before going to army in July. I'll try to keep posting as soon as I get back from there. Until then "Be Active"
Enjoy:)
Click here to get your own player.
Thursday 29 May 2008
Thank You!
I just wanted to say thank you to all for coming to the party. At first I was expecting about 20 people :) but there was much more and we are very glad for that.
Hope you all enjoyed the party as well and I hope you all will have a good time during the summer.
One thing I would like to let you guys know is that I am not the chairman of the student council anymore. It is Karl Hallik now and he is the one who is ready to lidten your problems and solve them. I am probably going to army in July so I'll see you as soon as I get out of there.
Have a nice summer!
Hope you all enjoyed the party as well and I hope you all will have a good time during the summer.
One thing I would like to let you guys know is that I am not the chairman of the student council anymore. It is Karl Hallik now and he is the one who is ready to lidten your problems and solve them. I am probably going to army in July so I'll see you as soon as I get out of there.
Have a nice summer!
Wednesday 21 May 2008
Spring Party
As exam session is starting and students need some kind of relaxation, Baltic Film and Media School student council is organizing a party on 29th of May. The party will take place in Tallinn University Language Building address Narva mnt. 29 in the lobby.
Party will start at 1900 and end around 0200. It ends at 0200 because we need to clean the house before next day.
Every student and teacher from BFM is very welcome there. Everything is for free. Also we are giving gifts to all who come there. Some drinks and some food is also there. Special needs need to be taken care of by your own :)
More information about the party will be available in next few days.
See you there and don't forget to relax as well.
Party will start at 1900 and end around 0200. It ends at 0200 because we need to clean the house before next day.
Every student and teacher from BFM is very welcome there. Everything is for free. Also we are giving gifts to all who come there. Some drinks and some food is also there. Special needs need to be taken care of by your own :)
More information about the party will be available in next few days.
See you there and don't forget to relax as well.
Saturday 10 May 2008
Elections for the new board of BFM Student Council BaFiMe
Announcement for BFM students!!
It's May again, and Baltic Film and Media School student council BaFiMe announces the elections for the new board.
The term of office for the new council board will last from June 1st 2008 - May 31st 2009.Every student from our college can apply for the post of chairman, vice chairman for development, and vice chairman for public politics.The application and motivational letter must be sent to the chaiman in print (leave it at the Media chair secretary's office), and electronically to the current board (bfm@esindus.ee)
Tips for a good motivational letter (in Estonian, sorry), are found here!
It does not have to be a long letter, it should be short and concrete.
The elections will take place on May 27th, the deadline for applications is May 25th.
The elections are held at 18:00 at the BaFiMe room (ground floor, next to the reception at Sütiste tee 21)
You are all expected to come listen and ask questions during elections.
I will also add the tasks for every board member.
Chairman:
- Co-ordinating and leading the student council Finance
- Communication and co-operation with the Student Union and academic unit
- External relationships (other student councils and student unions from within
and outside Estonia)
- Information (home page, bulletin boards, mail lists etc)
- Representatives (council of the academic unit, and commissions
at the Student Union assembly)
- Motivational system within the student council
- Taking part in the assembly's economic commission.
Vice chairman for public politics:
- Co-ordinating the work of the tutors in the academic unit plus schoolings
(course president, tutors, etc)
- Assuring the quality of thesis tutelage
- Co-ordinating practical administration with the academic unit
- Promoting student science
- Dealing with the study and social problems of students with special needs
- Mobility
- Forwarding the information about study allowances
- Representatives for the commission of study allowances and the councils for curricula
- Taking part in the assembly's politics commission
Vice chairman for development:
- Developing the curriculum, incl. feedback
- Running and keeping the documentation system
- Symbolics, incl. advertisement
- Cultural events
- Creating a feeling of communion within the academic unit
- Taking part in the assembly's development commission
PS! If any questions arise, please send them to tormis.laanisto@gmail.com
Monday 28 April 2008
Student Spring Days 2008
This year Student Spring Days took place from 21. april to 24. april. There were lots of great events where students could have gone to and have a lot of fun.
I would like to start with the opening parade. There were present a lot of students and I'm glad to announce that again Tallinn University was best present. There were a lot of TLU students and a lot of TLU college caps. We ruled the parade again. After the parade there was night singing festival where all these students together sang known Estonian national songs.
On tuesday BFM Student council took part of CARDBOARD MACHINE DESTRUCTION DERBY, which was so great event. We built a great Ferrari car and then went to the start. Everything was great until third meter of the race when we crashed with others and broke our ride totally. But we managed to get to the finish line and finish third. Though actual winner was not the team that first reached the finish line but the team which made most show and rammed most. And the winner was..... "Camera F1" from TLU BFM. Jeeeee...
After that students moved on to probably the most popular event of Student Days and it is Peda Folk. This was a very great party and I'm quite sure that all the people that came there were satisfied.
On other days there were a lot more great events but I won't go in detail describing those.
Link to read more about Student Days: Tudengipäevad
So thats it for now.
I'm sad that there were so few from BFM taking part of the Days but at least those who did know that it was great fun.
I would like to start with the opening parade. There were present a lot of students and I'm glad to announce that again Tallinn University was best present. There were a lot of TLU students and a lot of TLU college caps. We ruled the parade again. After the parade there was night singing festival where all these students together sang known Estonian national songs.
On tuesday BFM Student council took part of CARDBOARD MACHINE DESTRUCTIO
After that students moved on to probably the most popular event of Student Days and it is Peda Folk. This was a very great party and I'm quite sure that all the people that came there were satisfied.
On other days there were a lot more great events but I won't go in detail describing those.
Link to read more about Student Days: Tudengipäevad
So thats it for now.
I'm sad that there were so few from BFM taking part of the Days but at least those who did know that it was great fun.
Monday 14 April 2008
BFM will be homeless from autumn 2009?
Is it fair that one University gets most of money given to Estonian education from Europe? I don't think so. But this has happened and because of that from autumn 2009 Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School will be homeless. Tallinn University applied for some money to be able to buy a house for BFM and Tallinn University Art Institute. Decision makers though decided not to give the money and now BFM has reached a situation where it will be left homeless because it doesn't have the money to buy a house and Estonian government won't also give it.
Those people who decide where the money goes told that they will give huge amount of money to Estonian Art Academy which is going to build a brand new house for as I have heard 700 million kroons. So they will get that money and then they will build the house so that BFM will get rooms in that house as well, but the house will be ready around 2013, but what will happen to BFM during those 4 years? Well nothing, BFM students will get their education under trees.
THe house that BFM would buy if they would get the money is in first place much cheaper and second the house is already built and so BFM could move in time so that it would not be homeless for years. The house would be Estonian Film Center where Estonian films can be done and also the students would get a chance to work with real professionals who have worked in the field for years. But no, Estonian politicians have decided other. If Estonian politicians will keep playing with that school this way Estonia will end up losing something very good. If this school will happen to get more and better support abroad I wouldn't be surprised if ti would move away from Estonia and who will loose then? Estonia.
Sorry that I have written this post so sloppily but I'm just so angry on that situation.
On 15th April at 13:30 there will be a tour to this building what BFM would like to buy. There will be lots of students present there as well and we will keep fighting for our future and we want home no matter what.
This blog is probably most read by my fellow students so I call you all there and lets fight for our house.
Those people who decide where the money goes told that they will give huge amount of money to Estonian Art Academy which is going to build a brand new house for as I have heard 700 million kroons. So they will get that money and then they will build the house so that BFM will get rooms in that house as well, but the house will be ready around 2013, but what will happen to BFM during those 4 years? Well nothing, BFM students will get their education under trees.
THe house that BFM would buy if they would get the money is in first place much cheaper and second the house is already built and so BFM could move in time so that it would not be homeless for years. The house would be Estonian Film Center where Estonian films can be done and also the students would get a chance to work with real professionals who have worked in the field for years. But no, Estonian politicians have decided other. If Estonian politicians will keep playing with that school this way Estonia will end up losing something very good. If this school will happen to get more and better support abroad I wouldn't be surprised if ti would move away from Estonia and who will loose then? Estonia.
Sorry that I have written this post so sloppily but I'm just so angry on that situation.
On 15th April at 13:30 there will be a tour to this building what BFM would like to buy. There will be lots of students present there as well and we will keep fighting for our future and we want home no matter what.
This blog is probably most read by my fellow students so I call you all there and lets fight for our house.
Wednesday 26 March 2008
Blog.tr.ee
FeVRhToGtj
I had to add this nice word in my blog to get some more visitors:)
Nice or what?
I had to add this nice word in my blog to get some more visitors:)
Nice or what?
Tuesday 18 March 2008
Happy birthday TLU
Jippii
Today is the day when Tallinn University has a birthday. Isn't it fun??
Best thing about this is that the students of Tallinn University weren't absolutely informed about this. The public relations department who is organizing today a fancy birthday party decided that students are not welcome to the party. So they decided not to send out any message about the birthday. That is nice or what? At the same time Tallinn University is talking about problem that students of Tallinn University don't feel like a big family. And this is going to help, when you don't invite them to the birthday of university???
So about the party. I am working in Student Union so I know some things. The party is meant only for the workers of TLU and TLU's partners. All workers got an invitation to the party except the board of Student Union, who are officially workers of TLU as well. Great, students were totally left out this time. When Student Union went to talk to public relations office, they asked not to go and tell rector that student representatives are not invited. Well, we did go and after that PR department said that we can buy the tickets for 500.- EEK per person. Who is the entertainer? Rihanna? This is nuts.
Well finally we managed to get things so far that we didn't have to buy tickets, we got them for free. But still question is in my mind. Why is the birthday of Tallinn University only for workers??? Students make the university, why aren't they invited???
Today is the day when Tallinn University has a birthday. Isn't it fun??
Best thing about this is that the students of Tallinn University weren't absolutely informed about this. The public relations department who is organizing today a fancy birthday party decided that students are not welcome to the party. So they decided not to send out any message about the birthday. That is nice or what? At the same time Tallinn University is talking about problem that students of Tallinn University don't feel like a big family. And this is going to help, when you don't invite them to the birthday of university???
So about the party. I am working in Student Union so I know some things. The party is meant only for the workers of TLU and TLU's partners. All workers got an invitation to the party except the board of Student Union, who are officially workers of TLU as well. Great, students were totally left out this time. When Student Union went to talk to public relations office, they asked not to go and tell rector that student representatives are not invited. Well, we did go and after that PR department said that we can buy the tickets for 500.- EEK per person. Who is the entertainer? Rihanna? This is nuts.
Well finally we managed to get things so far that we didn't have to buy tickets, we got them for free. But still question is in my mind. Why is the birthday of Tallinn University only for workers??? Students make the university, why aren't they invited???
Wednesday 12 March 2008
Welcome
Hello,
My name is Tormis Laanisto and I am a second year PR student of Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School. i am also the chairman of BFM student council BaFiMe. I am working in the Tallinn University Student Union as a PR specialist so the educational issues are very interesting for me. I am fighting for ability to get the best education I can get and this is one reason I have started this blog.
My point making this blog is not to offend anyone. I will not mention any names and try to make some people look bad in the eyes of the readers. My point is to bring out the problems from the viewpoint of a student. The blog is not to say that things are undone or something like that, it is to help people see what are the problems and to give some solutions to solve problems. I am willing to give a hand solving these problems. My idea is that when I am paying a lot of money for my education I want to get good quality education in return, not just the degree. Comments on my blog are more than welcome, so comment when ever you have something to say to me.
As I also work in Tallinn University Student Union my very big concern is that students of Baltic Film and Media School don't feel like a part of Tallinn University. There was a questionnaire for the freshmen of Tallinn University and so also for the freshmen of BFM. There was a question: When you applied into Tallinn University did you also apply into some other university. There were many answers given. As the last answer there was given a chance to write some other university not listed above and one student wrote BFM. This answer was not given because BFM is part of Tallinn University. In my eyes this is very bad that our students don't actually know where they are.
I can't say that this is only problem of this one student. I read from newspapers all the time some things about BFM but there is not always mentioned that it is TALLINN UNIVERSITY BALTIC FILM AND MEDIA SCHOOL. Why? I don't know the answer.
As I am also part of BFM student council it is subject close to my heart that our students would know that they are students of Tallinn University and also to make sure that new students coming to BFM would also know where they are entering.
My name is Tormis Laanisto and I am a second year PR student of Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School. i am also the chairman of BFM student council BaFiMe. I am working in the Tallinn University Student Union as a PR specialist so the educational issues are very interesting for me. I am fighting for ability to get the best education I can get and this is one reason I have started this blog.
My point making this blog is not to offend anyone. I will not mention any names and try to make some people look bad in the eyes of the readers. My point is to bring out the problems from the viewpoint of a student. The blog is not to say that things are undone or something like that, it is to help people see what are the problems and to give some solutions to solve problems. I am willing to give a hand solving these problems. My idea is that when I am paying a lot of money for my education I want to get good quality education in return, not just the degree. Comments on my blog are more than welcome, so comment when ever you have something to say to me.
As I also work in Tallinn University Student Union my very big concern is that students of Baltic Film and Media School don't feel like a part of Tallinn University. There was a questionnaire for the freshmen of Tallinn University and so also for the freshmen of BFM. There was a question: When you applied into Tallinn University did you also apply into some other university. There were many answers given. As the last answer there was given a chance to write some other university not listed above and one student wrote BFM. This answer was not given because BFM is part of Tallinn University. In my eyes this is very bad that our students don't actually know where they are.
I can't say that this is only problem of this one student. I read from newspapers all the time some things about BFM but there is not always mentioned that it is TALLINN UNIVERSITY BALTIC FILM AND MEDIA SCHOOL. Why? I don't know the answer.
As I am also part of BFM student council it is subject close to my heart that our students would know that they are students of Tallinn University and also to make sure that new students coming to BFM would also know where they are entering.
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