What Opinsys does?

Some background on the Finnish school system and how it affects school ICT. School technology is a tough job – specialised tools, lots of demanding users, little money and usually also politics are involved in some way. I’m working at Opinsys developing...

Finnish school system and ICT

It has been almost two years since I last wrote about the use of Ubuntu in Finnish schools, so I thought it’d be a good time to write a small update on the current situation. As I was writing things down, I noticed that I kept explaining the Finnish school...

Pahvi – A Virtual Collage

We already talked about Pahvi in our main blog in Finnish. In this English developer’s blog we go a little bit deeper into technical details. For example how it was build and which components were used. Pahvi Pahvi walks the same path with Walma as being a tool...

New experiment: Walma – Collaborative Whiteboard

Schools in Finland are buying tablets like crazy now. The weird thing is that nobody really knows what they are really good for in school environment, but everybody seems to see good potential in them. That’s why we are also experimenting with tablets. This...