History behind BraheaMyst

Two teachers from Lieksan Keskuskoulu, Mr. Matti Hirvonen and Mrs. Tellervo Heikkinen, took the challenge to promote innovative education with their 8 grade pupils in the area of history. Their approach was to expand a LieksaMyst from the Pielisen Museo, to other historical points in Lieksa. To achieve this goal Mr. Hirvonen and Mrs. Heikkinen joined efforts with the Pielisen Museo curators, Mrs. Liisa Eskelinen, and researchers of the Education Technologies research group at the University of Eastern Finland, who now are entrepreneurs with their company called Ubium Oy, Mr. Mikko Vinni and PhD Carolina Islas Sedano.

The final product of the project, BraheaMyst, is a compilation of several stories created by the pupils. Therefore, BraheaMyst is a storytelling game that collects different stories from the region of Lieksa. BraheaMyst is played with a mobile phone with access to Internet and a map of Lieksa that indicates the historical points of the region where the stories emerge through the eyes of the pupils. Each story offers to the players an invitation to explore these historical locations in an enjoyable manner besides to have access to historical facts.

In the project, the pupils had investigated historical locations in Lieksa and its surroundings, practiced their Finnish and English language skills, acquired knowledge about storytelling from creating their characters to produce their storyboard and digital assets. Other stakeholders have offered their expertise to support the pupils in the production of the stories. Finally the pupils digitalized their histories for a mobile device.

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Start with this link! each story takes aprox. 2-3 min.

We recommend using a smart phone (Android, iPhone) or tablet (Android, iPad) for playing, but it may work with other devices as well.