Author: Al Librero
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There would have been a time when teaching photography without a camera would make no sense. We can talk about theory and look at examples all we want. But at some point, being a practical skill, we need to actually shoot to start learning by doing. On the other hand, I have discovered that there…
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Why? This is actually something that I understood early on, but not enough to fully appreciate it until much later. My first ever digital camera was a Kodak DC3200 — my dad bought it for me when I went with him to Thailand back in 2001. It was hardly anything beyond a toy, but it…
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I’ve been making students write blogs as assignments ever since I started handling courses in BAMS. I’ve already seen the gamut in terms of styles and quality. I also tend to see patterns, as well as tendencies both good and bad. And I’d like to talk about these things with you in the hopes of…
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Last trimester was an opportunity to test the repeatability of what I did last year for my online classes. It didn’t require a lot of planning as I already had the structure in mind. The Moodle course site will look mostly like how it has with my previous classes. The new Discord server would also…
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The One Shot Summary is an assignment that I require in one of my courses where students choose a picture they’ve taken at any point during the trimester which they think best embodies their experiences in class. And then they write a 1,000-word essay about both the picture and their experiences. I was wondering if…
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Educational technology is ultimately limited by the people who use them. It’s one of the things I learned at work as an IT guy in UPOU. I anticipated the possibility that it wouldn’t matter much even if I agreed to use the platform that students would say they liked the most. Not everyone is going…
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My hiatus from teaching coincided with the influx of a new generation of undergraduate students at UPOU. They were among the first products of the Philippines’s recently established K-12 program. Many of them were also those who passed the University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT) who specifically chose to study online under UPOU’s…
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I did my best not to form an opinion until I watched all 6 episodes. Now, that I have, my feelings didn’t really change from how they were at the beginning. The show definitely has its moments. But overall, all I could think of was this being a wasted set of opportunities. There are obviously…
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A friend strongly recommended this one a while ago. Coincidentally, it came out on Netflix recently, so that solved the issue of having to figure out how to watch it. I sort of get the comparisons with Code Geass. They both have a dystopian story, mech action and partial resemblance between the main male characters.…
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Today’s my dad’s birthday. He’d have been 79 years old. I thought I’d get back to a story I left hanging a few months back. I mentioned before that we, meaning the men of the Librero family, are not particularly showy when it comes to affection towards loved ones. Me and my dad certainly were…