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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…
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The prevailing wisdom amongst many for the past years has been to never talk about things like politics and religion with friends and relatives to avoid fights and arguments. It’s more important to keep up the good vibes. A friend’s post made me consciously realize that perhaps that is not necessarily the right thing do…