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…
Online Uni Life #14: One size doesn’t fit all
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…
MMS 173 2022-2023-2T: One shot summary
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…
Online Uni Life #13: Looks different, but feels the same (Part 2)
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…
Online Uni Life #12: Looks different, but feels the same (Part 1)
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…
Mini-review: Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi
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…
Mini-review: 86
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…
More stories about my dad #2
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…
On talking about politics and religion
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…
Thoughts on the looming elections
Maybe I’m getting old. Maybe I’m at a point where I’m more worried about my son’s future rather than my own. Whatever the reason, I’ve never been invested in elections until now. I’ve always tried to…
Mini-review: Violet Evergarden
I tried to watch Violet Evergarden a few years ago, thinking it was going to be this cool steampunk version of Ghost In The Shell. And I was certainly attracted by the stunning visuals from the…
More stories about my dad…
I was thinking about what story I could share about my dad, coming into the first anniversary of his passing. It came as I was sorting through old junk. But I need to preface that with…
So, I got Covid…
I tested myself late on both counts. But the glaring point holds. I admit being angry and frustrated during those first 2-3 days when I was feverish. Then I figured that since this was likely to…
Roxie (March 31, 2012 – December 29, 2021)
(aka Racha of Jam-Polka) One more loss to cap off the year. We got Roxie right after I got married. The poor girl was about 10 weeks old, caged and on display in the veterinary supply…
Review: 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
If anything, 12 Rules For Life is a reminder that there are values and lessons that should never go out of style.