March 16, 2021 — My day was just about done. It was around 9:30PM and an email to my thesis supervisor was my final task before I can try and get some sleep. In between space-outs,…
Kitchen island build
I had initially thought about doing one of those build videos which I have watched non-stop for several months now. Then I realized that there isn’t much of a point to it. It takes a whole…
‘Fixing’ social media? (Part 1)
I spent an entire week in Siargao some months ago, before the pandemic became a big thing. And while it may as well be the closest thing I’ll have for one this year, it wasn’t a…
Reaction to The Planet of the Humans
Interviewer: Is Al Gore a prophet?Al Gore: [chuckles awkwardly]Richard Branson: ummm … ah… how do you spell prophet?Al Gore: [more awkward laughter with the other two men] Climate change is such a complex issue that seems…
Another year of raising a son with autism
It’s Aidan’s 6th birthday. It was supposed to be part of an extended stay with my family in the UK which I had been planning for since early last year. Unfortunately, the trip had to be…
Learning journal excerpts from the last three months
For the second module in my PhD programme, one of the activities was to write a learning journal. I wasn’t sure how to handle that. Some in my cohort took a rather analytical approach to it….
Educate before you advocate
These past few weeks, I found myself in face to face forums and discussions about green living. I wouldn’t be motivated to attend of my own accord. But I did so to support my wife, who…
Grinding in isolation
Every now and then, I write something for my blog which snowballs into a huge personal rant that exposes me emotionally in manners that I might regret. I end up not posting these blogs. Even before…
Digital Collective Autoethnography Study Blog 3: Peer feedback
I was able to get a few of my cohorts to provide some highly valuable feedback regarding my one-page proposal, which I posted here. The level of discourse has so far been higher and more focused…
Digital Collective Autoethnography Study Blog 2: One-page proposal
We were required to submit a 500 word proposal. Below is my submission, word for word, along with paraphrases of our professor’s comments. Enhancing student engagement in an online university: successes, failures and how to move…
Autoethnography study blog 1: The Digital Collective
So, I’m nearly a month into my PhD studies. I started off pretty good, then got derailed by a bunch of things and am now trying to catch up. I’ll manage that, but I just had…
The detour to 2019
Yes, each year hardly turns out being the same. But the past ones haven’t really been all that different from each other either. The milestones were different. The routine… not so much. But even that changes…
Farewell and thank you, Ma’am Liza.
I had strong second thoughts about attending my high school alumni homecoming last December 8. I always do, because I have mixed feelings towards my time in UP Rural High School. I don’t hate it. But…
Congratulations to the BA Multimedia Studies Class of 2018
This is the last batch whom I will be marching with, at least for a while. As I look at this picture, most of their faces felt unusually familiar, perhaps more so than previous batches. Obviously,…
Presenting the UPOU Digital Collective at ICEM 2018
Hardly anything went according to plan. I’d decided on attending ICEM 2018 the moment it was announced. It was just as well, as with anything that involves a trip to Europe, you need to prepare well in…