assignment august 24, 2010

there are dangers in participatory culture, some of the contributors in the participatory culture has few resources and some of their resources are not credible. as part of the new generation, we yearn authenticity in our community by finding credible sources before contributing in a participatory culture.

The One And Only "TAG CLOUD" Group Members

JOSEPH MIRANDA

BELIEVES IN THE SMALL WORLD THEORY

LUIS RECOMONO

IS ADDICTED TO SOCIAL COMPUTING

ADRIAN DUMON

LOVES TO USE THE PANIC BUTTON

JASON CHUA

MISSES HYBRID SESSIONS

NICO ABADICIO

IS AN AVID FAN OF THE SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION

Podcast Interview - Tag Cloud Group with Mr. Allan Borra

Our Testimony for Mr. Allan Tabora

After conducting all the data through an interview and a video documentary,we've noticed that for such profession of a teacher, his ability to grab his student’s attention by changing their mood from boredom to such enthusiasm and periodically adding it up with a little touch of humor implies an incredibly effective way of teaching towards a student’s notable learning experience.

Brief Information About Our Chosen Subject Professor

BORRA, ALLAN B.

Status:
Full-Time

Rank:
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department:
SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY

Specialization:
DATABASE
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Academic Information:

School Name: UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Degree: Master of Science in Computer Science

School Name: UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

What is Digital Ethnography?

To explain digital ethnography let us first discuss ethnography. Ethnography is a research strategy employed for gathering empirical data on human societies/cultures. Data collection is often done through participant observation, interviews, questionnaires, etc. Ethnography aims to describe the nature of those who are studied (i.e. to describe a people) through writing. Having explained ethnography, digital ethnography is the use of technologies in the process of ethnography. Digital ethnography collects data of people through technological methods. Some examples of data collecting methods that can be done in digital ethnography are online questionnaires, digital video, social networking websites, and blogs. As such digital ethnography affects the entire ethno

Soccomp Transcript of Interview

Interviewers: Nico Abadicio, Joseph Miranda, Adrian Dumon, Luis Recomono, Jason Chua
Interviewee: Sir. Allan Borja

Basics:
Interviewers: what is your undergraduate course?

Interviewee: BS in Computer Science, in UP Los Banos.
Interviewers: how did you get involved to teach?

Interviewee: After a year of being a university research assistant, my first job as a assistant, developer or programmer. The project leader/ director back then who is Dr.Rachel rojas who was my adviser. she asked me if I would like to consider teaching while waiting for the approval of the next phase of the project. Which I agree.
Interviewers: do you enjoy teaching?

Interviewee: yes, it’s been 13 years so I guess I’m still enjoying it.
Interviewers: how long have you been teaching?

Interviewee: 13 years.
Interviewers: do you find the teaching pay economically very good? Why?

Interviewee: no, for the same technical knowhow, my brother is earning 14,000 US dollars a month. So I can do the same, so that’s for the economy, economic point of view. So it’s not really economically rewarding.
Interviewers: how much teaching in terms of units do you do in a school year?

Interviewee: the usual, 12. 12 units a term, so all in all 36 units a year.
Interviewers: have you had your personal video before where your teaching was recorded? Interviewee: yes.
Interviewers: how do you feel about the idea of recording the lecture or teaching delivery? Interviewee: it’s like an out of body experience, you see yourself in a third-person, so you see your gestures that you won’t normally notice. So those are the things that I discovered. Also it’s different when the voice is recorded.
On teaching Strategies:
Interviewers: what would you consider as your strengths in teaching? Interviewee: I think the command of language, that’s one. I can use Bisaya or even Illonggo.

Interviewers: how about your weaknesses?

Interviewee: weaknesses would be, ironically I do have a good command of the language but in terms of projection mahina yung boses ko. So I actually took up voice lessons for that, in order to address that problem.
Interviewers: do you think your students like you?

Interviewee: I think so
Interviewers: in what way?

Interviewee: because I do inject jokes every now and then.
Interviewers: what would you consider as your best teaching strategies?

Interviewee: I always reorient the students to the paradigm of Aristotle and Plato back then during their era, that education is about leisure. It’s not because of requirements or survival.
Interviewers: Can you enumerate your best teaching strategies?

Interviewee: I’m very comfortable using any form of technology. One, making use of mind maps and PowerPoint’s. I do use technology in front of class. I use my cell phone to control my laptop. So the bottom line is I make use of technology basically to enhance the learning experience. Number two, I am really towards graphical application of the concepts I’m teaching. So I normally fashion my course outline or even my delivery in such a way that concepts would be realized to practical sense. So right now, my students are creating their own programming language. So aside from the concepts of teaching how a compiler does things, I also let them experience first hand what are the issues when it comes to creating your own compiler.
Interviewers: how long have you been doing these strategies?

Interviewee: in terms of comfortable use of technology, ever since I have extra money to spare to buy these gadgets, so that’s the time I started using technology. In terms of paggamit ng project based learnin, I’ve been doing that ever since.

On Honesty:
Interviewers: have you ever encountered a student cheating? What happened?
Interviewee: yes, I didn’t know as to what extent yung cheating nya, but I saw him doing unnecessary movement during an exam, so I just marked the paper and then talked about it with the professor. But if I were the one handling the course, I would have to talk to the student. Normally I gauge the degree of honesty just by staring at him/her. I can really tell if someone is being dishonest or lying. Here’s my take on it, if you cheat and even if I caught you cheating and eventually you’ll pass the course even if you cheated. You effectively pursue you life, career, but the bottom line there is that there is always a nagging taught. You didn’t do thing as honestly as possible and number two, if you cheated your way in finishing a course, you didn’t actually learn a lot because you cheated your way up. So that’s my take on it.

On St. La Salle
Interviewers: do you know the life story of St. La Salle?

Interviewee: I know him as a teacher not a preacher. In terms of details of his life, no. I came from UP so I’m not familiar with his life.
Interviewers: do you know he is the patron saint of the teachers?

Interviewee: yes.
Interviewers: do you follow some of his teaching principles?

Interviewee: not really but I follow and like the spiritual aspect that he teaches.

A Video Of A Class With Mr. Allan B. Borra

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