5AM, without any sleep, your group is about to defend thesis and on your way to school, to submit your prototype, sh*t happens...you'll have your final examination in strength of materials.
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| my CEM303 V92 class (1T SY2012 2013) |
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| An EcE student solving manually on the board a problem in STREMA that verifies the MatLab script output |
This scenario was only a part of an almost MMK scene in my CEM303 (Strength of Materials) class, where there is only one among nineteen students who is not graduating this trimester.
To be pro-active with this, with the good advise of my ever supportive undergraduate professor and mentor, i submitted a paper to the International Conference in Civil Engineering Education, entitled "Using Internet and Social Networking Tools in Engineering Education."
The problem is already there, and what should I do but, do something about what is at hand.
FACEBOOK.
the perennial problem of a faculty member is that when they are being "unguarded"-ly criticized by his students.
(As of press time, FB is now being trended by the country's CYBERCRIME Law which somehow makes this paper interesting. To whom? not sure yet. )
These are the things that I put into writing, with my paper, of course:
1. FACEBOOK acted as the stimulus to the interactivity of the internet tools such as, filesharing sites, educational webpages, office package software applications, a programming/math software, web-based multimedia, and FB's ever changing features.
2. Pedagogical Constructs were validated through a 29-respondent survey. It shows a very high 4.93 weighted mean of the five-point Likert Scale.
Here are some figures i used in my paper.
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| an example of a MS Visio Drawing posted in one of my FB group wall. |
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| a captured typical FB group wall, that was discussed each numbered feature of the webpage. |
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| the paradigm of interactivity of FB to some internet tools that I used. |
In a nutshell, this paper has taught me to explore more in the realm of Information Technology for greater possibilities in reaching out our youth understand not only the content of our subject/course, but also the value of meaningful inter-activeness in whatever endeavor they will be into.
With this,
I hope to see you on November 9-10, 2012 at De La University - Manila, Philippines
for the ICCEE (Int'l Conference in Civil Eng'g Education) 2012!
MABUHAY!
