Welcome to DC 132 (2nd sem, 2007-08). I wish I were there to meet you on the first week of classes but I have to be in Nha Trang, Vietnam to give a talk at a review workshop. You must have heard about our World Bank-funded development marketplace (DM) 2005 environmental radio soap opera in the Mekong Delta. The project has completed broadcasting 105 episodes and the workshop will discuss the results of the pre-test-post-test survey analysis, lessons learned, and future work.
Updated course outline
I have updated our course outline to bring it up to par to the demands of our cyber world. As you will see in the outline, we shall learn to analyze online sources (like this blog) and audiences (readers of your own blogs — friendster, multiply, 360.yahoo, blogger, etc. ). I am excited to start this blog which will be our medium of communication from here on. Please download and print the course outline so you can review it carefully and begin reading the suggested references. If you can’t find the specific reference listed in the outline, please feel free to substitute it with an appropriate reference. To download the outline, please click here.
Subsequent materials that I will post here will be in PDF format (to safeguard my intellectual property rights as well as those of other sources’) and I hope you have no trouble getting this in your PCs or at our mini-library or digital lab in DDC. If you have problems, please seek the help of Dick Alviola, our ICT coordinator in DDC.
Write comments to posts
To relay a message to me, please use the comments feature — give me your name and the names of your other classmates. I’d like to know how many have registered for this course and hope to hear from you — any queries or suggestions to make our semester even more fruitful. Please encourage everyone enrolled in DC 132 to write a comment to this post.
As this blog will contain stuff for all the courses I teach, please take note of the titles of the specific course you are enrolled in and the dates when I posted them to keep track of the sequence.
Best wishes.
Monina Escalada
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November 15, 2007 at 3:49 pm
dianne
Good Day!
This is my first time to visit this page. Wow! this is really great. I like this because my classmates and I can communicate with you wherever you are. As what you have said in our class, we can easily send our concerns to you.
Until next time ma’am……
God Bless!!!
Dianne
November 16, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Monina Escalada
Dianne, thanks for your kind words. I hope to make “devcompage” as educational and entertaining to you, your classmates and the outside world. In my new post, I have added a photo and more pix and charts are forthcoming. I hope you will have time to read the materials over the weekend so we can have an interesting class discussion on Tuesday.
November 17, 2007 at 11:38 am
paulo
good day to you ma’am monie!!! paulo here….
i just printed a few of your lecture hand-outs. i ran out paper. hehehe. i’ll just resume it next time.
diane hello…
November 17, 2007 at 2:39 pm
dianne
good day!
hello ma’am! i’ve seen the picture. Hope you can post some pics from vietnam.
I will just inform my classmates about what you have posted . I’ll try to print it. I am happy that paulo also sent his comments. I will ask my classmates to give their comments too coz it’s fun.
until next time…
November 18, 2007 at 4:57 am
Monina Escalada
Paulo, I’m glad you downloaded the handouts. I look forward to a vibrant discussion on Tuesday. In this age of ICT and climate change, I hope you and your classmates will agree that having this blog puts our class at the cutting edge, eliminates the need for me to print the handouts (and doing away with paper will save the trees), allows students a lot of room to move ahead of the others,and stops passing viruses through USB sticks. Good luck to you Paulo, Diane, Marlon, Neil, Kim, Cata, ZM, Buen, Ana Lou, Lermae, and Mark Lou.
November 22, 2007 at 12:04 am
neil anthony
Good Day Ma’am!
Nin hao ma? I am very glad that we have this webpage where we can send and ask questions regarding the course.Thank you ma’am for creating this page.This could greatly help us especially if you will have trips outside the country. In just clicking the mouse and pressing the keyboard letters, we can easily be updated on the subject matter. I am excited with workshops that we will be doing in our class ma’am. Thank you for always sharing with us new learnings, this will help us in the near future.
November 22, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Monina Escalada
Neil, thanks for visiting our blog. Our sessions on focus group discussions (FGD)today turned out to be quite interesting. I look forward to the mock FGD on Tuesday. At the end of our role playing, I hope you and your classmates will gain insights into the FGD process and draw lessons from the experience. I will be posting new readings on FGD very soon.