Multimedia Studies 173 has proven to be quite a challenging course to facilitate. Envisioned to be a required production course for UPOU BAMS students, MMS 173 was meant to be a full residential course, requiring students to attend regular classes. Yeah, like that was going to happen.
The obvious hurdle was the need to deal with students too far away to attend the face to face sessions. As for the ones based in Manila and neighboring areas, generally speaking, their schedule turned out to be just as inflexible during summer as they usually are in regular semesters. These problems forced me to totally re-think how I was going to handle the course to accommodate all the students and even the playing field. This is easier said than done.
My original course guide has already been overhauled at least twice now and continues to be modified along the way. As much as I didn’t want it to happen, this first have unwittingly become part of the course development process – guinea pigs so to speak. The least I could do was be upfront with them about the situation and encourage them to be proactive about the whole thing. I’m still not sure about them, but on my end, it has worked beautifully so far.
I think the students I’m able to meet personally have been generally doing well. Now, I worry for the ones I don’t.
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I learned a lot that day! It's cool for me to have taken a decent night shot.
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