Sunday, August 15, 2010

Final Experiment (Digital Ethnography Project)

The final experiment for our SOCCOMP class entails conducting a study on the teaching methods employed by the group's chosen professor. This includes conducting interviews that will be recorded and film the professor during class to observe his teaching methods among other things. However, it is to our groups demise that our chosen professor, Mr. Sipin, refused to be recorded on video while teaching in class. We were given an alternative by Ms. Pineda to the experiment. We are to conduct interviews in order to get opinions and facts from a few students and two professors about Mr. Sipin. Videos of the interviews and most important of all, the podcast are the main outputs for this final experiment.

I. Background of Teachers



Faculty Interview Transcript #1 (Ms. Tavera)

John: Mam Tavera, do you know sir Sipin?
Ms. Tavera: Yes

John: For how long have you known him?
Ms. Tavera: Uh, 3 years, 4 years.

John: Mam, in your own opinion, since you've known him for 4 years, what makes him an effective professor?
Ms.Tavera: He's open for questions and would always ask the students what they have learned everytime he presents something he makes sure everybody is listening. And he is accomodating to everyone like who wants to ask. Actually considerations, accomodated, entertainable.

John: So he's very approachable
Ms.Tavera: Yes, he's approachable

John: Is that all mam?
Ms.Tavera: Yes

John: Thank you mam
Ms. Tavera: Okay


Faculty Interview Transcript #2 (Ms. Divine)

John: So, mam Divine, I will be asking about sir Glenn
John: Do you know sir Glenn?
Ms.Divine: Yes, I do

John: For how many years?
Ms.Divine: for more than ten years

John: Have you worked with him in particular?
Ms.Divine: Yes, I've worked with him before when he was EVP under the professional schools - PSI

John: What makes him an effective person or faculty in your opinion
Ms.Divine: He comes to the office regularly on time. And when he was EVP, his main concern was the faculty. The benefits that they will get from joining the PSI because before, CCS was under DLSU Manila, now it's under DLSU Manila
Before it became PSI, under DLSU Manila. During the time, actually he was the first EVP of PSI - Sir Sipin. He pioneered, he initialized everything. The policies, the PSI, with regards to faculty development. Things like that.

John: So he's for the welfare of the faculty.
Ms.Divine: Yes.


Student Interview 1: Joey Lopez S13 batch 109

Kyle: Joey, Do you know Mr. Glenn Sipin?
Joey: Yes, I know him.

Kyle: How long have you been his student here in DLSU?
Joey: Well, I have been his student, ever since I came to LaSalle. I have been his student for two years.

Kyle: For you, is Mr. Glenn Sipin a good teacher with regards to his management classes?
Joey: With regards to that, I think he is a very good teacher.

Kyle: So, what makes him a good teacher?
Joey: For me, he is a good teacher because unlike other teachers he doesn’t give handouts. He is the kind of “tough love teacher” He doesn’t allow his students to slack off. He wants his students to work hard for their grades.

Kyle: Since you have mentioned about Tough love teacher. Could you provide us some info about his teaching practices during class.
Joey: Well, one of the practices that he does is. “ Ginigisa niya ung mga students” like having reporting. He wants to make sure that the reporter knows about their topic. Or dun sa subject na cover nila.

Kyle: Thank you Thank you grabeeeeee….


Student Interview 2: Maxi Sembrano

Kyle: Hey Maxi, do you know Mr. Glenn Sipin?
Maxi: Yes, I know Mr. Glenn Sipin because he is my teacher in organizational management.

Kyle: Since you have mentioned about org management, how long have you been his student here in LaSalle?
Maxi: Two years.

Kyle: Is Mr. Glenn Sipin a good teacher for you? With regards to the management courses here in LaSalle?
Maxi: Yes,Mr. Glenn Sipin is a good teacher with regards to management concepts because he always applies different strategies like reporting.

Kyle: So what are his best teaching practices? Being done regularly or in every class that you are in?
Maxi: Uhm. Mr. Glenn Sipin he gives reporting topics to groups in certain problems regarding the subject matter and he always gives projects so that his students would learn different concepts regarding the subject matter.

Kyle: Thank you Maxi Thank you. Okay tapos naaaa


IV. Conclusion
  • Opinion about the subject professor

    Our subject professor is Mr. Glenn Sipin. For us, he is one of the best teacher in CCS, because he discussed the lesson by providing examples that can be easily understood by the students and he is approachable whenever the students have questions regarding the lessons.

    We can see that most of the students in CCS knows Mr. Glenn Sipin and they said that he is a good professor especially in the management field and he teaches very well. We can conclude that Mr. Glenn Sipin is famous in CCS and that most of the students like him, because of the way he treats the students as well as his way of teaching.
  • Tuesday, July 20, 2010

    YouTube Traffic Experiment

    Tag Cloud
  • Trending topics change rather fast due to certain events

  • Most of the uploaders are from the United States

  • There are videos that were in English despite coming from countries with other languages as their primary language
  • English is the prominent language being used world-wide





    Other Findings
  • There are a lot of young people uploading videos
  • There are a lot of videos that have a lot of tags nowadays
  • There were some videos that are inappropriately tagged
  • There are videos that are considered to be junk
  • There was an increasing amount of videos tagged as people and blogs wherein people would share their experiences in life to the public in the form of videos
  • The average age of uploaders is 25.6
  • The average length of videos is 3:17