This is to you the young men and women who just finished from high school or are still looking for opportunities to continue to tertiary level.
Spaces at universities are limited, including vocational centers. Even if you do find a space, school fees per semester are outrages. They keep increasing every year. To a certain degree, many higher ed institutions lack quality in their programs. You do not get the value for money from the program offered. There are many factors that add to this.
Work experience, whether its big or small, should be an integral part of any diploma or degree program. I remember back when I was studying in the Information Systems (IS) department, DWU, we were required to carry out nine (9) weeks of work experience prior to graduation. Although the department and staff had a responsibility of work placement, onus was largely on students to do this during the end-of-year breaks.
It was in fact a course requirement which was later done away with in the program as it no longer appeared on our transcripts during the later years of our study. I suppose the argument that time was that companies and businesses weren't giving students the opportunity for work experience. Or maybe because of the educational reforms that were taking place in the country which had to be reflected in the program requirements and documentations. I don't exactly recall why.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, staff and students of IS/MCS departments and sister departments. This is your day final years, and I wish not to bore you to death with another lecture or a lengthy speech written only a few hours ago. Which is kind of true J
But please spare me a couple of minutes to just share with you a few thoughts of mine.
We will continue to witness more of our senior students present what I call the “first fruits” of their aspirations in this interesting journey of curiosity and wonder in an ever changing, technologically advancing, PNG power dependent (pun intended), innovations in ICT for our beautiful country.
Your efforts that have been or will be demonstrated today through the presentations are only just the beginning of you living up to the expected program outcomes of IS, MCS and DWU as your alma mater.
Video
usage in elearning and instructional design is trending more and more.
Along with the use of dynamic and interactive video content is
educational live-streaming. One of our strategies as a center was to
develop capacity in that area. Our journey has just begun as we take on
that role of supporting and enhancing instructional design and elearning
by having our own modest video studio by any pro standard.
The center I look after procured several video/audio equipment over the past several months. Initially, we never thought of streaming events however as the need for it came by we thought we had to step up. I've used OBS before so I knew we could do this. One challenge we faced was learning to operate the camera and audio equipment. Its exciting when you're learning something for the first time and know that you will get better at it as time goes by. OBS has become our go to tool and we're still trying to figure out some tips and tricks to master it. Well needless to say over the past few weeks we
have streamed several events including the first ever virtual open day
with some of these equipment. We have another few research symposia events to stream. We love the opportunity to try new things, make mistakes and learn.
Of course, streaming events requires a
stable internet connection and we're capitalizing on DWU's fairly robust
existing network infrastructure to do that.
Quite honestly, we were a bit wet
behind the ears starting off, but slowly taking it all in and even
daring to step it up a notch to improve our teaching & learning.
Learning never stops, you got to challenge yourself to grow.
In a later post, I will share the journey of the completed setup of the video studio and perhaps some projects we have done using the studio.
Meanwhile, here are links to events we streamed using the new equipment.
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Its been a while since my last article as I have been quite busy lately tinkering and learning new things. In this month's post, I'd like to share with you what has really become an indispensable tool for me when it comes to graphic design or editing. CANVA!
What is Canva?
Canva is a graphic design platform founded nine years ago in Perth Australia by Melanie Perkins, Clifford Obrecht and Cameron Adams. The platform allows you to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents, and other visual content. It includes templates for users to use also.
I have been using Canva for some years now. I subscribed to the Free package which is really great for individuals and small teams to create and download designs for any occasion. I have to tell you that I haven't been disappointed at all with the capabilities and features that come with the free package.
Kids have an inquisitive mind when it comes to drawings. They can express their imaginations freely through their drawings. I have been encouraging my son lately to get into digital art after seeing him draw some really fascinating things at his young age of 6. He will be turning 7 this year (2021) and I promised him I will buy a digital tablet for him to start drawing.
Well I haven't bought him the tablet yet but that hasn't stopped him from drawing some nice looking pictures in MS Paint just using the laptop touchpad. I'm pretty sure when he get's a hold of his tablet he'll be creating some interesting pictures.
Here are some of his recent drawings using MS paint, using the touchpad.
We'll be writing a short follow up to this later when his tablet arrives and he starts using it.
Enjoying the weekend? Well ours was a lazy one loafing around the campus here at Divine Word University Madang. Got some short clips around the campus and thought I could share. Keep on tinkering!
The task of building Papua New Guinea’s National Transmission Network
(NTN) – the country’s internet backbone – is a work-in-progress.
How is the NTN progressing and what expansion can we expect this year?
What are prospects for reduced prices and improved stability?
What opportunities is the NTN opening up for businesses in PNG?
What are the prospects for greater competition in PNG’s ICT sector?
In this online briefing, we get the bottom of these and other questions.
Our participants:
Paul Komboi, Managing Director, PNG DataCo Ltd
Dr Amanda Watson, Research Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs,
Australian National University. (Together with her University of PNG and
Divine Word University colleagues, Dr Watson runs a rolling pricing
survey on the cost of mobile data in PNG.)
Moderated by Andrew Wilkins, Publishing Director, Business Advantage
International
This blog post is a result of the incredible number of views I've noticed on this article, Cisco VOIP Phone Setup in Packet Tracer, I shared some years back. I have had numerous requests to share the file and have done so but that is only just an initial basic setup.
I have since done some updates to this tutorial and have created a series of video tutorials which I share on my Youtube page.
To ensure best network design and implementation practice is followed, I decided to throw in VLANs and InterVLAN routing into the mix. This is to ensure that Voice traffic is put into its own VLAN. You can later add QoS (MLS, CoS) if you want to which is necessary if you're doing this in an actual physical implementation. The main idea behind this series of videos is to help you begin off with a blank Packet Tracer network, setup the network, configure basic settings, configure VLANs, and then interVLAN routing, and finally end with VoIP functionality added to the network.
You can now easily follow through this series of video tutorials to learn how to configure VLANs, InterVLAN routing and VoIP. I decided not to narrate the videos. If you want to learn about the concepts please visit the Cisco Learn site or take networking classes offered on Coursera, Teachable, or the many other sites that do this. My main objective is how to do it, not the why you do it this way, many courses out there will help you learn the theory.
How to make the most of this tutorial?
Open a blank packet tracer file, begin with Part A and follow along. You can pause and play the video as you setup and configure the network.
Part A: Setup network
Part B: Configure basic settings for devices / Part C: Configure VLANs
