Category: musings

20 Things I Picked Up When My Dreams Crashed

-This is a very bad beginning. Everyone is off at a bad beginning. I was awful at advertising and even I wasn’t a great teacher with you and the batch before you. Forgive yourself quickly, keep moving, learn as you go. -We are in a state of flux. If you can, take care of yourself…

June 4, 2021
Learner Support: Making an effective online classroom

Even before we ended up in the worst disaster movie nobody asked for I was frustrated at how the social noise surrounding blended and online learning were from a for-profit standpoint and made in developed world contexts. I found myself further working around it using tools that were free or at least kinder on my…

May 16, 2021
[Portfolio] Fanfiction in the Classroom: Field Notes from a Fanfic Author turned Educator

I am still in utter disbelief that I had a basis for writing this. Fan fiction was like admitting that we read a novel’s “good parts” over and over again, and it’s a rabbit hole from there once you find it. I found a teacher’s lesson plan about fan fiction to a sheltered 7th grader…

February 28, 2018
[Portfolio] Let’s Get It On: A List of Good Eats You Can Get from Metro Manila’s Motels

First published on Pepper on August 1, 2014. I am often asked if I had to actually stay in those places to do this piece. No, but I know even admitting that will only lead to more nagging doubt, wouldn’t it? Hehe! But I hope you had as much fun reading this as I did writing it.…

October 16, 2017
Summer 2017: Doing More

I was recently scandalized by two other people before who made awful well-meaning jokes about not being able to earn off teaching. I knew that teaching would not pay as well as corporate, and it won’t allow me to be a stereotypical millennial by way of traveling wherever or buying really nice things, but it would…

August 8, 2017