Over the past week, the UP Cebu Center for Environmental Informatics, has been collecting data from seven (7) hospitals across the province to check the status of their PPEs.
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If you were not able to watch the scheduled series of webinars of the UP Open University (UPOU) on How to Convert your Courses Online, fret not! We’ve curated some of the best resources produced by UPOU to help you convert your courses online. These resources are Open Educational Resources (OERs) and are licensed under Creative Commons which means that they are free and can be used by anyone.
Everyone is under stress trying to cope with the novel coronavirus pandemic, but students are especially vulnerable: They’ve lost access to their friends, their campus communities, and the structure and rhythm of the academic year. This special collection, available online and free, includes some of our strongest pieces on how faculty members can help students cope. The Chronicle of Higher Education also has a collection that includes articles on how to make online teaching more sensitive to student concerns, how to spot potential mental-health issues, and more.
Five for five: A FabLab five-step guide on how to fabricate these five-minute face shields!
Track UP Cebu FabLab’s donation of PPEs to Cebu’s frontliners! More PPEs are still in production as they don’t seem to be stopping any time soon, not until #COVID19 is contained.
As the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) continues to spread globally and with the alert level raised to “code red sub-level 1” by the Philippine Department of Health (DOH), many of the crucial matters in life need to be rethought and rearranged. This includes not just work arrangements, but education as well. One option that is gaining rapid popularity is to maximize the use of the internet which allows the employees to work from home, and educational institutions to take advantage of online learning.
Some tips on how you can migrate your residential class to online learning: Lecturing Online Asynchronously Most, if not all teachers, have already prepared their materials (PowerPoint presentations, handouts, etc.) for the rest of the semester. What can we do to the materials that we have? Translate these materials to video lectures and no, you […]
UP Diliman Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Community Affairs, and FOCA UP is calling everyone to donate the following for our pets: dog/cat cages & crates bottled water plastic containers dog food/cat food/hog & chicken feed/hay/grass betadine, gloves, syringes, alcohol, gauze dog shampoo, detergent powder old towels, blankets, tarpaulins dog […]
CALL FOR DONATIONS The evacuees of the Taal Volcano eruption are in need of immediate help. The University of the Philippines Taal Response Task Force is enjoining everyone to donate the following items: drinking water, canned goods, ready-to-eat meals, beddings, hygiene and health kits, towels, and face masks. Dropoff Point: UP Padayon Public Service Office […]
The University of the Philippines continues its disaster response efforts for the victims of the recent earthquakes in Mindanao. Cash donations are still being accepted through the UP Foundation, Inc. Donations will be used to purchase additional tents and bedding materials, medicine, sanitary items, and other immediate needs. Below are the bank details of UPFI: […]