And the lab is moving…

It looked like this was not a possibility… but it happened. In the past 13 years, I have pushed myself to provide students with all the support they needed at the expense of my own personal life. Education slowly replaced my interest in the IT field, and I am now on a stage where TECH and EDU walk hand in hand. In this new chapter, I doubt I will have any extra time, but the challenges and the possibility of Read More …

IT human resource development project

A while ago I was consulted about tools and methods to evaluate students online. It seems some of my ideas are going to see the light of the day in a new program backed up by the Miyazaki prefecture aiming at developing IT human resources. I am very happy for being able to contribute to this initiative and looking forward to the promising outcomes. The website is here:https://www.sparkjapan.co.jp/LP/hinata_d_academia_2023/

Multicultural, Multilingual Brazil

Once in a while I have the chance to talk about my country, Brazil. This time, I was asked to talk about the Brazil in the MIU satellite office. The lecture covered a little bit of the history, people, places and food. We did not talk about politics :-). It was nice to see that some community members have an interest in knowing more not only about Brazil, but about other countries in general. The questions were also nice and Read More …

Working on the Senior Thesis

I am not sure how common this is in the other universities but here, our students have to write a final senior thesis before they can graduate. Of course, in English. This year I got some students who, for different reasons, could not take their first class on how to write their thesis. As usual most of them were assigned to me, so teaching this class what good for two reasons: first, students have to learn the basics before writing Read More …

Online Security Presentation

It was a rainy Sunday yesterday and there I was, in downtown Miyazaki, to do a presentation about online security. This is not my usual type of talk, and to be honest, it was quite challenging. The audience was small (less than 20 people) with ages ranging from 20 to 60 (as far as I can tell). I was not really sure about how much the attendees knew about technology so creating the presentation made me a little bit nervous. Read More …

About students and horses

Oh my… it looks like a joke, but the last time I posted something here was… an year ago!!! I (and everyone else around me) have been very busy preparing for the new academic year. A new curriculum, graduate school prep, and of course all the normal work that we do at the college everyday running in parallel. It is really interesting how life happens and, suddenly, posting on my personal page looses its priority. In 2021 I worked really Read More …

2nd year students’ orientation

Today it was the first orientation session before the semester starts. Second year students came to campus, in the big auditorium, and we had many people from the administration speaking to them. Of course today’s main menu was the explanation about the study abroad program. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, we were unable to send our second year students to their abroad program, and almost all students were waiting for the announcements in order to know what is going to Read More …

Open Campus

And we did it. July 19th was our open campus, and although we are all suffering from the coronavirus pandemic, it was nice to see so many high school students joining us. Of course, precautions were taken to make sure everyone had an enjoyable experience while keeping the coronavirus away. Students, staff and faculty were using alcohol on their hands when entering and leaving the rooms; Everyone were using masks at all times and instructors were offered face-shields (in addition Read More …

Senior Thesis Management

After thinking a lot about how to manage the thesis grades of our students, I have decided to use a course in Moodle. It seems as a natural choice since all our instructors and students have access to it. To avoid confusion, I am planning to split students into groups depending on their advisor, what will allow faculty to see their tutees directly. As a side effect, we get fast feedback to students and better visibility for administration. I am Read More …