Five days after De La Salle, Dr. E was back at Our Lady of Fatima University — his fourth visit to the campus — for a hands-on Teach It Like You Stream It workshop. Seventy-five College of Education students and faculty came in from OLFU's Valenzuela, Antipolo, Pampanga, and Laguna campuses, and by the end of the session most of them had recorded their first welcome video.
A reunion, arranged on short notice
The session existed because Dr. MJ Dino found out Dr. E was in the country and moved quickly. Within days he had pulled together an event at the Valenzuela main campus and brought in faculty from OLFU's other campuses to attend. For a university system spread across four provinces, getting that many educators into one auditorium on that little notice says something about how fast the College of Education can mobilize.
It also made for a good reunion. Four visits in, OLFU is less a speaking stop than a place Dr. E keeps coming back to — and this time the room included both the faculty he had met before and the students they are now training.
"I can't do video" — until they did
The heart of the workshop was not a slide. It was an assignment: take out your phone, right now, and record a two-minute welcome video for your students.
The hesitation in the room beforehand was the familiar one. Making video looks like a specialist's job — you need equipment, editing skill, a studio, time nobody has. That belief is what keeps most teachers from ever trying. So instead of arguing with it, the session simply asked everyone to do the thing they thought they couldn't, with the device already in their pocket.
They enjoyed it. Two minutes of talking to a camera turned an abstract obstacle into something they had already done once — and the second time is never the hard one.
The barrier was never the equipment. It was believing you needed better equipment before you could start.
Key takeaways from the workshop
- The phone in your pocket is enough. A two-minute welcome video recorded on a handset does more for student connection than a polished production that never gets made.
- Do it in the room, not as homework. Hesitation about video survives any amount of explanation — it does not survive actually recording one.
- Reach the system, not just the campus. Pulling faculty from four campuses into one session spreads a shared toolkit across the whole university at once.
What people said
For Dr. MJ Dino, bringing Teach It Like You Stream It to OLFU was an opportunity to show how engaging online learning can be with the right tools and the right motivation behind them.
What this session opened up
The workshop turned out to be the first half of the visit. Afterward, Dr. E and the OLFU team sat down and began work on a research program together — moving the collaboration from a one-day session into something with a longer horizon, where the practices demonstrated in the auditorium can be studied properly rather than just demonstrated.
That is the version of a speaking engagement worth repeating: the talk ends, and the actual work starts.