Try to walk around somewhere and discover technopreneur idea ...your experience(s) .. at least 2000 words
Here we go again, the long series of assignments though it was expected anyway, let us get down to business the techno way. A couple of days ago, I had travelled the streets of Davao City just to think of something techno, or should I say serendipity tour. Even though I almost circled the whole city, I barely thought of something good. But, I should try, I better shoot the star and miss, than shoot the sh*t then hit, in other words, I better be trying then failed than failing at all without trying. Even though, I will eventually learn something from my experience. The good news came, because just last week, when my tito informed me to get some package located at Talomo district, I got excited because it was my first time to travel at that place, I immediately asked for directions and jeeps to ride on. During the course of the trip, I passed by Davao Memorial Park. And then the serendipity tour kicks on. I immediately imagined that how about taking the bird’s eye view of the memorial park and then make a program out of it and present it via GUI form to the potential clients as well as the old ones. With a click and click, pan and zoom of a mouse, a client can see the overview or bird’s eye view of the memorial park. Also the client can see the vacant slots on the memorial park and the prospective client can make a reservation on that vacant slot for the future. Did you ever got lost on the memorial park when visiting someone else’s tomb, or should I say, when you visit a friend’s tombstone? Worry no more because there is an integrated map of the memorial park, thus preventing visiting people from being lost. Aside from being a virtual map of the memorial park, it will also act as an information center and advertisement hub. In addition, the program will display the names of the departed loved ones that are resting on each spot. Also the client can also access the virtual map via the internet by using personal computer or their very own mobile phone, the latter making it portable and on always on the go. I got to this idea because back in my hometown, our public cemetery was very crowded, you can easily saw the crowded and unarranged placement of the tombs, also going through and finding the tomb of your loved ones was a pain in the ass. It would be a great help if my idea will be implemented on my hometown’s cemetery and also for every memorial park / cemeteries around the world.
I was always fascinated by airplanes; I always ended up watching it whenever I saw one. Thus, another techno idea will be based on airplanes. Here we go. My techno idea goes like this: how about installing a navigation system on the airplane itself without relying on the ground traffic controller? This system will include voice guided navigation, voice operated system and collision detection system thus providing safety on the pilots as well as the passengers. This navigation system will utilize global positioning system making good use of the satellites up above the sky for pin point accuracy. Also this navigation system will show the pilot and co-pilot where on earth they are exactly and this system will scan the surroundings of possible approaching aircraft that is on their course and will notify immediately the pilots to avoid mid air collisions. In addition, this navigation system will include a weather tracker that gets updated every second so that the pilots will know before hand the change of weather along their course. I have seen some air accidents due to human error in the traffic control stationed in the ground courtesy of the National Geographic Channel’s Air Crash Investigations. Wherein the air traffic controller failed to notify the pilots that their planes are in the collision course, resulting to a fatal mid air collision between a commercial plane and an air freight plane, no one survived to that horrible accident. So, I imagined that installing the navigation system on every plane will be a great help to the pilots concerned as well as to the passengers.
Television sets had been greatly improved as time progresses. From simple black and white television to colored ones. And now the world had been enjoying the latest state of the art 3D TV, we also had LED ones. Plasma TV’s and LCD TV’s had their fingers crossed due to the advent of this latest technologies. But as technology pushes the limits of TV’s, only a unique spec can make or break a product catalogue. My other techno idea encompasses TV’s this time; let’s tackle it the future way. Join me after a short while. How about having a TV like the ones used in Minority Report? Wherein the users just have to wave /move / flick his hand to move things in the projected images. Also, the TV will have a motion sensor that will be used to register the different hand movements of the user, for example, instead of using the remote control to change channels or to turn the volume up or down, the user will just have to do a couple of pre programmed hand gestures in order for the channel to change and also for the volume. Waving your hand upwards makes the volume to go up, down means also to volume down, also by waving to the left or right; this movement will force the channel to change. And by making a circle sign, the user will access the TV’s menu; all you have to do is select and click. Just like touching a touch screen device virtually or touching it in the thin air, it’s the sensor’s job to register and perform the programmed action that is assigned to every movement. By using also the motion sensor, it can be of an advantage to save power, how? Just by simply detecting the slightest movements. If, the sensor can’t pick up or sense movements in front of the TV, then this force the TV to go to “sleep mode” thus saves some energy. I imagined this idea from the latest game consoles like Nintendo Wii, Microsoft’s Xbox kinect and Sony’s Playstation Move, wherein those consoles were equipped with a motion sensor and enabling the user to move their body in order for a command to register and perform. This will be a touch operated TV without having to touch it directly. I think there is currently no TV set that offers that functionality.
I always ride on a bus whenever I travel back to my hometown. Just around an hour and a half travel without bumping onto the busy and traffic road along the highway going northbound. Since I step my foot into Davao City, whenever I travel back to the city after visiting my hometown, I always experienced that every bus must have to stop for a while and let the armed soldier to come up the bus and inspect it, I always end up going outside and wait for the inspection to end up. It was quite a hassle for me for always going outside the bus. And due to these circumstances, I formulated an idea that in every inspection point, the government of Davao City should install an X-ray like device capable of detecting foreign and deadly baggages that may pose dangerous treats to security, peace and order. The bus / vehicle will just simply pass by and will be scanned for security reasons.This X-ray like will scan and its output to the screen will have a color thus indicating a dangerous items inside the bus. Also the X-ray device will utilize a radio signal jammer, this critical technology will be very essential because this stops / prevents any radio triggered detonators.
Today, mobile phones had become a part of our day to day living. We could not leave it behind our house. We use mobile phones as our alarm clock, replacing the old and traditional clocks that we had at home, in school or at the office. We use mobile phones to communicate with distant relatives and friends, we even use mobile phones for recreation purposes and networking stuffs. Truly, mobile phones are extensions of our own self. Mobile phones represent its owner. That is what I think about mobile phones these days. Some of us even transact businesses online over the mobile phone. When the worst case scenario happens, should I say, your mobile phone got stolen, how would we protect our sensitive data that still left on the stolen mobile phone?
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Exercise 1 (Due on before November 23, 2010, 1pm)
Your reflection/learning's on Technopreneurship 1 (at least 2000 words)
Almost 5 months had passed, the first semester had just ended and I managed to pass the memorable and hand shaking technopreneurship 1, you know what I mean, the series of thousands and thousands of words we need to comply because it was one of the requirements in order to pass the subject. Eventhough that’s the case it was a good and bold strategy that our facilitator had executed on our class. He was able to push us to our limits, the limit of my thinking capacity in which I need to write some thousands of words and create a unique business idea. It was not an easy ride for me because I cannot imagine myself in complying those thousands and thousands of words a while back then. But due to my determination to pass, I managed to comply those memorable brain-draining some sort of content writing stuff. Moreover, I’m thankful to our facilitator for the past semester, it was a memorable semester to me.
And now, we are tasked to write our reflections or learning’s during our past subject which is Technopreneurship I. Here we go. As far as I had remembered, our facilitator gave us a task, he draw a 3 x 3 grid of dots. He asked us to connect the dots without lifting our pen and only in one stroke in a piece of paper. And then we followed. After a while he called us one by one and asked us if we did get to connect the dots. Some of my fellow classmates got to connect it. I managed to connect it but I failed to follow his instructions, I lifted my pen by doing so it wasn’t considered “connected” because I “cheated”. Oh! Before I forgot, our facilitator gave us 3 major rules when inside our class room, first was PhD: our facilitator did not want us to call him “sir” he wanted us to call him by his first name Randy. At first I felt awkward but managed to get along somehow. Second major rule was Time: Randy is very strict when it comes to time. If you came late in his class you will show your talent. Just like in show time, the rest of the class will be the judges and also Randy. He will thumb down to your performance if he feels it is not enough and you’ll be forced to repeat in front!. Last major rule was Fun: Randy wanted his class to be full of fun. As the name suggests. Back to where I left of, after Randy connected the dots himself, he said that our activity was to expose us to think outside the box. To think beyond what has been given, beyond borders, beyond the limits of our imaginations. I learned that from his lecture. Also, I learned from him that the present mind set of parents as well as students that at first go to school, get good grades then land a good job. I admit that was also my mind set back then. But Randy gave me a turning point, he made me change my mind set. He was saying that with the help of technopreneurship, you go to school, get good grades and be the boss. A way different and lucrative mind set. I’ll just need to be creative and unique in building my techobiz someday in the future. And then Randy gave us an assignment to visit food chains and think of ways of improving it by using technology. The next meeting was scheduled for our movie screening inside lab 1, our class room. The title of the movie was “Pirates of the Silicon Valley” not to be confused of with some Disney film. This film was like a docu drama of the 2 software giant’s humble beginnings – Apple and Microsoft. It was somehow related to our subject because the film introduces unique business ideas and how the key people managed to survive to the competition. I learned many things in that film, one of those was that Bill Gates was a clever technopreneur and Steve Jobs trusted Bill Gates which turned Apple vs. Windows battle for supremacy. Also I learned that Steve Jobs was the best technopreneur for me. He has many unique ideas and principles that catapulted him to the top of his career as a technopreneur. I very much liked his saying that “stay hungry, stay foolish”- means that we should not be static, we should continue to be curious and invent new ideas that are essential to the people. Considering the people as your target client in your technobiz someday. After our film viewing, Randy gave us assignments in relation to the movie we previously watched. And I promptly complied. And then the next meeting Randy introduced us the SEED Model in which, our focus in Techno 1. S for self-mastery, E for environment-mastery, E for enterprise-mastery and D for development-mastery. We managed to tackle the self-mastery during the course of the first semester. This self-mastery comprises of a lot of different but relevant test that are essential to one’s self, hence the name self-mastery is all about. The first test was the Personality Traits test. The purpose of the personality test is to assess the match between your personality profile and the required job profile, and thus screen out candidates. It is very likely that as part of your job selection process you will have to face a personality test. While the job interview examines your overt behavior, the personality test aims to reach deeper, and expose those areas you might not be aware of, thereby providing recruiters with a more comprehensive profile of your personality. The information provided by the personality test, coupled with the interview and the other psychometric tests including aptitude tests, helps the evaluator to put the pieces together and get an overall impression of the applicant. Moreover, in our personality traits test, I managed to get a relatively high score, in which translates to a some what technopreneur in Randy’s scale. Im quite amazed by my score because I did not see my self as a technopreneur but somehow I’m relieved. This personality traits test also served us a prelim exam for us. Whew! The next test we took that falls in self-mastery was the AQ test, this time we consult the web and googled for the rest of the test. At first I took the AQ test by mistake because it was for autism! Haha! But I managed to take the other and right AQ test. Whew! Such a waste of time. The AQ test or Adversity Test is one of the several factors enabling you to evaluate the strength of your business - testing how well you might withstand unexpected adversity. The information gained from this test can help you see your business' weakness and to prepare you to gain your banker's support perhaps before you need it. Also this test was to evaluate oneself on how you manage the adversities in life, or should I say, how you turn your failures into success. The next test was the EQ test or the Emotional Quotient test this term was to describe a person's ability to understand his or her own emotions and the emotions of others and to act appropriately based on this understanding, also to reveal your emotional reactions to difficult situations. Since businesses need some personal touch in order to survive, we need also to assess our EQ. It is of great help. And lastly, the IQ, the test everyone knows. The most important criterion in assessing our intelligence is the IQ test. The aim of an IQ test is to measure our intelligence, which supposedly is an indication of our own potential. But where does the test come from and does it really measure potential? Intelligence quotient or IQ, is a score derived from a set of standardized tests that were developed with the purpose of measuring a person's cognitive abilities ("intelligence") in relation to their age group. It is expressed as a number normalized so that the average IQ in an age group is 100 — in other words an individual scoring 115 is above-average when compared to similarly aged people. The PT, AQ, EQ and IQ tests were important for a technopreneur to be evaluated with. We need to evaluate each test in order for us to have a guide or assessment in which we made our decisions that is critical in the business. After taking the entire tests, we still have to dig deeper into our own self, so that we may be able to come up with unique business ideas in this era. The next series of self-mastering skills were to find the things that we love, hate and best at. By doing this, we push through the boundaries of our self and try to discover our hidden talents or abilities that regards to technopreneurship. By knowing the things you love, hate and best at enables you to create or invent something unique to the end user or clients you wish to make business unto. You can pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of your business and you have the power to patch things up according to your will. For example, you love gadgets and you are best at making that gadget more unique and customized. Considering the example, you will have a bird’s eye view on the situation; you can focus on the strengths and make it more appealing. Also do not forget the things you hate or your irritants, this also serves as a warning so that you can avoid that bad vibes. The final test in self - mastery was to know your role in your home, in school, in the society and in the world. Given the condition that Randy has stripped up all our roles, therefore we must find new roles that matches those criteria’s. By doing this I managed to learn new things about myself, this test paved the way for me to know myself better. The entire test that I took was all important for my well - being and self - mastering. I do hope that I will fully utilize my knowledge in the next technopreneurship subject. I almost forgot, we had one last activity before we say goodbye to our techno 1 subject, the Business Proposal!, anyways, this business proposal was done by a group of 5 students. We chose our members as well as our leader for the group and to be presented during our succeeding classes. We formulated our business proposal basing on our irritants, what we love and best at. By incorporating those 3 factors, we should come up with a unique business proposal. We managed to create one business proposal considering those 3 factors. We were confident that our business idea shall be accepted, but unfortunately it was utterly rejected and we need to create another business proposal again so that we can still present our collected ideas to the class. In the long run, we managed to create one business proposal and thankfully it was accepted. Hurray!
To sum it all, this subject, IT – Elective 1 or Technopreneurship 1 was a fun, memorable, enjoyable subject I had enrolled last semester. Plus, I liked Randy’s facilitation on our class. I eagerly wrote thousands and thousands of words I actually asked myself, is this still IT? It seems like I’m an AB English student. But by doing that, it managed to make me to further use my brain and enhance my thinking capacity and also my writing skills. From time to time I constantly checked his forums for updates and possible assignments. I enjoyed and I learned a lot during the course of this subject.
And now, a new semester has begun and we are back to business, back to where we left of last semester, I’m excited for the new and exciting lessons to discuss and still the thousands of words to write.
Almost 5 months had passed, the first semester had just ended and I managed to pass the memorable and hand shaking technopreneurship 1, you know what I mean, the series of thousands and thousands of words we need to comply because it was one of the requirements in order to pass the subject. Eventhough that’s the case it was a good and bold strategy that our facilitator had executed on our class. He was able to push us to our limits, the limit of my thinking capacity in which I need to write some thousands of words and create a unique business idea. It was not an easy ride for me because I cannot imagine myself in complying those thousands and thousands of words a while back then. But due to my determination to pass, I managed to comply those memorable brain-draining some sort of content writing stuff. Moreover, I’m thankful to our facilitator for the past semester, it was a memorable semester to me.
And now, we are tasked to write our reflections or learning’s during our past subject which is Technopreneurship I. Here we go. As far as I had remembered, our facilitator gave us a task, he draw a 3 x 3 grid of dots. He asked us to connect the dots without lifting our pen and only in one stroke in a piece of paper. And then we followed. After a while he called us one by one and asked us if we did get to connect the dots. Some of my fellow classmates got to connect it. I managed to connect it but I failed to follow his instructions, I lifted my pen by doing so it wasn’t considered “connected” because I “cheated”. Oh! Before I forgot, our facilitator gave us 3 major rules when inside our class room, first was PhD: our facilitator did not want us to call him “sir” he wanted us to call him by his first name Randy. At first I felt awkward but managed to get along somehow. Second major rule was Time: Randy is very strict when it comes to time. If you came late in his class you will show your talent. Just like in show time, the rest of the class will be the judges and also Randy. He will thumb down to your performance if he feels it is not enough and you’ll be forced to repeat in front!. Last major rule was Fun: Randy wanted his class to be full of fun. As the name suggests. Back to where I left of, after Randy connected the dots himself, he said that our activity was to expose us to think outside the box. To think beyond what has been given, beyond borders, beyond the limits of our imaginations. I learned that from his lecture. Also, I learned from him that the present mind set of parents as well as students that at first go to school, get good grades then land a good job. I admit that was also my mind set back then. But Randy gave me a turning point, he made me change my mind set. He was saying that with the help of technopreneurship, you go to school, get good grades and be the boss. A way different and lucrative mind set. I’ll just need to be creative and unique in building my techobiz someday in the future. And then Randy gave us an assignment to visit food chains and think of ways of improving it by using technology. The next meeting was scheduled for our movie screening inside lab 1, our class room. The title of the movie was “Pirates of the Silicon Valley” not to be confused of with some Disney film. This film was like a docu drama of the 2 software giant’s humble beginnings – Apple and Microsoft. It was somehow related to our subject because the film introduces unique business ideas and how the key people managed to survive to the competition. I learned many things in that film, one of those was that Bill Gates was a clever technopreneur and Steve Jobs trusted Bill Gates which turned Apple vs. Windows battle for supremacy. Also I learned that Steve Jobs was the best technopreneur for me. He has many unique ideas and principles that catapulted him to the top of his career as a technopreneur. I very much liked his saying that “stay hungry, stay foolish”- means that we should not be static, we should continue to be curious and invent new ideas that are essential to the people. Considering the people as your target client in your technobiz someday. After our film viewing, Randy gave us assignments in relation to the movie we previously watched. And I promptly complied. And then the next meeting Randy introduced us the SEED Model in which, our focus in Techno 1. S for self-mastery, E for environment-mastery, E for enterprise-mastery and D for development-mastery. We managed to tackle the self-mastery during the course of the first semester. This self-mastery comprises of a lot of different but relevant test that are essential to one’s self, hence the name self-mastery is all about. The first test was the Personality Traits test. The purpose of the personality test is to assess the match between your personality profile and the required job profile, and thus screen out candidates. It is very likely that as part of your job selection process you will have to face a personality test. While the job interview examines your overt behavior, the personality test aims to reach deeper, and expose those areas you might not be aware of, thereby providing recruiters with a more comprehensive profile of your personality. The information provided by the personality test, coupled with the interview and the other psychometric tests including aptitude tests, helps the evaluator to put the pieces together and get an overall impression of the applicant. Moreover, in our personality traits test, I managed to get a relatively high score, in which translates to a some what technopreneur in Randy’s scale. Im quite amazed by my score because I did not see my self as a technopreneur but somehow I’m relieved. This personality traits test also served us a prelim exam for us. Whew! The next test we took that falls in self-mastery was the AQ test, this time we consult the web and googled for the rest of the test. At first I took the AQ test by mistake because it was for autism! Haha! But I managed to take the other and right AQ test. Whew! Such a waste of time. The AQ test or Adversity Test is one of the several factors enabling you to evaluate the strength of your business - testing how well you might withstand unexpected adversity. The information gained from this test can help you see your business' weakness and to prepare you to gain your banker's support perhaps before you need it. Also this test was to evaluate oneself on how you manage the adversities in life, or should I say, how you turn your failures into success. The next test was the EQ test or the Emotional Quotient test this term was to describe a person's ability to understand his or her own emotions and the emotions of others and to act appropriately based on this understanding, also to reveal your emotional reactions to difficult situations. Since businesses need some personal touch in order to survive, we need also to assess our EQ. It is of great help. And lastly, the IQ, the test everyone knows. The most important criterion in assessing our intelligence is the IQ test. The aim of an IQ test is to measure our intelligence, which supposedly is an indication of our own potential. But where does the test come from and does it really measure potential? Intelligence quotient or IQ, is a score derived from a set of standardized tests that were developed with the purpose of measuring a person's cognitive abilities ("intelligence") in relation to their age group. It is expressed as a number normalized so that the average IQ in an age group is 100 — in other words an individual scoring 115 is above-average when compared to similarly aged people. The PT, AQ, EQ and IQ tests were important for a technopreneur to be evaluated with. We need to evaluate each test in order for us to have a guide or assessment in which we made our decisions that is critical in the business. After taking the entire tests, we still have to dig deeper into our own self, so that we may be able to come up with unique business ideas in this era. The next series of self-mastering skills were to find the things that we love, hate and best at. By doing this, we push through the boundaries of our self and try to discover our hidden talents or abilities that regards to technopreneurship. By knowing the things you love, hate and best at enables you to create or invent something unique to the end user or clients you wish to make business unto. You can pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of your business and you have the power to patch things up according to your will. For example, you love gadgets and you are best at making that gadget more unique and customized. Considering the example, you will have a bird’s eye view on the situation; you can focus on the strengths and make it more appealing. Also do not forget the things you hate or your irritants, this also serves as a warning so that you can avoid that bad vibes. The final test in self - mastery was to know your role in your home, in school, in the society and in the world. Given the condition that Randy has stripped up all our roles, therefore we must find new roles that matches those criteria’s. By doing this I managed to learn new things about myself, this test paved the way for me to know myself better. The entire test that I took was all important for my well - being and self - mastering. I do hope that I will fully utilize my knowledge in the next technopreneurship subject. I almost forgot, we had one last activity before we say goodbye to our techno 1 subject, the Business Proposal!, anyways, this business proposal was done by a group of 5 students. We chose our members as well as our leader for the group and to be presented during our succeeding classes. We formulated our business proposal basing on our irritants, what we love and best at. By incorporating those 3 factors, we should come up with a unique business proposal. We managed to create one business proposal considering those 3 factors. We were confident that our business idea shall be accepted, but unfortunately it was utterly rejected and we need to create another business proposal again so that we can still present our collected ideas to the class. In the long run, we managed to create one business proposal and thankfully it was accepted. Hurray!
To sum it all, this subject, IT – Elective 1 or Technopreneurship 1 was a fun, memorable, enjoyable subject I had enrolled last semester. Plus, I liked Randy’s facilitation on our class. I eagerly wrote thousands and thousands of words I actually asked myself, is this still IT? It seems like I’m an AB English student. But by doing that, it managed to make me to further use my brain and enhance my thinking capacity and also my writing skills. From time to time I constantly checked his forums for updates and possible assignments. I enjoyed and I learned a lot during the course of this subject.
And now, a new semester has begun and we are back to business, back to where we left of last semester, I’m excited for the new and exciting lessons to discuss and still the thousands of words to write.
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