The document proposes establishing a social networking site called the TESDA Fans Club (TFC) to help assess the impact of TESDA training programs. It suggests having TESDA trainees conduct regular "shares, tags, adds, links and likes" on Facebook to generate a large database of information about TESDA activities and graduates. This "STALL Competency Program" would require trainees to post regularly about their courses, and upon graduation they would become alumni members of TFC. The network would provide a way to track graduates and collect data for evaluating TESDA programs.

1. STALL Competency Program
Creating the TFC Social Networking Site to Establish a
Functional Resource Base for the TESDA Tracer
A Proposal by Salman D. Aguilar
Tactical Foundation, 143 Gomisa Ave., Marawi City
October 25, 2012
Assessing Impact of TESDA and the particular key result area of job absorption is a
gigantic task and costly. Traditional methods in survey and research can only provide general
statistics and superficial assumptions. Accuracy and reliability of findings can only be expected
upon infusion of massive resources by a much wider scope of gathering baseline data. As such,
a social media application by a Facebook Fan Page is being endorsed for CBC Integration.
We call this as “STALL Competency Program” – a routine operation of 5 commonly-used
Applications, namely: Share, Tag, Add, Link and Like. Its mission is to create a social networking
site for the TESDA Fans Club (TFC) and thus establish a functional resource base for the TESDA
Tracer or Impact Study.
In a Facebook platform, a monthly quota of 25 itemized “shares, tags, adds, links and
likes” done by each TESDA Trainee nationwide will make thousand upon thousands TESDA
feeds streaming the social network daily. This massive activity is practically shooting
cumulative viral reach over the internet by the speed of light generating access and resources
to unlimited time-stamped data and information. Behind the Facebook walls a dynamic profile
connection is building the gigantic database in a virtual network of TFC composed of TESDA
stakeholders, Alumni and friends.
In making STALL, a trainee will highlight the conduct from Course Orientation where the
presence of a TESDA Provincial Director is recognized; the workshop sessions and group
dynamics; and, the Culmination event where a trainee shall complete the course requirements
in a graduation rite. STALL input will bombard the internet with pictures, video and all sorts of
newsfeeds sharing classroom stories and highlights from the local and national TESDA scenes.
The whole system is systematically structured as: Application x Operation x Content =
Sustainable Site over a social network used by almost everyone on the net will make TESDA a
household talk.
STALL is a simple functional activity to be added to the Common Competency
requirements of a TESDA training course. All that a trainee needs is to follow a 1-2-3 procedure
and accomplish the itemized quota in a self-pacing convenience within the duration of a
training course. The STALL competency is basically rated by the posts being done followed by
the proper skills validation upon taking the NC Assessment.

2. Its competency program is a practical mechanism to institute site “homing” and
network presence of a member from the period of training and towards post-training. A TESDA
Trainee shall registering the STALL competency program acquires the Membership status in the
TFC as TESDA Trainee. At the end of a training course, a member shall become TESDA Alumnus.
At this stage, a member is expected to continue doing the STALL not as a competency
requirement but as a voluntary advocacy, a tradition that has become instituted in the heart
and mind of a TFC member.
Founded by the STALL Competency Program, the TFC social networking site can also
serve compliance for the MONET. In a participatory manner, reporting by a TVI can use data
entry from the trainees or their workshop leaders. A real-time audit of Scholarship delivery can
also be performed out of the STALL reports accessible from the TFC site or its online archives.
TFC site can be the most accurate and reliable information resource for TVET. It is publicly
accessible and published both for accountability and convenience of parties concerned.
TFC is a self-sustaining site owned and operated voluntarily by TESDA stakeholders,
alumni and friends. The site will be administered by qualified members of the TFC Editorial
Board which shall subscribe to online publishing standard. TFC leadership shall be installed in a
democratic process like any other organization. Its mandate is to promote and advance the
democratic rights and welfare of its members. TFC is a private organization cognizant to the
goals of TESDA Tracer and the purpose of Impact studies. It exists for the interest of TVET
stakeholders in the country.
STALL PROCEDURE
A.
PRE-STALLing
1. Open TFC Folder and double-click "Step 1. READ ME"
2. Prepare Session Report and gather items subject for STALLing into a dated
"UPLOAD" Folder, ex: "UPLOAD 102512"
3. Go online and upload the entire folder into your facebook account with cc:
tfcreport@gmail.com
B.
ACTUAL
TAG 1 Banner Photo to the Three Report Sites bearing 5-W’s data caption as
shown in the sample picture, below:
2. ADD 7 TFC Subscribers from among your FB Friends to the group site at
http://facebook.com/groups/tesdafans
3. LIKE 15 News Feeds of your choice from the walls of TRS (5 newsfeed-likes per
Site.)
1.

3. What
A TFC member operating data-capture machine of the
COMELEC during ARMM Registration
When
August 15, 2012
Where
Amai Pakpak Central Elem Sch., Marawi City
Who
Salman Aguilar II, TFC Batch 12-614
Why
To provide COMELEC with certified computer operators in
the 2012- Voters Registration.
NOTES:
TRS = Three Report Sites are as follows, http://www.facebook.com/tesdafans (tesdafans@groups.facebook.com);
http://www.facebook.com/tesdalds (tesdalds@gmail.com); http://www.facebook.com/tesdanational
(secjoel_tesda@yahoo.com)
MSP = Main Story Picture
5- W’s = What-When-Where-Who-Why/How, the basic information data stamp used in TFC reports.
(C. Post-STALLing procedure to follow)
C.
POST-STALLing
(to follow)