This research is a qualitative research. Considering the situation of the elderly in Thailand B.E. 2016 and the study of the context of the community with a tendency to increase the proportion of the elderly population together with the problems and obstacles that there are still needs to participate in recreational activities. In this regard there were 38 key informants chosen by a purposive sampling method for each target group. The selected informants consisted of 30 elderly people between 60-69 years old 2 neighbors 2 community leaders 2 family members and 2 government officials. Due to the outbreak situation of COVID-19 the target group has to be adjusted accordingly. There were only 10 elderly people who were willing to be interviewed by phone. These informants are those who resides in Nang Loeng community Phra Nakhon District and Pom Prap Sattru Phai District Bangkok. The data was therefore collected by telephone interviews. It was found that the elderly’s highest average needs for recreational activities were the top 3 categories accordingly as follows: 1.the category of games sports and play 2. dance and 3. singing and music. The results of the research also showed a clear nature of the activities; that is these three types of recreational activities involved body movement fun activities and those that demonstrated their abilities and skills. It can be seen that these three types of recreational activities involved physical movement as the main component of exercise and dancing as well as gestures and posture while singing or playing music. This helps promote physical health mental health and a good quality of life for the elderly. The result also showed that the activities that the elderly most frequently participated in during the recent period were games sports and plays followed by singing and music and dance. The problems found from participating in recreational activities among the elderly was the insufficiency of equipment and facilities followed by the problem of inappropriate places for participating in recreational activities and the problem of inappropriate activity period. (too little or too much time).

The development of the application to promote active teaching in the 21st century for the lecturers of the Faculty of Science and Technology Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The development of the application will support the work in terms of the mobile application and web applications. This application was modified on a cloud service system. The application consideration takes into account the design of the user interface and easily use. Moreover this application can support the user via smart devices and through a web browser including access control. In the design and development of the application there are two groups of people working together group 1 Teacher and group 2 student. There is an administrator (Admin) to help manage the data within the application prototype. Based on the user satisfaction assessment of the developed application. It found that the satisfaction assessment of the application users to promote the competence of the Faculty of Science and Technology in organizing active teaching activities for skills development in the 21st century was at a good level with a total mean of 4.14 S.D. value was 0.25.

This research aimed to study students opinions towards the Cheer and Admission Conference and present a creative recruitment model for students of the Faculty of Science and Technology Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The sample group was undergraduate students of The Faculty of Science and Technology Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon with 376 students studying in 2019. The data collection tools were questionnaires of students opinions on the activities. Cronbachs alpha coefficient was used to examine the whole questionnaires reliability yielding a value of 0.83. A statistical package for analyzing data collected from January to February 2020 was used with the statistics mean standard deviation t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The research results found that: 1. The Pros and Cons of students’ opinions on the freshman orientation activities and cheer meetings were that freshmen get to know friends and seniors; freshmen are afraid of juniors and seniors. 2. Male and female students had different opinions about organizing activities for freshman recruiting and cheered meeting. 3. Students studying in different disciplines had no different opinions on organizing new freshman activities and cheer meeting. 4. Students studying in different year levels had the same opinion on organizing new recruiting activities and cheer meeting. 5. Features of the creative recruiting activities format are as follows: 5.1 It is an activity that gives importance to safety and respect for personal freedom. 5.2 It is the responsibility of the Faculty to closely watch this field of study 5.3 It is an activity that promotes pride in being a student at the university. 5.4 It is an activity that helps students to adjust to university life and aims to foster a good relationship between students seniors and juniors. 5.5 An outside activity must be an event organized by a faculty or university department only.

This research applied the qualitative research methodology which used in‐depth interviews. A purposive sampling was selected to find 40 people who related to the activities. The results of the research are as follows: 1. Students who organized the freshmen welcoming activities did not have a risk assessment plan. They had only simple action plan. There were not only freshmen welcoming activities but also welcoming activities for sophomore entering to their majors. Senior students only from the Technology in radio and television program (RT) appeared to have SOTUS system behind. 2. The freshmen academic year 2020 wanted to participate in the activities because they want to make friends and want to be familiar with senior friends. Freshmen also wanted sophomore guide them about their studies and university lives. Freshmen understood their rights and knew how to protect themselves from uncreative activities. They thought that appropriate activities such as faculty sports career guidance activities recreational activities singing and games. 3. Faculty members staffs of the Faculty of Mass Communication Technology andoutsiders expected that the creative model for freshmen welcoming activities should organize sport games recreational activities. Professional activities should be benefit to the communities and public service activities should build good image of the profession.

The study entitled “A Case Study: Patterns of Freshman Welcoming Activities at Faculty of Liberal Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon” a mixedmethod research aims to investigate the patterns effects and students ’attitudes towards freshman welcoming activities. The participants in this study were the first- to the fourth-year university students from four majors including Applied Thai English for International Communication Hotel Management and Tourism. The participants can be divided into two groups: the participants of freshman welcoming activities (the first-year university students N = 132) and the organizers (the second-year to the fourth-year university students N = 65). The participants were 197 university students in total. The research instruments used for data collection were questionnaire and depth interview questions. For the questionnaire it can be divided into four parts: Part I concerning general information Part II and III related to types of welcoming activities and students’ attitudes towards the freshman welcoming activities organized in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon and Part IV providing suggestions. Thirty voluntary participants were asked to provide in-depth information about freshman welcoming activities organized the Faculty of Liberal Arts Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed by using descriptive statistics: frequency percentage means and standard deviation. The data obtained from the in-depth interview were transcribed and analyzed by using textual analysis. Most participants in this study were female university students whose age group was 19 years old. The participants filled in their answers from 1 to 5 that is 5 strongly agree 4 agree 3 neutral 2 disagree and 1 strongly disagree to report their attitudes towards the freshman welcoming activities organized in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The results of the study show that the participants highly agreed with the appropriateness and the types of freshman welcoming activities responding to the goals. The participants also added that they wanted to have a welcome feast (71.6%) followed by Baisri Sukwan welcome ceremony (64%) and booming activity for welcoming the new first-year university students (55.8%) respectively. The results of the study showed the participants ’awareness of security and willingness while taking part in the freshman welcoming activities. The students mostly agreed with positive effects of participating these kinds of activities: building relationship unity and responsibility. However they also moderately agreed that these activities could provide negative effectives: individual and organizational damage (for example losing publica image) According to the descriptive analysis and textual analysis the results showed that these university students were willing to take part in freshman welcome activities indicating that the activities were suitable supervised by related departments. They also suggested that there should be welcome activities based on their interests and suggestion box to achieve the goal. However one of the limitations of the study was the widespread of coronavirus resulting in the average score and standard deviation in some questionnaire items.