Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Campblog participants think of topic for their blogs
How can something seemed complicated turn out simple? CICT people has the answer.
Students from beneficiary Public High Schools (PHS) who attended the Campblog were instructed to think of a topic and pare them down to the most specific and workable for them.
Toni Torres, iSchools Project Manager, Avelino Mejia Jr. and Jose Feliciano Josef, eSkwela Project Officers, helped out in the distillation of the blog topics. Ranging from Global Warming, Genetics, Mythology to Collloids, the panel of three were able to identify topics that best suit the students and their respective schools and community.
The student created a web mapping of their chosen broad topic and create series of links and connections leading to more detailed topics where students will work around as output for the rest of the camp days.
Not to veer away from the academic and educational orientation of their intended blog contents, the panel reminded the students that it is essential that their blogs have to fit the criteria set by the CICT. That is, it has to be informative, inviting and attractive and based on facts. Torres reminded the students that blogs are powerful platform that empowers people to engage in the exchange of ideas over the world wide web.
Under the heading of Environmental Protection, the recent Oil Spills in Guimaras province got the attention of the panelists as well as the rest audience present. One of the project writer present commented that apart from the informative nature of blogs, these can be a powerful tools to lobby for change. Poised as an advocacy, blogs that has social relevance has so far captured a wider audience compared to others which dwell on a personal level rather than reaching out to far reaching and wider concerns .
For the next six days starting May 21, 2009, the students will be busy loading up contents to their blogs. As a culminating activity, all outputs will be exhibited at Saver’s Mall in Angeles for public viewing on the 28th of May.
Students from beneficiary Public High Schools (PHS) who attended the Campblog were instructed to think of a topic and pare them down to the most specific and workable for them.
Toni Torres, iSchools Project Manager, Avelino Mejia Jr. and Jose Feliciano Josef, eSkwela Project Officers, helped out in the distillation of the blog topics. Ranging from Global Warming, Genetics, Mythology to Collloids, the panel of three were able to identify topics that best suit the students and their respective schools and community.
The student created a web mapping of their chosen broad topic and create series of links and connections leading to more detailed topics where students will work around as output for the rest of the camp days.
Not to veer away from the academic and educational orientation of their intended blog contents, the panel reminded the students that it is essential that their blogs have to fit the criteria set by the CICT. That is, it has to be informative, inviting and attractive and based on facts. Torres reminded the students that blogs are powerful platform that empowers people to engage in the exchange of ideas over the world wide web.
Under the heading of Environmental Protection, the recent Oil Spills in Guimaras province got the attention of the panelists as well as the rest audience present. One of the project writer present commented that apart from the informative nature of blogs, these can be a powerful tools to lobby for change. Poised as an advocacy, blogs that has social relevance has so far captured a wider audience compared to others which dwell on a personal level rather than reaching out to far reaching and wider concerns .
For the next six days starting May 21, 2009, the students will be busy loading up contents to their blogs. As a culminating activity, all outputs will be exhibited at Saver’s Mall in Angeles for public viewing on the 28th of May.
CICT briefs students on the blogging requirement for the Camp
“Sharing something one cannot read in books.” This is what Jose Feliciano Josef, Project Officer of the eSkwela, said during a briefing for students before they were to create their own blogs.
Along with Avelino Mejia, also from the eSkwela, both emphasized that the campblog is intended to capture learning content in English, (Technology abd Livelihood Education (TLE), Science and Math which have been missed-out in normal classroom environment. Mejia continued that it is important to contextualize their blogs in a way that lessons learned and their experiences posted thereat will be something that other students can find interesting and easy to relate to.
Josef cited that one can dwell on, say, Global Warming. But it has to be localized in way that it will highlight how these students actuality experience this phenomenon in their immediate environ. They warned however that their topics should be credible, simple and those that needs to be further examined or discussed in class or outside. They also encouraged students to be creative in putting up their blogs. Like any other blogs, students can be inventive in the design of their blogs so that it does not come out attractive only in substance but also in form. That said, pictures, graphics and a good combination of colors may do the trick.
Christian Placido Calma, from the iSchools project, in an interview said that as opposed to teacher participants who are expected to come up with learning modules for their individual blogs, students will be allowed to become a little loose and informal in their blogs. The purpose he said is to let the students bring out their opinions or perceptions about their learning experiences without losing hold of what this Campblog is all about. That is merging all ideas together in the mainstream, the net, and let the public get a share of it-know about it and learn from it.
This affair is attended by teachers and students from beneficiary Public High Schools across the country and sponsored by the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), The lead agency for the implementation of the iSchools project.
Along with Avelino Mejia, also from the eSkwela, both emphasized that the campblog is intended to capture learning content in English, (Technology abd Livelihood Education (TLE), Science and Math which have been missed-out in normal classroom environment. Mejia continued that it is important to contextualize their blogs in a way that lessons learned and their experiences posted thereat will be something that other students can find interesting and easy to relate to.
Josef cited that one can dwell on, say, Global Warming. But it has to be localized in way that it will highlight how these students actuality experience this phenomenon in their immediate environ. They warned however that their topics should be credible, simple and those that needs to be further examined or discussed in class or outside. They also encouraged students to be creative in putting up their blogs. Like any other blogs, students can be inventive in the design of their blogs so that it does not come out attractive only in substance but also in form. That said, pictures, graphics and a good combination of colors may do the trick.
Christian Placido Calma, from the iSchools project, in an interview said that as opposed to teacher participants who are expected to come up with learning modules for their individual blogs, students will be allowed to become a little loose and informal in their blogs. The purpose he said is to let the students bring out their opinions or perceptions about their learning experiences without losing hold of what this Campblog is all about. That is merging all ideas together in the mainstream, the net, and let the public get a share of it-know about it and learn from it.
This affair is attended by teachers and students from beneficiary Public High Schools across the country and sponsored by the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), The lead agency for the implementation of the iSchools project.
Campblog participant brings up ICT integration for the hearing-and visually impaired
Just when we think we got it all covered, a teacher participant brought up how special education can be integrated in the Information and Communications Technology curriculum of Public High Schools in the Philippines.
Carmencita P. Lorenzo of Batac National High School in Ilocos posed this question during one of the morning sessions in Pampanga Agricultural College today. Dr. Jose Lloyd D. Espiritu from Dela Salle University, resource person for the said session, replied that right now, a prototype hardware for the visually impaired called Brail Globe is available already in the United States.
Espiritu explained that the Braille globe is similar to a mouse which has a text to signal capacity with sound registry. Developed by a Korean Group of Microsoft, this technology unfortunately has not yet been made available in the Philippines. But as to those with other impairments, he said that in Dela Salle, ICT curriculum for those with Dyslexia, Autism and with hearing difficulties are already being used.
In an interview, Espiritu opined that the question is worth thinking about especially if there is really a commitment to bridge the digital gap in the archipelago.
As of yet, the iSchools and eSwela projects does not include ICT instruction training to be used for people with learning difficulty in its agenda. Maria Melissa D. Tan, Project Manager for the eSkwela, explained that although recently this has been a topic of conversation among people in the CICT, no funding is available to include this in both projects in the very near future.
Carmencita P. Lorenzo of Batac National High School in Ilocos posed this question during one of the morning sessions in Pampanga Agricultural College today. Dr. Jose Lloyd D. Espiritu from Dela Salle University, resource person for the said session, replied that right now, a prototype hardware for the visually impaired called Brail Globe is available already in the United States.
Espiritu explained that the Braille globe is similar to a mouse which has a text to signal capacity with sound registry. Developed by a Korean Group of Microsoft, this technology unfortunately has not yet been made available in the Philippines. But as to those with other impairments, he said that in Dela Salle, ICT curriculum for those with Dyslexia, Autism and with hearing difficulties are already being used.
In an interview, Espiritu opined that the question is worth thinking about especially if there is really a commitment to bridge the digital gap in the archipelago.
As of yet, the iSchools and eSwela projects does not include ICT instruction training to be used for people with learning difficulty in its agenda. Maria Melissa D. Tan, Project Manager for the eSkwela, explained that although recently this has been a topic of conversation among people in the CICT, no funding is available to include this in both projects in the very near future.
.jpg)
And the Campblog morning rushes in
All agog and excited, participants from the Campblog here in Mimosa Leisure Estate Clarkfield Pampanga braced for the second of this 10-day affair.
After a 30 minute ride from here to Pampanga Agricultural College (PAC), participants broke out in to two groups. The groups of teachers in a separate session room listened to three invited Resource Speakers. Prof. Katherine K. Estevez from the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) discussed the Use of Learning Objects in Integrating ICT in Education. Dr. Jose Lloyd D. Espiritu from the Dela Salle University once again presented a topic this time on Designing Instruction Online and finally Ms.Jill De Dumo, from UP Diliman, came in and discussed Learning Object Demonstration.
On a separate session area, students got their hands on for online research.
After the day all wrapped up, the participants were all ferried back in Mimosa where they were all billeted for the entire training days.
In a related note, the camp organizers chose to conduct all hands-on digital inputing by teachers and students in PAC instead, in compliant with the one to one computer participant ratio set by the Commission on Information and Communications Technology which Mimosa has far long ago expressed could not provide.
This activity has been hosted by PAC and another round of this activity is already in their drawing board to be conducted soon.
After a 30 minute ride from here to Pampanga Agricultural College (PAC), participants broke out in to two groups. The groups of teachers in a separate session room listened to three invited Resource Speakers. Prof. Katherine K. Estevez from the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) discussed the Use of Learning Objects in Integrating ICT in Education. Dr. Jose Lloyd D. Espiritu from the Dela Salle University once again presented a topic this time on Designing Instruction Online and finally Ms.Jill De Dumo, from UP Diliman, came in and discussed Learning Object Demonstration.
On a separate session area, students got their hands on for online research.
After the day all wrapped up, the participants were all ferried back in Mimosa where they were all billeted for the entire training days.
In a related note, the camp organizers chose to conduct all hands-on digital inputing by teachers and students in PAC instead, in compliant with the one to one computer participant ratio set by the Commission on Information and Communications Technology which Mimosa has far long ago expressed could not provide.
This activity has been hosted by PAC and another round of this activity is already in their drawing board to be conducted soon.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
