Monday, December 3, 2007

Moving heaven and earth

Teachers from Aquino Memorial National High School i Tarlac decided to bring their class along the corridor so one classroom can be vacated to comply with the requirement of the CICT for the Ischools project.

Result of the On-Line Writing Technique Seminar out

From twenty-six participants coming from 26 partner State College and Universities (SCUs) nationwide, only 9 passed based from the result released by the Commission on Information and Communications Technology, the lead agency in the Ischools project.

They are Jonathan Pagatpatan form Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College, Mara Barbra Nanamar, Mindanao State University, Ma. Belen Balandra, Western Visayas College of Science and Technology, Dante Villareal, Western Mindanao State University, Jeffrey Dellosa, Northern Mindanao Institute of Science and Technology, Gerardo Salonga, Tarlac State University, Ersyl Biray, Aklan State University and Ramir Lambino from Tarlac College of Agriculture.

Passers, based from the results, are now official bona fide and qualified writers of their respective SUCs for the Ischools project. Other participants who did not make it the list were recommended for retraining while there are those to be replaced.

The training was held in Puerto Princesa, Palawan last Nov. 14-16, 2007.

TSU Ischools trainers gets headstart workshop on Open Source Software

Trainers for the Ischools project from Tarlac State University (TSU) attends a day long Training-Workshop on Open Source Software last Oct. 22, 2007.

Held at the College of Computer Studies, facilitator and speaker Rogelio Quilala oriented the participants on the features of the Edubuntu software which will be installed among the computers that will be dispatched to beneficiary/recipient schools in Tarlac and elsewhere anytime soon as they are ready.

It was explained in the training that since it is an open source, said software is open for public and is free of charge not like the Microsoft software which will cost a couple of thousand per package.

Participants were instructed to navigate the Open Office writer, Open Office Calc and Open office Impress. They are the counterpart of MS Word, MS Excell, and MS Powerpoint from Microsoft Office.

Quilala, Assistant Project manager and in-charge of the hardware aspect of the TSU-CICT Team, discussed how to train the schools teachers in computer using the said software.

The seminar-workshop was participated-in by 14 faculty members from the different colleges of TSU.