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.