Welcome 2011!

Another year has just passed and here I am blogging after more than a month of emptiness. At least I’m still blogging at the rate of at about once a month or Project 12 (not 365, not 52).

Many factors can be attributed to such ‘blogger’s block’. At this moment, I’ve got 2 part-time teaching loads (that’s somewhat equivalent to a full-time load) and a software developer job while being a part-time educational technology graduate student having a study load of 9 units. Some would say that such case is already overload, right? Well, I’m still alive and kicking though after all of the electricity problems last year and the network connection issues this year.

From a quote of William Faulkner:

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

…I would say that I am improving – that my blog is still active since last year despite some drops of page ranks. I am looking forward to better posts this year though. By June, most likely I’ll be taking my research (EDRE) subjects as preparation for thesis. Currently, I’m doing a research about educational computer-based games as a requirement for an Educational Foundations course.

How about you? Do you have a bloggable quote that you can share? :)

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Joyeux Noël!

In this Christmas celebration, I stumbled upon (through a friend) a web service that can create simple short videos in just minutes! Here’s what I did:

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Merry Christmas educators!

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SOS: Save our students!

blogimage More than a month has passed since I last made an update here. The challenge of doing “Project 365″ is slowly turning into a “Project 12″ instead. Perhaps, this is the result of the electricity situation we have in the UP College of Education and the UP School of Library and Information Studies. The main feeder short-circuited and got burned in the process which means my classes from both institutions were badly affected. I was handling 2 LIS (IT) courses in UP SLIS and 1 EDUC course (Computers in Education) in the UP College of Education.

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When a student teaches and a teacher learns

Last week was the celebration of World Teachers’ Day. Hence, I would like to share this composition written by a teacher:

WHEN A STUDENT TEACHES …
AND A TEACHER LEARNS
(by Portia P. Padilla)

When a student is sad,
a teacher learns to be sympathetic.

When a student is difficult,
a teacher learns to be persevering.

When a student is angry,
a teacher learns to be understanding.

When a student is hurt,
a teacher learns to be gentle.

When a student is slow,
a teacher learns to be patient.

When a student is frustrated,
a teacher learns to be hopeful.

When a student is afraid,
a teacher learns to be brave.

When a student is tired,
a teacher learns to be lively.
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Huntahan: The Proposed K-12 Basic Education Program of the Philippines

Right now, I’m attending (and live blogging) Huntahan: A Discussion on the Proposed K-12 Basic Education Program of the Philippines. The Huntahan is being held at the UP College of Education Benitez Theater.

Here are some excerpts from the slides presented by Dr. Muega:

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2010 Reform Symposium Worldwide E-Conference

I was busy uploading the presentation slides and handouts of the speakers from the ICTED 2010 Conference (because today’s the last day of the event) on Slideshare when suddenly I stumbled upon the #rscon10 hashtag that was trending from my Twitter contacts on my Tweetie client.

Obviously, just like my post on EduBloggerCon and ISTE Conference, I also searched what the hashtag was all about and then the results landed me on the 2010 Reform Symposium worldwide e-conference. The event was about to end its first day of the online conference. Luckily, I was able to attend the closing keynote by Sue Waters.

So what is the 2010 Reform Symposium all about? This is the description I got from their website:

The Reform Symposium is a free online conference for educators, administrators, parents and students. This year the conference is focused on innovative practices in education and what role these practices can play in educational reform.

Links from the event are collated through Google Docs whereas the recordings of the presentations will be stored at the presenters’ pages.

See you there! :)

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EduBloggerCon 2010 and ISTE Conference 2010

EduBloggerCon Logo   ISTE Conference 2010 Logo

Last night, the hashtags #ebc10 and #iste10 were all over my Twitter public timeline and those were tweets that were posted by my edtech contacts from other countries. After doing a Google search, I discovered that the hashtags were about two events, the EduBloggerCon 2010 and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference 2010.

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New Adrenaline

Form 5 1st Sem 2010-2011

I’m now officially enrolled in 2 EdTech graduate majors as stated from my new Form 5 that is automatically generated and filled out by the system. It feels so good that I’m now on my 2nd year of graduate studies! Hooray! I just hope that I’ll get to have the reduced fees privileges/benefits too like most instructors have in the university. But wait, there’s more…

I’ll be handling a Computers in Education course at the UP College of Education! Wish me good luck! :)

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Using iPhone Apps in Teaching

While I was browsing over old tweets at this very last day before the start of classes tomorrow, I stumbled upon this video on teaching:

Indeed, there are so many apps that can be used in teaching! Can you imagine that most (if not all) of these educational tools can be easily replaced by just a tiny gadget?

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Project 365

a fresh page, a fresh startToday marks my 365th day in my school as an educator. Perhaps, it would be cool to have a project 365 of blogging (or perhaps just project 52) just to keep my site from getting outdated. I will try my best to overcome my blogger’s block without spending the time alloted for my other commitments.

Wish me good luck! :)

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