Congratulations!

After ten busy blogging days, 45 students and teachers have finally graduated from Camp Blog 1B and are now armed with skills to become “educational bloggers”. Congratulations, you are now Camp Blog alumni. Job well done to all of you.

We are glad all of you have successfully completed the training and are now ready to use your new-found skills to share knowledge not only to teachers and students, but ultimately to the whole blogging community. All of you have truly showed so much interest and dedication to learning. As such, the Camp Blog Organizing Team would like to congratulate the following bloggers who have showed the greatest potential to use and improve their skills. Congratulations to the following winners.

Best Blog Award
Matheor – Marra Kristelle Gamis
The Secret of Archimedes Tomb – Felicidad Diloy

Top 13 Blogs
English
1. Waray Perspective – Ma. Belinda Lora
2. My Zamboanga, My Mindanao – Angeline Chrisette Olegario
3. Sulat in Focus – Melchor Eroda

Math
4. Matheor – Marra Kristelle Gamis
5. The Secret Archimedes Tomb – Felicidad Diloy
6. The X Factor – Zaldy Tabugoca

Science
7. The Evolving Mind – Manilac Melissa Ranin
8. Simplest Physics Ever – Joseph Silvestre
9. Know Ur Kemikalidad – Darwin Lumosbog

TLE
10. Wow Negosyo Leyte – Alfonso Advencula
11. Negoshow Time – Bernaldo Basiano
12. A Piso Worth – Josephine Manalili
13. Learn4Community – Stephen Pascual

Peer’s Choice
Waray Perspective – Ma. Belinda Lora

People’s Choice
A Piso Worth – Josephine Manalili

We hope you can keep up the good work. Continue blogging. Share the knowledge.

Last Call…

Peer’s choice award

You’ve heard everyone’s pitches and seen their blogs. Now’s your chance to choose your favorites. Reward those who did a good job with your vote.

Click on the link and choose the top 3 blogs from Camp Blog 1B. Remember your first choice gets 15 points, the second gets 10 points and the third gets 5 points.

Vote now and vote wisely! Here’s the link: Peer’s Choice Award

Subject Matter Experts and Editors

You were given an opportunity to individually meet your Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Editor to discuss how you can improve your blogs. SMEs focused on improving your content. Editors worked on improving your writing style and presentation.

Here are the team-ups:

Subject Matter Experts | Editors

• Science – Prof. Marie-Sol Hidalgo | Jose Torres
• Mathematics – Prof. Portia Padilla | Prof. Yvonne Chua
• English – Prof. Bambi Torrecampo | Mr. Fort Nicolas
• TLE – Mr Dulce Florentino | Prof. Luz Rimban

Was it nerve wracking for you? Don’t worry, they’re here to help you get better at blogging.

Fortunately now’s the time to reciprocate. Evaluate your SME-Editor partnership experience.

Click on the link to begin.

Camp Blog 1B Overall Evaluation

This will be the last evaluation you will make for Camp Blog. We would like to know if you’ve enjoyed your stay at Mimosa Leisure Estate and at the same time learned from your Camp experience.

Let us know what you think. You can access the evaluation form here: Camp Blog 1B Overall Evaluation.

Blogging Experts

Did you get a taste of blogging using WordPress? Did it confuse you? Did it challenge you?

Luckily we have three professional bloggers to help us make the most out of this powerful blogging platform.

We have here an evaluation of the three speakers who guided you through the process.

Please click on the link to begin your evaluation.

Mr Glenn Mark Reales

Mr Rodel Sinapilo

Mr Jose Torres

Thank you for your continuous support and cooperation. =)

Camp Blog Learning Materials

1. ICT4E Briefing for CICT Camp Blog

2. Online Writting

3. Insights into English as Content and Medium

4. ABC of Writing

5. The Enjoyment of MATH with the Help of ICT

Back to School… As Easy as ABC!

Good writers are storytellers, too. They can educate and at the same time entertain. Mr. Jose A Torres is indeed one of them. There were certainly no dull moments as his 4-hour lecture on Online Writing was laced with humour and substance. He introduced techniques for writing for new media — the internet. He even gave tips to keep one’s work short and simple.

“As easy as ABC”, he said. Accuracy, Brevity, and Clarity are the main ‘ingredients’ of good online writing.

Now, its time for you Camper to express your thoughts about Mr. Jose A. Torres’ lecture. How much have you learned? Did you find it useful?

Evaluate Sir Jo now!

With Great Power Comes With Great Responsibility

As Spiderman used to say, “With great power comes with great responsibility”, Ms Leila Grace Ramos and Mr Christian Placido Calma shared their knowledge and experiences on Online Research. They discussed the power that online research can give us and the responsibilities attached with it.

We want to hear from you Campers how much you have learned and how can they improve this.

Find time to evaluate Ms. Lei Ramos and Mr. CP Calma. We value your comments and we appreciate your cooperation.

Camp Blog Team

Evaluation Forms – Resource Speakers (Lectures 1-5)

Hello again Campers!

How was your first Camping day?

What have you learned so far?

Do let us know!

As part of our end of day’s activities, you will be asked to answer questions that will help us know your opinion and insights about the day’s activities.

Below is a list of our resource speakers and their topics. Please click on each of their names and you will be taken to evaluation questionnaires of each lecturer.

Please answer each form as candid as you can. There are no wrong or right answers, only suggestions to improving the training. =)

 

1. Alejo J. Espinosa – Understanding 21st Century Education
2. Elcid C. Pangilinan – Department of Education ICT Strategic Plan
3. Portia Padilla – Sharing of Experiences in Teaching Math through ICT
4. Marie Sol Hidalgo – Sharing of Experiences in Teaching Science through ICT
5.Rosella Torrecampo – Sharing of Experiences in Teaching English through ICT

Welcome, Camp Blog 1B Participants!

We have prepared activities that will keep you busy (while learning!) in the next ten days.

To hit the ground running, we are encouraging you to start reading an article by Stephen Downes, “The Future of Online Learning”. This is a reference material shared to us by one of our resource speakers, Alejo Espinosa.

We hope this will give you an idea on what to expect to achieve, and to help you get started in using ICT in teaching and learning.

Please download the attachment below.

The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On by Stephen Downes

Camp Blog 1B now accepting applicants

With the success of the first Camp Blog, the iSchools Project Management Office (PMO) is pleased to announce the opening of the application period for Camp Blog 1B, from June 12 to August 14, 2009. Camp Blog 1B will happen on October 16-26, 2009.

To join, interested teachers and students of iSchools Project recipient schools must answer all 4 essay questions found below:

1. Why should I be included in Camp Blog?

2. What are my experiences as a user of the web and other new media technologies?

3. What subject do I excel in? What specific topics do I like best about this subject?

4. What are my proposed strategies in maximizing the advantages of blogging for teaching (if teachers) | learning (for students)?

Please observe the following guidelines in preparing your answers

• There should be a separate answer for each of the 4 essay questions.
• Each of the four essays must be short and direct-to-the-point. Ideally an answer must be less than 100 words long.
• The Camp Blog selection committee is more interested in the content of your answers rather than the form. Please make all your answers count.
• Previous participants of the first Camp Blog cannot participate in Camp Blog 1B.
• Deadline of submissions is on August 14, 2009. No late entries will be entertained.
• Please send your answers to your designated iSchools Project State Universities and Colleges (SUC) Coordinator. There will only be at most 12 applicants coming from each SUC Coordinator so please send in your entries ASAP. Applications sent directly to the iSchools PMO will not be accepted.
• From the submitted list, iSchools PMO will then select 60 participants to join Camp Blog 1B.
• For questions, comments or suggestions, please contact camp.blog.2009@gmail.com. We will not entertain direct submissions here.

For more news and updates visit http://ischools.portal.ph

Thank you and good luck!

Camp Blog Selected Photos

Resources for Teachers

Online resources and links for teachers…

http://sites.google.com/site/campblog2009teachers/educational-resources-and-tools