Thursday, May 8, 2008
Interactive Maps of Sorsogon & Masbate Provinces
View the sites of the SSC iSchools Project in Sorsogon and Masbate provinces using www.maps.google.com. You can view the locations with terrain and satellite-generated imagery. Manipulate the pointer (hand) and you will be able to increase/decrease the scope of the map, or transfer to other locations in the Philippines.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=12.125264,123.743134&spn=1.082158,2.559814&t=h&z=9
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=12.125264,123.743134&spn=1.082158,2.559814&t=h&z=9
Friday, April 25, 2008
SSC iSchools Team Conducts Roll-Out
The SSC iSchools training groups conducted the Computer and Internet Literacy Course (CILC) roll-out/echo training in three of the four recipient schools in Masbate (Palanas National Agriculture HS, Milagros HS, and San Jacinto NHS) last April 2-6, 2008. Matagangtang (Gulay-Mayer) NHS in Placer will have its hardware deployment and CILC roll-out by May this year. The roll-out schedules in Sorsogon province were: April 7-11 in Juban NHS, April 15-19 in Bulacao NHS (Gubat), Celestino G. Tabuena Memorial NHS (Guinlajon, SC) and the SSC Laboratory HS, and April 16-20 in San Francisco NHS (Bulan).
Twenty (20) participants/trainees were allotted each recipient school. They were all supposed to be faculty members, but in cases that there was not enough of them, incoming 3rd year HS students were asked to attend. Some heads of school also attended. The SSC training groups were composed of a trainer, two laboratory assistants, and a documenter.
Before the roll-out, SSC CILC trainers took the International Computer Driving License Examination (July 2007). Those who passed qualified for the Trainers’ Training in CILC (August 2007). There are 5 passers of the 7 SSC examinees: Mark Anthony D. Dipad, Roberto V. Guides, Thaddeus D. Carreon, Clarisa F. Ramirez, and Rey C. Rodrigueza. They now compose the SSC pool of iSchools trainers.
Trainers/Coordinators Training also attended by the SSC project staff were:
Monitoring and Evaluation (August 2007)
Sustainability Planning (September 2007)
Web Development (October 2007)
Lab Management (December 2007)
Midstream Planning was also held in Tagaytay City last January 2008 for the deployment and roll-out schedule.
The roll out/echo training for Sustainability Planning Workshop for all the heads of schools, PTCA, LGU, and/or DepEd representatives was held in Bataan last October 2007.
Deployment/delivery of ICT hardware in Sorsogon high schools was on February 15, 2008 and the installation/setup was from Feb 19-26. Masbate mainland received their hardware on February 20 and Ticao Island on 22. Air-conditioning units were delivered in Masbate on April 2 and April 16 in Sorsogon. Other equipment was a multimedia projector and a 3-in-1 printer. Of the 21 computer units deployed in each recipient HS, 15 were for laboratory use, 1 as server, 3 for the faculty room, and 1 each for the principal’s office and library. Each recipient is also entitled to a one-year free internet subscription.
Future Educators’ Trainings:
* Laboratory Management, and
* Web Development of the SSC cluster will be held at the SSC Sorsogon City campus before the end of May 2008, while
* Library Management will be held in the Bicol University in Legazpi City.
The iSchools Project was initiated in July 2007 by the Commission of Information and Communication Technology – Human Capital Development Group (CICT – HCDG) under the Office of the President to promote ICT use in the classroom teaching-learning process.
Twenty (20) participants/trainees were allotted each recipient school. They were all supposed to be faculty members, but in cases that there was not enough of them, incoming 3rd year HS students were asked to attend. Some heads of school also attended. The SSC training groups were composed of a trainer, two laboratory assistants, and a documenter.
Before the roll-out, SSC CILC trainers took the International Computer Driving License Examination (July 2007). Those who passed qualified for the Trainers’ Training in CILC (August 2007). There are 5 passers of the 7 SSC examinees: Mark Anthony D. Dipad, Roberto V. Guides, Thaddeus D. Carreon, Clarisa F. Ramirez, and Rey C. Rodrigueza. They now compose the SSC pool of iSchools trainers.
Trainers/Coordinators Training also attended by the SSC project staff were:
Monitoring and Evaluation (August 2007)
Sustainability Planning (September 2007)
Web Development (October 2007)
Lab Management (December 2007)
Midstream Planning was also held in Tagaytay City last January 2008 for the deployment and roll-out schedule.
The roll out/echo training for Sustainability Planning Workshop for all the heads of schools, PTCA, LGU, and/or DepEd representatives was held in Bataan last October 2007.
Deployment/delivery of ICT hardware in Sorsogon high schools was on February 15, 2008 and the installation/setup was from Feb 19-26. Masbate mainland received their hardware on February 20 and Ticao Island on 22. Air-conditioning units were delivered in Masbate on April 2 and April 16 in Sorsogon. Other equipment was a multimedia projector and a 3-in-1 printer. Of the 21 computer units deployed in each recipient HS, 15 were for laboratory use, 1 as server, 3 for the faculty room, and 1 each for the principal’s office and library. Each recipient is also entitled to a one-year free internet subscription.
Future Educators’ Trainings:
* Laboratory Management, and
* Web Development of the SSC cluster will be held at the SSC Sorsogon City campus before the end of May 2008, while
* Library Management will be held in the Bicol University in Legazpi City.
The iSchools Project was initiated in July 2007 by the Commission of Information and Communication Technology – Human Capital Development Group (CICT – HCDG) under the Office of the President to promote ICT use in the classroom teaching-learning process.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Sorsogon Province
The iSchools Project host in Sorsogon province, SSC, and two of its recepients, the SSC Laboratory High School and Celestino G. Tabuena Memorial NHS, are located in Sorsogon City. Bulacao, Juban and San Francisco NHS are in the towns of Gubat, Juban and Bulan respectively. These are highlighted in the map.
"Pulot" finally gets online!
Asked of her say of the ongoing CILC training in their high school, a parent of one of the participating students in “Pulot” asked incredulously in the sing-song local tongue heavily laced with Waraynon, “Computers? Internet? Here, in Pulot? Impossible! When the crow finally turns white, perhaps!”
Well, whether she believes it or not, information and communication technology (ICT) is indeed invading the relatively comforting backwardness of her community. After all, Mark Dipad and Tony Castro – both computer instructors of the nearby Sorsogon State College – Institute of Management and Information Technology (Bulan campus) – are already at the barrio’s gates ramming down the ramparts of technological ignorance not only of the students but some of their teachers as well. They are trainers connected to the iSchools project, and both are in high spirits that their involvement will lead to technological advancement which will eventually change Pulot’s quaint lifestyle.
San Francisco, a barrio of Bulan town in Sorsogon, is most often referred to by the barrio folks as “Pulot”, meaning sticky in their dialect – attributive to the quagmire the soil turns to during the rainy season. The public high school sits on top of a hill situated behind the nipa houses in this quaint community’s center. A pair of paved pathways each a meter wide leads the occasional visitor from the main road to the school gate. A frontier barangay surrounded by hills and mountain ranges, the towns of Magallanes and Irosin are a few kilometers to the north; much nearer than the center of Bulan, located almost 9 kilometers southwest. In this geographical setting and the mindset of the people, one might perhaps have second thoughts on Mark’s and Tony’s initial enthusiasm about the project’s success.
Well, whether she believes it or not, information and communication technology (ICT) is indeed invading the relatively comforting backwardness of her community. After all, Mark Dipad and Tony Castro – both computer instructors of the nearby Sorsogon State College – Institute of Management and Information Technology (Bulan campus) – are already at the barrio’s gates ramming down the ramparts of technological ignorance not only of the students but some of their teachers as well. They are trainers connected to the iSchools project, and both are in high spirits that their involvement will lead to technological advancement which will eventually change Pulot’s quaint lifestyle.
San Francisco, a barrio of Bulan town in Sorsogon, is most often referred to by the barrio folks as “Pulot”, meaning sticky in their dialect – attributive to the quagmire the soil turns to during the rainy season. The public high school sits on top of a hill situated behind the nipa houses in this quaint community’s center. A pair of paved pathways each a meter wide leads the occasional visitor from the main road to the school gate. A frontier barangay surrounded by hills and mountain ranges, the towns of Magallanes and Irosin are a few kilometers to the north; much nearer than the center of Bulan, located almost 9 kilometers southwest. In this geographical setting and the mindset of the people, one might perhaps have second thoughts on Mark’s and Tony’s initial enthusiasm about the project’s success.
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