From the UP Alumni Metropolitan DC egroup, this link from the Sun.Star Bacolod was sent: Sun.Star ARTICLE: Where have all the teachers gone?. Part of the article says:
YEARS ago the country saw the exodus of school teachers to work as domestic helpers in nearby countries. There just wasn’t enough income from teaching anymore. Although teaching [...]
My students were hesitant writers when they started out with me during the first days of the school year. They could not even start writing a poem or a story with a given topic. It was a struggle for them to write.
I also noticed that their vocabulary is very limited to simple words. They lack [...]
How many times did I learn from my blogger friends that I was the one who inspired them to be bold and brave in uncovering their real identity and/ or putting up their pics on the web? That’s a very risky thing to do, but admirable for their being personal and sincere. This tech virus [...]
Subject: re: Lessons in Spanish
A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
“House,” for instance, is feminine: ”la casa.”
”Pencil,” however, is masculine: “el lapiz.”
A student asked, ”What gender is ‘computer’?”
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male [...]
OCTOBER 25, 2005 is a big day for Sun.Star Chronicles as we launch our own Sun.Star Blog at SM Cebu. Yep, I am a blogger contributor to this prestigious blogging community. I am now a writer-contributor to a major newspaper in the country (most especially to the Visayan Community).
It all started with a tagboard invitation [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Cheating on tests has come a long way from writing notes on the back of your hand — and it’s getting harder for schools to police as technology advances.
Instead of sneaking in a scrap of paper with answers scribbled on it, some students snap a picture of the paper with their camera [...]
“Podcasting” refers to any software and hardware combination that permits automatic downloading of audio files to an MP3 player for listening at the user’s convenience. Podcasting allows education to become more portable than ever before, giving educators another way to meet today’s students where they live and learn—on the Internet and on audio players. (SOURCE: [...]
Technology is really fast changing and I find it challenging to cope but I enjoy every bit of stuff I learn from you guys! Now, my turn…here are some quick references to vlogs, wikis, podcasting, clickers, etc. This is very informative. I learned a lot of new infos from this link.
http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495
When you get to [...]
OUR HOME: http://pinoyteachersnetwork.blog-city.com
“Any new endeavour is always tough in the beginning”.
I gave us just two weeks to plan this out and prepare for the launching. Ready or not, the website of the Pinoy Teachers Network went officially up in cyberspace on July 12, 2005. We took the challenge. We learned from our own experiences [...]
Each day, members of Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams support students with disabilities who have trouble writing. Many students with mild disabilities know that they want to write but have difficulty with the mechanics of translating those thoughts to paper. They often disregard language skills such as spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Some students’ thoughts move [...]