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Where Have All The Teachers Gone?

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

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 [...]

Teens and Blogs

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

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 [...]

Teacher Bloggers

Monday, November 28th, 2005

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 [...]

LA COMPUTADORA

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

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 [...]

Pinoys text petitions, prayers

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Filipinos pray for love, money via text messages.
Salvation is now just a text message away for Filipinos.
Prayers for lotto wins, jobs in Canada and even boyfriends have been flooding a Philippine Catholic Church project allowing Filipinos to send their petitions via text messages from their cellular phones.
The petitions sent to the “Text Mary” project are [...]

Chitika releases sample keywords for ads

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

If you display Chitika ads in your site, check this link for a catalogue on keywords you can use. The keywords will help you target the type of ads that will be displayed in your blog. If you’re still not using Chitika, apply for an account in their home page. If you still haven’t heard [...]

Automating publication of author profiles in WordPress

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

In group blogs, author profiles are important so that readers can have additional information on the contributor of the article. In WordPress, the publication of the author’s profile can be automated through the <?php the_author_description(); ?> tag.

Serving the Bisaya Community of Bloggers

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

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 [...]

High-tech Cheating Comes to High Schools

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

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 [...]

My First PODCAST Is Now Up!

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

“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: [...]