EVSU iSchools Goes Camp Blog

“I already know how to create a blog,” says Mae Jessel Montaño, a student from Granja Kalinawan National High School, Jaro, Leyte. She is one of the eight students and teachers from the iSchools benificiary schools who qualified in representing Eastern Visayas State University (EVSU) iSchools Cluster in the first Camp Blog for the iSchools Project.

Only those who passed the online assessment exam and met the basic qualifications of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) were invited to the Camp Blog. Others didn’t make it, some were over qualified but most were just right for the training.

Others who qualified are: Marissa Sadia and Rhea May Calabia, Granja Kalinawan National High School- Annex, Jaro, Leyte; Patrick Borongan, Osmeña National High School, Marabut, Eastern Samar;Ms. Pearl Macalalad, Taft National High School, Taft, Eastern Samar; Vinyl Bordios, San Isidro National High School, Northern Samar; Louie Rominez and Mhelke Claire Rominez, Makiwalo Integrated School, Mondragon, Northern Samar.

Camp Blog is a 10-day training that runs from May 18-28, 2009 at Pampanga Agricultural College in Magalang, Pampanga. Commission on Information and Communications Technology spearheaded it. Its aim is to equip a new generation of students and teachers with an appreciation of the benefits of digital learning.

On its eighth day, participants are busy finalizing their entries in their blog sites. Teachers are making lesson plans while students are compiling educational resources. All are eager to finish their assignments in time for the presentation of outputs which is scheduled on May 27, 2009.