Through the program of Department of Education, sup­ ported by the Last Mile Initia­ tive Philippines and the United States AID, the school Erico T. Nograles National High School is gearing up to meet the de­ mands of making the youth to think globally through the use of computers.

Two of the school’s teachers are making waves to make their teachers aware on the impor­ tance of the use of computers. Mr.Melanio R. Florino Jr., Master Teacher to the Intel­ Teacher, and Mrs. Amelia A. Gumban, Intel­Teach and Mathematics IV Trainer, whose

expertise in making lessons in the flat world are willingly shared by them in the 5­day training last April 21­25, 2008 with the help of the newly school principal, Leo B. Asilo and Education Supervisor I/ Division Information and Com­ munications Technology Coor­ dinator Mrs. Betty L. Herceda.

The training was partici­ pated by the 9 school teachers from different subject area namely; Clemen S. Tablante (TLE/MAPEH Teacher), Ana Marie S. Beatisula (School Librarian/English I), Ador Sedillo (Mathematics II), Clarita C. Palabrica (MAPEH

II), Alma M. Siete (School’s Statistician/English I),

Teachers in the Web elearning Program

Erico T. Nograles National High School’s Webboard Training Narrative

Report

What is Webboard Training?

Webboard is an open con­ tent web project to jump start on­line learning ser­ vices in any school.

The aim is to use the Inter­ net based content and

tools to support instruction and learning.

The goal is to build on­line identity for all teachers, and for them to become self­directed learners and

quality providers of instruc­ tional content and activities inside the Internet.

It fosters on­line collabora­ tion among teachers and subject matter experts in

What is... 2

Training Program 2

Importance of the Training

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A need to toggle the use of internet

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What can the Training make?

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Trail of Training Moments

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Training Casts 5

Inside this report

The school’s sites

• www.webboard­ training.wikispaces.com

• Www.melanioflorino.wikispace s.com

• Www.remedial­instruction.

wikispaces.com

Computers are not magic, Teachers are.

Mrs. Betty L. Herceda making Open Remarks

Rosella R. Fernandez (Science IV), Belinda Apolinar (English I), Milrose Yvette B. Gultiano (Subject Coordinator­Math), and Marissa A. Perez (Curriculum Head to the First Year).

www.webboard­training.wikispaces.com

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the development of web based in­ structional presentations.

It makes the teachers transform the web as the virtual location of learning references, the medium to publish instructional guidance for learning, and the place to initiate ac­ tivities for the students to search for knowledge and continuous learning outside the physical classroom

through the Internet.

The students of these trained teachers when they graduate from school are creative and innovative, think critically, good communication and collaborate easily, have good information about media, technology and show global awareness.

What is...

Day 1: 1. eLearning Context and Instruc­ tional Design Framework 2. Internet Services to Support In­ struction and Learning 3. Open Source WebBoard Authoring ToolKit

Program of the Training

“Blogs allow a teacher to literally take their kids out in the world from classrooms anywhere in the Philippines”

Resource Speakers of the Webboard Training

Day 2 and 3 1. Build Instructional WebBoard of Learning Presentation, Activities, References and Assessment 2. Search and Evaluate Instructional Resources from the Web 3. Create Instructional Wikiboard

Day 4 and 5 1. Create on­line Practice Test 2. Create on­line Forum Space 3. Create Instructional WebBlog 4. Organize Class for WebBoard Use

Training Output: 1. Teacher On­line Identities: email address, wikiboard address, and we­ blog address 2. Three (3) published on­line subject topics.

3. Ability to to use of open source software for webboard authoring 4. Ability to use the tools and frame­ work to evaluate Internet based con­ tent resources 5. Understand the methodology to inte­ grate the Internet to support instruction and learning.

• Participant Pre­requisite: 1. Experience in preparing lesson plan of a subject matter area

2. Very good reading and compre­ hension skills in English

3. Basic knowledge of keyboard­ ing, graphical user interface and word processing

4. Participants must bring:

three (3) accomplished and written les­ son plans on any of the following subject areas: English, Math Science or from any subject using English as medium of instruc­ tion. Three (3) sets of prepared quizzes. (10 items per quiz) of the following subject areas: English, Math, Science or from any subject using English as medium of in­ struction.

Training Resource Requirements: 1. Computer Laboratory with Internet connection (to be provided by the training sponsor)

2. Mozilla Firefox and Internet Ex­ plorer Browser with java and macro­ media flash plug­in (to be provided by the training sponsor)

3. Webboard Open Source Software Authoring ToolKit (to be provided by facilitator) 4. Create On­line Identities

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“ School from the far flung area uses internet as form of educational enhancements for the

teachers and the students.”, said Leo B. Asilo, newly ETNNHS School Principal.

Techonology empowers the teachers to engage the students to learn inside the internet anytime and in any place.

Education blogs such as in the Wikis­ paces is a simple gateway to invite students to ward self­directed learner.

The teacher is provided with simple jumpstarting tools and methodology to integrate to elearning assets of internet in

teaching and learning within the context of DepEd defined learning competency stan­ dard.

The training tasks include designing an elearning portal for teachers to place his/ her lesssons including instructions, presen­ tation of the lessons, rubrics and assess­ ment. This portal will be called as Web­ board or Flat Classroom of the teacher and students.

It has all the ingredients of what is inside discussion; powerpoint presentation, teacher making dis­ cussion in a video format, students can assess his/her learning ,submit directly the test and know his/her

score.

Students who have com­ puters and physically absent in school can easily view the

The Webboard training made the teachers realized that there is more rooms of learning inside the internet.

Each of the education portals of the teachers is served as venue of what is and would be happening inside the class­ room of the teachers.

lesson of the teacher using internet connec­ tion, and can schedule for live conference with the teacher too.

Parents and student too can access the grading system of the teacher from a in­ structor’s database.

Parents are welcome to view the site, and can directly participate in an schedule meeting in the net.

What can the Training make for the students?

One of the school’s source of elearning know­how.

Importance of the Training

Reading, writing and arithmetic of our forefathers are no longer enough for a child to survive in this computer aged genera­ tion.

To mean quality, the use of computers with internet are the voice shout of the

many and that will cost ordinary persons additional expense.

Computer with internet connection can bring students in the public schools same as in the private step to the students in the private.

Today’s school leaders face serious dilemma: Communities expect their gradu­ ates to be ready to thrive in the Digital age, but the 21st century skills required for such success are not well­defined. Those skills are included in many school’s learning standard or to be exact only few schools embraced the use of computers due to its high cost and maintenance.

But the prize of education is not free.

A need to toggle the use of internet in the classroom

The current era of education as the use of computers with internet connection will have a positive impact on students only if we embrace that innovations. We have to make the student think of tomorrows and not of yesterday’s world.

ETNNHS School Principal

“We need to make our students knowl­ edgeable specially on the use of pc’s”

…...Leo B. Asilo School Principal

Trail of Training Moments

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The school’s Webboard is a Webblog . It is synonymous to education on learning online. It is associated with Advanced Learning Technology (ALT), which deals with technologies and associated methodologies in learning using networked/ and or multimedia technologies.

We use tools in the net like Zoho, Youtube, Slideshare, Hot­ chalk, Google.net, Wikispaces, Thinkfree , Blogger and Friend­ ster to deliver education anytime , anywhere for the students, parents and communities.

We believe that there is no gap on learning between the public and private schools when it comes to the use of digital education.

We believe that education is for all.

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Webboard Training

The Training Casts

This narrative report is submitted by

MELANIO R. FLORINO JR

Master Teacher to Intel Teach/Trainer

Noted

LEO B. ASILO

School Principal

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