CE-Learning

Volume 3, Issue 6 (November-December 2011)

liezlaileen@gmail.com (Liz) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:34:45 GMT

Volume 3, Issue 6 (November-December 2011)

Table of Contents

PEJ Wall: Updates on the Philippine E-Journals
CE-Learning SPOTLIGHT: Isang pagsilip sa diary ni Sinag...
The [Digital] Story of the Nativity: Reliving the First Christmas, Digitally
If you could have all the latest gadgets...

CE-Learning SPOTLIGHT: Isang pagsilip sa diary ni Sinag...

Friday, December 16, 2011

Dear Diary,

Alam mo ba dear diary, ang saya-saya ko! 10/10 ang nakuha ko sa quiz namin sa Filipino kanina! Pati ang mga kaibigan kong sina Mutya, Hara at Aya, wala ring mali! Buti

Volume 3 Issue 5 (September-October 2011)

liezlaileen@gmail.com (Liz) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:03:27 GMT

Volume 3, Issue 5 (September-October 2011)

Table of Contents

PEJ Wall
CE-Learning SPOTLIGHT: The Math World E-Quizzes through the eyes of a grateful student
Collaborative Environments: Working with peers anytime, anywhere
Mobile Phones: Learning with multimedia, games, and apps
Head on to the CLOUD: Why cloud computing for education
Augmented Reality: Things get better

CE-Learning SPOTLIGHT: The Math World E-Quizzes through the eyes of a grateful student

We had the pleasant opportunity of speaking with Kiko, Math World E‐Quizzes’ mascot and user, about his past fear of math

Volume 3, Issue 4 (July-August 2011)

liezlaileen@gmail.com (Liz) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:41:21 GMT

Volume 3, Issue 4 (July-August 2011)

Table of Contents

The E-Publishing Landscape: Revolutions and Likely Futures
EBOOKS: Enhancements and File Formats
Digital Checkout

Banner Story

The E-Publishing Landscape: Revolutions and Likely Futures

The ability to keenly anticipate change and appropriately react and gracefully adapt to it has always been valued as the necessary advantage in ensuring one’s survival and continued prosperity. And this generalization cannot be exemplified more clearly than today’s global world, heavily depending and thriving on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in its daily workings.

With literally hundreds of millions of websites online and the equally telling billions of people using the Internet and the World Wide Web on a day-to-day basis, Google becoming a verb as in the common contention “I googled it!” and books now being

Worst Case Scenario: Cramming

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:06:05 GMT

Worst Case Scenario: Cramming
by Katrina Del Rosario

While no educator in his right mind would ever write anything on cramming tips, and no decent student should rely on cramming to get by, cramming is itself a reality that all of us had to go through at some point in school. We do it when we get so flustered with conflicting schedules and whatever bizarre or surreal situations we can find ourselves inadvertently smacked right in the middle of. We all have our excuses but the end is always the same—cramming is the last line of defense against the steadily looming possibility of failing. We are warned against cramming for many reasons: the most basic is that it is unhealthy and stressful but the more important one is that it would not allow for long-term learning, hence, making all the “studying” useless in the post-school world (a.ka. real world). We do not want this. Or do you?

Passed out nightly? No, thanks!

Back to School: Helping your child through post-holiday fever

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:39:21 GMT

Back to School: Helping Your Child Through Post-Holiday Fever
by Katrina Del Rosario

Diagnosis

It’s an easily recognizable scene: The sky is clear, the garlic rice smell especially crisp… your youngster is slumped over the table or his choice of expansive furniture. It looks as if his world just ended.

“But I don’t wanna go to school!”

“On the Floor” by N. Stjerna

This is the post-holiday fever. The cause: an abrupt halt to a noticeable absence of the need to go to school (e.g., the end of summer breaks, holidays, long weekends, and those confusing class cancellations due to rains). The symptoms: constant whining, groaning, complaining, and lethargy from your child. He may also appear vacant, procrastinating schoolwork, and hanging on to activities enjoyed during the no-school time which could be anything from playing videogames,

Become a Storyteller with the Seussville Storymaker!

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:26:55 GMT

Become a Storyteller with the Seussville Storymaker!
by Katrina Del Rosario

Ever wanted to make a story but didn’t know where to start? Ever had an idea in mind that you just could not seem to verbalize? Ever had a solid story to tell but no characters to act as vessels for your sensational literary gem? Or have you ever just wanted to try to do these things?

Everybody has to start somewhere. And where else is better than with world renowned storyteller Dr. Seuss’ beloved multiverse? As the saying goes, there are no straight lines in Seussville. Going wild is the norm here!

The Seussville Storymaker intro page from www.seussville.com

The Seussville Storymaker allows a user to create his/her very own story using beloved Dr. Seuss characters: Horton and company (of the “Horton Hears a Who” fame). This means that

MATH: In the Beginning

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:39:42 GMT

MATH: In the Beginning
by Katrina Del Rosario

Many of us upon hearing the mere mention of math, cringe as if it were a death threat. But really, math itself is not the problem. It is rather the bad memories, early school trauma, and hours of frustration working with numbers and finding a solution to a difficult equation in one of our math classes that haunt us. Unfortunately, these associations end up with embitterment to the point of sorely resenting whoever it is who invented math in the first place.

Origins

In truth, math is a necessity. The earliest beginnings of math came from an instinctual need of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, whose daily lives revolved around surviving. This means knowing if you have enough bananas to keep yourself alive.

One banana, two banana, three…I get to live another day!

Online Communication Tools: Extending the Learning Hand Over and Beyond Classrooms

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:49:53 GMT

The Future of Educational Technology
Online Communication Tools: Extending the Learning Hand Over and Beyond Classrooms
by Katrina Del Rosario

Tools for remote communication, although initially looked upon with disapproval because of the distractions that they can cause to students, are now being effectively adopted to the learning system. These tools offer the potential for making it easier to go beyond the boundaries of classroom walls and connecting with peers from all over the globe for a more open and diverse learning experience.

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!

“Skyping with Kari’s Dad” by broox

Enemies of Yesterday, Friends of Today

Several online sources that were previously known to simply take the focus of students away from school work no longer are—instead, they are cleverly being utilized to serve otherwise. These are tools that make it possible for a student at his "learning moment" to promptly get

Make Beliefs Comix

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:54:08 GMT

Make Beliefs Comix
by Katrina Del Rosario

We have to admit that although all everyone needs for making comics is an active imagination, some of us could only wish that great talent comes with that great desire for creation.

It’s even harder for the readers, especially, if they can’t identify what you drew.

Well you need not worry about your wonderful, magnanimously funny story coming across to your readers: Make Beliefs Comix, an online comic-making website, is the answer to your creative dilemma!

One would say that something is easy as pie, but for your information, pie isn’t easy to make. So the great news about this site is that it is way easier than pie. It’s as easy as peeling a banana!

Step 1: Choose from the many interesting characters. New

CHED and C&E Collaborate to Promote Responsible Research Publication Through PEJ

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:06:05 GMT

CHED and C&E Collaborate to Promote Responsible Research Publication Through PEJ
by Katherine Laparan

In an effort to foster a culture of responsible research publication in the country, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and C&E Publishing, Inc. have set out to work together in disseminating relevant resources to researchers and publishers through the Philippine E-Journals (PEJ) website (www.ejournals.ph).

The collaboration between the two educational institutions was forged to address the following issues related to scholarly journal publication: quality of research outputs, visibility of journals, and access of publishers to pertinent information on academic publishing.

As a first step, CHED will release an advisory to the publishers of journals accredited in their Journal Accreditation System (JAS) and encourage them to join PEJ. C&E, in turn, will encourage their existing contributors to submit their journals for accreditation. “JAS is a mechanism through which a national standard for peer review and journal refereeing system

C&E on ICT: Harnessing the full power of technology in education

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:00:00 GMT

C&E on ICT: Harnessing the full power of technology in education
by Katherine Laparan

“E-learning is not only about technology, [but] more about pedagogy.”

This idea could not have been stressed more in the presentation of Mr. Maximo S. Gomez,executive vice president of C&E Publishing, Inc., during the Edu Quad International Conference on Technologies for Teaching and Learning hosted by the University of Santo Tomas on May 30.

Mr. Gomez talked about C&E’s e-learning initiatives as a local educational publisher and product developer. He started with a discussion on why the company decided to hop on an e-learning trail, which was more of a response to the need of the younger generation of learners for a language that they understand. As Mr. Gomez put it, “Technology is their native language, and so we need to learn how

Volume 3, Issue 3 (May-June 2011)

liezlaileen@gmail.com (Liz) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:33:40 GMT

Volume 3, Issue 3 (May-June 2011)

Table of Contents

CHED and C&E collaborate to promote responsible research publication through PEJ
C&E on ICT: Harnessing the full power of technology in education
ETV: Television for Learning
A Brief History of TV’s Invention
ETV Programming: What’s On-screen
ETV: Around the World and At Home

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CHED and C&E collaborate to promote responsible research publication through PEJ

The collaboration between the two educational institutions was forged to address the following issues related to scholarly journal publication: quality of research outputs, Read more...

Students and Effort: A Matter of Recognition and Reward

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 06:24:01 GMT

Students and Effort: A Matter of Recognition and Reward
by Katrina Del Rosario

It is universally accepted that with every action there is always a reaction (whether an equal or an opposite one), so it is generally understood that with every exertion of force, something always comes out of the other end.

Push and then…Oh magical happiness!

“The Dairy Fairy” by ansy

With students being young and bursting with energy, yet made to sit still in a confined space, it is inevitable to have their restless minds easily wander onto non-academic things. And you have probably experienced this time and again in the classroom—students just do not voluntarily exert as much effort in, say, comprehending advanced algebra as they do in doodling or daydreaming. Forget talking about benefits in the long run; the future benefits of advanced algebra are of little concern

Helping your child with test-taking

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:11:47 GMT

Helping your child with test-taking
by Katrina Del Rosario

Test-taking—it has ingrained itself in everyone’s subconscious as something that induces a magnificently terrifying combination of panic, dread, and the fight-or-flight response all in one place, all in one time.

“I’m not ready! No!”

“India Looking Shocked” by apdk

Tests are there to measure up things. At school, tests are yardsticks to see how much the students have learned and if what was learned is effectively applied. For children, it is a constant source of stress, pressure, and discomfort. Yet, performing well on tests is what defines success in the many areas of one's life. Beyond and outside school, there will always be tests: entrance exams for higher level education, tests for job applications, driver’s licenses, and so much more. The inability to do tests is a serious fallback, which has long-term adverse effects in a person's being and doing.

Back to School with DepEd

liezlaileen@gmail.com (Liz) — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:47:02 GMT

Back to School with DepEd
by Katrina Del Rosario

In preparation for the opening of classes this June, the Department of Education launches the Oplan Balik Eskwela-Information and Action Center (OBE-IAC) as a part of the OBE project.

The OBE-IAC intends to assist with individual concerns, complaints and routing mechanisms during the implementation of the OBE. Operations will last from May 30 to June 10 at the DepEd Central Office.

Photos screen captured from deped.gov.ph

According to DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro, the Oplan Balik Eskwela is to ensure smooth opening of classes so that all children are properly enrolled and in school by the start of the school year this June 6.

Other government agencies involved with the start-of-the-school-year-agenda will make up the OBE-IATF: Oplan Balik Eskwela Interagency Task Force. Agencies included are as follows: Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of National Defence (DND) Department of Interior and

Setting Your Academic Goals: A Matter of Willpower

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:30:09 GMT

Setting Your Academic Goals: A Matter of Willpower
by Katrina Del Rosario

We climb stairs for a purpose: to get to the very top.

In life, the climbing represents our actions and the top, the things we want to achieve. We do not proceed with life aimlessly; our actions should have clear goals. And once we have set goals for ourselves, we can be sure that they will guide us through the climbing and keep us on the right track—or staircase, so to speak.

Having goals is as good as knowing where we want to go. And as soon as we know it, we take action to get there. In fact, only then can we make our first step up the staircase. In other words, without clear goals, our destination is where we are—nowhere to go. Then, procrastination extends to forever.

Pictured: Procrastination
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Welcome to Mrs. P’s Magic Library!

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Thu, 26 May 2011 03:11:45 GMT

Welcome to Mrs. P’s Magic Library!
by Katrina Del Rosario

Sometimes, all of a sudden and out of the blue, we get struck by an unexpected fancy of wanting to read (it’s strange but it’s true!). But alas! There are no books in the house and the library is too far away. And when one overcomes the stubborn laziness to get there, the librarian doesn’t cut us much slack. The rigidity of most libraries (not all of them!) discourages us from the warm joys of reading, which for the most part, does not involve general discomfort. Wouldn’t you want to just lie down, prop open any book at your leisure, or much better even, have somebody read to you while you close your eyes and imagine away?

If you found yourself nodding for the past five seconds, then Mrs. P’s Library is exactly the right place for you! It’s a fun, interactive online library where you can browse Mrs. P’s online collection of books from all different genres. You can choose to read on

Helping your child with homework

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Mon, 23 May 2011 05:47:07 GMT

Helping your child with homework
by Katrina Del Rosario

The trouble that children see with homework is that it is work. At the end of the day when they finish learning new lessons, answering tests and quizzes, and doing various school activities, they look forward to only one thing—home sweet home. Because the home is the place where children get the greatest comfort, it is not hard at all to forget about homework and the assignments of the day.

It’s...It’s calling out to me...!
“Living Room” by idman

A couch spells comfort. A high-definition TV spells comfort. A cozy chair in front of a PC spells comfort, and so on. You get the peachy picture. Now compare the allure of these things to that of doing the chore and mental exertion of homework. Nobody really likes doing a ton of chores, not even

Volume 3, Issue 2 (March-April 2011)

liezlaileen@gmail.com (Liz) — Sun, 15 May 2011 22:40:40 GMT

Volume 3, Issue 2 (March-April 2011)

Table of Contents

C&E’s Educational Technology (EdTech) Division turns 2 this April!
A Message from Sir Jonell
The Pride of EdTech
- Filipino Classics
- Philippine E-Journals
- CE-Learning
Job Opportunities in EdTech
The EdTech Community

Banner Story

C&E’s Educational Technology (EdTech) Division turns 2 this April!

Born as an important precursor to C&E’s thrust to actively participate in an emerging industry of information and communications technology (ICT) in education in 2009, the Educational Technology (EdTech) Division has a lot to celebrate on its second year.

The series of exponential advancement in ICT in the past two decades prompted educators and innovators to begin finding ways and thereby formulating best practices to effectively utilize modern technologies to better the teaching and learning experiences of teachers and students.
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New Media Literacy Education: There’s always something new

kathaha@ymail.com (Katrina Del Rosario) — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:31:26 GMT

New Media Literacy Education: There’s always something new
by Katrina Del Rosario

Media has never been a stable ground; the only constant about it is that it is always changing and that it is always evolving. For years after the Internet boom in the 1990s, educators have always found themselves at loggerheads with media literacy because it was a hopeless case to integrate it with the then teaching system. That time, educators relied so much on lists and memory skills—a pre-formatted curriculum that called on students to memorize facts. Standardized tests only always called for how much of those facts students remembered without honestly developing any critical skills.

Now, how well would that system work with the Internet—where in-depth and up-to-date information are accessible with only a few clicks?

Who needs school? I have the Internet!

“Child & Laptop” by nevit