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WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE AN ICT STUDENT

KANNAWIDAN: THE YLOCOS FESTIVAL

MY DREAM, MY FUTURE

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WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE AN ICT STUDENT

12:37 AM |

ICT can be beneficial to the world with computers to help students and teachers in their education. It benefits students because it can help them type up work quickly e.g. long essays. It gives them confidence on their vocabulary and if they did a mistake at the beginning when handwritten they don't have to write up the whole essay again, making their presentation of work low rated. It helps the teachers so they don't have that much of work to do. They benefit from this because they can have more free time without complaining, and planning lessons can be time consumed as well, e.g. if all the work and tests were programmed on a system the teachers will have a hassle free life and they wouldn't even have to waste time on marking papers because the system will print out the results for them.
CTs can and will empower teachers and learners, transforming teaching and learning processes from being highly teacher-dominated to student-centered, and that this transformation will result in increased learning gains for students, creating and allowing for opportunities for learners to develop their creativity, problem-solving abilities, informational reasoning skills, communication skills, and other higher-order thinking skills. However, there are currently very limited, unequivocally compelling data to support this belief.

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KANNAWIDAN: THE YLOCOS FESTIVAL

12:28 AM |

Now on its 5th year, the Kannawidan Ylocos Festival had already established its identity as the prime festival of the province. The festival was launched in 2008 under the leadership of then Governor Deogracias Victor B. Savellano to commemorate the 190th foundation day of Ilocos Sur as separate province through the approval of a Spanish Royal Decree on February 2, 1818.

“Through this “Kannawidan Ylocos Festival, we are preserving and sustaining our old traditions, attractive products and practices as we are also promoting our tourism industry,” Savellano said.

According to Governor Luis Chavit Singson, the province has a rich heritage and unique cultures that need to be preserved for the next generations. However, many of these traditions, songs, dances and other Ilocano cultures were not already familiar to the younger generations due to the influence of the television, computer and internet.

“But, through our Kannawidan Ylocos Festival, these traditions, customs and cultures are revived to become more entertaining to give more fun and attractions to the visiting tourists in the province,” Singson said.

“Through our Kannawidan Ylocos Festival, which is the official annual festival of the province our tourism industry was enhanced and helped boost the demand of our products, more job opportunities and livelihood opportunities were crated and more income for our people were generated,” he added.

The 2012 Kannawidan Ylocos Festival opened with a concelebrated mass held at the St. Paul Metropolitan Cathedral followed by a procession of the patron saints of the 40 parishes including the images of Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary around the province’s capital city in the afternoon of on January 29. .

Reverend Father Roque Reyes, who officiated the mass, said that the mass and the procession were the acts of thanksgiving to the God almighty for the blessings received by the province and the exhibition of the strong religious belief of the Ilocano families.

After the procession, a dinner for all was enjoined to all bystanders, tourists and visitors at Plaza Salcedo followed by fireworks display to signify the formal start of the different events of the weeklong festival.

On same night, the members of the Bayanihan Dance Company entertained the Ilocanos with their world class performance of the Beauty of the Philippines through dances, music and sounds. Their graceful movements and excellent rendition of songs and playing the indigenous musical instruments drew attractions from the crowd.

On the following day, a traditional opening ritual was performed by the students of the Ilocos Sur Special High School for Culture and the Arts in Suyo, Ilocos Sur. Vice Governor Savellano and the officials of the Department of Education Division of Ilocos Sur signified the start of the different contests for elementary and high school students. These include traditional tribal rituals, choir and glee club competition, marching band contest, traditional music ensemble, dance drama, traditional and folk dances, contemporary dance competition and street dancing showdown. These events aimed to encourage young Ilocanos to learn these indigenous songs and dances for sustainability and preservation.

Partuat ken Patanor Trade and Agri Fair also opened on the same day. Officials from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) headed by Thelma Dumpit Murillo graced the occasion.

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MY DREAM, MY FUTURE

11:47 PM |

           “The world is flat” so there are many reasons for people to consider that the world is more and more exciting, comfortable, interesting in the future. But in my own opinion, the future will be more firghtening than it is exciting. Because of the following reasons.
             Firstly, because of developing of technology, economics, the increasing of population therefore humanrace will need more the natural resource and certainly, we have to speed up the exploitative actions. As a result, that resource will come into exhaution because everything has its limit and in the future, I think the next generation will be harder to live and exist. Besides the above consequence, the effect of the uncontrolled exploitation is being the reason of the Act of God as flood, mudslide, floodside etc., which causes many disasters for the living of people allover the world. For example, the uncontrolled exploitation to the watershed in the North-West areas of Vietnam has caused many the floodslide, mudslide and many people killed by this disasters.
Secondly, the development of economics as well as the industrialization, mordenizations in the developing countries will more and more form many the urban zone, new cities, manufactures, industrial zones. Besides the consequence of improving the living standard for many people, they will also lead the world to the hardship such as house-glass effect, environmental pollution, water pollution, the global warming etc,. Especially, these phenomenons are impacting on the world gradually and we can not feel or see it overnight so it seems to be the world have not had the specific solutions to solve them absolutely so far. Obviously, the above “heritages” that we leave over, are too heavy for our next generation in the future to face.
          Thirdly, the conflict of the civilization has become seriously, especially the conflict between the Western and the Islam. The terroris attacks which the extreme Islam forces make on the tourism island Bali in Indonesia, the Trade World Center in New York America, for example, were the typical evidences for this conflict. This not only will divide the world into the opposite systems but also will cause the un-stable life for people in the countries.

In my eyes, the future is more frightenning than it is exciting. Everytime I come back my homeland and stretch my vision out on the fields and landscape, just only dream arising in my mind: The world, please do not change.

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Reflection: 3rd Grading

4:30 AM |

It seems that yesterday was just like the first day of our classes but now its the end of the second grading and I observed that nothing is improving to me. But my knowledge in tags were increased because of our teacher. and I were able to make an activities by applying the tags we learned and in the help of our teacher and I hope that my grammar in english improve because of publishing my drafts about the topics that our teacher gave to us.

For this quarter I have encounter many problems and challenges for our subject ICT-IV because sometimes I were not able to pass our drafts because of lock of time and sometimes I were not able to finish the activities that our teacher given us because of lock of time also. But I enjoy making activities in the notepad that our teacher instructed us to do there and I were amaze to the result of it in the tags that we apply and I am amaze to the result of it because it was so beautiful. For this quarter no so much quizzes an thanks God.

I was able to address all this challenges by listening to the instructions what our teacher told us and performing it well and follow all the steps that our teacher given us. was able also to submit all our projects and requirements because although our project is a group project I think I contribute also because I am helping my group mates.

Moving on I will keep moving forward to our subject ICT-IV and in the next quarters I will be more serious to my studies and this will be my prioritized and I will be more creative to my activities so I can overcome all my mistakes for the past and so that I will not commit mistake and I will double my effort and I will do all my best to my studies.

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NEW YEAR !! NEW ME !!

3:25 AM |

Happy New Year to all of us and every one of us may want to change in this new year but not for worst but for better but to change our self is not that easy like changing our cloths but it takes us maybe months or even it takes as also years of it. All of us is setting a new years resolution to follow but it was always not success.

Every year I am setting my new years resolution but I am always breaking it. For this year I want to change my bad attitudes and habits, I will stop teasing my classmates because some of my classmates may hate me because of it and I am also hurting there feeling, I will saved money from my allowance because I want to save also money for me so that I have money to spent when need it, I will lessen also using of computers specially when its not important and I will just use computers when I have home works and projects, and I will listen when our teachers are discussing our lessons so that I will not get a low score when we have a test.

And all of this is my new years resolution and I hope that I will not break it because it for my own good also.

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"KEEPING IN MIND OUR MOTHER TONGUE"

3:58 AM |

Every country has their own culture, belief and most of all their own identity, and our identity is our own language, even also us Filipino has our language and also local languages. As an Ilocano we are proud to use our own dialect or language Iloco.

Imagine us if we do not have a language or dialect to use in communicating to others. It’s good to all of us that we have our foreign language, in this way it is easy for us to communicate to other nations but in this way also we are forgetting our own local languages and we get this language to our ancestral grand grandfathers maybe centuries ago and it is older than us and it is still alive until now and we most give our local languages importance and respect and we must put this into our mind so that it will be not thrown away like a trash. It is easier for us also to talk and to expressed our feeling and thought in our own dialect because we already master the words into it.

It is good that we have a foreign language but we must remember also that we have our own dialect to be use.

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ESSENCE OF CHRISTMAS

9:58 PM |

The cold breeze of air is coming to you, bright and colorful Christmas light has lighten the streets, I can hear group of children caroling in the street, Oh it is December and it is already Christmas.

Different country have there different ways and traditions in celebrating Christmas but I can say that we Filipinos is the best and has the longest season of celebrating Christmas. Christmas is the season were we celebrate the birth of our savior Jesus Christ is 12 midnight of December 25, we Filipinos celebrate this season with our complete whole family with the delicious food in our tables and exchanging of gifts during 12 midnight, but the foods and gifts doesn’t matter because what more important and the true essence of this event is the love for all the people surrounds us and the peace that is running in our heart. In this day’s the things that will brings us true happiness is when we celebrate Christmas with the people that is important and specially the people that you love, this will bring us an eternal happiness in our life.

The material things that we are giving to the person that we loves is not really what makes them happy but what really makes them happy is the love that we are giving to them.

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EQUAL RIGHTS ! ! EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES ! !

5:07 PM |

God created us as a human, God created us with equal rights and equal opportunities, all of us living in this planet deserves those rights that we should.

We cannot deny that we are now living in equal right, full of arguments and discriminated planet, wealthy man control our planet with their influenced and money, they are rolling us with their powerful hands. In our society now, once a man is wealthy he or she was respected by rich or poor person who needs money. But the thing that really should respect is the dignity of a person. But these equal rights and equal opportunities deserves all of us rich man or poor man.

All of us really deserves this basic rights that what God give us these our lives.

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WHAT DIFFERENCE CAN WE MAKE?......

4:54 PM |

All of us can start a change in any thing if we want, we have the abilities to change a thing not for worst but for better purposes.

In our community I can contribute a good things to the teenager who are just staying and not doing anything in their house before other can influenced them bad things like smoking drinking alcohols and drugs I will inform them the bad effects of those things in our body, so that they will be protected to those drugs and others I will introduced to them a way to how there mind and body to be busy in an activities like joining into a sports, joining into religious activities and entering into a school. In this ways the number of teenagers who are just staying in there baranggay will be lessen and they will be away to those bad influence in there surroundings.If this will be successfull it will gonna be a big change in our communities.

There is really a saying that action speaks louder than voice. Is it true that all of us can make a change in our own ways.

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CLIMATE CHANGE

5:15 PM |

This now a days our climate is not stable, many natural phenomena is occuring unexpected. Our weather forecast cannot predict the thyphoon and hurricanes that is striking to our country.

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statisctical distribution of weather pattern over periods ranging from decades to millions of year.Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occuring: loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves. Scientists have high confidence that global temperatures will continue to rise for decades to come, largely due to greenhouse gasses produced by human activities.The potential future effects of global climate change include more frequent wildfires, longer periods of drought in some regions and an increase in the number, duration and intensity of tropical storms.

his change in our climate is a man made, this is also our fault because of our careless in doing illegal activities like burning fossil fuels deforestation, we are the one also who are affected in this activities and when nature revenge to us it doubles the affect what we do to it. Let us help each one another to stop and prevent climate change.

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Reflection: 2nd Grading

6:21 AM |

It seems that yesterday was just like the first day of our classes but now its the end of the second grading and I observed that nothing is improving to me.

In this quarter I learned how to use the notepad and I were able to make an activities there by applying the tags we learned and I learned all oh those by the help of our teacher. I enjoy also making activities in the notepad that our teacher instructed us to do there and I were amaze to the result of it in the tags that we apply and I am amaze to the result of it because it was so beautiful. In this quarter also there were no a lot of quizzes because what we do in this quarter was just all activities to the notepad.

I was able to address all this challenges by listening to the instructions what our teacher told us and performing it well and follow all the steps that our teacher given us. In this quarter also I was able to pass our projects and requirements in all of our subject in time.

Moving on I will keep moving forward to our subject ICT-IV and in the next quarters I will be more serious to my studies and this will be my prioritized and I will be more creative to my activities so I can overcome all my mistakes for the past and so that I will not commit mistake and I will double my effort and I will do all my best to my studies.

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"PROMOTING DIGITAL LITERACY THROUGH ENGLISH PROFICIENCY"

5:51 PM |

This now a days, we are now living in a modern and civilized world,as we go on to our journey in life, there are also new technologies, medicines and other gadgets that was invented that can make our life easier and quicker, but not all those technologies that was invented was just not for our life only but there are also other use of it.

In this now new world there were also new things that was invented to improve and enhanced our English language and our literacy and literacy is the ability to read and write so if we can enhanced this two abilities and widen our imagination we may create a new story of our life. In order to enhanced this abilities, there is the internet and browse it to read stories that we did not read yet and in the help of internet we can read stories that created decades or centuries ago and these materials may help us in writing essays and poems because in reading you can picked beautiful word or sentence that is beautiful to hear that makes our writing beautiful, and now if we fully develop this what we called literacy and there is the time that our proficiency will come out and the meaning of proficiency or proficient is skilled and we are now capable, adequate or with enough skill or knowledge in what we are doing and thanks to these new technologies because it help us to improve our abilities.

Is it really true that our technologies help us makes our life easier and not only to our life but also to different field and aspects.

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CHEMERGY: CHEMISTRY AND SCIENCE CLUB IN SYNERGY

3:59 AM |

Now a days there are many new technologies, medicines and others made by our chemist and scientist that may help our life make easier and quicker. Synergy, in general, may be defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable.

there are new objects that made by our chemist and scientist, they do not stop to discover new things for us that can be usefull for us in our daily living. This new things was discovered maybe usefull to us because of the benefit that we get to this materials or object, these now new inventions may lead us to a better and modern world. But this new things was invented can also be harmful to us because of some improper using or abusing it and this things maybe dangerous because of the chemicals mix to it that can cause bad to our body and may kill us also.

But even we are not scientist or chemist we can still do a lot of things that is beneficial to us and we are the one also who is building our own future and we should not trust all the new things around us because we are not sure if this things are dangerous or safe. But we can make a better nation if all of us has a unity.

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MY SUPER TEACHER

6:16 PM |

Hero is the one who you admire because of the things he or she can do that others can not. Hero is the one who has super powers like super strength, flying, invisible and other incredible powers but for me there is an another meaning of what a hero is.

Imagine what a school could it be when there is no teacher. There would be no students to go to school and learn. So teacher is important to us because when we have our teacher we were able to learn and understand things easier and quicker and they are helping also there students to to reached and accomplished there goals in life. We will remember to them also with there understanding and advice for us student and of course there lectures, new lessons, quizzes, and assignments and those unforgettable moments and memories when they are giving to us there "sermon" to us during the times when we are disobedient, lazy to pass our assingments and when and when we get low scores to our quizzes and we will not forget those memories that we have.

For me the thing that makes our teacher a hero is there patience and hardwork.

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SUPER MOM

6:26 PM |

Hero is the one who you admire most because of the things he or she can do, and hero's are the persons who has super powers like super strength, flying and other powers, but for me even my hero do not have does abilities there is still a lot of things that she can do that others can't.

My Hero is my mother, she is the one who I admire most because of the things she have done to me.I admire him because of the help she gave to me when I was a baby and even now I am a teenager, she is the one who support me in my studies and she is helping me also to achieve my dreams in life. I also admire him because she love me more than to her self and I admire him also because she is the one who is helping me to solve my problems. She is like a hero to me because she is always there ready to help who are in need and the thing that makes him hero for is she never get tired in loving me that other super heroes can not do.
Even if my hero do not have power like super strength, flying and other powers, but she can help other people even she do not have super powers but she have special abilities.

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Reflection

7:26 AM |

For this quarter in our subject ICT-IV I learned the true use of internet in our life and I was also able to create an account in blogging and I learned also how to post and design my blog and I also learn how to save and publish my drafts about the topics that our teacher gave to us. Even if I am a boy scout I learn how to become ready all the time because any time our teacher can give us a test.

For this quarter I have encounter many problems and challenges for our subject ICT-IV because after our discussion will finish, our teacher is always giving a test about our discussion which this is my weakness and I am not paying attention while the discussion is going on because many things is distracting me so I were not able to concentrate.

I was able to address all this challenges by copying what our teacher discussing on the board and if we will having a test for the next day I am reviewing what I have notes in my note book and luckyly I am getting a high score and sometimes I got low but its OK at least I did not copy to my classmates but in all our quizzes even once I was not able to get a perfect score because I am lazy in reviewing our lessons. I was able also to submit all our projects and requirements and because of this projects and requirements to be passed I experienced having sleepless night and my eye bags became bigger.I am also expecting low grades not only in our subject ICT-IV but also to all my subject because I did not review all my lesson.

Moving on I will keep moving forward to our subject ICT-IV and in the next quarters I will be more serious to my studies and this will be my prioritized so I can overcome all my mistakes for the past and so that I will not commit mistake and I will double my effort and I will do all my best to my studies.

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"FIRST YEAR OF SERVICE"

5:46 PM |

The SONA or State of the Nation Address of our President Benigno S. Aquino III was held Last july 25, 2011 at the Batasan Pambansa Complex, Quezon City. Where in his SONA we may hear the accomplishment of our President after one year.

I was happy to our president because he see the problems of our country that it is facing right now and I was happy also that the number of Filipino who is suffering from poverty decreases. I'am happy also because our president is still defending the territory of our country but some of the speech of our is not good to me like in his introduction he only greet some of our president that is living like Fidel Ramos and Joseph Ejercito Estrada and he did not greet Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo that he should greet him also. I also observe that he only enumerate the problems of our country and he did not enumerate projects and solutions to solve the problem of our country. He is still saying the lines "tuwid na daan", "walang wang-wang", and "kayo ang boss ko" that it seems that he is not doing it. I also observe that his vice president Jejomar Binay is more responsible than him, and the rating of our president is higher than our president.

I know that the position of our president right now is not so easy and the problems that our country facing right now is also not easy, but from our past president in there one year of serving our country they do a lot than PNOY.

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ISULONG BREASTFEEDING, TAMA, SAPAT AT EKSKLUSIBO

6:05 PM |

          Milk is important to babies, because this is the only food on drinks that they can put to there body when they are still babies.
          Breast feeding is very important to babies and while they are still young, this breast milk helps to support the daily needs of vitamins and energy to the body. This breast milk helps baby to be stronger while they are growing. Scientist also recommend breast feeding to use to the babies because breast milk has vitamins and minerals than the commercial product of milk, breast milk also is cheaper or its free because its from the breasts of mommies and other branded milk is very expensive and some branded milks worth thousands and breast milk also is safer to drink by our babies the branded milk because some branded milk has an artificial added and some has what they call the melamine and this melamine is an ingredient in the toys and this may cause not good in our babies.
          So mommies use breastfeeding in feeding your babies than branded milk because breastfeed is healthier and safer.

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Republic Act For our President

3:37 AM |

Dear Mr. President,
Good morning Mr. President, I know that there is a lot of things for you to be done right now but I hope that you ca read this short letter from me Mr. President.
From the past years and also from our past president, we know that they not do there job properly in our country and some of our president steal the money for the who is in need and for our country and i hope that you are not like of them Mr. President. From the past years also and even now many people is still suffering from poverty and i hope that problem has a solution from you now Mr. President and also the problem of our country that is facing right now is the education, many children and teenagers are not entering the school because of money and i hope that you can help those children and teenagers to continue there studies.
That`s all for now Mr. President I hope that you understand this letter and message from me Mr. President and I hope that you can do your job to our country Mr. President.

Respectfully yours,

John Paul M. Sotelo

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