Web Development Trainers’ Training

The Trainers’ Training for Web Development was held in Batangas State University on October 8-12, 2007. The College representative is Mr. Thaddeus D. Carreon. The training was all about the development of a website using Joomla CMS.

The accommodation was very good, as well as the laboratory where the training was conducted. The training was mostly on using Joomla since the trainor was more of a technical expert than a trainor of would-be trainors. The methodology of training a teacher and a student together was not discussed.

Sustainability Planning Workshop Roll Out Peninsula State University, Balanga, Bataan. The participating host SUCs were th

Training Report. The roll out for the Sustainability Planning was held in Bataan e Sorsogon State College (SSC), Bicol University (BU), Batangas State University (BatSU), Central Luzon State University (CLSU), and the major host or cluster leader is the Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU). The affair was very successful as shown by the attendance, participation, and outputs presented.

Lecture 1 was handled by CLSU (Mr. Theody Sayco) on the business models; Lecture 2 by SSC (Ms. Maritess Carreon) on Linking the School and its Community; Lecture 3 by BPSU (Ms. Ma. Luisa Roque) on Business Planning Theories and Concepts; and Lecture 4 on Monitoring and Evaluation by BU (Mr Erwin Rayel). Dr. Amelia Dorosan of BU also gave examples of telecenters abroad. Workshops were facilitated very well as supported by the output produced by the participants. Some even worked long before the 9:00 AM-5:00 PM session is over, just to finish and submit the required output for the business plan.

The CeC model chosen were also customized to the PHS’ community stakeholders. Facilitation of this workshop was jointly done by the above-mentioned member SUCs.
Photographs
Workshop 1-Perceived Community needs & their possible solution



































Workshop 3 –Business Model

Above: eSkwela Model (MCarreon)
Left: Telecenter Model(ADorosan)
Workshop 2 – Financial plan






































Above-SSC PHS participants discussing their learning and what question to ask in the “cabbage” activity;



















Left: an ice-breaker
Below: San Jacinto principal answering /sharing his learning





























Above: PTCA representatives Above: DepEd representative from Sorsogon City

Below: LGU representatives Below: SUC Team members
Sorsogon PHS participants


























Behind the Scenes

Who's behind it all?

One may ask, how did Sorsogon State College become a partner of Commission on Information and Communication technologyICT in its ischools project?

It all started from Commission on Information and Communication Technology’s simple letter which invited the Information and Communications Technology Coordinators to attend an orientation. It was a correspondence with vague agenda. The SSC, with a supportive president, sent the school’s ICT Director.

Mrs. Maritess Carreon, Thess, to her friends was designated as the ICT Director, with qualifications of a master’s degree in IT earned from The University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. Although very young at the age of 34, her two kids are already both high school students in the Philippine Science High School. This gave her more time to devote attention to the duties and responsibilities of the position plus the good fortune of working with her husband in the same office. With academic and behavioral characteristics that fit her to the position, she followed suit.

Coming from the southern tip of Luzon, it took her lots of guts and energy to be at the venue on time. Confusion on the bus’ departure time forced her to travel in a single motorcycle. It was a one-hour ride with one of her arms used to hug the driver, who luckily happened to be her husband, and the other arm to keep a tight grip of her luggage. They hoped to catch the bus in its next stop, fifty nine kilometers away from their origin. With luck and no luck, the bus continued to its destination without her, but another bus got her in.
Despite those problems, the following day, she was able to arrive safely and successfully at the venue. Out of more than 60 state universities and colleges, 25 submitted attendance of participation to the CICT’s letter. She finally met the other representatives of the 24 SUCs in the City of Tagaytay. Had it not been to her initiative to push through the travel after missing the bus, SSC would not be a partner of CICT in the project.

Mam Thess was designated as the SSC’s coordinator to the CICT’s ischools project since the orientation in Tagaytay. She assigned particular fellow faculty members from the school to compose the team of SSC to work in the project. Series of trainings were attended by the team which was expected to continue for the next three years. The team from SSC worked fine with a coordinator like Mam Thess.

SSC ischools Project Team

Project Director: Dr. Antonio E. Fuentes
Project Manager:Mrs. Maritess D. Carreon
Area Coordinators: Mrs. Leony Vinluan
Mr. Jhonner Ricafort
Project Writer: Mrs. Sherill A. Gilbas
Elecrical/Network specialist: Mr. Thaddeus D. Carreon
Network Assistant:Mr. Geric Legaspi
Training Manager: Mrs. Beatriz Guarte
Teacher Training Coordinator: Miss Melanie Lorica
Trainors/ICDL passers:
Mr. Roberto Guides Mr.Mark Anthony Dipad
Mr. Thaddeus Carreon Mr.Rey Rodrigueza
Mrs.Clarissa Ramirez
Laboratory Assistants:
Mr. Ruel Grafia Mr. Geric Legaspi
Mr. Ilden Manere Mr. Santiago Santiago
Mr. Felix Galias Mr. Nicolas Landeza

SSC partners with CICT in ischools

The Sorsogon State College will assist eight public high schools in Masbate and Sorsogon as recipients of the ischools project 07 of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology.
SSC joined with the CICT in integrating information communication technology in the curriculum to bridge the digital divide of the country. There are 25 State universities and colleges to assist in the implementation of the project to 320 recipient public high schools nationwide.
The ischools is one of the flagship projects of CICT aims to incorporate ICT in education by providing equipment and trainings.
The equipment includes:
· 21 -computer units
· 3 in 1 printer
· 1 LCD projector
· 2 AC Units
The trainings include:
· CILC for teachers
· Lab mgt for iSchool Lab managers
· Web dev’t
· Library mgt
· Sustainability planning
The project started during a briefing with the ICT Coordinators of the SUCs on July 23-26, 2007 in Tagaytay City. The 25 participants who attended the project briefing were automatically assigned as project coordinators. The project will last until 2010.
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Other stories that can still be written:

- MOA signed between the SSC and CICT
- 8 Schools in Sorsogon and Masbate as ischools Project Recipients
- SSC ischools Project Team Conducted Community Mobilization
- Masbate and Sorsogon Stakeholders Attended Sustainability Planning Workshop

8 Recipient public high schools

Masbate
San Jacinto National High School- San Jacinto Masbate
Milagros National High School- Milagros, Masbate
Palanas National Agriculture High School- palanas, Masbate
Matagangtang National High School- Placer, Masbate

Sorsogon

San Francisco National High School- Bulan, Sorsogon
Juban National High School- Juban, Sorsogon
Bulacao National High School- Gubat, Sorsogon
Celestino G. Tabuena Memorial National High school- Sorsogon City
Sorsogon state Collegeg Laboratory High School - Sorsogon City