The eSkwela Project

The Establishment of Community e-Learning Centers for the Out-of-School Youth in Urban Areas

The eSkwela Project, a word play on the Filipino equivalent of "school", is a flagship project of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), through its Human Capital Development Group (HCDG), that is envisioned to provide ICT-enhanced educational opportunities for Filipino out-of-school-youth and adults. The initiative responds directly to a national development priority and will bring e-learning opportunities and ICT for learning resources to mobile teachers / instructional managers and out-of-school learners in the Philippines in an exciting, innovative, and locally meaningful way.

Under this project, community-based e-Learning Centers or eSkwelas will be established in major centers around the country to conduct ICT-enhanced alternative education programs for out-of-school youth and adults. These centers will serve as venues where out-of-school learners and other community members can learn new skills and competencies, review for the Accreditation and Equivalency (A&E) Exam of the DepEd-Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS), and/or help prepare OSYs to rejoin the formal school system.

For those who are interested and willing to enrol, here are the Present Pilot Sites
1. eSkwela QUEZON CITY - Telecommunications Office Bldg.Roces Ave., Quezon City M.M. Philipipnes
E-mail: yhene02@yahoo.com

2. eSkwela SAN JOSE DEL MONTE - 2/F Muzon Public Market Pabahay 2000, Brgy. Muzon City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan, Philippines.
E-mail: mr_hann08@yahoo.com

3. eSkwela CEBU - 2/F ALS Building Tejero Elementary School, M.J. Cuenco Ave., Cebu City
E-mail: rebesccaouano@yahoo.com

4. eSkwela CAGAYAN DE ORO - DepEd Division Office Bldg. Division of Cagayan de Oro City, Yakapin St. corner Velez St. Cagayan de Oro City
E-mail: ecdoals@yahoo.com


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New technology for the differently-able

New technology for the differently-able
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY


MANILA (PNA) -– With a vision to help the visually-impaired, The Philippine Daisy Network (PDN) recently introduced Daisy or Digital Accessible Information System, an innovative and ideal reading system that can be readily available to the differently-able.

DAISY said, “the only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision”.

DAISY was originally developed for people who are unable to read due to disability but it is also designed to benefit all readers including the mainstream population.

Documents that conform to the DAISY standard offer a reading experience that includes synchronized audio and structured text along with images. It supports traditional presentation of images and text but at the same time goes beyond this flat approach to include human narration, powerful navigation, and potential for adding video and animation.

DAISY is expected to start major developments in the information and communication technology that can be beneficial even to publishers, librarians, learning institutions and government and non-government sectors.

The PDN is composed of the Adaptive Technology for Rehabilitation, Integration and Empowerment of the Visually Impaired, Resources for the Blind, National Library of the Philippines, National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons and the Philippine Printing House for the Blind of the Department of Education (DepEd). (PNA)
More on http://www.gov.ph/news/?i=19399

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Teachers' exam to be given twice a year

The Professional Regulation Commission anounced that the Licensure Examination for Teacher (LET) will now be conducted twice a year starting 2008..

The 1st examination will be held on April 6, 2008 while the second examination will be on September 28, 2008.

Test Centers are as follows:
Manilia, Baguio City, Cagayan de Oro City, Cebu City, Davao City, Iloilo City, Legaspi City, Lucena City, Tacloban City, Tuguegaro City, Zamboanga City, and Hong Kong.

Deadline in filing application is on January 31, 2008. Those qualified and interested applicants to take April 2008 examination are enjoined to file their application starting November 5, 2007

More on www.philstar.com

Unique Power of Pinoy!

Sinag is the Philippine’s first solar-powered car and amazingly, this vehicle was created through the combined efforts of professors and students one of the country’s universities. Plans for this vehicle include using it to promote alternative sources of energy.

One member of the team behind this creation says, “This first Philippine entry to the annual solar car racing event is a fine example of how the country can rise and stand with the rest of the world in meeting such a challenge, which requires superior technology and skill.”

One can say that this vehicle looks like a pair of wings that has been set out on wheels. The top part of the vehicle is covered with solar cells which would be absorbing and converting the rays of the sun into usable power. The whole top surface measures around six square meters.

Because this car has been made for racing, the creators used carbon fiber as well as Nomex, or aramid fiber, so as to keep the vehicle light. In fact, this solar-powered vehicle only weighs 150 kilograms.

Discipline is the hope of our country

You can see in this video that even a beast can turn into best,only in the Philippine were you can find inmate that can perform group dancing, with a total number of 1588 inmate, the great things here is ofcourse the power of the leader to convince and motivate this people to joined the group. For sure its all about Disciplne huh!

Take a glimpse on it...

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Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Road Test

By Harry Metcalfe

This car is already the stuff of legend. In the early days of its development, so one of the stories goes, the engineers were struggling to get the needed power from the engine. So they asked for a meeting with Dr. Ferdinan Piech of parent company VW/Audi and suggested it might be easier to launch the Veyron with 700 to 800 hp and work up to 1000 hp with later derivatives, once they'd figured out how to do it. Piech fixed them with the famous deathrays, dismissed their suggestion and ordered them out, telling them not to return until the power figure started with a one.

But the horsepower isn't the only extraordinary statistic, of course. On the evening before our test drive, we'd only been in Sicily for a couple of hours, and I was already suffering from number fatigue.

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