Of Jerks & Tarsiers

WEB 2.0 TRYOUT

2010-08-19T11:32:00.000-07:00

WEB 2.0 TRYOUT

The Web 2.0 Tryout is a game intended for you to experience and to navigate through the different web 2.0 platforms. You are supposed to form a group of 4 or 5 members. You have to choose a leader.

The Web 2.0 Tryout will have two objectives. First is to gather as much correct information or facts as asked in the first round of the game. Second objective is for you to choose a web 2.0 tool & use it to tell your feedback and thoughts on the exercise given.

BEFORE YOU CAN START: The leader has to register an account in Twitter. Find and follow---queenandroid .

Queenandroid will issue the things that you have to do. You have to consistently monitor her tweets. If she gives an instruction, you follow it.

ROUND 1: THE TREASURE HUNT

There will be around 8 treasures at the click of your mouse. You have to gather at least 6 treasures including Treasure 1 in a form of correct information. The group may decide to go over finding the different treasures at a time or distribute the search of the treasures to the members. Everyone is encouraged to participate. Make sure to follow the instructions accordingly to find the correct information. Note down or type the treasure answers (correct information). You will have to send these to queenandroid later.

Score points of the treasures:

Treasure 1 – 40 pts

Treasures 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 – 10pts each

Treasure 4 – 20 pts

Treasure 8 – 20 pts

TREASURE 1: Read the blogpost about Benjamin Franklin and Deliberate Practice. -

http://www.anecdote.com.au/archives/2010/08/benjamin-frankl.html

Answer the following:

1. Who gave Ben an assessment on his writing that influenced him to improve his writing?
2. To whom did Ben debated about whether women should be educated or not?
3. To improve his vocabulary, Ben translated his writing from prose to ______.
4. Ben Franklin improved so much through learning by ________.

TREASURE 3: What is being described in this blog - http://mobilemartha.blogspot.com/2010/08/emblem-of-modern-filipino-culture_18.html

the wisdom of GURU

2007-06-20T18:25:00.000-07:00

if you don't know the answer to a question,

ask the question to your students.

select the best answer among all the answers

and make it the ANSWER to the question.

Para Sa Akin

2007-06-20T18:17:00.000-07:00

by Sitti

Kung ika’y magiging akin
Di ka na muling luluha pa
Pangakong di ka lolokohin
Ng puso kong nagmamahal

Kung ako ay papalarin
Na ako’y iyong mahal na rin
Pangakong ikaw lang ang iibigin
Magpakailanman

[chorus]

Di kita pipilitin
Sundin mo pang iyong damdamin
Hayaan nalang tumibok ang puso mo
Para sa akin

Kung ako ay mamalasin
At mayron ka nang ibang mahal
Ngunit patuloy ang aking pagibig
Magpakailanman

[repeat chorus]

Kung ako ay papalarin
Na ako’y iyong mahal na rin
Pangakong ikaw lang ang iibigin
Magpakailanman

[repeat chorus 2x]

Para sa akin

The Concept of "Urbanidad"

2007-06-17T18:42:00.000-07:00

by mavic pineda

"Urbanidad" is a Filipino term for urban living. The concept is not well understood by a lot of people, even by my students. Urban living is an offshoot of city living. There are certain things you do in the city and yet it's not present in the province or in the rural or farm areas.

You should learn how to stand in line or queue. In the farm, there are no lines. Life is slow and population is dense. Everybody knows everyone. In the city, when you wait for the bus or the jeepney ride, there is a line. When you get to drink in the drinking fountain, there is a line. When you need to make a transaction in the ATM machine, especially during paydays, there's a line. Urban dwellers should know how to respect this practice of standing in line.

You don't throw your litter anywhere. In the farm or the mountains, when you throw a corn husk or banana peel, it can become a soil fertilizer. But not in the city. A piece of litter can cause flood or even accident to other people.

You dress properly for the occasion. A lot of city people lose sight of this. With the fad of flip-flops, young and old people alike forget that there's a place to where rubber, flip-flop slippers. You don't go to a funeral or a fine dining restaurant wearing slippers. From elementary to high school, you don't go to school wearing slippers. So why now go to the university wearing slippers, sharing the awful smell of your feet with other people. You go to the university to become prepared to becoming professionals. And wearing flip-flops or slippers is not part of the preparation.

Bayani Fernando, the current MMDA Chairman, likewise promotes the idea of urbanidad among our fellowmen. You don't pee anywhere. You don't get off the bus or the jeepney anywhere. You don't go out of your house to buy to the nearest sari-sari store not wearing a shirt or wearing your bedroom clothes. So students should not be scarce in what they wear when they go to the university. Some of the students nowadays seem to make the school an extension of their bedroom.

There are a lot of other things that we should learn about urbanidad--some for motorists, some for those using their cellphones or basically, it's how a city dweller should respect other people and its surroundings. After all, we all want to have a better place to live in..

The Spirit of Gift Giving During Christmas Time

2004-12-29T18:26:00.000-08:00

Most of the homilies during Christmas time will emphasize that the spirit of giving during Christmas time is not on the material things but in the spirit of Christ being shared to mankind the same way we have to prepare ourselves, our souls, our families for His coming.. I don't have disagreements to that. But I have something to add to that..

This is probably the time in the year when most of us who are working hard are able to receive a few extra money or bonuses that allow us to really share something nice to our families. It is the time when we attempt (sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don't or sometimes we just plan things but unable to get the gift we want because of budget constraint) to really give something nice to our dear ones or close friends and special relatives-- a guitar for a daughter, The Godfather DVD set (regardless if pirated) for lolo, a spongebob toy perhaps for the little boy etc.

This is also the time when we get to acquaint again ourselves with our inaanaks--young and old, mingle with our neighbors and community acquaintances, or even hold reunions with old colleagues or classmates. The giving of gifts will always be part of these occasions.

Christmas also gives us the chance to to thank these unpopular heroes in our lives-- the janitors, the office guards, the mailman, the garbage collecor or even the traffice enforcer in our village. It also gives us a chance to help and extend the nice food and stuff we have at home to the less fortunate in our town or even the victims of a recent disaster.

If this is the case, material things will become an inevitable part of the Christmas spirit. These material gifts solidify the spirit of Christmas. Whether our parish priest will agree or not, the spirit of gift giving during Christmas becomes an art, becomes special because the intention is good.

When I say good--regardless if it is done once a year, if it is done with pure intention of giving (planned or not) with the material gift or not, it is good. With this goodness of intention, the spirit of Christmas lives with the act of giving gifts.

Note: Last Dec. 24, I handed to my daughter a small gift for a lay minister friend that we will give after the Misa de Gallo. It is an angel clip that you hang in your car with a short petition prayer to protect you on the road. I failed to hand it to him. This afternoon, I learned of his second cardiac arrest that his body was unable to handle. He left this world with the spirit of spending most of his retirement years trying to build the chapel of St. Joseph the Humble Worker in our community. He was not able to see my gift.

The Revolutionary Disney Film

2004-11-30T21:12:00.000-08:00

In the past, Disney had always been the most hopeful, peaceful cartoon flick anybody can watch on screen. But when the Lion King was released in 1994, it had changed everything.

When the lion king died, it made me cry. I never thought a Disney character will ever die on screen. The once "Disney imagined community" suddenly became a reality. Did the Disney myth died or it had simply made a connection to reality?

The death of the king is a tragic reality even for a young, innocent Simba. What message is Disney sending to us? Is this really the sign of the times that even a cartoon fantasy world can be faced with troubles, with pains, with concerns, with sacrifices? Maybe you can tell me..

I still admire the film. I still have a heavy heart whenever I reach the part when the king died trying to save his son..

Note: I came to post this an hour and a half after I learned a good friend in our community lost his husband, an OFW on duty. They have one child.

The Emblem of the Modern Filipino Culture

2004-11-23T20:56:00.000-08:00

What is singing yet out of tune

What is high scores yet shouting

What is hoping to have a chance when you are not heard

What is sarcasm when you have the trophy

What is whining when you have no audience.

Note: This was originally posted in one of my earlier blogs. You might be interested to guess what it is..:)

The Downside of Blogging

2004-11-23T02:09:00.000-08:00

What's the beauty of blogging--it's free. It's paperless. It's easy to use. It's accessible anywhere. It's unrestricted. Anybody can use it to publish his ideas virtually. Ideally, this is for individuals dedicated to the promotion of thinking and to those who are committed to sustain it.

What's the downside?? When students like us consider the use of blogs as a very convenient class requirement to get an A. This is a big waste of cyberspace and resources.

Are you a JERK? If you happen to think that it's fun and easy to create blogs to post the class requirements here without consideration to the huge physical & virtual storage consumption your blogs will eat up--then you are a JERK!!

Are you TROUBLED? If you happen to find blogging as an outlet of your repressed emotions, enjoying the journal writing hype while you are silent during actual classroom discussions--you are sick and you are TROUBLED!!

Are you a PARANOID? If you believe everyone will read your blog and will give comments because the professor told the class, and you think all your classmates will agree to you, then you're nuts! You're a PARANOID!!

If you're a JERK or TROUBLED or a PARANOID---PLEASE STOP BLOGGING!!

The Unusual Tarsiers

2004-11-23T02:03:00.000-08:00

The Tarsier. It is considered as the oldest and smallest primate in the world. Once an endangered specie, now a protected specie in Colon, Bohol where more than a thousand are being cared. While most of them are protected, there are few renegades in the forests of Bohol. Here are some of the unusual tarsiers.

Tanod. Very evident with his big, open eyes, he’s more of an observer and is trying to fit in. He has a natural sense of humor.

Teacher. He can memorize all the names of the tarsiers. Of course, he’s the teacher. He tends to change his mind a lot. He is funny, though.

Tina Taba. She should have been a parrot and not a tarsier. She talks a lot that drives each one to its nocturnal state at an earlier time.

Tony Wisdom. He could cite all the fancy German tarsier quotes in the world. Some like it. Some don’t have the bit of care of what those quotes mean.

Princess Trisha. The teacher thinks she doesn’t understand. What the teacher doesn’t know, everyone is laughing because Princess Trisha knows every bit the teacher is joking about.

Tom-Tom. They are called Tom-Tom. Those are Tommy and Chuckie. Similar to the rugrats, they are friends and friends of everyone.

There are really unusual tarsiers. As a primate, the tarsier is already unusual--quite small, quite fragile and odd looking (looks partly like a monkey, partly like a bat, partly like a mouse). That's what makes it unique. And what is good to know, they are now safe gizmos in the country..