When there’s a newly-opened mall, people rush to see what’s in it. When there’s a new iPhone model, we can’t help but be curious about its new features. When your favorite singer has a new song, you have this uncontrollable urge to check it out. It’s almost human nature to be fascinated by what’s new. Something is triggered in our brains and we instantly get turned on by the novelty of the latest things.

Well I’ve got good news for you! There’s a new weblog in the Pinoy blogosphere and it’s made especially for you.

You and I belong to the digital generation and whether we like it or not, we leave digital footprints wherever we go in cyberspace. When we use our emails, surf the net, update our Friendster or Facebook, and write posts and comments in weblogs, we leave permanent traces of our past and present that might affect our future.

To help us understand how our digital footprints affect us, let’s use an Edward de Bono thinking tool that I often use in class with my students. It’s called PMI (Plus, Minus, Interesting) and it’s a simple graphic organizer that can help us weigh the advantages and disadvantages of our digital footprints.

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X-Blog
In Algebra, the letter x is used as a variable which means that it can be anything. In Science, Physicist Wilhelm Roentgen discovered special rays that could penetrate solid materials but he didn’t know much about the rays so he called them x-rays. In Hollywood, you’ve got to have the X-factor to make it. The […]