I’d like to thank Tonyo Cruz of Bloggers Kapihan for inviting me to join the Blog Action Day 2008. This year’s theme is about making a stand against poverty - Manindigan Laban sa Kahirapan.

Poverty is close to my heart because teaching is often viewed as a noble profession, but not a lucrative one. But the thing that bakes my noodle is the fact that

If the completion of formal education is not possible, I hope we can find some inspiration from drop-outs who have made it big, the most famous one being Bill Gates, who left Harvard in his junior year to start a software business. On June 7, 2007, Gates received an honorary degree from Harvard and he delivered the graduation speech for the class of 2007. If you wanna be entertained and inspired, watch the videos…

“If we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second step: cutting through the complexity to find a solution.” - Bill Gates

Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and Al Gore were in an airplane that crashed. They’re up in heaven, and God’s sitting on the great white throne. God addresses Al first. “Al, what do you…

To you, O Lord, I lift up my eyes. - Psalm 123

37-year old Erik Spoelstra is making history with the Miami Heat. Not only is he the first Filipino to become a head coach of an NBA team, he is also the youngest head coach in NBA history…

Our quote today comes from St. Jean Baptiste De La Salle, a French educational reformer and priest, who was born on April 30, 1651. He put up schools in France as a way to help the plight of the lower class. He lived with…

Exactly fifteen years ago, the board of directors of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that the World Wide Web (W3) would be free for anyone to use and to develop. And since then “the web” has been…

Sa Mahal Kong Kapatid,

Congratulations! You made it! I’m sure your mind is filled with memories and reflective thoughts as you close a chapter of your life.

Graduation is not only the end of a chapter. More importantly, it symbolizes the first step in your next journey. And as you begin your next adventure, I would like to share with you these two poems and six pictures that have guided me in this game we call “Life.”

Yesterday, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet and speak with Education Secretary Jesli A. Lapus. Gigi and Pam of the Philippine Embassy in Vietnam invited me and Michelle to the despedida party of Consul-Gen Baisa and Ms Bel. Sec Lapus was the guest of honor and luckily, Ambassador del Rosario asked me to join them at their table.

We talked about life, family, careers, and of course, CyberEducation! Here are some of the insights I gained from Sec Lapus and from my own research about CyberEd:

I am an elementary school teacher. I teach at a school where the role of language is very important because our students come from 36 different countries.
For the parents at our school, there are two essential elements that are crucial to the overall language learning of their children. The first one is called mother tongue [...]

Ako po ay isang guro sa elementarya. Sa paaralan kung saan ako nagtuturo, napakahalaga ng papel na ginagampanan ng wika sapagka’t ang mga mag-aaral namin ay mula sa tatlumpo’t anim na bansa.
Para sa mga magulang ng aming paaralan, may dalawang bagay na kinakailangan upang maging ganap ang pag-aaral ng wika ng kanilang mga anak. Ang [...]