SWAT on the move!
The SWAT club members creating houses and buildings using Google Sketch Up.
The WSI Tech Education Summit 2011
We attended the WSI Tech Education Summit last April 6, 2011 at the Dusit Thani Hotel. The product exhibit started around 10:30a.m. and the product presentation started at 1:00p.m.
The summit was all about learning how a school can turn technology into a revenue generating resource. We discovered the latest office productivity and communications, data protection, and creative design solutions from these leading tech brands: Autodesk, Adobe, Microsoft, SAP Business Objects, Symantec.
My Grade 3 students Best Work
Grade 3 students created and designed their own poster as their project in Computer. The poster is all about how to save Mother Earth & prevent Global Warming. Here are some of the BEST WORKS of my kids!
WordCamp Philippines 2010
Selected students and teachers attended the much awaited WordCamp Philippines last Oct. 2, 2010 at the College of St. Benilde in Taft Avenue. WordPress developer and Automatic founder, Matt Mullenweg attended the event along with other bloggers in the Philippines.
The day started with breakaway sessions. I attended the first session which was entitled “Plug-in Must Haves” by Mr. Hans Koch. Basically, the session was all about plug-ins that can be used in WP.
These are the Seven Steps for Optimization:
- Setup
- URLs and Navigation
- Meta Data Management
- Tracking, Link Management, and Broadcasting
- Backup and Security
- Speed
- Design
The second session i attended is all about Customizing WordPress Blogs with Themes and Plug-ins by Mr. Jonas Roque, the creator of Facebuko.com which he copied from the popular Facebook. He discussed how he created Facebuko.com using WordPress. He recommended some useful plug-ins like NextGen Gallery, WP- PageNavi, WP e-Commerce and cForms.
The Third Session i attended is entitled “WordPress.org VS WordPress.com” by Mr. Jonel Uy. Basically, he discussed the foundational definitions of WP.org and WP.com, the PROS and CONS of both sites.
WordPress based sites:
1. mashable.com – insights and latest news article
2. gizmodo.com – tech blog
3. Teaser-Trailers.com- movie trailers
4. www.gov.ph – RP official gazzette
6. NomNomClub.com – not free
7. Blogging from home by Janette Toral
After the breakaway session, we had the plenary session which started with the The talk of Mr. Rob Angeles on Social Media: Powered by WordPress. Next was all about Blogging Ethics by Mr Danny Arao and the last talk was by Ms. Aileen Apolo on Google University. The day ended with a Question and Answer by Mr. Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress and all the speakers.
T o sum it up – Learning WordPress is fun and cool! 😀
Word Cloud
Most of us are familiar with Wordle, a nice website that allows you to create word clouds from text. I discovered a similar website called Tagxedo. This website is similar to Wordle, but lets you put the word cloud into different shapes. It can be saved as images for printing and sharing. Check out this cool site to see some really amazing examples of word cloud art!
SWAT team @ work
The SWAT (Students Working with Advanced Technology) Team brainstorms their plans and goals for their assigned committee group. Students were divided into 4 groups namely: Video Production, Graphic Design, Web Design and Training.