The world without computers

In today’s world it is really impossible to imagine that a person can live without the use of computers. The computer is the gadget that we always use for different things that we need to do, we use it whenever we have a transactions for our business, we use it when we want to learn new things in small period of time like the cooking lessons that is really easy to find, we use computers when we want to check something to make it more convenient like the result of the exams, the new trends and even the promos from different air lines or travel agencies  

In education computer is also a big help to the students when they need to search things or information’s, it can also use to store and retrieve the data that we needed for our class discussion, it can also give us updates for the new information’s that is really hard to find in books or other sources of information.
Computers is also use in entertainment and media industries because it provides entertainment to the people in just a second and it is really easy to access in just a minute or second we can watch any movies and videos that we want and besides it is easy to carry whenever we want to travel or go t5o other places that we want.

The computer is really useful in any aspects of life and we can see its importance in the number of people that is using it in every single day because it is not only use for educational or professional purposes but it is also use to help us relieve the stress that we have for the whole day of doing things.

T.L.E skills competition

       T.L.E skills competition is an event that is held every year to help the student to show their skills in different areas and it is an event that I always loved because it helps every students to boost their confidence in showcasing the talents that every students have and this  years skills competition is the one that is very memorable to me because I'm not just answering questions from the host unlike the previous years. I am now the representative of the main campus in the table skirting with My classmate " Estrellita Magno" and we need to finish everything in three hours the table appointments, napkin folds and the most important one the table skirting designs for the theme of wedding.

                
         Every participants in the skills competition has an eagerness to win to make their campuses proud, every students do everything to be prepared for this event and there's a lot of students that has no sleep yet but inspite of that they will give their best.

                
            This is the table skirting design that we prepared for the event and I am very proud for this because I know that we did our best in this competition but unfortunately the Camarin campus is the one who won, we failed to get the first placed but I think it's OK maybe because their design is better than what we prepared.

            This is the work of the Camarin students and because of the skills competition I have a new friend.
   
             This are some pictures from the different categories that we have in the skills competition.

 

    

    This is the BSE-TLE,III-A , win or lose the experiences that we learned will always be rememberedbecause it is the one that helps us to be strong and aimed more...

                     There are a lot of talents and skills shown in this event My other classmates are participants in the quiz bee, flair tending, cosmetology, wood working, electricity, table skirting and others that is really enjoyable to watched for.


                    The skills competition was very successful and I think the only thing that they need to change is the flow of the event because in some incidents the activity was finished earlier than they expected and because of that the students was just waiting for a long period of time and the distribution of the activities is sometimes for the students only of the Camarin campus, it is just My opinion thank you...

The 4th revolution in education

Every day there's a lot of inventions that is being introduce with us to help us in our study from the use of the printing press, libraries and computer. As a college student there are a lot of books that is being required by the professors and administrations to every students that cost a lot and too hard to bring every day, and if the student doesn’t have enough money to buy books sometimes they just borrowed a book from the classmates or friends.

Books are very important to every students it gives the information that the students needed to understand the lesson very well, but we all know that not every students can afford to buy a lot of books because they don’t have enough money to buy and they want to save money for other expenses that is more important like foods that’s why there is now a E BOOK that is more cheaper to produce and some versions of books can be easily access for free, it is also more lighter than the books that we already seen and it is also an environment friendly than the books that we have that is made from the parts of a tree.

This video will help us to know more the new E BOOK a gadgets that  will be a great help for every student and every person now we can read articles in an easy and enjoyable way.

REFLECTION # 4

NEWS ARTICLE:

DNS blocking to be removed from Senate version of SOPA?

          The tech community’s overwhelmingly unanimous protest of SOPA may not be falling on deaf ears. One of the senators who has been vehemently pushing the Senate’s SOPA counterpart, PIPA (Protect IP Act), said that he is willing to reconsider the DNS-blocking elements of the bill. While there are still disturbing parts of the legislation on the table, advocates of internet freedom could consider this to be progress.

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is still standing behind his DNS blacklisting guns, but he is prepared to compromise. The congressman said that he will recommend that the the Senate gives DNS blacklisting “more study” before moving ahead. He is preparing a manager’s amendment to PIPA, and intends to put the most toxic portion of the bill back on the table for discussion.

It is, however, far from a sure thing that DNS blacklisting will be removed from PIPA — much less SOPA. Even if it were removed, the Department of Justice would still have the ability to cut off US-based payment processing and advertising from any website it deems harmful. The copyright industries would still have broad powers to take down websites that they don’t like, and internet freedom would take two (or 200) steps back.

The willingness to bend by Leahy likely stems from a push by some to scrap SOPA/PIPA and go with alternate bills, like Sen. Ron Wyden’s OPEN Act. Leahy and other congressmen who serve the copyright industries would apparently prefer to take away PIPA’s scariest portions than to have their bill cast aside in favor of a “weaker” measure. There has been no official word of a similar compromise for SOPA in the House, but there have been whispers of such a move.

PIPA has already made it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee (by a unanimous vote), and is being held up on the floor until January 24, when Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV, also a supporter) is expected to try to push it forward. The two houses will typically vote on slightly different versions of the same bill (like SOPA and PIPA), then — if both have the necessary support — the details will be hammered out for a final bill to be sent to the president’s desk.

Speaking of the president, Barack Obama has given no indication that he would veto SOPA or PIPA. We wouldn’t bet on it: in this election year, he would be happy to take those hefty donation checks from big media companies, frame the bill as a victory for the US economy, and call it a day.

What Is SOPA?

If you hadn't heard of SOPA before, you probably have by now: Some of the internet's most influential sites—Reddit and Wikipedia among them—are going dark to protest the much-maligned anti-piracy bill. But other than being a very bad thing, what is SOPA? And what will it mean for you if it passes?

SOPA is an anti-piracy bill working its way through Congress...

House Judiciary Committee Chair and Texas Republican Lamar Smith, along with 12 co-sponsors, introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act on October 26th of last year. Debate on H.R. 3261, as it's formally known, has consisted of one hearing on November 16th and a "mark-up period" on December 15th, which was designed to make the bill more agreeable to both parties. Its counterpart in the Senate is the Protect IP Act (S. 968). Also known by its cuter-but-still-deadly name: PIPA. There will likely be a vote on PIPA next Wednesday; SOPA discussions had been placed on hold but will resume in Februaryof this year.

...that would grant content creators extraordinary power over the internet...

The beating heart of SOPA is the ability of intellectual property owners (read: movie studios and record labels) to effectively pull the plug on foreign sites against whom they have a copyright claim. If Warner Bros., for example, says that a site in Italy is torrenting a copy of The Dark Knight, the studio could demand that Google remove that site from its search results, that PayPal no longer accept payments to or from that site, that ad services pull all ads and finances from it, and—most dangerously—that the site's ISP prevent people from even going there.

...which would go almost comedically unchecked...

Perhaps the most galling thing about SOPA in its original construction is that it let IP owners take these actions without a single court appearance or judicial sign-off. All it required was a single letter claiming a "good faith belief" that the target site has infringed on its content. Once Google or PayPal or whoever received the quarantine notice, they would have five days to either abide or to challenge the claim in court. Rights holders still have the power to request that kind of blockade, but in the most recent version of the bill the five day window has softened, and companies now would need the court's permission.

The language in SOPA implies that it's aimed squarely at foreign offenders; that's why it focuses on cutting off sources of funding and traffic (generally US-based) rather than directly attacking a targeted site (which is outside of US legal jurisdiction) directly. But that's just part of it.

...to the point of potentially creating an "Internet Blacklist"...

Here's the other thing: Payment processors or content providers like Visa or YouTube don't even need a letter shut off a site's resources. The bill's "vigilante" provision gives broad immunity to any provider who proactively shutters sites it considers to be infringers. Which means the MPAA just needs to publicize one list of infringing sites to get those sites blacklisted from the internet.

Potential for abuse is rampant. As Public Knowledge points out, Google could easily take it upon itself to delist every viral video site on the internet with a "good faith belief" that they're hosting copyrighted material. Leaving YouTube as the only major video portal. Comcast (an ISP) owns NBC (a content provider). Think they might have an interest in shuttering some rival domains? Under SOPA, they can do it without even asking for permission.

...while exacting a huge cost from nearly every site you use daily...

SOPA also includes an "anti-circumvention" clause, which holds that telling people how to work around SOPA is nearly as bad as violating its main provisions. In other words: if your status update links to The Pirate Bay, Facebook would be legally obligated to remove it. Ditto tweets, YouTube videos, Tumblr or WordPress posts, or sites indexed by Google. And if Google, Twitter, Wordpress, Facebook, etc. let it stand? They face a government "enjoinment." They could and would be shut down.

The resources it would take to self-police are monumental for established companies, and unattainable for start-ups. SOPA would censor every online social outlet you have, and prevent new ones from emerging.

...and potentially disappearing your entire digital life...

The party line on SOPA is that it only affects seedy off-shore torrent sites. That's false. As the big legal brains at Bricoleur point out, the potential collateral damage is huge. And it's you. Because while Facebook and Twitter have the financial wherewithal to stave off anti-circumvention shut down notices, the smaller sites you use to store your photos, your videos, and your thoughts may not. If the government decides any part of that site infringes on copyright and proves it in court? Poof. Your digital life is gone, and you can't get it back.

...while still managing to be both unnecessary and ineffective...

What's saddest about SOPA is that it's pointless on two fronts. In the US, the MPAA, and RIAA already have the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to request that infringing material be taken down. We've all seen enough "video removed" messages to know that it works just fine.

As for the foreign operators, you might as well be throwing darts at a tse-tse fly. The poster child of overseas torrenting, Pirate Bay, has made it perfectly clear that they're not frightened in the least. And why should they be? Its proprietors have successfully evaded any technological attempt to shut them down so far. Its advertising partners aren't US-based, so they can't be choked out. But more important than Pirate Bay itself is the idea of Pirate Bay, and the hundreds or thousands of sites like it, as populous and resilient as mushrooms in a marsh. Forget the question of should SOPA succeed. It's incredibly unlikely that it could. At least at its stated goals.

...but stands a shockingly good chance of passing...

SOPA is, objectively, an unfeasible trainwreck of a bill, one that willfully misunderstands the nature of the internet and portends huge financial and cultural losses. The White House has come out strongly against it. As have hundreds of venture capitalists and dozens of the men and women who helped build the internet in the first place. In spite of all this, companies have already spent a lot of money pushing SOPA, and it remains popular in the House of Representatives.

That mark-up period on December 15th, the one that was supposed to transform the bill into something more manageable? Useless. Twenty sanity-fueled amendments were flat-out rejected. And while the bill's most controversial provision—mandatory DNS filtering—was thankfully taken off the table recently, in practice internet providers would almost certainly still use DNS as a tool to shut an accused site down.

...unless we do something about it.

The momentum behind the anti-SOPA movement has been slow to build, but we're finally at a saturation point. Wikipedia, BoingBoing, WordPress, TwitPic: they'll all be dark on January 18th. An anti-SOPA rally has been planned for tomorrow afternoon in New York. The list of companies supporting SOPA is long but shrinking, thanks in no small part to the emails and phone calls they've received in the last few months.

So keep calling. Keep emailing. Most of all, keep making it known that the internet was built on the same principles of freedom that this country was. 

 THE IMPLICATIONS OF SOPA IN EDUCATION

It is known that The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), waiting for a floor vote, is a United States bill introduced by Representative Lamar S. Smith to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. The purpose of this bill is to request of court orders to bar advertising networks and internet service providers from conducting business with infringing websites and block access to the sites.SOPA could be a big problem not only for commercial sites but also for some ducational websites because not all education technology websites have a copyright permission for images and videos they use. Although the education-oriented websites are not the target of SOPA, it could affect people who want to start an educational technology company. On the other hand, sometimes there is no break in the chain between a website and its user so innocent ones could be swept up as a collateral damage.As a result, Educators working in the OER (Open Educational Resources) community, Representatives of important libraries related with some universities that use digital technology, professors and some sites submitted a letter to the House of Representatives explaining why the bill would chill the creation of educational content. In my opinion it is a good idea to protect intellectual property but Representatives must be very careful in order to avoid threatening free speech and innovation

REVIEWER

REVIEWER IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY:

LESSON 1: A REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 1

               

        The four phase of application of the educational technology:

v  Setting of learning objectives

v  Designing of specific learning experiences

v  Evaluating the effectiveness of the learning experience

v  Revision as needed of the whole teaching-learning process

Instructional technology- The use of technology in instruction.

        Educational technology- An equipment  or materials other than the teacher himself.

       Audio-visual aids- learning media to stir the senses for more effective learning.

                The educational technology served:

Ø  To orient for the pervasiveness of educational technology in the society.

Ø  To lend familiarization on how educational technology can be utilized as media.

Ø  To uplift the learner to human learning.

Ø  To impart skills in planning, designing, using and evaluating

Ø  To acquaint learners on basic aspects of community education, functions of the school media center.

Ø  To introduce the learner to what is recognized as the third revolution in education, the computer.

LESSON 2: AN OVERVIEW TO EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 2

               

          The course objectives:

 v  To, provide education with the use of Technology in instruction by providing knowledge and skills on Technology Integration-In-Instruction to learners.

 v  To impart learning experiences in Instructional Technology supported instructional planning.

 v  To acquaint students on information technology or IT related learning theories with the computer as a tutor.

 v  To, learn how to use and evaluate computer-based educational resources.

 v   To engage learners on practical technology integration issues  including managing IT classrooms, use of the internet for learning, cooperative learning through the use of information technology.

 v   To inculcate higher-level thinking and creativity among students while providing them knowledge of IT-related learning theories.

LESSON 3: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

The five progressive states/ city:

        New Zealand 2001 ICT Goals and Strategies

            Goal

                Government with the education and technology that support to the development of the school.

            Strategies:

       

v  I             Improving learning outcomes for students using ICT to support the curriculum.

v                       Using ICT to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of educational administration.

v                       Developing partnership with communities to enhance access to learning through ICT.

           Focus Area:

v  Infrastructure

v  Professional development

           Initiatives

v                                 An On-line resource center  

v                                 A planning and implementation guide for schools

v                                 ICT professional development schools/clusters

       Australia IT Initiatives

            Common features to planning, funding and implementation are:

                v  Fast local and wide area networks

    v  Substantial number of computers in schools

    v  Continuing teacher training

    v  Technical support to each school

    v  Sufficient hardware and software

    v  Digital library resources

    v  Technology demonstrating as models for schools

      Malaysia Smart school-level Technology Project

            Equipping a school includes:

                  v  Classrooms with multi-media, presentation facilities, e-mail and groupware for collaborative work.

     v  Library media center with database

     v  Computer laboratory for teaching

     v  Multimedia development center

     v  studio/theatrette

     v  Teacher’s room with on-line access

     v  Server room

     v  Administration offices capable of managing databases of students and facilities, tracking student and teacher performance             and resources, distributing notices and other information electronically

    Singapore Masterplan for IT in Education

          The Masterplan has four key dimensions:

    v  Curriculum and Assessment

    v  Learning Resources

    v  Teacher Development

    v  Physical and Technological Infrastructure

    Hong Kong Education Program Highlights

          Aims to raise the quality of school education by promoting the use of IT.

LESSON 4: BASIC CONCEPTS ON INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY IN INSTRUCTION

                External manifestation of technology integration:                                                                                                                                          

         Change in classes

                                           The quality of instruction

v                                      Planning of teacher

v                                      Instructional strategies

v                                      Use of technology provides opportunity to the instructional issues

        LESSON 5: STATE-OF-THE ART ET APPLICATION PRACTICES

   

 More recent ET education practice

v  Through school or training center computer courses

v   spent more time in methods

v  Shifting focus from lower-level

v  Recent teaching-learning models (such as constructivism and social constructivism)

Obstacles to IT pedagogical practice

v  Use of the computer is time-consuming and expensive.

v  Danger of a technology-centered classroom

v  Teachers should balance their time for the preparation and application of instructional tools.

v   Teachers should acquire computer skill

LESSON 6: IT ENTERS A NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

               

  MEANINGFUL LEARNING

 Focuses to new experiences that are related to what the learner already knows.

It assumes that:

v  Students already have some knowledge that is relevant to new learning

v  Students are willing to perform class work

DISCOVERY LEARNING

The students perform task to uncover what is to be learned.

GENERATIVE LEARNING

It viewed students as active learner and it gives emphasis to what can be done with the information and not on how to access it.

 CONSTRUCTIVISM

                 In constructivism, the learner builds a personal understanding through appropriate learning activities and good learning environment.

                      The common themes for the four learning domains:

                                LEARNERS

v                                        Are active, purposeful learners

v                                       Set personal goals and strategies to achieve these goals

v                                       Make their learning experiences meaningful and relevant to their lives.

v                                       Seek to build an understanding of their personal worlds so they can work/live productively                                       .

v                                      Build on what they already know in order to interpret and respond to new experiences

LESSON 7: IT FOR HIGHER THINKING SKILLS

              

  Higher level learning outcome model:

Focusing- Defining the problem, goal/objective-setting, brainstorming.

Information Gathering- Selection, recording of data of information.Remembering- Associating, relating new data with old.

Analyzing-    Identifying idea constructs, patterns.

Generating - Deducing, inducting, and elaborating.

Organizing- Classifying, relating.

Imagining- Visualizing, predicting.

Designing- Planning, formulating.

Integration- Summarizing, abstracting.

Evaluating - Setting criteria, testing, idea, verifying outcomes, revising.

The process

       The implementation takes the students to the steps, efforts, and experience in project completion

The process is more important that the products

       The process refers to the thinking/affective/psycho-motor process that occurs on the part of the learner. This comprises the journey that actualizes learning

         

       The product is the result of this all-important process consisting in possibly a summary, a poster, an essay, a term paper, a dramatic presentation, or an IT-based product.

 Lesson 8: HIGHER THINKING SKILLS THROUGH IT BASED PROJECTS

   

              The four types of IT-Based projects                              

v                                    Resource-based project-The teacher step out of the traditional role of being an content expert and   information provider, and instead lets the                                                                                                                    student find their own facts and information.

v                                    Simple creation-Students can also be assigned to create their software  materials to supplement the need for relevant and effective materials.

                 Creativity is said to combine three kind of skills/abilities:

  Ø  Analyzing- distinguishing similarities and differences seeing the project as a problem to be solved.

  Ø  Synthesizing- making spontaneous connections among ideas, thus generating interesting or new ideas.

  Ø  Promoting- selling of new ideas to allow the public to test the ideas themselves.

v                                   Guided hypermedia projects- The production of self-made multimedia projects can be approached in two different ways:

Ø  As an instructive tool.

Ø  As a communication tool.

v                                   Web-based projects- Students can be made to create and post webpage’s on a given topic.