22 December 2010

winner ka!

Ano ang gagawin mo kung nanalo ka ng Php 650,000.00?

Setting

Hindi ko na maalala kung kailan to nangyari… pero ang maliwanang na nasa isip ko ay hindi pa ganun ka-sikat ang paggamit ng cell phone (CP). A fearless guess siguro would be less than 40% palang ng population ng Pilipinas ang gumagamit ng CP noon…

Fairy Tale

Nakatanggap ako ng text message na ganito…

AUDITORS or PHIL. CHARITY FOUNDATION nforming u that ur sim no. had won php650,000 in an elctronic raffle, drawn last 04/24/2005. NCR DTI #0438 PLS CALL ME NOW Im ATTY. - - - - - - -     

 Summer break noon.  Wala si Ermat at si Ianda (bunso kong kapatid), nasa probinsiya para magbakasyon… Kami lang ni Jen ang tao sa bahay. Mahirap lang kami… (pero masaya naman hehehehehe).

Tuwang tuwa ako nung mga oras na ‘yon. Pati si Jen ng makita ang text message. Within 15 minutes nakapagcome-up kami ng isang mahabang listahan kung pano madidespatsa ung 650K. Nasa baba ang listahan na naggawa namen…

Reality

Kahit wala akong pera nakapagload ako that time para makatawag sa kanila… May sumagot sa kabilang linya; “Heto na siya….!” (may nagpapalakpakan akong narinig after).

May mga tanong siya, ano daw propesyon at work ko, sinabi ko naman na ako’y engineer… Tinatanong nya rin kung meron daw akong bank account, dahil malaki daw ang napanalunan ko kaya dun nalang daw idedeposito ang pera, sabi ko naman wala… kaya walang choice kundi ako mismo ang magclaim ng prize.

Eto na… para ma-validate daw ang prize ko kailangan kong bumili ng tatlong prepaid cards (load) ng Smart or Globe na worth Php 300.00. Sinabi nya na hindi daw involve ang Smart at Globe sa raffle na to, kailangan lang daw ang load para ma-validate ang prize (may emphasis na sinabi nya un). Kailangan ko daw na i-send ang code at pin ng 3 prepaid cards na nabili ko sa kanila. Natapos ang usapan namen at unti-unti ring gumuho ang napakataas nameng listahan ng mga pangarap…

Life Lessons

*wala lang :)


J Freigh

10 December 2010

Strategic Intervention Materials (SIM): A Closer Look

SIM on Radiation
by: J. Policarpio

Wow! It’s my first time to submit an entry for Strategic Intervention Materials (SIM) for the regional level… as expected, my entry wasn’t selected (I’ve already prejudged my work). SIM is an instructional material intended to re-teach topics which are considered as Least Mastered. It’s different from a module in many aspects but its main goal is parallel to having remedial classes for those Least Mastered topics. It only requires least teacher supervision. These are some of the pointers I’ve learned from one of the judges of that contest, and I want to share it with you:

*SIM must be accompanied  by 'Study' (Classroom-based Research)

*Topics for SIM must be Least Mastered Skill (identify based on quarterly exam). For example, the topic “density” is not least mastered skill, as she explained.

 

*SIM must be easy to reproduce
 

*Consider Time Allotment for your SIM. Is it ideal for 1 period or 2 periods?
 

*SIM is not student project, avoid using glitters or bright colors which might cause difficulty in reproducing your SIM
 

*Do not copy ideas. Copyrighted materials or entity should not be used in your SIM, like 'Naruto' or “super Mario” (your design should be original)
 

*Don’t use prominent personalities, like 'artista', she made mention of one DepEd Sec who disagrees on putting TV Personalities on the cover of students’ notebooks
 

*Your SIM is intended for Individualized Instruction (I.I.)
   

   My SIM entry this year, 'Radiation… A closer look', was about properties of different types of radiation. Although my entry passed the pointers above, it wasn’t able to make up to the top 5. Well, this is my first time, if given a chance; I’ll try again next year.  

   The best consolation I've learned from this competition is the experience [it's valuable]. Also, meeting familiar faces from college life [reunion], and a note inserted to my SIM written on a piece of small yellow paper, and I quote, 'easy to understand' from one of the judges. [I don't know if it's intended for my SIM entry or just a misplaced note...
hahaha]


Here are some LINKS to my post about Strategic Intervention Materials:
SIM 101: The Basic of Developing Strategic Intervention Materials for Classroom Use [Discussion about the basic details of SIM]

SIM 101: Guide in Reviewing Intervention Materials [Discussion about the CRITERIA for developing SIM]

SAMPLE Strategic Intervention Material (SIM) in Physics [Sample SIM in Physics about Properties of Different Types of Radiation]



A repost from my old blogsite
Strategic Intervention Material Competition
26.11.2009 for everyone

09 December 2010

identity cr!s!s

Question: What’s your important personal property which is meant to be used by others? -- Answer: No other than your NAME!

What is a name?

According to the dictionary,

name [naym]
noun (plural names)
>what somebody or something is called: a word, term, or phrase by which somebody or something is known and distinguished from other people or things [Microsoft Encarta]

In other words, we can equate that a person's name is equal to his/her identity.

For almost 6 years I’ve been dealing with “identity crisis” – not with sexuality or gender but with my identity, in other words, it’s a problem about my own NAME. I hate talking about “NAME ISSUES” because until now I can’t get over with my own. Imagine changing it after using for more than a couple of decades?

Let me give you a short background. I’ve been conceived out of wedlock. My parents parted their ways before I was born. At that time, my mother, her brothers, and sisters decided to have me baptized (which of course I wasn't aware of). They’ve done it as if they were doing a role play. My mother omitted her surname; she used the name Mary Pee and one of her brothers, my uncle, acted as my father and used his real name Joe Tee. My name turned out to be James Pee Tee. When I was already going to Secondary School and a Birth Certificate (BC) was a requirement, I’ve learned that I wasn’t registered at the Municipal Civil Registrar.

I patiently urged my mother to secure a BC for me and asked her to correct the “role play” that they did when they put me unto “forced baptism.” I’ve requested her to register me under ‘single parent’ following her name; after all, nothing will change with my name.  So my request was clear, she asked some help from her friends to secure a dozen of requirements. It was only after 5 years when my BC was then registered and signed by the Civil Registrar. I was then a College Graduate and was one year late for Board Exams… guess what happened? – my name, James Pee Tee, became James Pee! They did accept my mother’s request to register me under single parent. To my extreme disappointment (times ten raised to infinity), I found out that they only considered one particular document - my Baptismal Certificate and since it was written there that my mother’s name was Mary Pee (which is not her correct name, because she is actually Mary Pee Tee) they entered it on my BC, not considering the other papers that were submitted. Where is logic, justice, respect and consideration here?!?! The time I’ve learned that my name was changed, I almost erupted in anger!!! My mother together with her friend begged me to accept the name. They explained and convinced me that it was already forwarded to the National Statistics Office (NSO) and it is also legal to have a name without a middle name. It was only after a month when I’ve decided to consider it without fully accepting. If I don’t, it will again take me a year or more before I will be qualified to take the Board Exam. So, what I did was to request to change my name on other important papers like Transcript of Records (TOR), Diploma, etc.. just to be able to take the Board Exams.

If you are a very sentimental person like me, you wouldn’t allow changing your name, not unless if you were involved in a crime and your name was already tagged as a criminal.

This was the time that I’ve reflected, what is so important with a name? If you change your name,would it change your personality? If you change your name, would it decrease or somehow increase your person? Would it add more wisdom?

I’ve realized that whatever I’ve done in the past, with God’s help and mercy, was not actually to build up my name but to develop my person. Whatever I’ve done, was not to make my name good in another person’s eyes, but to shape my person in accordance to His Commandments of course with His help and mercy. I’ve realized that our names don't define who we are, but we are actually the ones defining our own names.

[This is a true-to-life story of a friend of mine. Names were changed to protect his identity as well as the persons involved. In cases of similarity, it is purely coincidental. This is published to share an important lesson and not for anything else. My sincerest thanks and apologies.]