Hi All, <br><br>Before my internet connection drops me again, I'd like to thank our other partners at Asia Pacific College. <br>Thank you Muscovado Team! I did a 2 day crash course on Etoys with a different set of teachers.<br>
<br>Just a quick background: The Muscovado project is a content development drive with partnership between<br>eKindling and Asia Pacific College and three other colleges and high schools around the area. It involves participants <br>
from different levels of education. College teachers are going to mentor high school kids to develop content for elementary school<br>children (mainly our pilot class in Lubang). The high school students will learn Scratch and Etoys for their content<br>
development while instructional design will be guided and researched by the college teachers in subjects<br>Math, Science and English. This is a year long contest starting this school year in June and ending in April. <br>
<br>Funding was granted by CHED (Commission on Higher Education). They are going to supply 30 laptops to <br>90 Highschool students (3 students/laptop, with SoaS for all 90 students). On-going training by eKindling will be <br>
done online and on a Moodle site. <br><br>For this training, I'd like to thank :<br><br>Dr. Tan - thank you for taking the time-off of your busy day to meet me. That was so welcoming of you!<br><br>Ms. Bernie - I'm thanking her for the extra pounds of weight that I gained on my two days training there. I was well fed. Thank you for taking care of documentation and everything else while Tessa and I were there. <br>
<br>Mr. Ray Baquirin - for being the main drivers for the project! My daughter was so excited to see the certificate. She said she was so proud of me. :-) Thank you for making things extra special. <br><br>Ms. Tata Medado - she was so gracious and so accommodating. Thank you for your incites on our education system. So eye opening and gives me all the more reason to work hard. <br>
<br>Looking forward to further supporting this project and other education initiatives in the Philippines. <br><br>Grateful,<br>Cherry <br>