Kudos to Winners from the Philippines at International Schools Cyberfair 2006!

Hello everyone! I’d like to congratulate the schools who made it in the International Schools Cyberfair 2006. You all surely make the country proud!

This August/September, we will be kicking off the Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2007 regional competition. Listed schools here who would like to be visited and be given a one-day Cyberfair preparatory training, send me an e-mail at digitalfilipino@gmail.com.

Cheers to the Filipino youth! Mabuhay!

The complete list of international winners can be found at:
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsh/cf/winners.html

Community Groups & Special Populations
Gold
De La Salle Zobel Social Action Office
http://www.gsh.org/GSH/CF/ViewNarrative.cfm?narr=1452
De La Salle Zobel School
Muntinlupa City, Philippines

Local Specialties
Gold
Produkto Antiqueño
http://www.gsh.org/GSH/CF/ViewNarrative.cfm?narr=1212
Antique National School, Antique
San Jose, Philippines

Local Attractions
Silver
SALIKNETA Farm
http://www.gsh.org/GSH/CF/ViewNarrative.cfm?narr=1296
De La Salle-Araneta University
Malabon, Philippines

Historical Landmarks
Gold
Calles de Cebu:
http://www.gsh.org/GSH/CF/ViewNarrative.cfm?narr=1387
Gateways To A Nation’s History
University of the Philippines High School in Cebu
Cebu City, Philippines

Environmental Awareness
Silver
Las Pinas - Reviving Its Nature
http://www.gsh.org/GSH/CF/ViewNarrative.cfm?narr=1311
St. Joseph’s Academy
Las Pinas City, Philippines

Local Music & Art
Silver
Cebu: A Self-Portrait
http://www.gsh.org/GSH/CF/ViewNarrative.cfm?narr=1363
Centre for International Education
Cebu City, Philippines

We also recognized the winners this year in the DigitalFilipino.com Podcast Episode 4

or download it.

Winners: Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2006: Inspire and Unite!

Allow me to share with you the winners of the Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2006 (http://www.cyberfair.ph). I’m glad that the challenge of coming with a Filipino edition was met with great enthusiasm and look forward to Cyberfair 2007!

The Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2006 would not have been made possible without the support of E-Yellow Pages (http://www.eyp.ph), Business Software Alliance (http://www.bsa.org/), and Web Philippines (http://www.webphilippines.com).

Community Groups and Special Population
Winner
De La Salle Santiago Zobel
De La Salle Santiago Zobel Action Office
http://www.sirpats.com/sao/

1st runner-up
MSC High School
The Red Trucks and the Firefighters
http://warlock.msc.net.ph/cyberfair_06/community/

2nd runner-up
Iligan City National High School
Muslim Wedding
http://www.freewebs.com/icnhs_muslim/

Honorable Mention
De La Salle – Araneta University
San Roque
http://www.sanroque.bravehost.com/sanroque.html

Environmental Awareness

Winner
St. Joseph’s Academy
Las Pinas: Reviving its Nature
http://www.csj89.com/laspinas/splash.htm

Runner-up
Claret School of Quezon City
Wonderous Makiling
http://www.geocities.com/thewondersofmakiling/

Honorable Mention
Zamboanga City National High School
RAID Zamboanga
http://www.geocities.com/zchscyberfair2005/

Historical Landmarks
Winner
St. Mary’s College of Meycauayan
Niaosarab: The Barasoain Church, Inside Out
http://www.geocities.com/smcm_niaosarab/

Local Attractions

Winner
Iligan City National High School
The Majestic Maria Cristina Falls
http://www.freewebs.com/icnhswaterfalls/

1st Runner-up
De La Salle-Araneta University
Salikneta Farm
http://www.salikneta.bravehost.com/project/home.html

2nd runner-up
St. Mary’s College of Meycauayan
Lakbay Lakan
http://www.geocities.com/lakbaylakan/

Honorable Mention
Claret School of Quezon City
Manila Beyond the Sunset
http://www.geocities.com/manilabeyondthesunset/

Local Leaders

Winner
De La Salle-Araneta University
The Agriculturist and the Saint
http://www.geocities.com/project_in_computer_04/index.html

Runner-up
MSC High School
Local Leaders
http://warlock.msc.net.ph/cyberfair_06/leader/main.html

Local Specialties

Winner
MSC High School
Tree of Life
http://warlock.msc.net.ph/cyberfair_06/specialties/new1.html

Honorable Mention
Antique National School
ANS Online
http://ans-online.ph.tc/2006

Capiz National High School
Capiz and its best
http://www.educationdirect-win.com/00068362/capiz/index.htm

To all winners, please advise when can we visit your school (provide date options) for the proper award recognition and conduct our one day student training.

For the teachers, we are finalizing our venue for the 3-days teacher training this April, after Holy Week. Should your school be interested in hosting the teacher training, by providing us the venue with Internet-connected computers, do let us know.

Look behind the story

Last Tuesday, I got the chance to visit St. Mary’s College of Meycauayan, where I delivered a one-day workshop on Internet and E-Commerce Development 101. Twelve high school students and five teachers attended.

Read Sun.Star for the full story.

Iligan City: Dec. 21: Internet and E-Commerce Development 101 - CyberFair Roadshow

Our 2nd stop for the nationwide Philippine Schools Cyberfair Competition roadshow will be on December 21 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM where we are conducting a one-day HANDS-ON workshop on Website and E-Commerce Development 101. The training will be held at Iligan City National High School, Gen. Wood St.,Mahayahay, Iligan City.

The goal of this training is to further help students and teachers in preparing their Cyberfair entry. This is useful as well to those who are planning to create informational websites.

Topics to be tackled include:
- Guidelines in Creating an Informational website
- Marketing Your Website
- Making Your Website Project Sustainable

This training is exclusive to Iligan City National High School. The Philippine Schools Cyberfair roadshow is supported by the Business Software Alliance and E-Yellow Pages.

DigitalFilipino.com Club members who are interested to join and learn are more than welcome to attend this one-day workshop. Please confirm your participation prior to December 21 for computer and food count purposes. Non-members should sign up as a club member on or before December 20 at http://www.e-commercephilippines.com.

We encourage you to support the Philippine Schools Cyberfair.

BSA and DPC Supports CyberFair

The Philippine Schools CyberFair would not have been possible without the support of the following:

Your support to this endeavour is very much appreciated.

Call for National Entries! Philippine Schools CyberFair 2006: Inspire and Unite!

Attention: All elementary and high school teachers!

Engage students in performance-based, collaborative, project-design competition this school year 2005-2006!

• Support standards-based, authentic learning
• Connect students to their local communities
• Increase students’ global perspective
• Increase real-world, transferable skills
• Involve students in the assessment
• Teach students information-age skills (research, project management, publishing, digital media)

DigitalFilipino.com is launching the 5th Philippines School CyberFair Project with the theme, "Inspire and Unite!" This competition encourages students to "shine the spotlight" on people, places, businesses and other things in their local community — that serve to "inspire, motivate, and encourage positive change."

All Philippine entries shall also join the International School CyberFair. On its 11th year, it has been described as the largest educational event of its kind ever held on the Internet. This program has brought together more than one million students from over 100 countries.

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Meycauayan: Dec. 13: Website and E-Commerce Development 101 - Cyberfair Roadshow

We are kicking off our campaign for the nationwide Philippine Schools Cyberfair Competition this December 13 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM where we are conducting a one-day HANDS-ON workshop on Website and E-Commerce Development 101. The training will be held at St. Mary’s College of Meycauayan, Saluysoy, Meycauayan, Bulacan.

The goal of this training is to further help students and teachers in preparing their Cyberfair entry. This is useful as well to those who are planning to create informational websites.

Topics to be tackled include:
- Guidelines in Creating an Informational website
- Marketing Your Website
- Making Your Website Project Sustainable

This training is exclusive to St. Mary’s College of Meycauayan. The Philippine Schools Cyberfair roadshow is supported by the Business Software Alliance (http://www.bsa.org) and E-Yellow Pages (http://www.eyp.ph).

DigitalFilipino.com Club members who are interested to join and learn are more than welcome to attend this one-day workshop. Please confirm your participation prior to December 13 for computer and food count purposes. Non-members should sign up as a club member on or before December 13 at http://www.e-commercephilippines.com.

We encourage you to support the Philippine Schools Cyberfair. For more info on how you can help, visit http://www.digitalfilipino.com/webdes_article.cfm?id=147

Help us promote Cyberfair

Hello everyone. We are encouraging webmasters and bloggers in promoting the Philippine Schools Cyberfair by posting our banner ad in their respective websites and blogs.

Your support will be very much appreciated. Thank you.

November 9: Project Narrative Deadline

Hello everyone. Please don’t forget to email your project narrative on or before November 9. Guidelines on how to prepare one can be found at

http://www.cyberfair.ph/narrexplain.htm

The format should follow the one stated here:

http://www.cyberfair.ph/narrate.htm

Please email your project narrative to us on or before November 9. This should also be posted in your final website entry.

Thank you.

Deadline extend: November 18: Regional Philippine Schools CyberFair

To compensate for the long weekend, we are extending the deadline for the Regional Philippine Schools CyberFair.

Deadline for the final website uploading shall be on November 18, 2005. Check out the timeline for the complete info.

Call for support: Philippine Schools CyberFair 2006

We are currently inviting companies to sponsor or support the Philippine Schools CyberFair 2006 as we kicked off our Regional Competition last August and will be launching the National Competition this November.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens and Teachers

Hello everyone. We are currently in serious negotiation to possibly bundle the 7 Habits for Highly Effective Teens training to student participants of the Philippine Schools CyberFair 2006.

For the teachers, great consideration is now being made to integrate the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for Teachers in our CyberFair 5-day camp during summer.

With active participation from schools and support from the community, we hope to make CyberFair bigger and better!

If your school is not registered yet, we hope you’ll register today! Visit http://www.cyberfair.ph

Early registrants - Philippine Schools CyberFair 2006

It gives great joy when you see schools as early as now, registering at the regional level competition of the Philippine Schools CyberFair, as soon as we announced the competition last Monday. Some of our bird early entries are:

Agusan del Sur National High School

Philippine Science High School - Central Mindanao Campus

Philippine Science High School Main Campus

St. Mary’s College of Meycauayan

Note that one of the school above is planning to submit an entry to all 8 categories. I hope they will succeed.

I got an inquiry lately asking about the distinction between regional and national competitions.

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Call for regional entries: Philippine Schools CyberFair 2006 Inspire and Unite!

Call for regional entries! Philippine Schools CyberFair 2006: Inspire and Unite!

Attention: All elementary and high school teachers!

Engage students in performance-based, collaborative, project-design competition this school year 2005-2006!

- Support standards-based, authentic learning
- Connect students to their local communities
- Increase students’ global perspective
- Increase real-world, transferable skills
- Involve students in the assessment
- Teach students information-age skills (research, project management, publishing, digital media)

DigitalFilipino.com is launching the 5th Philippines School CyberFair Project with the theme, “Inspire and Unite”. This competition encourages students to “shine the spotlight” on people, places, businesses and other things in their local community — that serve to “inspire, motivate, and encourage positive change.”

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2nd Roadshow Stop: San Pablo City

Last Saturday, I went to MSC High School in San Pablo City Laguna to introduce the Philippine Schools Cyberfair to the schools in those areas. It was fun and hope that with San Pablo City’s active participation, a regional CyberFair can truly happen in Region 4.

Special thanks to MSC High School Directress Lerma Prudente for this opportunity. More power sa inyong lahat!

Philippine Schools Cyberfair 2005 Photos

My sincerest thanks to Tina De Vega for sharing the award ceremonies photos to us. Past winners who have photos to share are more than welcome to send them in! Thank you.

Ist Roadshow stop: DepEd of Makati ICT Teacher’s Organization

I just finished a Cyberfair orientation briefing during the DepEd of Makati ICT Teachers’ Organization In-Depth Seminar Workshop.

With the theme, "ICT Geared Towards Global Competitiveness", 40 teachers from 38 public elementary and high school institutions were being trained from May 30 to June 3 on the various Internet-related skills.

We are glad that Ms. Elizabeth Buenconsejo, the organization’s president, invited us to brief the teachers about Cyberfair.

I look forward to the day that these schools will join the competition.

More updates to come soon. I hope to get the pictures and post it here soon!

Planning for the roadshow

Starting this June, we will be going on a road trip to promote the Philippine Schools Cyberfair to various schools around the country campaigning for the Regional (June to September), National (October to January), and International Schools Cyberfair 2006 (February - May). Should you like us to visit your school, do let us know.

Prizes for Cyberfair 2006 includes teacher training and Cyberfair Students convention at regional and national level.

Note however, in order for your school to be visited, you should be willing to invite other schools in your area as well in order to generate more entries for the country to compete at the international arena.

Let’s Inspire & Unite!

5 RP Schools Won at International Cyberfair 2005

My sincerest congratulations to the 5 Philippine schools who won at the International Schools Cyberfair! They are:

1. STI Academy with their entry “Simbahan“

2. Zamboanga del Norte National High School with their entry “ZOSE: Explore! Learn! Excel!“

3. Centre for International Education with their entry “Simply Cebu“

4. De La Salle Araneta University with their entry “Pancit Malabon Festival“

5. MSC High School with their entry “Festivals of Laguna”

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CyberFair 2006 is “Inspire and Unite!’

Hello everyone. I just got the chance to exchange e-mails with Cyberfair international and got word about the theme this early. It shall be “Inspire and Unite!”

Projects should “shine the spotlight” on people, places, businesses and
other things in their local community — that serve to “inspire,
motivate, and encourage positive change.”

I’ll post more details about this soon and look forward to this year’s competition as we intend be bigger and better than our previous years!