2012 BATTLE OF THE ICT WIZARDS

The Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) will conduct its 2012 Battle of the ICT Wizards

with the theme “It’s more fun in IT! Technology for Tourism Promotion” from October to

November 2012.

The Competition will be held in three (3) legs:

Luzon - October

Visayas - November

Mindanao - November

The participants will utilize different computer applications and programs to create

designs that will highlight the country’s scenic spots, cultural heritage, and warmth of its

people.

The Contest is open to all elementary and high school students from both public and

private schools nationwide. The students will be competing in the following categories:

Elementary - MS Powerpoint

Secondary - Adobe Photoshop

Pagemaker/InDesign

xHTML/Dreamweaver

Visual Basic 6

Adobe Flash

On-the-spot PC assembly and troubleshooting

The grand finals will take place in Manila on January, 2013.

The conduct of this activity must not disrupt classes as stipulated in DepEd Order No.

9, s. 2005 entitled “Instituting Measures to Increase Engaged Time-on-Task and Ensuring

Compliance Therewith.”

For more information, interested participants may contact:

Ms. Ma. Hennie S. Aldover

Business Development Area Manager

Computer Learning Assisted

Rm. 101, International Center for IT Education (ICITE) Bldg.

Eastwood Cybercity, Libis, Quezon City

Telefax No.: (02) 706-5478

Website Address: www.caledu.com

Madel: CAL Battle ICT Wizards

1521-August 27, 2012

DepEd ADVISORY No. 410, s. 2012

Wanted System and Web Developer - 80K to 100k Monthly

Department of Education
Memorandum

Request to Hire a Senior System and Web Developer/programmer for the Learning Resources Management and development

This is to request for the hiring of a Senior System Developer/Programmer for the Learning

Resources Management and Development System to funded by SPHERE for 6 and 1/2 month from June

15, to Dec 31 2012.


Requirements:

1. MVC framework and object oriented programming
2. Solid coding experience in web development tools particularly PHP, AJAX, HTML, Java scripts, CSS.
3. Portal management systems and tools.
4. Creative UI design skills for web page design and development including, audio, full motion video, tex and graphics production. (Adobe Flash, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro skills is an advantage)
5. Relational database management systems, particularly MySQL
6. System analysis and design methodologies.
7. Web analytics and tools to establish and report on system performance matrics.
8. Network and web security Administration.

Desired Experience

1.At least 5 years experience in system and web development with skills in analysis, design, programming, testing and implementtion.

2. At least 3 years experience in developing web based applications, web portals using PHP, MySQL, Code Igniter, Apache and anything related.

3. Experience in development and implementation of goverment and or eduation related application, particularly in the areas of learning content development and management system.

4. At lease 2 years experience in training users, providing technical support on large scale system implementation or operationalization.

5. Must have teaching skills and dedication for public service.




The expertise of an experienced Senion System Developer is critical to ensure the continuing

development, find tuning and optimization of the LRMDS application. The development involves

the adjustment of the system to accommodate new data and process requirements, review and

optimization of program codes and system design to ensure maximum performance.

With the creative design skills in webpage design and development of the Senior system

developer, it is expected that the LRMDS will be able to provide learning resources that are

interactive including those with audio, audio visual, text and graphics production.

Project Scope:

Develop new programs and or adjust existing programs according to approved requirements and

set coding standards.

Redesign ser interfaces and enhance the functionality of the sytem to enhance access LR

information and usability of the portal.

Design, coordinate and delivery fully function web based and internactive software

applications.

Test, deploy and document program modules in coordinatio with QA/Program Support and DepED

LRMDS Mainternance Group.

Liase with the office of technical services and regional LRMD systems managersas required to

inform systms improvements.

Provide necessary techniccal inputs to system design and development strategies to ensure adherence to industry "best practices"and standards.

Train the DepED LRMDS Maintenance Group on the continuing maintenace of the LRMSDS software.

Provide neccessary technical support to system users

Williness to travel as required.

Salary Range - 80,000 to 100,000 a month.

DepEd Internet Usage Policies for Offices

Oct 13, 2009
DepEd Order No. 105 S. 2009

Administrative Use of ICT by DepED Offices

a. Internet access is only granted to a limited number of users specified by the head of office and therefore identified as authorized users.

b. Internet access is provided to employees for the purpose of study, research, service and other activities which must be in the conduct of officials business or in furtherance of the mission and purpose of DepED.
c. Each employee using the DepEd internet access shall identity themselves honestly, accurately and completely when corresponding or participating in interactive activities.

d. Employees have no right of ownership or expectation of personal privacy as to their Internet usage.

e. The Technical Service and the Regional/Division ICT Coordinators are hereby designated to monitor all Internet usage including network traffic and with or without notice to limit or restrict any employees Internet usage privileges.
f. Offensive and or subversive content, may not be accesses, displayed, archived, stored, distributed, edited or recorded using DepED network, printing or computing resources.

Offensive content includes but not limited to - pornography, sexual comments or images, profanity, racial slurs, gender specific comment or any content that can reasonably offend someone on the basis of sex, race,color,religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental or physical disability.

Subversive content includes but not limited to - lending aid, comfort and moral support to individuals group or organization that advocate the overthrow of incumbent governments by force and violence on the basis of treason, sedition, sabotage, espionage or acts of terrorism.

g. Accessing of prohibited sites will considered a violation of DepED Internet Usage Policies.
h. As part of Internet security, attempts o access there and other non-work related sites shall be discourage and or blocked.

i. Network Administrator are instructed to configure their proxy servers and or switch routers in order to filter block prohibited sites.

j. For assistance in the configuration of said equipment, contact the ICTU at tel no. 02-631-9636, 02- 633-7264 or email at ICTU@deped.gov.ph.

k. All sites that visited and revisited by the users should be recorded for monitoring purposes.

L. Internet access shall not be used to conduct personal business, play computer games, gamble, run a business, conduct political campaigns, activities for personal gain or to take part in any prohibited or illegal activity.

m. No employees may use the Internet access to post messages to an internet message board, chat room, web blog, listwerv or other internet communication facility except in the conduct of official business or furtherance of the DepED mission.

n. No employee may use DepED facilities knowingly to download or distribute pirated software or data. Any software or files downloaded via the Internet may bu used only in ways that are consistent with their licenses or copyrights.

o. No employee may use the DepED internet facilities to deliberately propagate any virus, worm, Trojan horse, trap door or back door program codes or knowingly disable or overload any computer system, network or to circumvent any system intended to protect the privacy or security of another user.


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Teacher's ICT Workshop and Conference 2009

DepEd Memo 239, s.2009

UNESCO Next generation of Teachers: First Philippines Conference on ICT in Teacher Education.

The conference will be helod in different venues with the following planned parallel workshops: Peer Coaching, Intel Teach: Web 2.0 Tools, ICT Integration and Curriculum Development.



The UP College of Education will conduce the UNESCO Next Generation of Teachers: Fist Philippines Conference on Information Communications Technology (ICT) in Teacher Education on Oct 26-30, 2009 at UP Diliman, QC.

The objectives are enhance participants skills in ICT integration in teaching and learning, develop action plan in implementing and sharing acquired ICT skills and plan collaborative research on integrating technology in instruction.

participants are teachers and school administrators from public and private schools.

Registration fee is P4000. Pls contact Dr. Vivien Talisayon, Dean of UP College of Education at 02-981-8500 or email:ced@up.edu.ph.


DepEd Memo 239, s.2009
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ICT Conference Cum Workshop

Consultative Conference Cum Workshop with the IT Essentials Schools Implementers

In support to and for the consistent implementation of the Regional ICT Tech Voc HS that are offering the CISCO NetAcad Program, a Consultative Planning Conference will be conducted on SEPT 8-10, 2009 at the Development Academy f the Philippines, Tagaytay City.

a. gather feedback and address the concerns met in the implementation of the curriculum.
b. familiarize DepEd local academy instructors on the academy management module;
c. train instructors how to create and administer online student classes and to monitor student progress
d. train instructors how to raise concerns and get answers from Help Desk and
e. prepare instructors for their upcoming Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician Examination.

Participants to this activity are School principals, ICT Coordinator or ICT Teacher trainees in ITE and CISCO Certified Network Associate CCNA last May 2009.

Teacher participants may check in at the venue a day before the start of the training while the first meal to be served is dinner of Sept 7, 2009. Participants are required to bring their own laptop.

 DepED Memo 376 s 2009
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DEPED ICT Curriculum Writing with Experts from Private Companies

All Concerned

DepEd Memo 237 S 2009

LEVELING THE ICT ENHANCE CURRICULUM OF REGIONAL ICT TECH VOC HIGH SCHOOL TO LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

1. In support to the DepED ICT enable curriculum for Regional ICT Tech- Voc High School, a competency based curriculum alignment and leveling of the following ICT specialization shall be held on May 25-30 at San Pedro Relocation Center National High School, San Pedro Laguna.

IC3 (mandatory subject in lieu of PC Operations)
PC Hardware Servicing
Programming (Visual Basics)
Animation
Networking Technology

2. The objective of this CBC Alignment and leveling are to:

discuss with the industry partners such as the Micosoft Phils, CIsco IT Academies, Animation Council of the Phils, TESDA and ICT experts, the ICT competencies that can be adopted in High School.

Prepare the competency based curriculum CBC, contextual learning matrices - CLM, leaning modules for the aforementioned ICT specializations ready for use this June 2009.

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3. Enclosed is the list of ICT Teachers from the TOP 3 Regional ICT Tech-Voc High School who shall participate on the CBC alignment as curriculum writers. They are expected to be at the venue before May 24, 2009.

4. Board and lodging, expenses, honoraria, travel etc of the curriculum writers, facilitators, ICT resource persons etc shall be chargeable against Tech-Voc Funds.

The list of the following are here


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Guidelines in Accepting Computer Donation

DepEd Order 28 s. 2009

Guidelines in Accepting Information and Communication Technology Equipment and Internet Access Services for Classroom Instruction and Administrative Use

To all Concerned

Our schools through the years have been recipients of various ICT equipment. To complement/supplement the coverage of the DepEd computerization program priority should be given to ICT Equipment and Internet Access.

Before accepting any offering, the schools heads are required to coordinate with their respective Regional or Division ICT Coordinating Committee who are tasked to:

1. Coordinate and evaluate local ICT Programs and projects

2. Submit proposals to the Technical service - ICT Unit and ICT Technical Committee for evaluation and

3. Submit for approval by the ICT Governance Committee.

The Regional/Division ICT Coordinating Committee shall confirm that the donor has complied with the configurations endorsed by the following bureaus:

1 For Primary Schools, the BEE has endorsed the following configuration for multimedia classrooms

a. Computer hardware with Open Source operating system or Windows are acceptable
b. Internet Connectivity with minimum 384 kbps per unit

2. For Secondary School the BSE has endorsed the ff configuration;
a. Hardware with OS is preferable, the PPP-SKU licensing scheme must be used.
b. Minimum connectivity should be 384kbps/unit
c. Furthermore, the Regional/Division ICT Coordinating Committee shall validate if the equipment and internet service set conforms to the minimum specification.
d. The committee shall verify the existence of multimedia classroom or computer laboratory, stable supply of electricity, provision for air conditioning unit and qualified personnel to handle the equipment.

All the new equipment should have the following;

warranty certificates, shipping, delivery and installation manual. To assure product quality performance and reliability, the unit is preferably branded with ISO certified manufacturer.

For more details of the deped order please visit this link


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DepEd ICT Curriculum and Blogging Trends

Juned Sunido posted in his blog about the growth of blogs within two years.He is basically amazed on blog’s trends. He is definitely correct in his observation about the dramatic growth of blogs in the Philippines and in the world in general. Yes it is now global trends.

I myself being teacher, ICT trainor, web and some graphics designer and online marketer noticed this important change on blogging trends. The competition is now up and even my former student is now my competitor online. As a designer, I am against blogs because the template are the same. For me, the problem with blog was the feeling of originality on design, layout, colors and structures. That is the my reason why I did not start blogging and sharing to my students earlier. Instead I continue with my static sites and i required my high school graduate to produce group web sites. That is 4 years ago. When I got busy with my regular work plus the personal sites that I maintain, I started to use blogs for me to keep my love information posted online. I regrets for not blogging right away. I should have higher or better popularity and higher web traffics now. I should be able to teach my students and teachers as well on this technology so that the mentors are now member of blogosphere.

Since blogs speed up my internet needs which is putting my work online, coupled with online marketing and Adsense encouragement, my blog increase from 2 to 10 now. I became blog addicted and started to write something even I am not a professional writer (hope you accept my grammar and the way I present ideas).

Having a chance working in online advertising company, i have learned that English and Americans occupy big percent of blog in the market. They also have the traffics and the advertisement as well. Luckily, Filipino bloggers (see Manila Bloggers Society, Cebu Bloggers Society and Davao Bloggers Society) started to unite, share links, promote blogs by team and helps other community in promotion. The Indians are very good in web development. They have targeted the international market specially US and UK. Did you notice the "Marry me banner ads". The Indians have cornered the market of dating site. They have bitten us in web development’s freelance war or BPO wars if i may call. India also have Online Advertising Companies while in Philippines, we only have auction.ph which is unacceptable for me because it is affiliate program. The ideal for Philippines is also Local PPC and CPM like the Google Adwords.

Back to blogging trends now. The free editable blog templates give the designer and developer the feeling of originality in design. Why? it is because they allowed us to modify designs and layouts. Moreover, the wordpress and blogger can be hosted in private server. You can change the URL and the taggings or codes of your comment and posting. You can even do business and receive money like regular dynamic sites. The blog's plug in are also nice. Many site analytics, SEO widgets, social communities, bookmarking, etc. are now complementing the blog trends.

So blogging invited not only the writers, web designer and developer but also professionals like teachers, nurses, doctors, lawyers and even farmers. In 2002, I ask my students about the application of internet and then of course the answer is everyone. So therefore, I presumed that blog will become human's way of life. In the future, once blogging become part of school curriculum, every graduates has blog as high school requirements. In TLE we call this as portfolio evaluation. In education, we may call this "online human portfolio" which could run from elementary to college and perhaps until his career retirement. So people even already dead will be remember through his blog.

Yes dear reader of any profession, I have two mission now. First is to unite teachers in one organization know as Teachers Bloggers Society. Secondly and hoping that the blogging will become part of both public and private curriculum as part of ICT Integration. Language subjects have their portfolios, TLE and sciences required students portfolio. Araling Panlipunan, one of the subject with less ICT integration has their own portfolio as well. So one way to publish these students portfolio ONLINE is using blogs. It is easy, understandable and dynamic. Students can carry their blogs URL’s (since most are free) even they finished studies.

I do not know how to bring this to officials, but I just hope they read and think about it.

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DepEd ICT Curriculum is far Behind the Trend

The DepEd ICT Curriculum is very late. The latest ICT curriculum was made last 2004 and the basis of this curriculum is still Microsoft Operating System, Microsoft Office, Basic hardware and software with actual or hand on experience, basic web development with little discussion on graphics and basic programming which until 2009 the computer teacher was unable to implement due to lack of programming training and trainors. Some details on the background of ICT Curriculum given by DepED.

• The actual computer education of the public high school student will begin in 3rd year level (some concern school started in the elementary and first year yet no clear program until now).
• The content will be Operating system, software and hardware concepts, keyboarding, Ms word and Excel. Never mention the PowerPoint and Ms Publisher. However since ICT teacher of Deped are intelligent, flexible and aggressive, they teach those missing topics even it is no longer in the curriculum.

• The 4th year student will learn the basic concepts of programming like pseudocode, syntax, flowcharting, IF and then etc. Take note there is no actual coding since teacher of DepEd does not know how to code. That will be all for 4th yr 2nd grading. (1st grading is review of 3rd yr lesson). In 3rd grading, the 4th yr will do Ms Access database. Lucky if the teacher know this application yet mostly do not know. The 4th grading is spent in HTML.

Why late? Basically database programming now a days is more on MS Sql and mysql. While the curriculum is about Access and HTML, Microsoft already introduce since 2002 the FrontPage web design application. Unfortunately, FrontPage is already face out by 2004 because it do not conform with W3 standard. The FrontPage now is have a new name and Microsoft call it Web Expressions, yet the software was unable to released formally. In this trends the Adobe products together with Macromedia - Adobe package became dominant for IT related works suited for Filipinos. DepED do not have license for it so we can not teach this in the classroom unless teachers are willing to take risk on licenses.

Yes Sir, while the DepEd stick to Microsoft product, the actual industry is using Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop. This is what are lacking for the Filipino students while Indian professional enjoying. Now lets focus in programming, which in my view should be teach to 3rd year student. Just a simple conditional if and then scripts is very important to the student to understand the logic of various programming language.

DepEd have to chose PHP over ASP as application in the theory. PHP is free and do not need license suited for Philippine settings. I recommend that the student start studying CSS since it is the next after HTML or XHTML. All this things will required comprehensive training for ICT teacher and not only 40 hours or one week as what DepED usually offered to teachers.

The high school student are not allow to study hardware maintenance since the school is afraid that the student may damage the units. However just last year STEP final in Baguio, the curriculum expert discuss the new coming curriculum for the future high school computer technician.

The sad thing is, they want to adopt with the needs of the society yet it is still late. The curriculum writer should include not only hardware technician but also the following; software technician, network technician and basic server maintenance. Hey i do not suggest to get the job from Computer Engineer. Actually, those Engineer do not like to do this dirty works and they want it to be left to the maintenance technician. It simply means the Civil Engineer just command what to do while the laborer (technician) perform the task.

Luckily, some DepEd IT teachers was forced to study and teach latest innovation like graphics designing (should be included in DepEd curriculum) and web design and development ( once again should be included at least basic topics) since this is the trends of today Information Technology. Why the teachers are forced? It is because of the Student Technologist and Entrepreneur of the Philippines. The organization the host and manage the technology competition of the Department of Education. Every year, winning the STEP competition is getting difficult. The quality of outputs can be observed during judging. So much for the STEP, let me summarize my demand as former IT expert of DepEd.

The DepED should make IT as separate subject like math and science. Why because this technology is applicable in every part of human life. There is no more activities that this IT is not usable. It is comprehensive in details which can not be fruitful by mere integration.

The DepEd should start teaching Operating System, Concepts of Hardware and software, Ms Word and Excel to the first year. PowerPoint and Desktop Publishing (graphics design) for the second year. Web development, some scripting language and data base application both Microsoft and open software for third year. Lastly, hopefully the student is already matured to repair, troubleshoot, do some networking and configuration including internet and server maintenance for 4th year.

Yes i do not intent to get the job from college graduate. This high school is just support group, the Junior worker of the industry if they not proceed in college. That i think the essence of Edukasyong Pangkabuhayan.

Ops the teachers need training. As i observed, the DepED and private sector even Microsoft offered training which is very basic like, basic office application, basic multimedia, basic desktop publishing etc. Hey our student do not need the basic. They need quality learning, complete and usable when they enter the next facet of their lives. Hey, do not forget to include the forum, blog, online photos, e-mail, chat, voip, download and upload, conferencing and those things as latest today.

Former ICT In Charge
Minglanilla NSHS
www.mnshs.co.nr