No.17 My first term and English term in Asia Pacific College

My first term and English term in Asia Pacific College was really memorable  and fruitful because of the people I've met which are my professors,blocks mates and friends. when I decided to go back to school, honestly I don't know why I chose APC. when I'm looking for a university to enroll in I just saw APC in the Internet. I don't have any idea about this school but I prayed to god that he would provide the best school for me.
After I inquired  in the admission I took the entrance exam and I passed it.on my first day I felt very nervous,scared and anxious because its the first time I'm going back to school after 14 years and I don't know what to expect from my classmates, professor and especially with my subjects.

My original section was BM152 but the registrar office changed my section to BM151.when I met all my classmates, most of them are younger than me and they are very competitive.Honestly I felt culture shock because it was not easy to adjust for me I know that I need to refresh my mind I need to learn how to effectively study my lessons and how to do my assignment,sometimes I'm at lost for what to do. I needed to ask my classmates for help I needed to go back to basics..
I was very thankful  to god because I belong to Bm151 all my professor's are very kind, cool,easy to approach,they really guide their students and are always giving another chance.

To all my classmates I was very thankful to them because they are very kind and they threat me like their Ate. They always called me ate Jem and they are very sweet to me, they always hug me.because of them, my professors and my classmates in Bm151, I feel I had a family in APC.Now I realized why god brought me in APC because I've met people like my professor's Miss Pam,Sir Christian Fruto,Miss Joyce Umali,Very cool Sir Jaime Daroy,Miss Precy Agaton, they are very kind and very appreciable Miss Elizabeth Reyes,Thank you so much to all my professor's I learned a lot from you miss and sir.I learned how make a blog,how to make a journal,how to make a critical analysis,how to make business proposal and I faced my fear to speak in front of other people.
To my BM151 family I'm very thankful to you guys because You treat me like your own ate and I'm very happy for that,thank you for the good and happy memories,bonding,joy and laughter.. I felt sad because next term I will not be able to belong to your bockBM151 because I need  to take another subject. how I wish that I belong to Bm15 next term but like I was saying and I believed that god always have a purpose in our life that we need to accept but nothing could change the fact that they are still my family and I'm still their  ate Jem,and I'm hoping that next term I will meet professors like my professor and block mate/classmates  in my English term. I really,really miss you all i hope the feeling is still mutual.I'm looking forward for my next term in APC l believe that every person we meet in our life god always have a purpose for us..thank you so much for the wonderful memories, unforgettable,happiness."My English  Term"

No.16 SOM Speech choir competition and Ignite speech contest

The SOM speech choir "At Christmas by Edgar Albert Guess"and  Ignite contest was held last December 22,2015 at Asia Pacific college Auditorium the contestants for the speech choir are the fallowing AC151 The second runner up,AC152,BM151,MA151 the first runner up and TM151 The champion for speech choir competition.Each block perform for their  own interpretation for the  "At Christmas by Edgar Albert Guess."

Edgar Albert Guest was born in Britain but grew up and spent most of his life in the U.S.A. He was a product of "small town" America and the values and lifestyle he had as a boy permeates his writing both prose and poem. He worked most of his adult life as newspaperman, syndicated country wide and is reputed to have had a new poem published in a newspaper every day for over 30 years.Eddie Guest was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England in 1881, moving to Michigan USA as a young child, it was here he was educated.
"allpoetry.com › Edgar-Albert-Guest"

There was a prevailing feeling of excitement and nerves in the atmosphere.Everyone was excited to perform  and show their talent and at the same time nervous to be performing in front of a live audience.I for one share the same emotions.we wanted to make our presentation as lively,and as entertaining as possible.we want to try our best in making not just our professor,but ourselves as well proud of our performance.We know that we have  to do is not an easy task  we could give the best performance that we can that time.after perform all the blocks and time for the announcement of the winner we cross are fingers that we are part of the top 3 but sadly we are not part of the top 3 we loosed in the competition.For me I really feel  sad that time but I realize that is life sometime we need to lose in order to win.The important is we did everything for the competition maybe the trophy is not ours better luck next time for other competition.The important is how we accept the challenge and I know we did everything as a group we learned how to manage our time during practice and we leaned a lot of this competition so that next time we know how to win or  to became a champion their is a saying "sometime we need to hurt in order to grow We must lose in order to gain Sometime,some lessons are learned best through pain..

For the Ignite speech each block had one representative five contestants for the ignite speech and proudly to say that the champion is from our block BM151 Mr.Benjamin Paolo Bajet  we are very proud because of him and thankful we had a champion from our block..To all the winner in ignite speech competition congratulations and also for the contestants i know you do your best and congratulations also.Thank you for the wonderful experienced and lesson I've learned.
Congratulation to all Ignite speech winners BM151 the chamtion,MA151 first runner up and AC151 second runner up. 

No.15 SOM Inter-class Public Speaking contest

SOM Inter-class Public Speaking contest with the theme: "The cult of celebrities and fantasies a Filipino obsession" was held last December 21,2015 at Asia Pacific College Auditorium.AC151,AC152,BM151,MA,151 and TM151 each block had five representatives, first  in elimination round and after that in semi final the contestants' topic was about how to hundle "The  cult of celebrity and fantasies a Filipino obsession in every Filipino or in their own life how to affect the obsession in our life" each contestant had a different interpretation of celebrity obsession some in good terms because they use the celebrity or idols as inspiration in their life to fulfill their dream In the  future or they want to fallow the steps of their idols someday.while for the other contestants, they realize that the obsession to their idols is not healthy for them because sometime they spent money to buy a ticket for concert of their idol,Cd's etc but they realise that even they do everything for their idols but in the end their idols they do not appreciate everything that they can do for the sake of their idol that is the reality in life.
we know that in this generation, celebrity  has a big impact in our life especially to the youth now a days.

When they obsessed over a celebrity they do everything for their idols,I'm not in favor of it because  I feel our society has an unhealthy celebrity culture.most of the youth's role model in their life is their celebrity idol because of their obsession they want to became like their idol but in reality we have different fate in our life. we forgot being a simple person.some people or youth now a days spend their  time or money for their idols but they don't remember what god did or sacrificed for us.they have time going to concert or watch movie for their idols but they don't have time to go Church.for me celebrity is for fun not a obsession because god is above all things in this world we think of god first before we think for others.
I hope some of the youth who are obsessed with a celebrity or a person would think first of what these celebrity did or sacrifice  in your life.I hope that we always remember what Jesus did for our life he gave and sacrifice his life to save us from our sins.

if we obsessed about god, not for other thing or to other person then we would realize that we have a lot to of things to do and can do in this word if we open our eyes or heart. we will realize that we can do anything for example a simple help to other people instead you spent your money for you idols you can used it for helping other people that they deserved to help .Sometime because of insecurity in life we forgot that we can be a celebrity in our own the important is be yourself you can be a better person we can do good thinks for other we don't need to became a famous celebrity in our own we can make it.Christmas we don't forget to thank god for the blessings,unconditional love,care and sacrificed who gave to us we spread love to each other like god did for us.To all the winner  TM,AC and MA in pubic speaking congratulations.

No.14 Phantom of the opera

     

The Phantom of the Opera is a 2004 British film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux. It was produced and co-written by Lloyd Webber and directed byJoel Schumacher. It stars Gerard Butler in the title role, Emmy Rossum as Christine Daaé, Patrick Wilson as Raoul, Miranda Richardsonas Madame Giry, and Minnie Driver as Carlotta Giudicelli.

Https://en.wikipedia.org>wiki>The_Phantom of opera

We watched phantom of the opera last November 25 and December 2,2015.when we first watch this movie I don't have any idea about this movie honestly this is my first time to watch musical movie at first I felt bored because I don't know what to expect or what happening in the end but the movie goes on and try to focus and watch.when characters start singing especially Christine and phantom i said to myself wowww what an angelic voice they start singing and I am really amazed of this they have really,really nice voice when phantom start singing I fell in love to his voice and I am curious about this movie.

The story of phantom of the opera it about phantom"opera ghost" who falling in love to Christine "the operas breakout new soprano"Christine is kidnapped by phantom and is taken to his home where to reveal his true identity,he plan to keep Christine for few days hoping she will come to in love him.Christine unmask Phantom and reveal his identity and to horror of both ,behold,his noiseless,lip less sunken eyed face. Christine request to release after two weeks phantom agree on condition that she wear his ring and be faithful to him. after the following night phantom force Christine to marry him and Raoul attempt to rescue Christine and Raoul trapped in a hot torture chamber.Raoul is a childhood friend and love interest of Christine

Christine beg and offer to be his "living bride"promising not to kill herself after becoming his bride.Phantom eventually rescues Raoul from his torture champers,when phantom alone with Christine he lifts his mask to kiss her on her forehead and is given a kiss back to phantom and he reveal that he has never received a kiss before.phantom allowed to escape Raoul and Christine and return the gold ring he gave her

This movie was really interesting for me because phantom he let go Christine despite of his love her.and the characters are really have nice voice especially Christine and phantom they are blessed to have kind of voice               

No.13 Plagiasm

How to Recognize Plagiarism

Word-for-word

Word-for-word plagiarism is committed when a writer takes a sequence of 7 or more words from another source, but fails to identify the quoted passage, fails to provide the full in-text citation crediting the author(s), and fails to provide the bibliographic reference.

Read the example carefully

Plagiarized Version	Correct Version
Constructivists do not hold views entirely opposed to those of the cognitivists. The position of constructivists extends beyond the beliefs of the cognitivist. Reference: Heinich, R., Molenda, M., Russell, J. D., & Smaldino, S. E. (1999). Instructional media and technologies for learning. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.	Constructivists do not hold views entirely opposed to those of the cognitivists. The position of constructivists "... extends beyond the beliefs of the cognitivist" (Heinich, Molenda, Russell, & Smaldino, 1999, p. 17). Reference: Heinich, R., Molenda, M., Russell, J. D., & Smaldino, S. E. (1999). Instructional media and technologies for learning. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Explanation: This version is word-for-word plagiarism. The student included a portion of the original author's work in a sentence without using quotation marks.No citation points to author or to thereference provided. No credit was given to the original author in the text of the paper, and quotation marks were not used. So a reader does not know these are someone else's words, nor the source where these words can be found--especially if there is more than one reference in the bibliograpphy.	Explanation: Quotation marks are used to indicate that this passage is a word-for-word quote from the original document. Here thefull in-text citation follows the quote and includes the locator. Of course, the full reference is also provided. A reader can find exactly where the words came from. Just find the book in the biblography that is referred to, and look on page 17. We are using APA style here. References are provided at the end of a paper in APA style In other styles, the bibliographic reference might be put in a footnote on the page where the citation occurs. In any case, the reference should provide sufficient information for a reader to find the original source, e.g., in a library.

Original Source Material: Constructivism is a movement that extends beyond the beliefs of the cognitivist. It considers the engagement of students in meaningful experiences as the essence of learning. The shift is from passive transfer of information to active problem solving. Constructivists emphasize that learners create their own interpretations of the world of information.                                     https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/example2word.html

Source: Heinich, R., Molenda, M., Russell, J. D., & Smaldino, S. E. (1999). Instructional media and technologies for learning. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

   

Plagarism, the act of taking credit for somebody else's work or intellectual property. We are all very familiar with it, but at some point of our lives we are guilty of commiting it whether consciously or unconsciously.
The most common people to be guilty with plagarism are the students, probably because for the simple reason that they have a gigantic work load and they are subjected to time pressure and mental drain, so the seemingly natural thing to do is to resort to plagarism. But what they fail to realize is that they are not just fooling their teachers or peers, but more than that they are doing a great diservice to themselves because they are depriving themselves to grow as a thinking human being.

It's not just the students who are guilty of plagarism, anyone could sometimes commit it without meaning to. 
There is nothing wrong with using reference books and journal or other sources of information as long as you cite them. Sometimes we read something from a book or a journal perhaps and then when we write a paper related to it we tend to paraphrase the idea but we then fail to cite the source. Another thing is we sometimes tend to overlook citations. Sometimes when we already mentioned the source in the references we tend to think that there is no more need for a citation or vice versa, but that is not the case. We must keep in mind that every citation should be present in the references and every reference should have a corresponding citation.
The best thing to do to avoid plagarism is to make sure to give credit where cridet is do, be honest with ourselves, and be careful in citing and writing references. If we are able to do this then we are actually transforming ourselves into a responsible and reliable writer and researcher. 

No.12 Media Literacy:''Mobilizing the Millennials as Society Responsible Prosumer"

Last Wednesday,November 25,2015 we have attended a seminar together with my bocksmates,about media literacy entitled:Media Literacy "Mobilizing the Mellenials as Society Responsible Prosumers.Andwe were privilegde to be a ableto listen to notable person from the pretegious GMA network.The speakers are  First is Miss Edmallyne Remillano Head writer,state of the Nation with Jessia Soho,  Secreary, Talent Association of GMA network.second is miss Jan Meynard Nualla Program producer,Global Conversations on CNN Plippines Affliation,Talent association of GMA Network(TAG)Socaity of Asian Journalist (SAJ).and the last speaker is Miss Lian Nami Buan Association Producer for Segment,state of the Nation with Jessica Soho, Association Editor,Subselfie com Affliation,Talent Association of GMA

there were a lot of important things that were raised and discussed during the simenar,and even after the event was over.I am still left thinking and reflection about the issues that were discussed the seminar.In this digital age knowledge.Now the question is ''is media being responsible about the tremendous task that it has to perform for the public?" "how accurate are are the information that the different media are giving us?''
These question could not be easily answered,but I would lile to also point out that misinformation could not solely be blamed on the media,for the audience,also plays an inportant role in information consumption.What do the audience consider as important and irrelevant information?

Lets us take for example the twitter-phenomenon "aldud".Now I would like to make clear that i have nothing against the said program,but what concerns me (and you should be too)si the amount of publicity and attention that its getting from the midea consumers.There is nothing wrong with admiring the program,after all it is a real good one,but i do believe that there are far more important and urgent things to focus on social media than that.Isseus like the Syria crisis for example.How many more tweets about aldub is there than tweets about Syria? Doesn't this phononenon raise concerns about human being in general value more?

Its is true that the people who conctrols the media media should be careful,responsible,and accountable  for what they feed thier audience,but the audience in turn should also be careful,responsible and accountable for discerning what information to digest.
Media could be a very helpful thing if utilized corectly,but as with everything,it could also be harmful if misused.
So that end of the day,it all boils down to the question "Could we be trusted with all the digital and technological advancements that we have at our disposal"

No.11 K-12 Program in Philippine Education and its Benefits (Research Topic)

                             BENEFITS OF THE K-12 CURRICULUM FOR FILIPINO STUDENTS!                                         

                                                                                 

A recent change in the Philippines’ educational system was implemented starting in 2011. President Aquino signed the K 12 education into law in 2013, adding three years to the country’s basic education curriculum.

The new K 12 curriculum guide requires all Filipino students to have one year of kindergarten, six years of elementary schooling (grades 1 to 6), four years of junior high school (grades 7 to 10), and two years of senior high school (grades 11 to 12).

The rationale

Prior to the implementation of the K 12 curriculum guide, the Philippines was one of only three countries in the world and the only one in Asia that still had only 10 years in basic education.

This has always been seen as a disadvantage for our students who are competing in an increasingly global job market. The longer educational cycle of the K 12 curriculum is seen as critical in giving Filipino students a higher quality of education.

The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization – Innotech (SEAMEO-Innotech) found the previous 10-year educational cycle to be congested, with a 12-year curriculum squished into 10 years.

As a result, Filipino students have trailed behind students around the world in the areas of math, languages and science. The new curriculum is aimed to fix that.

 The K 12 curriculum is designed to enable graduates to join the work force right after high school, and suitably prepare those who want to go on to higher education.

The new curriculum will also support college graduates seeking work abroad. Developed countries, according to the Department of Education’s (DepEd) briefer, “view the 10-year education cycle as insufficient.”

All in all, the enhanced K 12 curriculum is designed to provide a holistic education for all. Now decongested, it will give students ample time to master basic academic skills as well as to participate in co-curricular and community activities.

What it means for students

A The transition began in 2011, when the universal kindergarten was introduced. Starting in 2012, schools already implemented the curriculum decongestion mentioned in the DepEd briefer.

Public schools began having half-day classes for grade one students, with the mother tongue as the medium of instruction. Private schools also made adjustments in their own DepEd accredited curricula.

The adaptation of the K 12 curriculum guide means that students will graduate a bit older compared to those who graduated under the 10-year education cycle.

Far from being disadvantageous, however, DepEd states that young adults graduating at age 18 or so will be more prepared to take on their tertiary education.

Remedial classes during the first year of college will no longer be needed, as the high school curriculum will already be aligned with the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED) guidelines.

The government also encourages parents to think of the K 12 curriculum guide not as having two extra years of high school, but as two years less of higher education.

Graduates of the new educational system will already be equipped to join the workforce right away with the help of the electives to be offered during grades 11 to 12.

The electives, or areas of specialization, will include academics for those who wish to pursue higher studies, technical-vocational for those who want to acquire employable skills after high school, and sports and arts for those who are inclined in the two fields.

Change is never easy, especially when it is about a big undertaking such as the implementation of the new K-12 curriculum guide in the Philippines. It is high time, however, that we join the rest of the world and improve the quality of our basic education system and our graduates.

                                               

References:

www.gov.ph/K-12

www.ph.theasianparent.com