Sweet World of Joan

It is my third semester to teach my students about blogging. I started it last year with my computer engineering students in PUP as an additional topic and to my civil engineering and AB History students in the Intro to IT subject. I did not found it hard to teach the topic for most of the students regularly surfs the net and knows the ins and out, specially email, egroups and friendster and they are on their 3rd to 4th year in college. Some of the already have blogs and almost everyone wants to have their own blogs. We just discuss the basics like how to get started, where to get the free site and how to maintain their blogs plus what to blog about and what not to, and the students do the rest with minimal supervision from me. Then I regularly visit their blogs for additional extra points on their final grade and its not compulsory. This semester is quite different from the previous ones, I teach Intro to Information Technology at PLMAR (Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina), to freshmen...

I am very thankful that blogs were invented, since I started blogging April of 2006 new doors were opened, I had the opportunity to meet great and extraordinary people and I started to really get to know the real me, know my strengths and weakness and it enabled me to become a better person. One person I have gotten to know through blogging is Elizabeth Pantley , a parent, educator, a mom like me and an author of eight books for parents including the best-selling No-Cry Series: The No-Cry Sleep Solution, The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers and The No-Cry Potty Training Solution. I was flattered when she e-mailed me and told me that she read my blog and it seems we share the same ideas on parenting. She asked me if I want to have a copy of her new book The No-Cry Discipline Solution: Gentle Ways to Encourage Good Behavior without Whining, Tantrums and Tears and give my review on it, of course I agreed for I am really interested on what I can learn on parenting. I ta...

GMA7 is making a remake of Marimar and will be televised starting Monday. When I first heard about it I was upset. Remaking something as good as Marimar would surely be unacceptable, specially thinking local stars portraying my favorite star Thalia , really pissed me off. But looking at the promotional pictures and getting a glimpse of the video piqued my interest, something in me took noticed and now I am looking forward to the telecast this coming Monday. Even my friends who were as addicted to Marimar ten years ago are all excited. Looking at the pictures I got from igma.tv, indicated that the soap is well made, I hope so. When Marimar was aired in RPN 9 in 1996 I was really hooked, even coming home early from work just to watch it, come to think of it, almost all of Manila was hooked with the Mexican Telenovela. I even watch the two concerts of Thalia when she came here in the country, and I have been a fan ever since I even have her latest album. The Marimar Plot Marimar is peasan...

Welcome to Sweet World!!! I have Categorized Myself! It's been weeks since my last post and I have really missed blogging. There are several reasons why.... the most notable is that we were sick! As in my whole family, it started with my son catching the virus at school making him sick for more than 2 weeks and ending it with both me and my husband being sick at the same time last weekend its was really one nasty bug for we had the fever, cold, cough, running nose and allergy, the whole ensalada at the same time. I still have the cold and the cough today lucky for me there was no classes last weekend. Another reason is the improvement of my blog, I've been meaning to do it for the longest time and luckily after a few "no classes/suspension" I had finally the time to do it. Here are the new things I accesorized myself with: Proudly Pinoy Logo - I am proud to be a Filipino and being inspired by Yatot I also displayed the logo. Pinoy Moms Network - I have been a mem...