Sweet World of Joan

"Mommy I am sad, sakay tayo LRT, punta tayo Quiapo para bili ako ng kapatid" It was my mom's birthday yesterday July 12, and my brothers came to wish her a happy birthday. My brother Jon brought with him his family and so my son was happy to have his cousins to play with. I was not at home then for I was in a strategic planning workshop in school. I came home aroung 5 in the afternoon and my mother told me about her visitors that afternoon. I was wondering where is my son Lorenzo for he did not came rushing to greet me as he always do. When I went to our room I saw my son playing on the bed and I ask how is he. He replied "Mommy I am sad, sakay tayo LRT, punta tayo Quiapo para bili ako ng kapatid". Then he tearfully told me about his cousin Matt and his brother Jet and that they are gone now and he has no one to play with, and he wished he has a brother too. I told him that he has no brother as of now but maybe if he can wait till next year we can have one. Stil...

I wanted to celebrate my 10th year of teaching with a bang. I did not intend to have a career in teaching; I did not know I have the “calling”. Maybe it was already there but I did not recognize it. I was very active in High School, a girl scout and a Red Cross volunteer I practically spent three years teaching about scouting and first aid. But I am quite in the classroom. I took my college years seriously concentrated in my studies and did not join any extra curricular activities, very opposite of my high school life. Maybe that is why I forgot about teaching, that it comes naturally for me, that I was trained to teach during my years in high school. It was my dream to share what I know specially about IT, the Internet, blogging and now social networking but I found it hard to have a venue to share my knowledge, others I tried sharing how to blog felt insulted and view me as a show off. I just want them to enjoy what I do and reap from the benefits of these technologies. Last month I ...

I am teaching Management Information System(MIS) to Business Administration students this semester. I am trying to finalize my syllabus for the subject to keep it updated with the current technology and at the same time find ways to make it more interesting to my students. It is hard to teach a subject to students that feel that the subject is of no interest to them. That is what I discovered in teaching Computer subjects to students taking up non IT courses; it’s hard to keep them motivated and is most of the time not interested in what you are teaching. MIS is a very demanding subject to begin with and is one of the subjects in school that has a high failure rate. The subject requires an Information System Plan design project with a presentation/panel defense at the end of the semester, besides teaching about the really technical aspect about how to manage an enterprise which include IT facilities. I was looking for ways that would make the subject more interesting and at the same ti...