Reactivated Reactorism

Hi bloggers, advance Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to all!

As what I have promised, I will blog everything that happened during the week in the school and other left-right activities outside the academic life that I have.

December 17, 2006 - I was excited in that day since I was invited and assigned as one of the groomsmen for the Wedding of my friend. This was held at the Davao Convetion Center from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM. The wedding was great with some undeniable and wonderful guests present in the ceremony. It was a memorable wedding that I have attended since the groom was with tears having his moving statements to his parents all the way from Zamboanga. I kept on watching on my watch since I was invited also to attend a debut celebration of one of my students, Karen Keith Libron. I did not finish the celebration in the wedding and rushed to went home then changed my attire to suit the groovy night in Adriano’s (I think, it was Magnetic Jones before) which the debut was held. Some of my students were there aside from her classmates in HighSchool and College. Some were few invited guests from the 3rd year. Hahay…enough for that…Oh wait…that night also was full of excitement when my name was called to render songs for the debutante….kurog my heart…ako pa…I rendered Be my Lady and Minsan Lang Kitang Iibigin. I was so sure that I delivered the songs greatly….hhehehhehe…

December 19 - 21, 2006 - These days were days of deliberation of learnings of my students in the Preliminary Period. I scheduled all my exams for the three subjects at 5:00 - 7:00 PM to give them enough time to review and rest their minds from exams before my subject. SAD 1 took place, unfortunately only 3 students have passed the exams. Yes, the exam was just theoretically in nature but trickly made by me. The weakness of my students was when you restate the statement, everything went wrong. Lack of analysis and understanding as they say. I was so sure, they have lessons gained from that exam, aside from studying the lessons well, they have to understand and analyze them properly so that they will retain and remain in their minds. Extra efforts are to be applied and not just 1 night studying. What do you think of yourself, machine or computer? Even machine needs to rest to work effectively. Some of my students commented that their Christmas is not that happy because they were SAD with the result (taken from the acronym of the subject). The exam lasted for 80 minutes.

A day after was the exam for Presentation Skills in IT for 1st year students. I considered the last bringhome assignment as the Prelim Practical Exam. Based on the submission made, most of them did great with that assignment. Luckily, I had just one section taught for this subject, it’s IT 1F. The same story with my SAD subject, the exam was trickly done because I know also that this was the weakness of the class. The coverage of the exam was all about Presentation in general. But the question was, how many passed my exam?….seven students have passed the exam…The exam lasted for 80 minutes.

A day after was the last subject that I had my exam. It was the Computer Programming 2. I intentionally setted this one in the last day and perhaps the last exam for the week for my 1st year students. I am handling the 4 sections for this subject that was why, we occupied the whole laboratories from 5:00 - 7:00 PM. The exam went smoothly. My students were in their full strength and mind boggling concentrations in answering the exam. Questions ranges from Introduction to C++ to Multiple-Subscripted Arrays. Questions were mixed and you have to analyze each of them before you can answer. They were not just purely memorization, but my intention was to develop their skills in analyzing and understanding items carefully. After an hour, some of my student submitted their answers, luckily 16 students have passed the exam. The exam lasted as well for 80 minutes

Before I will erase it to my mind..hehehhe.., wait here’s another thing:

December 22, 2006 - Just this morning, we had our Institutional Christmas Party here in the School Lobby, what do you expect, Marco Polo hotel?…hehhehe.. It was a yearly gathering of all the employees of the university which includes the College, Elementary and High School Departments and also with out them nobody will take good care of everything in place and in order, the Maintenance Services Group. This year’s gathering was more exciting and full of surprises. Foods and gifts (1 balde with noche buena items) were more practical compared to last year. Over all, it was the best Institutional Christmas party that I have ever attended as far as my stay here in the university.

These are just tidbits of the memorable activities before the year ends.

God bless everyone! Have a fruitful celebration of the holidays!

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