As part of the free Sinag Journalism Training Seminar, the 114 students who came to the 1st leg of the Sinag JTS last February 12, 2011 were made to write during their afternoon workshops. The speakers for the event submitted their top entries from the different schools who attended the event. We will publish, in full, the editorial articles in english who topped the said workshop.
The 5 best articles (English Divisionm, HS and Elem) that were chosen are the following:
1. “The K-12 Program” by Marinel Jeil Ladringan (HS), Canlubang Christian School
2. Lorelie Miranda, (HS) 4th Year, Sta. Cecilia Catholic School Foundation, Inc.
3. “What causes pollution, how to prevent it and how it affects us” by Mark Lukas B. Agutaya (ES), Grade 5, Mayapa Elementary School
4. “Who is to be blamed?” by Regine C. dela Cruz, Liceo de Calamba
5. “Mistaken idea” by Ma. Stephanie Nocum (ES), Grade 5, Calamba Elementary School.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Sinag Publishing and Printing Services will be distributing Certificates of Recognition to the writers of the 6 best articles on February 26, 2011 (Saturday) at the LLC, Central 2 School, Calamba City.
Our speakers/experts will also be choosing the best articles submitted on the 2nd leg of the Sinag JTS on February 26 and Sinag will also give out certificates of appreciation for the participants who will be chosen. So good luck to everybody and see you on February 26 at the Sinag Journalism Training Seminar!
Here are the top articles (published in no particular order) written by the best student writers of the 2nd Sinag Journalism Training Seminar (February 12, 2011) editorial writing, english division:
The K-12 Program
Marinel Jeil Ladringan (High School)
Canlubang Christian School
Nowadays, the most prominent issue of the Philippines is the quality of education. And the so-called solution the government come up with is the K-12 program. The K-12 program adds two years to the secondary education. According to the Department of Education this is a very crucial step for the welfare of the Filipino students.
The additional two years will be allotted for mechanical, technical, and agricultural preferences. But is this really what the Philippines need? Everyone is aware of the economical crisis were going through. Can the Filipinos still afford two more years of education? The government says that the K-12 program will serve as a training ground for college. But the question is, can we still afford college?
The percentage of dropouts among the high school students increases every year. And the primary reason is financial problems. Majority of the Filipinos struggle to send their children to four years of high school? What more if it becomes six years?
We strongly believe that the K-12 program is not the best solution for the crisis in the quality of Filipino education. Additional years will cost additional facilities, textbooks and other educational needs. And of course, additional budget. Can the Philippine government still provide for these needs?
Instead of spending much money on the additional two years, why not spend it on a better foundation for our present education? The money can be spent on more textbooks, better facilities and much more important educational materials.
The quality education cannot be measured by the number of years you spent studying. But, by how and what you learned throughout those years. Instead of adding two more years, the government should focus on making the four years the best learning period or experience every Filipino ever had.
_____________________________
Lorelie Miranda
4th Year -HS
Sta. Cecilia Catholic School Foundation, Inc.
Many generations already reigned here in the Philippines since we are given the opportunity to learn and be educated. Within those years, Filipinos are used to study six years in the primary level, spend four years in the secondary level and take the degree courses they want after they take up years of basic knowledge.
At present, there is a new proposal in the field of education, the K-12. In this proposal, it is stated that there will be an additional two years in the secondary level where it will be more on agricultural and mechanical subjects, preparation for the next level, the tertiary level. They propose it because they say that with the use of it, there will be more quality in the education given to the Filipinos in our country.
Is that really the case? Does longer years of staying in school studying improve the quality of education?
Yes, we really need quality education. And we already have it here in the Philippines. The real problem is, we do not have the capability to give it to the majority of the people here in the country. Our lack of budget in education is the main reason why we can't have quality education. If we only have enough budget, there would be enough classrooms and good facilities in public and private schools, our best produced educators won't go to other countries to teach other nationalities and we will be able to produce more Filipinos that our country can be proud of. Adding two years in secondary education will just add up in our expenses, and instead that we are already working and helping our parents to produce a living we are still studying.
Youth, we have the voice to shout our opinions. We can move to change the decision of the government. Eventhough sometimes we are not heard by them, what is important is that we let them we let them know what is our side in their plans. Quality education is still in our hands. It is visible in you. Prove to them that K-12 is not really a necessity.
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Mark Lukas B. Agutaya - Mayapa Elementary School, grade 5.
What Causes Pollution, How to Prevent it and How it affects us
What causes pollution? How do we prevent it? The smoking of. Throwing garbages anywhere, the dumping of the chemicals of factories. The smoke that the cars blow, cutting of trees, building many factories. The smoke that the building blows. Illegal loggings of people in the forest. Using dynamites for fishing. Oil spills in the sea. Spraying insecticides to kill insects.
What will happen to us if everywhere in the world is polluted? Many people will get sick. The water we will drink will be dirty. Our surroundings will smell bad. Every place will be dirty. It will be hard to breathe We will have nothing to eat. We will suffer for what we did and many will suffer too.
How can we prevent it? We should plant many trees. Stop smoking, stop illegal loggings, stop using dynamites for fishing, do clean and green in your town.
__________________________
Regine C. dela Cruz
Liceo de Calamba
Who is to be blamed?
Far from what we all expected, in August 23-hostage taking turned out into dismaying tragedy. For almost 8 Hong Kong & Chinese nationals were killed by the hostage taker and dismaying for our government especially our policemen.
It would really be the fault of a decorated policeman dismissed as senior inspector for allegedly exonting Php20,000 from a hotel chef. The hostage taker felt injustice was done to him. And in order for everyone and the high ones to know and hear his shout for it, he hostage a bus loaded of 20 persons.
Now after knowing the story, could we blame him?
How about the media? Let's admit it. Media really contributed to the failure of the situation. Media should know their limitations and should not interfere in a serious and confidential thing like this.
How about the Manila police? Yes! We didn't have our best team. So could we blame them now?
Our negotiators have done their best, I guess, they were able to guess what the inside man wants.
The brother, meanwhile, only wants to talk to his older brother but then police aggresively arrested him which had been seen by the hostage taker inside.
But after all, we can't change the past, all we have to do is to move on and be sorry for the Hong Kong and Chinese nationals that were killed.
The hostage crises will be a lesson for everyone most especially to our government and policemen.
Next time, no more lunch breaks, no more failed negotiations. No more untrained policemen and no more killings.
______________________________________
Ma. Stephanie Nocum - Calamba Elementary School, Grade 5
Mistaken Idea
Issues had alarmed us when DepEd see Bro. Armin Luistro had released the new DepEd Memorandum stating the "No Homework Policy".
Teachers, Parents and some students are most affected among others because , first, teachers are the one who knows the capacity of each pupil in dong their weekly assignments. They are also the one who knows how many assignments they have to give.
Some parents also contradicted to what the teachers had replied the government. The parents said that weekends are likely to be their family days so it made every parent to be very sad that their family days will be included as a school day of their children even if they are in their home.
Students also replied they are issued in the public. Some said that weekends are their time to spend good and beautiful moments with their family.
As a journalist, we, in our newspaper think that it seems to flatter us but we must take time to spend with our family even for a short time, we also know that this is also for our happiness. But the parents know that it is also for their kids to learn for their brighter future.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
2nd Sinag Journalism Training Seminar a big success!
February 12 was indeed one of the most awaited days for the future journalists of Calamba City as this was the date for the 1st leg of the 2nd Sinag Journalism Training Seminar. The said seminar was held at the the Lina Lajara Chipeco Auditorium in Central 2 Scchool, Calamba and was crowded with 114 students from 25 different elementary and secondary schools, both public and private, in Calamba City, Laguna.
The Sinag JTS are free journalism seminars that the Sinag Printing Press started in 2008 as part of its company's social responsibility program. The first Sinag JTS was a big event with more than a thousand participants who came from public and private schools in Calamba.
As with the 1st Sinag JTS, the Dep-Ed Calamba Division, headed by Dr. Myrna Pamplona, was the co-sponsor for the free seminars. The big difference in the Sinag JTS re-launch for 2011 is that both Sinag and the Dep Ed agreed to limit the number of participants so as to preserve the quality of the seminars and writing workshops for the students. Nevertheless, even though the number of participants were limited, the number of schools invited, both public and private, were not limited by the sponsors.
The Sinag JTS was a whole day event with lectures in the morning and writing workshops in the afternoon. The topics for the 1st leg of the seminar were Editorial and Opinion Writing and the invited experts for these topics were Mr. Renato C. Asa and Ms. Ilang-Ilang Quijano, both writers of Pinoy Weekly and alumni of UP Diliman and UP Manila respectively. The speakers creatively shared writing techniques and their experiences in the world of Journalism.
Also launched in the February 12 Sinag JTS was the first ever seminar on Yearbook production by Sinag owner, Raia Dela Pena-Landicho. Entitled "On Yearbook production from start to finish," the free seminar was given to school teachers and administrators who accompanied their students to the event. Over 30 teachers/school administrators came and most of the participants agreed that it was a very helpful seminar on the process of yearbook production and management.
"This year we thought of adding our own free seminars for teachers and school owners based on our expertise and that is yearbook production. The seminar was based on a booklet I had written for clients who are new to yearbook production. We believe that this would be a great help for schools since not all teachers or school administrators are familiar with the process of its production," said Dela Pena-Landicho
Encouraged by the success of the first seminar for teachers launched by Sinag, they will launch another seminar on the 2nd leg of the Sinag JTS this coming February 26, the next seminar will be "Tips on making creative sales and marketing print collaterals for your school" also to be given by Ms. Dela Pena-Landicho.
A feedback questionnaire was given out to the participants during the Sinag JTS and the results of that assessment form were all overwhelmingly positive. Many participants hoped that more free seminars will be given by Sinag in the years to come.
"It was important for us to get an assessment on the seminar we had re-launched, so we made sure to give out a feedback questionnaire to the participants during the event, I'm glad to say that all of the response from the participants were heart-warming and positive. They all expressed gratitude to the sponsors of the event. The result of the assessment from the February 12 seminars was a really good sign for us. It meant that our recipients really believe in what we do," said Sinag's head coordinator Shara Jane Falceso.
Most of the participating schools in the Sinag JTS are expected to come again and participate on the second leg of the Sinag Journalism Training Seminar to be held this coming February 26, 2011 (Saturday) at the LLC Central 2 School, Calamba City. Topics this time would be on News and Features Writing and Editorial Cartooning.
The Sinag Publishing and Printing Services wants to inform everyone that the second leg of the Sinag Journalism Training Seminar is still open to all elementary and secondary school in Laguna who would want to be trained in the field of journalism.
“Again, we’d like everybody to know that these seminars are absolutely FREE. No registration fees will be collected from the participants. Just make sure to bring your own food and writing materials,” added Sinag owner Ruel Landicho.
Special thanks is given to the following schools who participated on the Sinag Journalism Training Seminar last February 12, 2011:
1. Bunggo Elementary School
2. Calamba Bayside National High School
3. Calamba Elementary School
4. Calamba National High School
5. E. Barretto Sr. Elementary School
6. Jose Rizal Memorial School
7. J. Platon Elementary School
8. Laguerta Elementary School
9. Lawa National High School
10. Mayapa Elementary School
11. Palo Alto Elementary School
12. Palo Alto National High School
13. Post Elementary School
14. Sampiruhan Elementary School
15. Tiyani Elementary School
16. Tulo Elementary School
17. Grand Rose Montessori Center
18. Canlubang Christian School
19. Liceo de Calamba
20. Integrated Montessori Center
21. ICCS-Calamba
22. Sta. Cecilia Catholic School Foundation, Inc.
23. Laguna College of Business and Arts
24. Asian Computer College-Main
25. Asian Computer College-Annex
Below are pictures from the 2nd Sinag Journalism Training Seminar, Feb. 12, 2011
Sinag exhibit at the Journalism Training Seminar
Sinag Printing Press booth at the Sinag JTS
students and teachers looking through Sinag sample products.
Teachers looking at yearbooks published by Sinag
Registration at the Sinag JTS
Sinag owners and speakers preparing for the Sinag JTS program
Opening ceremonies at the Sinag JTS
National Anthem
The pangkat kawayan group performs at the Sinag JTS opening ceremonies
Opening Remarks by Sinag owner, Raia Dela Pena-Landicho
Opening Salvo by Sinag JTS main speaker, Renato C. Asa
Sinag JTS participants and speakers
Sinag JTS speaker for english, editorial and opinion writing, Ms. Ilang Ilang Quijano.
Filipino division workshop by RC Asa
Students during their writing workshop
On yearbook production from start to finish by Ms. Raia Dela Pena-Landicho
Sinag seminar for teachers and school administrators
Sinag JTS Head Coordinator, Shara Jana Falceso with Ashenette Perez, Sinag secretary.
Sinag senior executive assistant, Ms. Jackielou Lirio
Dep Ed supervisor, Dr. Lou Bermudez, giving her closing remarks at the Sinag JTS.
A student's feedback on the Sinag JTS
Closing ceremonies of the Sinag JTS 2011
Awarding of certificates for Sinag JTS participants
Picture taking with the Sinag JTS participants
the Sinag Secretariat
The Sinag JTS are free journalism seminars that the Sinag Printing Press started in 2008 as part of its company's social responsibility program. The first Sinag JTS was a big event with more than a thousand participants who came from public and private schools in Calamba.
As with the 1st Sinag JTS, the Dep-Ed Calamba Division, headed by Dr. Myrna Pamplona, was the co-sponsor for the free seminars. The big difference in the Sinag JTS re-launch for 2011 is that both Sinag and the Dep Ed agreed to limit the number of participants so as to preserve the quality of the seminars and writing workshops for the students. Nevertheless, even though the number of participants were limited, the number of schools invited, both public and private, were not limited by the sponsors.
The Sinag JTS was a whole day event with lectures in the morning and writing workshops in the afternoon. The topics for the 1st leg of the seminar were Editorial and Opinion Writing and the invited experts for these topics were Mr. Renato C. Asa and Ms. Ilang-Ilang Quijano, both writers of Pinoy Weekly and alumni of UP Diliman and UP Manila respectively. The speakers creatively shared writing techniques and their experiences in the world of Journalism.
Also launched in the February 12 Sinag JTS was the first ever seminar on Yearbook production by Sinag owner, Raia Dela Pena-Landicho. Entitled "On Yearbook production from start to finish," the free seminar was given to school teachers and administrators who accompanied their students to the event. Over 30 teachers/school administrators came and most of the participants agreed that it was a very helpful seminar on the process of yearbook production and management.
"This year we thought of adding our own free seminars for teachers and school owners based on our expertise and that is yearbook production. The seminar was based on a booklet I had written for clients who are new to yearbook production. We believe that this would be a great help for schools since not all teachers or school administrators are familiar with the process of its production," said Dela Pena-Landicho
Encouraged by the success of the first seminar for teachers launched by Sinag, they will launch another seminar on the 2nd leg of the Sinag JTS this coming February 26, the next seminar will be "Tips on making creative sales and marketing print collaterals for your school" also to be given by Ms. Dela Pena-Landicho.
A feedback questionnaire was given out to the participants during the Sinag JTS and the results of that assessment form were all overwhelmingly positive. Many participants hoped that more free seminars will be given by Sinag in the years to come.
"It was important for us to get an assessment on the seminar we had re-launched, so we made sure to give out a feedback questionnaire to the participants during the event, I'm glad to say that all of the response from the participants were heart-warming and positive. They all expressed gratitude to the sponsors of the event. The result of the assessment from the February 12 seminars was a really good sign for us. It meant that our recipients really believe in what we do," said Sinag's head coordinator Shara Jane Falceso.
Most of the participating schools in the Sinag JTS are expected to come again and participate on the second leg of the Sinag Journalism Training Seminar to be held this coming February 26, 2011 (Saturday) at the LLC Central 2 School, Calamba City. Topics this time would be on News and Features Writing and Editorial Cartooning.
The Sinag Publishing and Printing Services wants to inform everyone that the second leg of the Sinag Journalism Training Seminar is still open to all elementary and secondary school in Laguna who would want to be trained in the field of journalism.
“Again, we’d like everybody to know that these seminars are absolutely FREE. No registration fees will be collected from the participants. Just make sure to bring your own food and writing materials,” added Sinag owner Ruel Landicho.
Special thanks is given to the following schools who participated on the Sinag Journalism Training Seminar last February 12, 2011:
1. Bunggo Elementary School
2. Calamba Bayside National High School
3. Calamba Elementary School
4. Calamba National High School
5. E. Barretto Sr. Elementary School
6. Jose Rizal Memorial School
7. J. Platon Elementary School
8. Laguerta Elementary School
9. Lawa National High School
10. Mayapa Elementary School
11. Palo Alto Elementary School
12. Palo Alto National High School
13. Post Elementary School
14. Sampiruhan Elementary School
15. Tiyani Elementary School
16. Tulo Elementary School
17. Grand Rose Montessori Center
18. Canlubang Christian School
19. Liceo de Calamba
20. Integrated Montessori Center
21. ICCS-Calamba
22. Sta. Cecilia Catholic School Foundation, Inc.
23. Laguna College of Business and Arts
24. Asian Computer College-Main
25. Asian Computer College-Annex
Below are pictures from the 2nd Sinag Journalism Training Seminar, Feb. 12, 2011
Sinag exhibit at the Journalism Training Seminar
Sinag Printing Press booth at the Sinag JTS
students and teachers looking through Sinag sample products.
Teachers looking at yearbooks published by Sinag
Registration at the Sinag JTS
Sinag owners and speakers preparing for the Sinag JTS program
Opening ceremonies at the Sinag JTS
National Anthem
The pangkat kawayan group performs at the Sinag JTS opening ceremonies
Opening Remarks by Sinag owner, Raia Dela Pena-Landicho
Opening Salvo by Sinag JTS main speaker, Renato C. Asa
Sinag JTS participants and speakers
Sinag JTS speaker for english, editorial and opinion writing, Ms. Ilang Ilang Quijano.
Filipino division workshop by RC Asa
Students during their writing workshop
On yearbook production from start to finish by Ms. Raia Dela Pena-Landicho
Sinag seminar for teachers and school administrators
Sinag JTS Head Coordinator, Shara Jana Falceso with Ashenette Perez, Sinag secretary.
Sinag senior executive assistant, Ms. Jackielou Lirio
Dep Ed supervisor, Dr. Lou Bermudez, giving her closing remarks at the Sinag JTS.
A student's feedback on the Sinag JTS
Closing ceremonies of the Sinag JTS 2011
Awarding of certificates for Sinag JTS participants
Picture taking with the Sinag JTS participants
the Sinag SecretariatFriday, February 4, 2011
Only one week to go before the 2nd Sinag Journalism Training Seminars!
All interested schools and participants, please sign up now and pre-register with the Sinag Secretariat so that your published works can be included in the seminar workshops!
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