Few days before Christmas
It’s just a few days before my favorite season and yet I still can’t feel it. If not for Christmas runthroughs and parties I wouldn’t even realize that it’s 2 weeks away.
I am not yet in the mood for presents-preparation and still don’t have an idea what to give my friends.
and I have a wishlist that is far from reality. Yes, too far 
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But even if I can’t really feel Christmas is coming, I still feel that it’s the most special and different one for me. “The Power of a year” I told myself a year ago when I was still in search of a happy heart. God’s year is really powerful. So many wonderful things happened all because of God’s mercy and favor.
So even if I don’t get presents on the 24th and 25th, it’s okay. I know God has the best gift for me. It’s something I don’t know yet, but I know it will make me happy.
While waiting for Christmas, I’m excited to attend our batch Christmas party, UP lantern parade, friends’ Christmas parties.
and I am most excited to see the 2009 Candlelight communion.
COP Candlelight communion
December 13, 2009 at 5:34 am
December 13, 2009
Ayessa Parayno
Organizational Communication
University of the Philippines, Manila
E-learning has been used very effectively in university teaching for enhancing the traditional forms of teaching and administration. Students on many courses in many universities now find they have web access to the lecture notes and selected digital resources in support of their study. They also have personalized web environments in which they can join discussion forums with their class or group. This new kind of access gives them much greater flexibility of study.1 As a form of e-learning, blogging has become firmly established as a web-based communications tool. Blogs, along with Podcasts and Wikis are no longer “emerging technologies”. 2 The web is by now a familiar piece of educational landscape, and for those sites where personal publishing or chronologically ordered content would be useful; blogs have stepped to the fore. 3
In line with this topic, we would like to invite you for a meaningful discussion on December 14, 2009. The discussion will aim to answer the main inquiry, “Are edublogs effective virtual extensions of the traditional classroom in relation to fourth year Organizational Communication students of the University of the Philippines?”
The researchers would like to conduct the discussion at __________________ over lunch after your 8:00 am – 11:30 am class, our treat. See you there!
Please RSVP your attendance to Milette Dela Cruz (0915 1190005) on or before December 12, 2009. Questions and suggestions are also welcome.
We hope for your most favourable response.
Signed,
Maria Nathalie Blanco
Milette Dela Cruz
Gianninna Nicolai Melicor
Glenda Liza Reginaldo
Jesselie Suñga
COMMUNIATION ARTS, FACULTY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS
ESPANA, MANILA
1 Safran, C., Helic, D., & Gütl, C. (2007, September). E-Learning practices and Web 2.0
2 Seitzinger, J. (2006, July 31). Be Constructive: Blogs, Podcasts, and Wikis as Constructivist Learning Tools
3 Downes, S. (2004). Educational Blogging
December 13, 2009 at 5:35 am
at Kenny Rogers, Robinson’s Manila