Children's Gameshow

Here's a gameshow designed for Kindergarten Students. It's a simple alphabet-phonics game. I made this gameshow for my daughter Naya and as a project in our Educ Tech subject. This is supposed to be animated but I haven't found a way yet on how to upload to blogger a powerpoint slideshow with the animations and transitions intact.

P.S.  Hey, I did find a way how to retain the links and animations. I used authorstream. It worked great! Watch and play my gameshow below.

Naya’s Game

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NAYA AND ME SERIES: Don't Want To Go To School

Naya's cousins are with us these past few days. She is very, very happy since she now has a playmate at home. However, since she now goes to school everyday, she has to wake up early and has to wait until end of classes before she can play with her cousin, Ahyan.

ME: Naya, get up. You need to take a bath now.

NAYA: Nanay, why take a bath? Go to school or stay in Lola's house?

ME: Naya, you need to take a bath because you are going to school. Get up now or you would be late.

NAYA:   Ahaaay...Nanay, pwede lang (if possible), absent lang ko today (I'd just be absent today). Play Ahyan and me.

ME: (is having an "Aw, shucks!" moment). Naya, you need to go to school today. Don't worry, you can be absent TOMORROW. 

NAYA: Okay Nanay. Thank you. Yehey! I can play with Ahyan tomorrow. Absent ko ya no?

Hehehe...Tomorrow happens to be a Saturday. Bad Nanay - for fooling my Little Naya. 

Kids are kids. They always want to play. But kids need to go to school too. They need to know when is the time for school and the time to play. 

A Music Video as an Educational Tool?

Filipinos are said to be natural born singers and music lovers. This is not too hard to believe considering the many videoke bars that sprouted in almost every corner of our neighborhood. Consider also that a number of households own Magic Sing units. It's precursor, the Karaoke machine, was also popular. But ever since videoke existed, it easily replaced the former. Videoke not only provides the music but also visuals that will entice the wannabe singers to sing to maximum performance level.

The ASSURE Model of Teaching

What is the ASSURE Model?

The ASSURE Model is and Instructional System Design (ISD) that has been modified to suit the needs of the teachers in side the classroom. It is a procedural guide for planning and delivering instruction that incorporates media. It assumes that training or instruction really is required and is meant for use by the individual instructor for planning everyday classroom use of media. Simply put, the ASSURE Model works like a systematic way of writing a lesson plan incorporating the use of media in instructional design.  To know more about this type, click on the slideshow below:

NAYA AND ME Series

My 5-year old daughter says the some of the funniest things I ever heard. I started posting it on my Facebook wall a few months ago. Some of my friends told me that they are following my Naya and Me series because they find it funny and entertaining and so, I decided to make this a category in my blog. 

Naya's thoughts on ways and things remind me of the TV show in the 90's called "Kids Say the Darndest Things" which was hosted by Bill Cosby. Kids really do have their own way of viewing situations and things. Some are outright funny, some seems so mature you'd be amazed how kids could think of those thoughts. 

I'll try to retrieve some of those posts from my Facebook wall and transfer it here. I hope you'd enjoy reading it too. For starters, here's our latest conversation:

EATING A PLANET

The Buzz About Sun Shorts: Filipino Indie Films Tackle Importance of Preparing for the Future

Piolo Pascual, Filipino actor, endorses Sun Life's "Sun Shorts".
Image courtesy of www.sunlife.com.ph

Indie films are quite the "in" thing nowadays. Every year, Cinemalaya organizes a film festival dedicated to showcasing the works of art of independent film producers. The film festival produced some of the best films in the local cinema, and also some of the best actors and actresses of this generation (talk about Coco Martin. Yammmi!). 


This year, one of the biggest insurance and financial institution of this country, tries it's hand in producing short, independent films with themes about love, hope and the importance of preparing for the future. Sun Life Financials will launch "Sun Shorts" - a collection of five short films directed by selected top directors of the country. Each film will mirror the director's interpretation of how life could be brighter under the Sun. 

For A Very Special Boy

Baby Oyen at 1-year old

I first posted this on my Facebook wall. It's about my feelings and thoughts about my special boy, Baby Oyen. He is autistic, and at age four, could not yet verbally communicate with us. It is sometimes frustrating not to know what's going on in Baby Oyen's mind. 

Somebody suggested that I turn my Facebook post into a poem. But since I'm not a literary writer, I'm sticking with the original format. My attempts in poetry always ends up in total failure. Anyways, in whatever form it maybe - poetry or prose - the message is still the same. I made some changes, a little editing here and there. So here it is. I am hoping someday, when my Baby Oyen will be allowed by the Lord to progress and learn how to read, he will discover this so that he would know how much I love him.

IF I AM THE RICHEST PERSON IN THE WORLD

If I am the richest person in the world, how would I spend my wealth?