Nutrition month

FOOD...

Bless us oh Lord and these thy gifts that we are about to recieve from thy bounty thru Christ, our Lord, amen.

Lunch prepared by our computer science students during the 2nd day of our modern day bayanihan.

July 12 is still a part of July and the month is nutrition month and so the title.

Hi-Tech Bayanihan

"Hi-tech" bayanihan

Who says bayanihan is limited only to transferring "Bahay-Kubo" from one location to another? Bayanihan is just a term for group effort.
The Department of Computer Science and Technology in Visayas State University will be transferring to its new building. Computers and all other equipment and furnitures alike will be transported. To make the burden less heavy and fun, bayanihan was done.
In the pictures are:
Ely - holding the television
Aisa - passing the computer to Venus then to Gierlyn then from Gierlyn, to Medz, to Alvin and then to Bebe.
These are just some of the CompSci students who helped last July 11, 2008. Thanks a lot guys and gals!

The trip

“Fly away from here. Anywheeeere……” The loud and hoppity beat of the music coming from the Nokia 6120 is enough to awaken me from my deep slumber. It is Friday, the 27^th of June, 2008. As I slowly moved and stretched my still sleeping body, I uttered a silent prayer of thanksgiving. It is the day that I should be getting ready for the 3-day Online Training in Clarkfield, Pampanga.

In my 27 years of existence, this would be my very first time to board a plane alone. With the fast thumping of my heart, the sweaty palms and the rumbling sound of the airplane's engine is no help at all to calm my nerves. Maybe, a hot and strong coffee might help. But, life must go on. I must face my fears. Courage is not absence of fear, it is the mastery of it. Now, where did i hear that cliche anyway? (read more...)

Web design newest craze: Joomla tehnology

Joomla technology is a website development tool designed for beginners and masters in website construction. It is more on content management rather than on web development itself. ISchools project under Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) requires from their recipients to put up a website of their school. (read more...)

iSchoolS Partner University: VSU

The Visayas State University (VSU) was formerly known as the Leyte State University (LSU). It was renamed as VSU by virtue of Republic Act No. 9437, which was signed by her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on April 27, 2007.

Currently, VSU is one of the many universities chosen to be a partner university in the implementation of the iSchools project.

Why Us?

“Why us?” is the cry of some of the participants during the Web Development Training on October 15 – 19, 2007 in Visayas State University, Visca, Baybay, Leyte.

Web development is difficult. This is what the participants of the training have in mind when they were sent by their respective schools to attend a one-week training in web development.

“I am just an English teacher.”

“Di ko kahibaw magcomputer.” (I do not know how to use a computer)

These are just some of the complaints during the first day of the training. Frowns, uneasiness and fear are written all over participants’ faces.

And then, the training started. Joomla technology is explained. It is an internet technology made for content management. Once installed in the computer, all the developer of a website needs to do is change a bit of this and a bit of that and voila, a professional looking website is created. The website now contains a predefined concept, a consistent look on the color combination and a ready made layout. The hardest part web development, lay-outing, is no longer hard. As the training continues, frowns are now replaced with lopsided grins. As more and more components of Joomla are introduced, participants began to explore on their own. Even during break, they remain on their computers. Each time a new feature is introduced, they become so eager to try it and see how it looks on their own websites. Ahs and ohs are now being heard.

As the training is about to end, one of the participants from Cebu said, “With Joomla, I never thought web development could be this easy, ” says David Repollo.

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Developing a website, now as easy as counting 1, 2, 3… All thanks to Joomla technology!

Joomla technology is a website development tool designed for starters and masters in website construction. It is more on content management rather than on web development itself. ISchools project under Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) requires from their recipients to put up a website of their school.

Visayas State University (VSU) held a one-week website development training last October 15 – 19, 2007. Magdalene A. Cesar, a faculty from the Department of Computer Science and Technology (DCST-VSU), acted as the resource person. The participants were from the iSchools project recipients in the provinces of Leyte, Cebu and Bohol. These are the all under VSU’s area of responsibility. It was composed of senior highschool students and English teachers who have no knowledge on website development.

The training was to equip participants with the techniques on the development of a website.

• building a website
• posting and editing news contents
• managing the website
• layouting the website

At the end of the one-week training, the participants developed their first website, as expected of them, a skill that might have taken them months to learn without the components from Joomla Technology. Visit http://www.ischools.vsu.edu.ph for some of the website developed by the participants.

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