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It has been a long predicament of the academe, the issue on how to make education more interesting to students. This is especially true when it comes to Math, Science, and English subjects (in our country). Students reject the very sound of these subjects. However, these subjects form the core of Information Technology Education (ITE) courses. A student must have an average academic performance so that he/she can survive any ITE course be it Computer Science, Information Technology, or Information Systems. One of the solutions being suggested is to put the lessons in a form of games. Students can play online but still learn something. But these games are still quite boring compared to RPGs. One of the many games introduced in our country is the board game called “Damath“. It’s a form of checker game but the difference is that the pieces have their corresponding numbers, and the board has different mathematical symbols. Whenever a piece gets “eaten”, the player is required to compute the result of the mathematical operation indicated by the symbol of the destination of the piece. Still, this game will be of interest to those with average and above average mental capabilities.

Through my daily surfing to the Internet, I came across this concept of teaching basketball through another form of game: BINGO. By playing BINGO, you will be able to orient yourself with the different concepts in basketball. The image below is a sample bingo card:

After the tragic death of the battery of my Lenovo 3000 G410 laptop, I decided to explore on it. It’s already dead anyway and having it fixed is almost as expensive as buying a new one. To see the internals,

Last night, my Len0vo 3000 G410’s battery died. It just won’t charge anymore. It’s more than a year already since I bought the laptop. Well, I guess I’m to be blamed by this because of my abusive use of the electronic device. I never removed the battery from the unit. Many times it just stuck there with the power cord on direct AC. There were also instances when I just left the laptop powered on overnight for some downloads. I guess these reasons are enough to kill the battery.

However, I got this weird thing going with ants.

Here are 5 useful tools that I have used in building software. The list is not specific to any language but may be useful to you as a software engineer. It is also not arranged in sequence as in importance or any kind. Here is the list:

I was searching for news and updates over the Internet and I was surprised with this news: Johnny Depp is Dead! Whoah! Is it true? I can’t believe the news so I went on looking for proof. I couldn’t find one. I couldn’t believe the news because he recently had a movie Alice in Wonderland.  Apparently, this was all from celebrity death rumors. Johnny Depp is NOT dead.  You can read the stories from the following URLs:

Marvel.com now has released the first trailer of Iron Man 2. This time, his encounter is with Whiplash.

I happened to be downtown when I went to a place that we call China town. It was quite a while when I last visited the place. As expected, I got surprised and amazed. Gadgets with very known brands were sold. What’s surprising then? Well, it was sold at a far lesser price than what you see normally. A blackberry is sold at P5,300.00 only! I got really curious and went up to see for myself. I asked the sales lady if I can try it. It looked like a blackberry. It was also packed with features. What’s amazing is that it’s only at that place where you can see a DUAL-SIM blackberry. It also has a TV built into it! It has wifi, bluetooth, and many more.  What’s not surprising is the warranty period. They only had one week warranty. Well, it was worth the visit. Sometimes we buy these kinds of gadgets just for prestige. China town is just the right place to get some. The only questionable thing there is the quality. If showing off is the goal, then China town merchandise will fit your need lolz.

Earlier this evening, the Digital Filipino Club had its annual Bloggers Networking Event (which was also called Bloggers’ Fellowship) at the Grand Regal Hotel at Lanang. The event was still sponsored by PAGCOR and was still headed by Ms. Janet Toral. This was the second time I attended such event and it was pretty interesting. First, I saw Sir Loi of Philnits. He was invited by my former student Kieven. As expected, he was fascinated and was curious about many things. I’m glad he was invited to this event where he can witness the world of bloggers. The next interesting part is the number of participants from the University of the Immaculate Conception. I’m sure that ours is the largest number because two tables is not enough. The “UIC delegates” were composed of some faculty members, alumni/alumnae, and students. It’s funny also that most of us won freebies. One of us won a flash drive from the bingo game. Another progress was that I was able to talk to Mr. Blogie about a possible blogging venture for a client that I have — Kalinawan: The Ultimate Outdoor Destination. I’ve been promoting the resort and was in search for the best bloggers I could find. Honestly, I wouldn’t have attended the fellowship if it weren’t for this endeavour. I’m glad I did. Finally after the event, we gathered around to see the people playing poker. Well, I was told it was Lucky 9 and I don’t know how to play any of it. What made it interesting is that I saw one of my classmates in high school and the classmate of my sister. Apparently, they have been regular visitors at the hotel. They were very helpful in showing me around and helping me and my students win a round of Lucky 9 with just the free P300 coupons we got from the fellowship event. I think they have been doing that for a while — riding along bets on Lucky 9. They were quite good at it. The only unpleasant thing there was that there were some pickpockets who was able to pick on one of my colleagues. Well, it’s good that it was only the coupon and nothing really big was lost.  Overall, I had a productive night and it was worth the decision of not going to a masters class that I’m currently enrolled.

I just revisited my friendster as it has been a while since I last logged in. I have been using facebook a lot recently. I tried accessing my friendster blog and noticed that you can change the “theme”. I tried the feature and noticed that changing the theme of the friendster blog was similar to that of changing a wordpress blog theme. Well, I continued and activated the theme and noticed the “Meta” section where you can access the “Site Admin” link which is what a default wordpress blog would have and it’s confirmed. Friendster is using wordpress for their blog. You can see the /wp-admin from the URL. Well, pardon my ignorance because I did not notice this before lolz.