People's Choice Award

From last year's 2,090 votes, the total number of votes this year thrusted to an overwhelming 5,149 votes!

Here is the final tally of votes (Facebook likes + blogger poll):

• Blog-venture Time!: 93 + 38 = 131
• Nature Ranger: 225 + 54 = 279
• The Curiosity Kids: 455 + 75 = 530
• iBlog: 588 + 538 = 1,126
• The Science Journal: 441 + 201 = 642
• One Greener Future: 1123 + 390 = 1513
• Burning Wood: 213 + 111 = 324
• A Trip to Nature: 525 + 79 = 604

Total votes:

Facebook likes: 3,663

Blogger poll: 1,486

TOTAL: 5,149

But remember, this poll is just 16.5% of the criteria for the Best Blog Award. The bulk will still come from peer evaluation (30%) and most importantly, teacher's evaluation (53.5%).

Congratulations everyone for a job well done! And do not forget to thank everyone who helped you with all of those votes!

Post No. 6 - The world as I see it...

It was really overwhelming to read your insights and reflections about the field trip and your experiences inside the classroom for the past months that we’ve been together.

So now, let me hear your final reflections about this 4^th quarter CEO and how you were able to go over it. Here are your guide questions for Post No. 6:

• What is your fourth quarter final CEO (The Blogging Project)? Give a brief introduction.
• How did you prepare for it?
• Did you encounter any problem/s as you prepare for the said project? If yes, how did you resolve those problems? If none, what made it easy for you to prepare for it?
• Given the chance to do this CEO all over again, would you still do it? Why or why not?
• How do you think this CEO can be further improved?
• Will you change anything regarding how this CEO was handled? If yes, what would that be? If none, why not?
• What is the most important lesson that you learned from this CEO?

Deadline of Posting: March 15, 2012 (Thursday)

Criteria:

• Content - 20 points
• Coherence - 5 points
• Creativity - 5 points
• Voice - 5 points
• Mechanics - 5 points
• Text Layout - 5 points
• Graphics & Multimedia - 5 points
• Intellectual Honesty - 5 points

The world as I see it, is a remarkable place

A beautiful house in a forest,

Of stars in outer space...

– Jason Mraz

Post No. 5 – Open sesame? Wait, wut?

To nuke or not to nuke, I mean, to open or not to open?

This is the ultimate question for your second to the last post.

Read the following scenario and base your post no. 5 on it:

Fast forward. You had just been elected the president of the country. Unfortunately, the entire country is suffering from power crisis since global prices of oil plummeted to a level no one can ever imagine. The only solution that can resolve the power crisis is opening the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) that had been mothballed already for the past 28 years. Knowing that BNPP is just an 8-minute ride from the 7 km-long Morong Beach which is the nesting place of the endangered marine turtles, will you still allow the opening of the BNPP despite of this fact? Justify your answer. Be sure to discuss the pros and cons of opening the BNPP to ALL stakeholders.

Deadline of Posting: March 9, 2012 (Friday)

Evaluation Assignments:

• Lauan Group 1 will comment on Almaciga Group 1
• Lauan Group 2 will comment on Almaciga Group 2
• Lauan Group 3 will comment on Almaciga Group 3
• Lauan Group 4 will comment on Almaciga Group 4
• Almaciga Group 1 will comment on Lauan Group 1
• Almaciga Group 2 will comment on Lauan Group 2
• Almaciga Group 3 will comment on Lauan Group 3
• Almaciga Group 4 will comment on Lauan Group 4

Deadline of Evaluating: March 13, 2012 (Tuesday)

Post No. 4 – Nuclear Energy: Using Science Soundly or Unsoundly?

Nuclear power is any nuclear technology designed to extract usable energy from atomic nuclei via controlled nuclear reactions. The most common method in use today is through nuclear fission, though other methods might one day include nuclear fusion and radioactive decay.

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Your fourth post aims to give an empirical scientific background on the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear energy. Both sides of the coin should be presented to enable your readers to think critically and decide for themselves what should be their personal stance about this perplexed issue.

Open your discussion by answering the following guide questions:

• What is nuclear energy?
• What are the advantages of nuclear energy?
• What are the disadvantages of nuclear energy?
• Are you in favor of harnessing energy from nuclear power plants? Why or why not?

Finally, talk about the second site of your field trip – the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP).

• What did you expect to learn from the BNPP?
• What did you learn from the BNPP?
• Which part of the power plant is the most interesting for you? Why?

Deadline of Posting: March 2, 2012 (Friday)

Evaluation Assignments:

• Lauan Group 1 will comment on Lauan Group 4
• Lauan Group 2 will comment on Lauan Group 1
• Lauan Group 3 will comment on Lauan Group 2
• Lauan Group 4 will comment on Lauan Group 3
• Almaciga Group 1 will comment on Almaciga Group 4
• Almaciga Group 2 will comment on Almaciga Group 1
• Almaciga Group 3 will comment on Almaciga Group 2
• Almaciga Group 4 will comment on Almaciga Group 3

Deadline of Evaluating: March 5, 2012 (Monday)

Post No. 3 – More Pawikan on the run!

In this post, you are tasked to bring your readers to the colorful world of the endangered Pawikan (marine turtles)!

Engage them in writing an entry that will answer the following questions:

• Why are marine turtles important?
• What is global warming? How are marine turtles affected by global warming?
• As a student, what are the different ways that you can do in conserving marine turtles?

Remember, creativity is always an X factor in any blog post that you publish!

Deadline of Posting: February 27, 2012 (Monday)

Evaluation Assignments:

• Lauan Group 1 will comment on Lauan Group 3
• Lauan Group 2 will comment on Lauan Group 4
• Lauan Group 3 will comment on Lauan Group 1
• Lauan Group 4 will comment on Lauan Group 2
• Almaciga Group 1 will comment on Almaciga Group 3
• Almaciga Group 2 will comment on Almaciga Group 4
• Almaciga Group 3 will comment on Almaciga Group 1
• Almaciga Group 4 will comment on Almaciga Group 2

Deadline of Evaluating: March 1, 2012 (Thursday)

The Projects

The blogging project v.2.0's blogroll:

Lauan 1 (Hans, Mikee, Miguel, Bel, Jarred)

- Blog-venture time!

Lauan 2 (Andrea, Raffy, Kristian, Ann, Mike)

- Nature Ranger

Lauan 3 (Ayie, Andy, Moshe, Nica)

- The Curiosity Kids

Lauan 4 (Diwa, Gelo, Misha, Kyla, Caleb)

- iBlog

Almaciga 1 (Daui, Raphael, Martha, Jude, Anton)

- The Science Journal

Almaciga 2 (Lei, Emil, Kitkat, Gabby, Jose)

- One Greener Future

Almaciga 3 (Yumi, Kali, Abby, Migs, Jolo)

- Burning Wood

Almaciga 4 (Chyna, Raj, Vibeen, Nathan, Josiah)

- A Trip to Nature...

When you post your comments, make sure to rate each post using the following criteria as discussed in class:

• Content - (10 points)
• Coherence - (5 points)
• Creativity - (5 points)
• Voice - (5 points)
• Mechanics - (5 points)

• Text Layout - (5 points)
• Graphics & Multimedia - (5 points)
• Intellectual Honesty - (5 points)

TOTAL: (45 points)

Aside from the grade you are giving, you are expected also to give a consistently positive, respectful, and brief comment while providing a meaningful addition to their discussion.

Enjoy reading!

Post No. 2 – Pawikan on the run!

Now that you are done making your own blogs, how about talking about your recent field trip?! In the subsequent posts, you will be discussing your field trip to Bataan and we will allocate two posts for each site.

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So, gear up and use these guide questions for your Post No. 2:

• Why did you have a field trip?
• Why did you join the field trip?
• What did you expect from it?
• How did it feel before the actual field trip?

Now, let’s talk about the first site – the Pawikan Conservation Center (PCC).

• What did you expect to learn from the PCC?
• Give a brief description of what is the PCC.
• What did you learn from the PCC?

In this post, you have to discuss also the pawikan (marine turtle) species that you met in this site. Here are the details that you should include about your chosen species:

1. Name of organism

• Common name
• Scientific name
• Taxonomic classification

2. Characteristics

• What’s interesting about this organism?
• Why did you choose it?
• Sketch or picture of the organism

3. Ecological relationship

• Ecological role (e.g. producer, consumer, decomposer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, scavenger, etc.)
• Discuss the ecological relationship/s with other organism/s

4. Were you able to release a marine turtle hatchling? If yes, identify the species of the hatchling that you released. If no, why not?

Deadline of Posting: February 24, 2012 (Friday)

Evaluation Assignments:

• Lauan Group 1 will comment on Lauan Group 2
• Lauan Group 2 will comment on Lauan Group 3
• Lauan Group 3 will comment on Lauan Group 4
• Lauan Group 4 will comment on Lauan Group 1
• Almaciga Group 1 will comment on Almaciga Group 2
• Almaciga Group 2 will comment on Almaciga Group 3
• Almaciga Group 3 will comment on Almaciga Group 4
• Almaciga Group 4 will comment on Almaciga Group 1

Deadline of Evaluating: February 27, 2012 (Monday)

Post No. 1 – About Us

The criteria for evaluation for this year's Blogging Project will be the same with last year's. To read the said criteria, click here.

For now, let's begin with the guidelines of Post No. 1: About Us.

After making your respective group blogs, your next task is to make a post answering the following questions:

• Who are you?
• Why did you make this blog?

Remember, you have to be creative with the name of your blogs and most especially, how you will present yourselves.

Deadline of Posting: February 19, 2012 (Sunday)

Let's get it on!

With last year's success of the Blogging Project that generated more than 2,000 likes in our Facebook page, we are bringing back once again this one-of-a-kind Creative Expansive Output (CEO) of the students of The Learning Tree Child Growth Center!

As part of the global celebration of the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, we are celebrating our Science and Math Fair week with the theme:

This year's Blogging Project is an out spurt of two quarters of discussing energy and its forms and sources and last year's biodiversity topics. As a culminating activity, the sixth grade science class went to Morong, Bataan last February 3, 2012 to visit the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and release marine turtle hatchlings at the Pawikan Conservation Center.

As an assessment of the student's learning, this CEO was given to them as a challenge to effectively express what they have learned in their science class through a collaborative online science journal, or otherwise known as a blog.

So what are we waiting for? Let the blogging begin!

Welcome the Blogging Project 2.0!

The Blogging Project 2.0

It's Science Week once again!

Are you ready for the new blogging project?

SOON.