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)