TV Patrol - Mindanao
July 26, 2011
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Noynoy Aquino's State of the Nation Address
Noynoy Aquino's State of the Nation Address
July 25, 2011
FYI: The SONA of Pres. Noy is incomplete in this blog. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Friday, 22 July 2011
DMSFI FunRun! on August 6, 2011
The DMSFI Alumni Association in cooperation with Buklod Medesina and Medicine Batch 2012 will be having their FunRun in support to the scholarship program of the DMSFI Alumni Association. This will be on August 6, 2011 details in the poster below. Please tag your friends and bring them during the fun run. Hope to see you!
The run will start at 4:00 am and it will be a 3k, 5k and 10k run. Your 100 pesos registration entitles you a race ID, snacks and a finisher's certificate. You can register at the dmsf alumni office, OSA, medical director's office of the dmsf hospital and dr arendain's clinic at san pedro hospital.
Thursday, 21 July 2011
DepEd clarifies stand on Ateneo de Davao Facebook ban
Clarifying a statement he made Tuesday, Department of Education (DepEd) spokesperson Kenneth Tirado on Wednesday said he does not see the need for a Facebook ban in public elementary and high schools in general – and not Ateneo de Davao University, in particular.
Tirado was quoted in the morning newscast “Dobol B sa News TV" as saying that the DepEd opposes the partial Facebook ban in Ateneo de Davao.
Tirado said the context of his statement, which he gave the newscast via text message, pertains to public elementary and high schools, which fall under DepEd jurisdiction. “We don’t think there’s a need to ban [social networking sites]. We just need to teach our students to be responsible users," Tirado said in his message.
“There was no intention to single out Ateneo de Davao. As a university, it’s not under the purview of DepEd," he added.
Tirado noted that his original statement was “not that specific," and explained that public school students do not have time to use social networking sites in school in the first place, given the limits in school resources. — TJD, GMA News
Reference Link:
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/226884/technologoy/deped-clarifies-stand-on-ateneo-de-davao-facebook-ban
Tirado was quoted in the morning newscast “Dobol B sa News TV" as saying that the DepEd opposes the partial Facebook ban in Ateneo de Davao.
Tirado said the context of his statement, which he gave the newscast via text message, pertains to public elementary and high schools, which fall under DepEd jurisdiction. “We don’t think there’s a need to ban [social networking sites]. We just need to teach our students to be responsible users," Tirado said in his message.
“There was no intention to single out Ateneo de Davao. As a university, it’s not under the purview of DepEd," he added.
Tirado noted that his original statement was “not that specific," and explained that public school students do not have time to use social networking sites in school in the first place, given the limits in school resources. — TJD, GMA News
Reference Link:
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/226884/technologoy/deped-clarifies-stand-on-ateneo-de-davao-facebook-ban
Facebook ban spurs picket at Ateneo de Davao
Students and some faculty members picketed the Ateneo de Davao University last week in protest of the restrictions imposed on them in going online on social networking site Facebook within campus.
Students complained that they were required to pay more than P1,300 as “information technology fee" each semester.
But the administration of Ateneo de Davao clarified that Facebook is “not totally banned" in their university, but rather the restrictions prohibit students from going to the popular site from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. only.
School officials said that the sheer number of people who go on Facebook on campus heavily overburdens the university’s internet service bandwidth, such that it negatively impacts on the university’s other online services.
GMA News' newscast "Saksi" on Monday reported on the picket.
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“Most of our books are not really physically in the library. It’s online, they [students] can read these books while they are inside the campus," Assistant to the President of Ateneo de Davao University Jeremy Eliab told GMA News.
“Now, if Facebook is eating the bandwidth, it’s impossible to download the whole book," he explained.
“We want our personnel to focus more on – not on social networking – but on their necessary work, basically educational work," he added.
Eliab also said the ban was also a disciplinary measure to prohibit students from accessing Facebook during their classes.
Faculty statements
After the official announcement of the ban, an open letter was issued stating: “The College Faculty Union of Ateneo de Davao University (CFU) vehemently protests the blocking of social networking sites such as Facebook and Friendster, including other sites. The blocking is initiated by the Technical Service Office (TSO) of the university, as the internet site claims to be [sic]. This infringes on the freedom of information and of expression which requires thorough discussion beforehand to determine what constitutes a violation or not. The CFU will file grievance as initial and LEGAL response directed to the head of TSO."
On his blog, Ateneo de Davao professor Dominique Cimafranca noted that the picketers held up placards with Facebook’s blue-and-white “f" logo and the statement “Stop Facebook Ban."
“They do know what an ‘F’ means academically, right?" he wrote wryly that he had quipped to his fellow faculty member.
Also last week, another university in Mindanao, state-run University of Southern Mindanao prohibited school personnel from going on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites during office hours. — Marlon Anthony Tonson/VS, GMA News
Reference Link:
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/226650/technologoy/facebook-ban-spurs-picket-at-ateneo-de-davao
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