KNCHS’ ICT program gets boost through Asia Source 3

Koronadal National Comprehensive High School’s (KNCHS) fast-growing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) program received a major boost with the recent participation of one of the programme’s movers to international open source camp Asia Source 3.

Latreia Estabillo, newly-designated ICT coordinator of KNCHS and adviser of the KNFOSSociety, was selected as one of the more than 140 fellows that were selected by camp organizers International Open Source Network (IOSN) and InWEnt of Germany to become a part of the third edition of the Asia Source camp, which was held in Silang, Cavite last November 7-12.

This year’s Asia Source, which is so far considered as one of the biggest gathering on the free and open source software or FOSS in Asia, was joined by leading open source advocates, technologists, academics, software developers, networking experts and other ICT experts coming from corporate, government and non-government sectors across the region.

KNFOSSociety joins Software Freedom Day ‘09

By Khamis Tugbang and Brendel Mae Zarate

A GROUP of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) students and teachers of the Koronadal National Comprehensive High School (KNCHS) has linked up with the global ICT community as part of this year’s Software Freedom Day (SFD) celebration.

SFD is a worldwide celebration held every third Saturday of September that highlights the free and open source software or FOSS advocacy.

Carrying the banner of the KNFOSSociety, a recognized school organization advocating the use and promotion of FOSS, the group was officially recognized by the Software Freedom International as part of his year’s global SFD teams.

THE SFD EVENTS OF KNCHS

September 11, 2009- Photo and Video Editing Seminar for ICT students

September 18, 2009- Educators Open Source Seminar-Workshop

Endorsed and supported by Region 12, ICT Teachers from the nine divisions of the region will be attending.

September 25, 2009- KNFOSSociety on Tour

The KNFOSSociety will be heading to Marbel 7 National High School in the morning and in the afternoon they will be at Koronadal Central Elementary School 1. There will be so much exciting fun and activities prepared for the students.

SEE YOU IN ANY OF OUR SFD EVENTS!!!!!

SFD markers, the KNFoss way!

We have our own way of expressing ourselves especially about open source. As we will be celebrating SFD, the artists of KNFossociety now reveal their  own designs for bookmarks. We will be giving these away during our FOSS tours.

KNFossociety will join in SFD ‘09 celebration

The month of September is when Software Freedom Day (SFD) is celebrated all over the world. This is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Local teams from all over the world organize events in September.

To keep the FOSS spirit alive, the Information and Communications Technology Classes known as the KNCHS Fossociety under the Vocational Department will be participating in this year’s Software Freedom Day competition.

We’ve designed activities wherein weekly event  will take place. There will be a Video Editing Seminar, like the one we had last year, only for the graduating classes. We will be sponsoring a hands-on training for Teachers, we call it Open Source  Tools for Teachers. The best part will be when the group will go out, we call it KNFossociety On Tour. We identified some public schools in the city division and we will be going there to share the message of FOSS plus exciting activities and give-aways are on the list.

We look forward celebrating SFD 2009.

ICT lab’s additional internet connection

Good news for everyone.

This school year brings great joy to all ICT students. The laboratory now runs the new version of Ubuntu and at the same time offers wireless connection to all who have portable devices.

Not only that,  the lab finally  have internet connection. All ICT students will enjoy this additional service. There will be more web-based activities, online discussions and more.

In addition, the computers installed in the library is running Ubuntu as well. Very soon, it will also have internet connection via our laboratory.

We look forward for a more enjoyable open source experience with everyone.

Sharing FOSS at Bacongco

Last March 16, the KNFOSSociety went to Bacongco Campus to promote FOSS. 30 active and energetic teenagers from Newton and Galileo sections gave demonstrations on the different Foss programs and computer gadgets useful for students.

With smiles and laughter……

Introducing FOSS......

A Glimpse of Open Tech Fair 2009

The Open Tech Fair 2009 took another route in encouraging the use of Free and Open Source Software, emphasizing the joys in using it and other benefits.

Here’s some pictures to remind us all of that one memorable day….

The Super Tuxcart Booth

A Tribute To The Force Behind Tech Fair 2009

Who would have thought that a small group of 30 high school seniors can organize and run a big event? Thanks to them, the Tech Fair 2009 happened.

As a teacher, it has been my desire to see students run, organize, work a school event. The previous fair was a steeping stone for it made us all see that to transfer the leadership and management of a school event is possible. Living in a community where teachers are the main workers of an event, the concept of the Fair was not totally accepted at first.

Audio Editing with Audacity

“Raise your voice!”

Here comes the digital audio editor application, the Audacity. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as recording, importing or exporting, editing putting up effects and a lot more on audios or music. This works on many operating systems and is available in many languages.

Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni. He now works at Google, but is still the main developer and maintainer of Audacity, with help from many others around the world.