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.
As part of this year’s celebration, KNFOSSociety members and advisers organized a series of ICT seminars and a FOSS awareness tour covering at least two public schools in Koronadal City.
The SFD seminar-series, which served as the opening salvo of the celebration, opened last September 10 at the KNCHS ICT laboratory with basic photo and video editing sessions for 112 selected fourth year students.
Ms. Latreia Estabillo explains the benefits of FOSS to the students
Denmark Bulan of the Radio Mindanao Network shares tips on creating attractive and professional-like videos.
Another seminar on photo and video editing, basic spreadsheet and presentation, PC trouble-shooting and operating system installation was held last September 18 for at least 42 teachers from KNCHS and several other local schools.
Journalist and Ubuntu user Allen V. Estabillo of the Philippines News Agency demonstrates Ubuntu installation, basic troubleshooting and computer maintenance.
The workshop was divided into two tracks: The Open Office Tracks and the Advance Track.
Glen Bastes of Radio Mindanao Network and also a FOSS advocate shows how easy it was to use Spreadsheet program in computing students' performance.
KNFOSSociety Adviser Latreia Estabillo shares her e-learning experiences and open source tools that teachers can effectively use.
Radio Mindanao Network-Marbel's Graphic Artist Denmark Bulan gave a demo on easy photo editing using GIMP
KNFOSSociety members assist teacher-participants during their hands-on sessions
The main highlight of the group’s SFD acticvities was the FOSS awareness tour at the Marbel 7 National High School and Koronadal Central Elementary School-I last September 25.
During the tour, which was led by 29 KNFOSSociety members and three teacher-advisers, the group introduced FOSS to more than 300 high school students and elementary pupils through orientations and demonstrations on various open source applications.
They also held speed-geeking sessions on GIMP, Audacity and other common open source education and entertainment software.
The students of both schools listened to the discussions and enjoyed the GIMP-ing sessions, a photo editing session where the team showed some hilarious pictures featuring the faces of some of the ICT students that were edited through GIMP.
KNFOSSociety Adviser Latreia Estabillo gives a talk on Free and Open Source Software to the students at Koronadal Central Elementary School 1.
Rowenie Non shares the benefits of FOSS to the students of Marbel 7 National High School.
Suellen Ogena of KNFOSSociety gives a demo on how to create beautiful presentations using Open Office Impress.
Karl Ycon and Jahsie Paez demonstrate easy photo editing with GIMP.
Karl Ycon and Ferdinand Fernandez show the fun of playing with open source games.
Audacity is so easy to use, right, Kuya Khamis?
Educational open source games, let's play!!
"Teacher Lati, please let them edit my picture!"
"See you in next year's SFD!"
The SFD activities were made possible with the collaborative efforts and help of ICT advisers Mrs. Latreia Estabillo and Ms. Hazel Borcillo, the KNFOSSociety, Mr. Joel Moso and with the encouragement and full support of Mr. Fernando C. Hilomen, Principal IV of KNCHS.
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