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Kaltura - Empowering Your Campus Business Continuity Plan during the Coronavirus Outbreak

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IDEAS-INNOVATION-CONTINGENCY Webinar Invitation from Kaltura Schools and Universities have recently been faced with unprecedented disruption caused by the Coronavirus outbreak, and are challenged to stay connected with, and engage their students remotely. Schools are leveraging video like never before. As they continue the move into online-only campuses for the rest of the semester, what are they learning about making the jump? What are some best practices? We would like to invite you to a webinar hosted by our partners at  Kaltura , where they will run a live demo of their new  Virtual Classroom  product.  During this 60-min webinar, experts will be showing you how to leverage online video tools to take your classes, school communications, and possibly even graduation virtual. They will touch on live lecture capture and live broadcast, with a special focus on a demo of virtual classrooms and showcasing of various use cases from education...

Bromo and Ijen

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In November 2018, Jet and I decided to try hiking Mount Bromo and Ijen in Indonesia to celebrate his birthday. Kindly note that these two volcanoes (although both are called "Mount) are about 7-hour drive away from each other. I missed this information during my research and was left with the mercy of our Indonesian driver with very limited English who failed to inform us that we are allowed to do stopovers along the way to check and enjoy other scenery in Surabaya. Anyway, Ijen is breathtaking, specifically in pictures. It can be pretty cold when doing the hike early morning but it is all worth it. Mount Ijen crater the sandy way to Mount Bromo Mount Bromo Indonesia Cloudy and cold on top.  stairway to Bromo crater 4x4 ride to Mount Bromo stairs to Mount Bromo crater Lazy tourists took horses  🐎  to bring them to the crater. We just walked our way up, around 2km for 1.5 hours! Walang pambayad sa kabayo!  😅 Th...

Moving Up Speech at Concepcion Integrated School

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In 2018, I was invited to give a Moving Up Speech to Grade 10 students of my grade school alma mater, Concepcion Integrated School in San Simon, Pampanga. I was introduced as follows: "Our guest speaker will echo the essence of wit, fun and playful personality. She is the class president of batch 1998, and was first honorable mention during her sixth grade at Concepcion Elementary School, now our CIS, Concepcion Integrated School .  She finished secondary school at Saint Mary’s College of Baliuag  and graduated  in the top 10% of her batch. She was awarded the Blue Ribbon Conduct Merit Award at Saint Mary’s in 2002. She had a hard time figuring out the right course for her, but in 2006, she earned her Bachelor’s of Arts degree, major in Journalism, at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) . She started working as a book editor and web copywriter in Manila for about a year and was immediately recommended by her superiors to be transferred to Sing...