Kosrae Disability

YO! My fellow Kosraean BA candidates, considering that most of us are in the Special Education Program, with the 6th Disability Day approaching (Nov. 25th) , how about we contributing something to this event? I mean, let's do a presentation/presentations that would reflect our commitments to such Programs as well as our improvements in this program.Our theme for this year is "Building Unity Through Diversity", which may have different meanings or contexts. However, I hope that we could focus on Disability and Diversity in the classroom, and enhencing community involvements. But, this is just an idea, so, in case you guys want to participate, come to the next meeting with your proposals.

trip to Walung

ne of the most enjoyable days of my life.

Final Project

We are now at the tail of the rope, waiting for the right time to jumb down and collect the luxuries out there. Literally speaking, next week will be our last to finish with this course and I believe we are all anxious to finish with this BA Program. Once we are done, we will be fully equipped with knowledge, skill and information that will enable us to tackle with anything coming our ways, not to mention the positive changes that we will create with our learners. Am I right or am I just wishing things to happen?

Beautiful Minds

If you guys go over the Mission Statements for all the participating States in this BA program, you will find three of the most beautiful ideas ever created. Digging deep into them you will also see that these Mission Statements were created by very hopeful and committed groups of people.
So, guys and gals, now that we have come to the last couple of courses, please remember that "We are one aiming for excellence". Dreams do come true! Keep it up.

Wrap Up....Wrapppppp UUUPPPP!!!!

This is just to get everyone's attention!!!! As you can SEE, MJ is pretty eager to view and draw feedbacks on our final projects so ...keep going everyone... Tsruk nga soena!! ahahah!!!

572 Wrapping Up!

Greetings from San Diego!
Here comes the finals week! Final project is due the week of Sep. 27th, latest by Friday.

If you need "live" support, I am available to GoogleChat. Please email me for an appointment and more instructions.

Final project presentation: During circle group meeting, the week of Sep. 27th. 10 minutes per team. Attached is an example, about the Mission to Mars project.

Circle group meeting reports: Your facilitator is keeping track of these. Please contact him/her for missing points.

Blogging: Considering the slow net you got there, you'll get points as long as you posted.

Have a productive week!
--Minjuan

Our PROPOSAL

Indeed we have come to our senses... to agree on a simple and yet culturally relevant topic like Gender Equality. In coming up with this topic, the team (Shrue W. Kephas, Bonna Shrew and Aimina Talley)felt that there is a need to address such an issue on our island therefore here we are giving you a brief look into our proposed topic in which we hope that all of you out there can review and at the same time post comments on...

* In proposing Gender Equality, the main focus will be the dissemination of this gender equality information so that the audiences can understand that women have the same right as men, based on “Human Rights”. We should enhance women’s participation in the electoral process through learning and sharing. Moreover, we will be focusing on adult and young learners of both sexes with goals and objectives that give participants the information they need to understand of the “human rights” as well as the codes of ethics and thus to enhance their participation in high decision-making positions.

Got a reason to worry?

Due to the common seasonal flu, all the schools were closed down for the week. At first, only the Lelu School recommended a shutdown, but only for two days. However, the Department of Health Services finally acted on the issue and asked all the schools to do the same for the whole week. The decision to shut down the Lelu School was of course the many absences for the previous week. However, during the discussion about the issue, none of the staff talked about the incubation periood of the virus or the preventive measures that each school, staff or parents could do. Furthermore, it appears that none of our school principals have prepared in advance the proper procedural guidlines that should be taken in the event of such outbreak. Well, now that the "break" is almost over, we really should think about the more serious threat that is approaching our region, "the swine flu" (H1N1). The issue here is whether we are prepared to fight off this threat. I believe that we should start planning a guideline for our school system in case such outbreak should occur.

Trade tensions

Just last night our local radio station applauded the Chinese government for their "economic assistance funds to Kosrae", and that their diplomatic envoy will soon arrive on the island to lay out the purposes for such funds. The bigger issue here is that we have the US on one side of our economic development plan and the Chinese on the other. Applauding both, we could not have imagined that they are in a trade crisis at the moment, as reported in the New York Times. Their disputes are about tires, chicken meat, tariffs, imports, exports... etc...etc. Wow! Talking about economic assistance and development? We are, undeniably, still in the dark! So wake up sleeping lady!

Flu Alert

To inform everyone to take good care of your health and watch out for the flu alert..Don't get sick make sure you get a shot from your health service to cover you away from the flu. This flu alert cause all the schools in our island to be closed on next week. Please aware of your health. " Don't get sick but get stronger and stronger."

Great Photos

Wow! These are "great" photos. Not to mention how "slender" you guys appear, obesity is definitely not an issue amongst this group.

PARTY TIME

we all are missing having fun like the trip to walung and having party after our class is over. according what we are doing now is almost get there, what i mean is our final project almost done....hello everyone and bye-bye!!!!!!adios

Greetings from San Diego!

Thank you all for posting. Our trip to Walung was unforgettable. I am back to San Diego now and swamped with everything. Hope you are making good progress with 572!
Miss you all.
Minjuan

Good looking girls at Walung. See this is what we called "Beautiful Girls"

We Are One, Aiming For Excellence

Without teamwork, I believe we would not have made it to this point. We struggle together, progess together, and laugh silly jokes together.

Hello everyone, my name is Brook Shield, if you don't know me, I'm an actress acted on the "Blue Lagoon", at Walung. . . lol. So how's everybody? I miss dancing by the shore at Walung and dinking coconut. . .not. . .lol. So how's our cool instructor?

Group Photo

Final Presentation

My group which is consisted of four members (Willynda, Isobel, Tulpe, and Leeroy) does some last minute changes and decides to work on a new topic, A Guide to Neighboring Islands in Micronesia, for our final project. Our goal is to pinpoint to others where Micronesia is on the map, and provide some information about several elements in the cultures that exist throughout these Micronesian islands. The project will involve a powerpoint presentation which will include a movie, a few handouts containing rich information about a few existing cultures within these islands. We want to educate others to have a better understanding of the geographical locations of these Micronesian territories and to obtain some sorts of understandings about these cultures.

Successes and Challenges

Since we have decided to design a course that would focus on improving teacher performances, we now have a challenge infront of us. We may not be able to come up with an exact curriculum standard or benchmark. However, we are confident that the ojectives with the goal would be self-explanatory. We are currently deciding on the objectives so that each member could design his or her theme to be consistent with the objectives.