Betelnut Chewing Evolution

Betelnut Chewing Evolution



Betel nut chewing; a Palauan culture that has been practiced for many decades.  The basic ingredients per chew is; 1/2 betel nut fruit, some lime powder or pasted, piece of Piper Leave.  Chewing has become modern, lime containers now have better upgrades, and more selections of chewing condiments.  Chewers are able to spice their chewing with Gloves , cardamon seeds, ginger (cooking ingredients), filters (coffee filters), piper leaves and tobacco.You also have an option of either Lime powder or paste.  Mortar and pestles were called out-dated and antique betel nut tools when pliers were invented.

#1 Reason Why You Should Scuba Dive in Palau

#1 Reason Why You Should Scuba Dive in Palau



Located 7 degrees North of the equator, Palau is famous for it's abundance and diversity of marine life.  It's tropical weather and crystal clear water enables you to take a peek of the underwater wonders before you plunge yourself in the water.  Snorkels were created to pair up with diving mask for non-divers like me, so we can all enjoy the beauty of Palau's Underwater World!

Hey, what's up?

I know we see each other every week for CG, but we are so busy in our groups that we don't keep up with anything else. Why don't you check in once in a while? Did you read the poem from MJ? It was nice to hear from her, and the poem wasn't bad either.

Happy Holidays

Greetings fellow students of SDSU, Since MJ's class is finished, i was hoping we continue using the blog to post some of our christmas and new year's experiences. Better yet, lets continue using the blog until the end of our program for support and sharing reasons. I really enjoyed reading some of the blogs and I do hope we can continue to post.

Sharing is Caring

by Melanie, Kubarii, and Lou Ann

We chose to do our instructional package on Palauan Culture because we see teacher's needs of these information. In class today, we realized that we all have the same concerns since most of our presentations were about preserving Palauan cultures. As some of us had stated during our presentations, we had learned a lot more than we expected. So why don't we post up our final projects here or somewhere where we all have an easy access to? The instructional packages we created for this class are useful for every teacher, so let's share. Let's share how to preserve our traditional cultures.

Mayl, do we have the site yet or not?

Christmas is around the corner..

I would like to take this opportunity to say Merry Christrmas and Happy New Year to everyone. Our journey is half way done, so if you feel yourself tired try your best to complete this journey with your classmates and friends. As the great Bob Marley sang it in his song entitiled Redemption Song, " Emancipate yourself from mental slavery cause not but ourselves can free out mind."

Happy Holidays

Hello All, I just want to say HAPPY HOLIDAYS and take care.

Grassroots Learning

Grassroots Educators: Andrew, Dean, Elwais & Marcia (cook)

This project for EDTEC 572 has made us realize that there is so much our culture has to offer in educating our children. Not only do we have a unique culture, we also have a pre-packaged system in place for both teachers and students alike. Though our project is still in the ‘rough’, we are optimistic that we can create an instructional and student package from our topic that is realistic, applicable, and all encompassing in terms of content areas that needs to be addressed in our current educational system.

Final Project

Greetings,

Our group final project is going well. We are trying our best to make it user friendly as well as effective way to deliver lessons as well as getting good results. While doing the project, we have learned alot of tactics we could in our own classroom.


Pilar

Guidelines for Final Presentation

Greetings!
Thank you for thinking ahead for the the presentation About your project (the instructional package).
1) Timeline: during your last Circle group meeting--the week of Dec. 14.
2) Content: Your team will make a presentation of up to 15 minutes to the class. Your classmates will provide feedback after each presentation, through in-class dialog.

What should you present?
ABOUT your project--why do you choose this topic, who it's for, how did you work together to complete it (success and challenges), teaching method used, lessons you learned from this project, etc. You'll be presenting to your peers and you are presenting as a Designer and developer of the instruction.

Example: See file attached (The Mission to Mars).

4) Grading Criteria:
Presented within the time limits
All members contributed to the presentation
Presentation is clear (about the project and what they learned)
The slides are not cluttered.
Answered audience's questions properly.

I am sure you'll have lots of fun with it. Wish I could be there.
--Minjuan

Final Project Update

Our project is nearing its completion. It's only a matter of integrating technology to finalize it.

Julia Wally and Pioria Asito

Final Project Update

mayleen ngiriou, janice yukiwo, nora abraham, esther rengulbai, pillar ngiraswei, and gwen rengiil



So far we have finalized our students' guide and now we're working on the teachers' guide. We are pretty sure that we will be ready before the presentation on the 16th.

Final Project Update

By: Lou Ann Sungino, Melanie Yangrelbug, Kubarii Joe

At this moment our group had come up with a topic for our final project. We have met and divided our parts for the project. We are still in the process of gathering information. Once we gather information we are going to compile them and come up with our instructional package. Hopefully by next week we will be able to come up with the whole package, because the student's guide depends on the teacher's guide. We'll do our best.

Group Final Project Update

Group Name: Lester Rekemsik, Mary Basiou, Romson Remoket, Thomas Borja, Delina Remengesau

Hi, MJ last Friday 11/27/09 we met as a small group and discuss about the our project. We came up with the Student Guide. As a group we shared some ideas on how to start with the students activities. Tonight as a group we continue to work with the same student activities.

Feedback and Grade for Final Project Propopsal

Happy thanksgiving, once again!
I hope you have turkey to eat in Palau. If not, I can send you some pictures of this roasted big bird.
I just posted grades and comments for your proposal. Apologies again for the delay (technical and also on my part). You did a fabulous job with it! Lots of your proposal are filled with details and the topics are very interesting and meaningful. I did not ask for changes since you are all on track. Minor wording changes are enclosed in my feedback on gradebook.
thank you all for your hard and excellent work.
-Minjuan

Blogging This Week (Thanksgiving!)

Alli！I won't ask you to share what you are thankful for!
Please post a update after your group work, reporting what you accomplished and what are your questions or challenges with the final project.
Also, a note for all bloggers: Please write your name at the end of your post, especially, if you use a pen name such as AaliyahAlana, BLADE, Dirra. We like to know who you are!

Better late than never

In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with kids being technogically literate. It just means their within the global learning mode and at least their open minded and intelligent enough to learn. As for us adults and educators, we should give our kids the opportunity to learn technology because its booming and the time is right. Again, as educators, let's all remember that we're way beyond the paddling canoe era, and slowly moving away from speed boat, next we'll be riding the concorde. This is where technology is leading us whether we like it or not.

Nothing's Wrong

This is exactly what we wanted our kids to be able to do. Its normal this days, a kid who's not exposed to computer at the early age is abnormal. And for us Bibbers, its normal not to be technologically literate and its OK to utilize our students technological skills in the classroom. This can elevate their skills and motivation level. When it comes to technology, we have to accept the fact that our kids will dominate us. Our main responsibility as educators is to provide opportunity for them to figure out what they can do with the technology today that will better their future generations just like what our fore fathers did for us.

Blogging Assignment Clarification

Alli! Sorry for the unclear information. I bet Marianne might have already informed you.
The Blog assignment, you may ignore what's written on the course website. You do NOT need to create any other blog. You'll just continue to post on this class blog, either in New Post, or Comments. You'll get the full points for participating in weekly blog discussions. There will be one topic per week, and I'll email you the topic by every Monday.

Any questions, feel free to email me.
Sulung!
Minjuan

Is It Just Me?

Is it just me or have you noticed that the moment we get up every seconds goes by rather quickly. People seem to think that the island life is so layed back and basically at a snail pace. Being an educator, it seems that every seconds of my time is precious. I dfo admire those people who take moments each day to reflect on the events of their day. Sometimes I wish I could stop the clock from ticking and do all I can. There are days I feel revived after a long day but, on some days I don't have the energy to last a day.