POST EVENT REPORT JOURNALISM TRAINING FOR CAMPUS WRITERS AND TREE PLANTING October 18-‐19, 2013 | St. Mary’s School of Sagada, Mountain Province
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INTRODUCTION The Third Cordillera Pine Tree Festival is a unique festival. With the purpose of educating the young on enriching their literary, creative and journalistic writing skills and of teaching them how to plan trees and care for the environment, Cordillera Ecological Center (CEC) and A Tree A Day (ATAD) organized and implemented a Journalism Training for Campus Writers and Tree Planting for the youth of Sagada and Besao on October 18 -‐19, 2013 at the St. Mary’s School of Sagada, Mountain Province. CEC and ATAD also put together 2 teams—a team of campus journalism key opinion leaders for lectures, workshops and critiquing sessions with young campus writers and another team of environmental specialists and foresters for the tree planting. As one of the few journalism trainings conducted in Sagada and Besao, it was seen as an opportunity for the target participants to be more equipped with the right knowledge and skills necessary to become effective campus writers. To maximize the learning opportunity for the participants, the topics were broadened to include not only Basic Campus Journalism topics but also Investigative Reporting and Photojournalism. The organizer tapped resource speakers who had been in campus journalism and/or are in the journalism field for a significant period of time, and who are in a position to share their knowledge and skills. RESOURCE SPEAKERS 1. Dr. Michael A. Bengwayan, Director, Cordillera Ecological Center (CEC) 2. Engr. Oliver Masillem, Engineer, Ground Specialist, Inc; ATAD Member 3. Romulo A. Bagacina, Officer, Curriculum Development and Evaluation Department, Monol International Institute; Traner/Coach, Center for technical Excellence and Integrated School, Inc; ATAD Member 4. Paul Joseph Nuval, Instructor, Department of Development Communication, Benguet State University, ATAD Member OVERVIEW OF THE TOPICS 1. What is Campus Journalism? 2. Feature Writing 3. News and Sports Writing 4. Essay and Poetry Writing 5. Lay-‐outing 6. Investigative Reporting – Trainees will learn to express the essence of nature, adding context to perspectives and telling how humans must interact with the environment 7. Photojournalism – Trainees will learn how to tell stories with pictures and how pictures can expand the meaning of words by stirring emotions through atmosphere and mood.
RESOURCE MATERIALS A set of handouts was given to each participating school. Engr. Masillem also gave out books on Digital Photography for Dummies to the Photojournalism participants. PARTICIPANT PROFILE There were a total of 130 participants including the advisers from 13 schools in Sagada and Besao. They were a combination of elementary and high school writers, from editors-‐in-‐chief to staff writers. Students from St. Mary’s School handled the registration process. School Number of Participants Agawa National High School 8 Ambasing Elementary School 7 Ankileng Elementary School 11 Ankileng National high School 10 Antadao National High School 7 Bangaan Elementary School 12 Bangaan National High School 9 Besao National High School 7 Sagada Central School 7 Sagada National High School 12 St. James’ High School 10 St. Mary’s School of Sagada 18 Tetepan Elementary School 12 130 PROGRAM The training started with a prayer from a representative from Antadao National High School and the singing of the National Anthem led by a representative from Ankileng National High School. Ms. Nemia N. Lite, Principal of St. Mary’s School of Sagada, welcomed the participants before Dr. Michael A. Bengwayan gave an overview of the training. After some participants from Sagada National High School gave an intermission, the participants, the organizers and the sponsors were acknowledged. The opening program ended with the surfacing of expectations from a representative from Bangaan Elementary School. The lecture sessions started with a discussion on “What is Campus Journalism?” by Mr. Romulo A. Bagacina. He discussed Repiublic Act No. 7079, An Act Providing for the Development and Promotion of Campus Journalism and for Other Purposes, and went through significant details on the Rules and Regulations for the implementation of such republic act.
The lecture ended with an open forum, during which the participants asked the following questions: 1. What is the tense of verbs used in writing news? 2. We are in an extension school – a beginner. How can I motivate the students and teachers to appreciate writing? 3. Mainstream media was said to control the mindset of the nation. Usually, the media would hide some facts, effectively giving the viewers the wrong information. Is this against the proper conduct of journalism? 4. Why do we produce newspapers? 5. Why should we plant trees? 6. What is the best thing to do during a writer’s block? 7. May patutunguhan ba ang pag susulat? 8. What do you call an effective writing? 9. What are problems a writer can have? 10. What characteristics should a person have to become a good writer? 11. Ano ang mga dapat tandaan pag ng lalay-‐out? 12. Ano ang dapat isulat sa editorial? Paano ito dapat isinusulat? 13. How can someone improve his/her writing skills if it is not his/her interest? 14. What is the best way to start writing a news article? 15. What do you get from writing? 16. What are the courses related to writing? 17. What are the benefits of being a writer? 18. What is the soul of the newspaper and why? 19. As a writer, how will you encourage the younger generation to read your articles especially now that the generation is evolving? After lunch, the parallel sessions started. In the first hour, Dr. Bengwayan, Engr. Masillem, Mr. Bagacina and Mr. Nuval has small group lectures on Investigative Reporting, Photojournalism, Essay Writing/Editorial Writing and Lay-‐outing respectively. On the second hour, while Engr. Masillem continued his lecture on Photojournalism, Dr. Bengwayan, Mr. Bagacina and Mr. Nuval started separate sessions on Feature Writing, Poetry, and News/Sports Writing. Workshops started as soon as all the parallel sessions were over. Photojournalism participants went out to take shots, as instructed by their resource speaker, while the others were given topics to write about. While the workshops were ongoing, the organizers and speakers gathered the advisers for meeting. The advisers shared their concerns in their respective schools. It was agreed upon that both the campus journalists and writers need further training.
One specific concern was the lay-‐outing of the school paper and the coming up with an e-‐publication. In most school publications, the adviser does the lay-‐outing, and most of them uses Miscrosoft Publisher; very few uses Adobe Pagemaker. The president of the organization of School Paper Advisers suggested that a training for both the campus writers and advisers be scheduled sometime in December or next year. The meeting ended and the outputs were collected at 5:30 PM. On the second day, the resource speakers had another set of parallel sessions for the critiquing of the outputs. Each speaker pointed out strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. Outputs were given back to the students for their reference. TREE PLANTING COMPONENT The tree planting was conducted in the morning of the second day. There were about 1000 pine tree seedlings. Dr. Bengwayan first gave a brief introduction on the advantages of planting pine trees, and then demonstrated how the seedlings should be planted. In addition to the journalism-‐training participants, ATAD members from Bontoc arrived to help. They were divided into small groups, given a number of seedlings and assigned to plant in specific areas around the school, the dorm and the church. CLOSING PROGRAM The journalism trainees, tree planters, and organizers were treated to a spectacular performance by the St. Mary’s School of Sagada Choir at the start of the closing program. The participants shared their impressions on the training and gave a synthesis of the two-‐day activity. Dr. Bengwayan and Engr. Masillem awarded the certificates to participants and resource speakers. Dr. Bengwayan also gave his message, thanking all those who made the training and tree planting activity possible, including ATAD, the resource speakers, St. Mary’s School of Sagada for hosting the activity, the schools and parents of the students for allowing the students to join and the students for actively participating. Finally, a student from St. Mary’s School of Sagada gave the closing program, three students from Sagada Central School sang a closing song and Ms. Lite gave the closing prayer. Both the opening and closing program were facilitated by Pharysa Dean Pekas and Jennifer Bidang, SMSS students.
Attachments: 1. Training Directory 2. Photos
TRAINING DIRECTORY
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Training Management Team Name Position Michael A. Bengwayan, Director, Cordillera Ph.D. Ecological Center Kylie Anne C. Binay-‐an Event Coordinator Training and Tree Planting Volunteers Constancia Jane Cadias Dobbels Wallang Darwin Pandosen James Lingbanan II. Resource Speakers Name Position/Address Michael A. Bengwayan, Director, CEC Ph.D. Engr. Oliver Masillem Civil Engineer, Ground Specialist, Inc ATAD Member Romula A. Bagacina Officer, Curriculum Development and Evaluation Department, Monol International Institute Trainer/Coach, Center for Technical Excellence Integrated School, Inc ATAD Member Paul Joseph A. Nuval Instructor, Department of Development Communication, Benguet State University ATAD Member III. Participants School Name Position Agawa National High School
Contact Details (04) 422 1652 63 929256295
Topic Investigative Reporting Feature Writing Photojournalism Essay/Editorial Writing Poetry
Lay-‐outing and News/Sports Writing
1 Santos S. Tulipa
Contact Email Number Address 9108016097
2 Marcy Oyad 3 Ezra Luis
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Ambasing Elementary School Ankileng Elementary School
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18 Kendrick Batnag Agnapan 19 Khyrie Jones B. Loyosen 20 Yvonne Joy Kigas
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Ankileng National high School
26 Jocelyn M. Calpas 27 Clarence C. Guindalos
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Roslie Degay Aida Doga-‐ong Charene Dacwag Jealou S. Latawan Aileen Gleen Fangayen Arjil Palgue Xyra Labiangan Steve Dagacan Jennette Reyes
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St. James High School
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St. Mary's School of Sagada
Balantin Loisa Faith B. Soliba Vera O. Sabas Ciara Bumatang Mark Bugaling Brian K. Dulnuan Zerrik Finch B. Luna Gayalan C. Sumedca Benedict A. Babao
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Tetepan Elementary School
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PHOTOS AND VIDEOS Photos can be viewed at the following links: www.cordilleraecologicalcenter.org www.cordillerapinetreefestival.org https://www.facebook.com/cordillera.pinetreefestival https://www.facebook.com/Atreeaday