goals

Mindanao University of Science and Technology is comprehensive, land-grant university committed to fulfilling its fundamental purposes through exemplary undergraduate and graduate instruction, scholarly and creative research, and effective public service. The university offers degree programs at the baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral levels with emphasis on engineering, science, technology, and other academic areas. As one of the MUST three engineering colleges, the university offers PhD. . programs in engineering. Basic and applied research is conducted by faculty in university centers of excellence, in inter-institutional relationships, and through significant involvement with several public and private agencies. The university also conducts major research through engineering, transportation, and its extension programs.

For me the purpose of the importance of goals in Mindanao university of science and technology is to provide an intellectual setting where students in higher education may find a sense of identification, belonging, responsibility, and achievement that will prepare them for roles of leadership and service in the communities where they will live and work. In this sense, the University serves as a laboratory for the development of excellence in teaching, research and public service.

This university goal is being implemented:

To help students improve their interpersonal and communication skills. To insure adequate career preparation for students that will enable them to lead productive lives.

• To develop innovative instructional programs that will meet the needs of a diverse student body and the expectations of the various professions.

• To maintain an environment which fosters quality instruction and encourages the further professional development of faculty and staff which supports the ideals of academic freedom and shared governance.

• To assist students in developing their powers of critical and analytical thinking.

• To promote managerial efficiency in all administrative functions, including the continued development of operational efficiency and productivity in the accounting and fiscal system of the University consistent with the needs of the various University programs and functions and with the expectations of state and federal regulations.

• To assist students in developing in-depth competence in at least one subject area for a global economy and for an environment with changing technology.

• To aid students in the further development of self-confidence and a positive self image.

• To identify and secure additional sources for internal and external funds to support the development of competitive financial aid awards to academically qualified students and to needy students.

• To further develop and maintain the institutional research and planning processes that are necessary for the continued competitiveness, relevance, productivity, and credibility of the University, its programs, and its operations.

• To develop and maintain undergraduate and graduate programs of high academic quality and excellence.

• To encourage research and other creative endeavors by the faculty and students.

• To identify and help satisfy educational, cultural and other public service needs in the state, nation, and international environment.

• To plan, construct, and maintain physical facilities for the achievement of the goals of the educational programs, research, and administrative functions.

handicraft

How to make scented candles

materials needed

* paraffin wax
* wick or cotton roll
* aroma oil of your choice
* dried flowers or left out potpourri for decoration
Instructions

#1

take a transparent bowl in which you want to make a candle, place dried flowers or potpourri on the inside edge of the container so that it is visible from inside and when you pour wax into the container, it looks like it is a part of the candle.
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Step 2

Place paraffin wax in a mixing bowl and place it on a hot boiling water pot, place it in such a way as melting the chocolate. let the wax come to a melting point, add a few drops of aroma oil of your choice to the wax to make it scented.
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Step 3

Take the cotton wool in length wise make it loose. make sure you have the correct length to make a wick long enough for the container. now rub the length of the wool hard between your palms like you are warming up your hands. now you have a home made wick.
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Step 4

pour the hot wax into the container and immediately place the ready made wick or the wick you made in the center of the container so that one end touches the bottom and the other end is hanging out right in the middle. wrap the hanging end on to a skewer and place it on the container so that it supports the wick to stay right in place.
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Step 5

Let the whole thing set at room temperature. If you want the candle not in the container just dip the container in warm water and see the candle slip off it. leave it in the container for that perfect showroom effect.
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Step 6

Lit the candle and enjoy the experience.

fishery

How to Make a Fish Pond Cheap

materials
*Shovel Pond liner Pond pump Rocks Tape measure Scissors

Instructions

#1

Sketch the shape of your pond with your shovel. Use your tape measure to measure both the longest and the widest parts of the pond. Multiply the width times the length to get the rough square footage of your pond.
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Step 2

Go to your local hardware store. When you purchase your pond liner, double the pond's square footage number from Step 1 in order to have plenty of liner around the edges and covering the bottom of the pond. Purchase a simple, inexpensive pond pump.
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Step 3

Dig out your pond to a depth of around 3 feet. You can also taper the depth of your pond by making a deep end of 3 feet and sloping up to a depth of approximately 1 foot at the shallow end.
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Step 4

Cover your pond with your pond liner. Gently walk on the liner in the bottom of the fish pond. Step it down lightly so it sits snugly on the ground. Use your scissors to cut around the edges, leaving an extra foot of length on all sides.
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Step 5

Use the dirt dug from the pond to cover all the edges of the pond liner. Step it down lightly with your shoes to make sure it's secured to the ground. Place rocks around the edges of the pond.
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Step 6

Take your pump and place it in the deep end of the pond, or the center if your fish pond is the same depth everywhere. Take the power cord and thread it through the rocks lining the pond's edge. Use your garden hose to fill the pond up until the water is about 3 inches under the pond edge. Plug in your pump and bury the power cord.

Moist Chocolate Cake
Ingredients

* 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 cup cocoa powder
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup hot brewed coffee
* 1/2 cup butter or margarine
* 1 cup white sugar
* 2 eggs
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* Frosting:
* 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
* 1 cup cocoa powder
* 1/2 cup butter or margarine
* 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1/2 cup hot milk


Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 or two 9 inch round pans. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside. In a small bowl, combine hot coffee with 1 cup cocoa and let cool to lukewarm.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, then stir in the 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternately with the coffee and cocoa mixture; beat well.
3. Pour batter into a 9x13 inch cake or two 9 inch round pans. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.
4. To make the frosting: In a medium bowl, combine confectioners sugar, 1 cup cocoa, 1/2 cup butter and 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla. Mix until smooth. Add hot milk a teaspoon at a time to make a smooth, spreadable consistency. Spread onto cooled cake.

FOODS1 PALITAO

Ingredients

* 1 c (125g) Sweet rice flour shopping list
* 3 c (750ml) water shopping list
* 3 c Grated fresh coconut shopping list
* 2 c toasted sesame seeds shopping list
2 c (500g) sugar How to make it

* In a mixing bowl, combine the sweet rice flour and water to make a smooth dough. With floured hands shape the dough into small patties, 3 inches (8cm) in diameter and ½ inch (1cm) thick.
* Bring water in a saucepan to a boil and drop in the patties. When they float to the top, scoop them out and coat with grated coconut. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and sugar. Serve immediately.

TLE50
GRAPICS

Book Binding

Materials Required

* Sheets of paper (depending upon the size of the book)
* Piece of cardboard
* Wallpaper, contact paper, felt or cotton fabric
* Paper cutter
* A pair of scissors
* White glue or wallpaper paste
* Needle with a large eye
* Twine, carpet thread, crochet thread or quilting thread.

Procedure

For the Book
Determine the size of the book that you require. Fold the sheets midway. If you want a book of 5 1/2″ x 9″ dimensions use sheets of paper having dimensions of 11″ x 18″ as folding them midway will give you pages of the desired size. Each side of a folded sheet of paper will give four pages. Hence divide the number of pages you want to have for your book by 4. Use one sheet extra than the number that you get. This extra sheet will serve as the first and the last page onto which the cover will be pasted.

Place all the sheets on top of each other. Fold them midway. Clip all the four edges to hold the sheets in place. You can also clip the center of the fold. Beginning ½ '' from the top of the fold, start marking for holes at regular intervals. Make holes with the needles and sew the book along the holes.

For the Cover
Cut two cardboard pieces in the shape of the book. These pieces could be the same size or a little larger than the book's dimensions. Place the two pieces on the felt, cloth or the material you are using to cover the cardboard pieces such that there is a gap of 1/8″ to 1/4″ between them. Draw the outline of the cardboard pieces on the material with a pencil. Remove the cardboard pieces. Now cut the material one inch around the entire outside of the pencil mark.

Apply glue to the cardboard pieces and place them along the pencil mark. Apply glue to the one inch of extra material along the border of the cardboard pieces. Fold in the four corners so that the tip of the corners of the material lies on the diagonal of the cardboard piece. Now fold in the material along the sides of the cardboard. Let the cover dry.

Apply glue to the outer sides of the first and the last page of the book. Place the book carefully along the center of the two cardboard pieces and smooth down. Close the book and place some weight over it. Leave it to dry for a few days.
food processing

Mixed Fruit Cocktail
Mixed Fruit Cocktail

* 3 lbs peaches
* 3 lbs pears
* 1-1/2 lbs slightly underripe seedless green grapes
* 10-oz jar of maraschino cherries
* 3 cups sugar
* 4 cups water

Yield: About 6 pints

Please read Using Boiling Water Canners before beginning. If this is your first time canning, it is recommended that you read Principles of Home Canning.
Procedure: Stem and wash grapes, and keep in ascorbic acid solution. Dip ripe but firm peaches, a few at a time, in boiling water for 1 to 1-1/2 minutes to loosen skins. Dip in cold water and slip off skins. Cut in half, remove pits, cut into 1/2-inch cubes and keep in solution with grapes. Peel, halve, and core pears. Cut into 1/2-inch cubes, and keep in solution with grapes and peaches. Combine sugar and water in a saucepan and bring to boil. Drain mixed fruit. Add 1/2 cup of hot syrup to each jar Then add a few cherries and gently fill the jar with mixed fruit and more hot syrup, leaving 1/2-inch headspace.

agriculture

composting garbage

There are all kinds of things to compost. The following is just a short list of what can go into a compost pile:



· All green garden waste

· Coffee grounds

· Old cotton, silk, or wool clothing (torn up)

· Eggshells

· Floor sweepings

· Hair and nail clippings

· Paper and cardboard

· Cardboard packaging

· Egg Cartons (not Styrofoam)

· Old Greeting Cards

· Shredded documents

· Toilet-paper rolls

· Used tissues and kitchen towels

· Waxed paper

· Wrapping paper

· Rabbit or hamster bedding

· Tea bags

· Vacuum-cleaner dust

· Vegetable waste (cooked or raw)

· Wood ash

· Weeds from the yard and garden

· Tough kitchen waste such as corn cobs should be broken up or smashed with a hammer

Composting is very easy, and doesn’t require any exact science. It is important to add both green and non-green materials to the pile, and alternate the layers if possible. Here is how I go about making compost:

I wake up in the morning and eat a banana. I put the banana peel in a cup sitting on my counter. I chop up some lettuce for a salad for lunch. I put the bad parts of the lettuce in the cup with the banana peel. I peel and orange for a snack. I put the orange peel in the cup with the banana peel and bad lettuce. I make some tea. I put the tea bag in the cup with the banana peel, bad lettuce, and orange peels. This goes on for a few days, adding things to the cup, until it’s full. I then take the cup out and dump it in the compost pile.



On Saturday, I mow the grass, and bag half the lawn and mulch the rest. I add the grass clippings from the bag into the compost pile. This goes on week after week, and sooner or later I have a full compost bin, and I start another one. It’s that simple.



I try to make sure and add some fibrous material in between the layers of grass clippings. This allows for air to enter the pile, and helps the process of breaking down the materials.



If it hasn’t rained in a while, I might poor a few cups of water on the pile to keep it moist. Otherwise, it just sits out in the back of my yard, slowly, but surely turning into the great brown stuff, that is so excellent for putting around my vegetable plants.

What to avoid putting in your compost pile:

· Cat or dog litter

· Coal ash

· Dairy products

· Disposable diapers

· Fish and meat waste

· Oil or fats

· Laminated Cardboard (juice and milk cartons)

· Telephone directories

· Very shiny magazines

electricity

series parallel connection

MATERIALS:

* light bulbs
* wire
* lamp bulbs
* or 3-4 circuit set ups with battery holder
* Electricity Slideshow



PROCEDURE:

1. Using the alligator clips, lamp holders, and lamps, erect a series and parallel circuit as in the diagrams below. The more bulbs you put on the series circuit, the more voltage you will need. Go over the difference between the circuits. Point out that the lights get dimmer on a series circuit, the lights are all illuminated the same on a parallel circuit.



2. Ask students why simple circuits might not be appropriate in their house. Give them clues. Are the appliances all on the same wire? If they are, what happens when one is turned off? Is the circuit broken? If it is broken, will a circuit work? If available, show 2 types of Christmas lights (the ones that will light up even if one is out is a parallel circuit; the ones that won't light up if one is out is a series circuit). Demonstrate by removing the bulbs and see what happens. If it is parallel the lights will stay on, if it is series all the lights will go out.

3. Ask students which one they would want in their house. Discuss that the circuit board they made was a simple series circuit. Almost all electrical circuits in homes are parallel. Use the enclosed worksheet to emphasize that parallel circuits are used in our home. Students can add appliances on the picture to represent their house. Have them write a paragraph of the different uses of electricity in their house.

clothing

How to Make a Pleated Skirt


Things You'll Need:

* 2 yards of 44 inch fabric
* Matching thread
* 8 to 10 buttons
* Soft measuring tape
* Iron
* Ironing board
* Press cloth
* Straight pins
* Sewing machine

Make the Pleats

#1

Cut a strip of fabric 4 inches wide off the lower (long) edge of the fabric. This will be used for the waistband.
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Step 2

Cut the fabric in half, parallel to the selvages. (The selvages are the finished edges that are often white and have the name of the fabric printed on them.)
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Step 3

Place the two sections of fabric right sides together and stitch them together along one short edge. Press the seam open.
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Step 4

Hem the lower edge of the fabric by folding the edge 1/4 inch toward the wrong side and pressing the fold flat. Fold the edge over 1/2 inch toward the wrong side and press it flat. Topstitch along the edge of the fold.
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Step 5

Decide how wide you want the pleats (you may need to experiment with different folds to see what looks good). Fold the fabric over the width you want the pleat, starting with the area around the seam, to make sure the seam gets hidden underneath a pleat. Measure each fold for exact pleats, or judge them by eye for simpler, but less perfect pleats.
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Step 6

Press each pleat firmly using a hot iron and a damp press cloth.
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Step 7

Pin the pleats in place along the top of the fabric. Set the sewing machine to the longest stitch length. Baste across the pleats, 1/4 inch from the top of the fabric.

Sew the Skirt
#1

Measure the fullest part of your hips. Trim the pleated fabric so that it’s about 3 inches wider than this measurement.
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Step 2

Fold each end under about 1/2 inch (if it isn’t already folded in a pleat) and press the fold flat. Topstitch along each fold.
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Step 3

Cut a waistband from the strip of fabric that’s 3 1/2 inches wide and 3 1/2 inches longer than your waist. Fold each short end of the waistband 1/2 inch toward the wrong side of the fabric and press the folds flat.
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Step 4

Fold the waistband in half wrong sides together and press it flat. Topstitch across the short ends of the waistband.
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Step 5

Place the waistband face down on the top of the skirt, lining up the raw edge of the waistband with the top of the skirt.
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Step 6

Pin the waistband in place. If the skirt is wider than the waistband, you can ease in the extra fabric by making tiny little folds between each pleat.
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Step 7

Stitch the waistband to the skirt using 1/2 inch seam allowance.
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Step 8

Add buttonholes to one end of the skirt and buttons to the other, making sure to line up the buttons and buttonholes. To wear the skirt, overlap the open edges and button them in place.


pluming and pluming

How to Make Hollow Concrete Blocks

Instructions

#1

Inflate a beach ball and use a felt pen to draw a circle around the top, with the air valve in the center. This will be the opening of your concrete block.
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Step 2

Apply water-based concrete-releasing agents to the entire surface of the ball.
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Step 3

Wrap strips of hardware cloth around the surface of the ball, leaving the area inside the drawn circle clear. Be sure the strips remain as evenly spaced as possible: Multiple layers on top of one another will create an uneven surface, which makes it trickier to get the concrete sphere right.
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Step 4

Place a layer of wet concrete around the surface of the ball. The layer should be a uniform 1/2 inch thick around the entire surface. The area inside the drawn circle should be kept completely free of concrete mix.
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Step 5

Allow the concrete to harden for at least 24 hours.
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Step 6

Deflate the ball and carefully remove it from the concrete.
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Step 7

Add additional layers of concrete over the first until the block is of the desired thickness. You may wish to do this in stages, adding a little concrete at a time instead of placing it all on at once.

welding

welding metal

materials needed
# welding machine
# welding rod
# helmet
# gloves
# steel shoe

If you want to know how to weld metal, you're going to need to know what type of materials you are working with. What kind of metals do you want to weld? Mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum are the three most common metals that are welded.

Yes you can weld other materials such as cast iron and more exotic metals such as titanium but this article is only going to cover the more common metals.

The most common ways to weld metal are with electricity, as in, using a welder. You can use oxy acetylene equipment which uses a mixture of acetylene gas and oxygen gas. This is more of an old-school technique and is hardly ever used for any DIY welding.

Gas welding is good for sheet metal. For example, I still know of a couple of muffler shops in town who use gas welding for all of their repairs.

You can use an arc welder which is also known as a stick welder to weld metal. These welding machines are very simple by design and last through years or abuse. They use what is called a welding electrode. The welding electrode is a small length of wire, on average about a foot long, that is coated in what's called a flux. As you weld this flux is slowly burnt off and goes around the weld puddle to protect it from oxygen and other gases in the air.

Using a mig welding machine is now the most common way to weld.

A mig welder is also known as a wire feed welder and is very easy to use when you want to learn how to weld metal. Using one of these machines you install a spool of welding wire, attach your earth clamp to your work piece and adjust your power settings. Then all you have to do is pull the trigger on the welding gun and you're away. Mig welding is a very fast, simple and easy process to learn.

For more delicate work you can use what is called a TIG. These machines are good for a very precise welding. A lot of sheet metal fabricator's will rely on these machines because the power can go that low you can weld extremely thin materials. And as a bonus, depending on how big your machine is some of them can put out an awful lot of power for heavier welding applications.

Spot welding is another way to weld metal. It is commonly used again in thin sheet metal welding.
The way a spot welder works is you put the two pieces of sheet steel between the two electrodes and hit the button. The welding arc will zap between the two electrodes and weld the two pieces of steel together. This method is very commonly used in the automotive industry.

drafting

Isometric Drawing

An isometric view of an object will provide a view of three sides.
It is important to choose the best view to provide the most detail.

All lines are at either 30 degrees except for vertical lines (90 degrees)


How to draw an isometric
#1

Start by completing a sketch of the object using the crating method.
This helps visualize the finished object
#2 Set the drawing angle to 30.
#3

Start at the corner of the object and measure line lengths.
#4

Once basic measurements are in place,
other lines can be drawn and the edit tools used to clean up intersections.

Ed Tech Quiz #1 » online exam

How can a developing nation consider investments in information and
communication technology for enhancing its formal and nonformal
education systems when most of its people still live in absolute poverty?
This question is discomforting for everyone concerned with the intersecting
issues of ICT and development. However, these interests are
not contradictory, and raising the educational level of the poor is a long-term
solution toward alleviating their economic problems. The impact of educational
level on economic development is more pronounced with the recent growth
of ICT and its increasing importance in social and economic development. This
has profound implications for education––
both in how ICTs can be used to
strengthen education, and how education can be more effective in promoting
the growth of ICT in the Asia and Pacific region. However,
education systems have changed very little in response. Without improved
efficiencies in their education systems, developing nations will not likely be
able to provide the additional human capital required to achieve economic
self-sufficiency in the context of a highly competitive global economy that is. Why Invest in ICT for Education?
ICT has the potential to bridge the knowledge gap in terms of improving quality
of education, increasing the quantity of quality educational opportunities, making
knowledge building possible through borderless and boundless accessibility
to resources and people, and reaching populations in remote areas to satisfy
their basic right to education. As various ICTs become increasingly affordable,
accessible, and interactive, their role at all levels of education is likely to be
all the more significant in making educational outcomes relevant to the labor
market, in revolutionizing educational content and delivery, and in fostering
information literacy. Educational Need


Users of information technology need to apply their critical thinking skills with respect to their computers by developing a healthy skepticism regarding its reliability. Users need to recognize the inevitability of its failure, to fully appreciate the risk of loss, and to adequately protect their creative work that resides as bits of data on their computers.

My goal with this project is to get users of information technology to change their belief that computers are infallible and to critically examine what data they need to backup. It is my belief that when users fully appreciate the value of their creative input on computers, they will have the motivation to overcome presenting barriers to backing up data. For the novice user, this may mean simply learning how to backup and then integrating the procedure into a routine that will actually get performed. For the more advanced user, I would like to propose a simple solution to the problem of regenerating settings that are necessary to make software on computers to “do what it’s supposed to”, such as accessing email and the Internet, having usual software programs behave as “they normally do”, etc.

This falls within the province of developing a critical thinking approach to technology in general. As users, we need to reflect constantly upon how reliable the information that we are presented with via technology is. Just because the data looks good is not guarantee of its accuracy or usefulness. Developing such a critical approach provides an excellent opportunity to exercise several of the Habits of Mind identified by Costa and Kallick (2001) which help life time learners to behave intelligently when confronted with problems whose answers are not immediately apparent. Calm persistence, carefully monitoring when things work and don’t work, drawing on a repertoire of problem solving strategies, valuing uncertainty and developing the confidence to explore alternatives are among the patterns of intellectual behavior I would like to encourage with this project.

Project Goal


People will become more effective users of information technology as they learn to anticipate and work through its failure. They will fundamentally shift their thinking and see technology in a different way: “It will fail” and “I can take reasonable steps to protect myself

A quandary confronting those who rely on technology that has become particularly acute as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center Towers in New York City is how to secure the huge amounts of energy and creative capital that users have invested in their computers. Even barring catastrophic events, as new operating systems are introduced with increasing frequency and technological growth continues to outstrip even the most optimistic of estimates, the need for securing data becomes ever more pressing. This project focuses on three broad areas: to change technology users’ perceptions that technology is infallible, to raise users’ awareness of the value of data stored on their computers, and pragmatically, what to actually backup and how. Though to a certain extent the “how to” questions are machine and platform dependent, the question of what needs to be backed up is general and can be examined from a “cost to restore” point of view. Success will be when the user confidently backs up his/her data on a regular basis and is able to overcome obstacles such as when technology doesn’t perform as expected employing habits of mind of intelligent behavior.

Teachers need a great deal of motivation when it comes to implementing technology in the classroom. There are many obstacles to overcome. Technology can be very intimidating for many teachers because introducing technology almost always requires new learning. Teachers may lack the time and the motivation to learn technology skills. The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the obstacles teachers face in their attempts to implement and integrate technology in their classroom and compare it with the author's workplace.

THe integration of technology into the curriculum will not succeed without giving teachers ample time to practice, explore, conceptualize, and collaborate. This can be done by inviting them to join the school technology planning committee. Solicit teachers' participation on the technology planning committee and explain why their participation is important. Once teachers understand the value of technology in their teaching and the ease with which it can be utilized, they will not shy away.

Why is it that some schools are effectively using technology for teaching and learning while other schools are not.Certain conditions are necessary for schools to effectively use technology.success of technology implementation is contingent on a number of factors.First, schools must have a strong curriculum as a foundation because if they don't, technology will do little to improve … schools and might even have a negative impact. Teachers need to feel that they count.Technology planning expert Dixie Conner explains how effective planning by teachers and technology leaders working together can result in more effective technology use.technology leaders can begin to close the communication gap with teachers, and teachers can become more informed about the benefits of planning and more involved in integrating technology.

New Zealand has the world's highest access to telecommunications per capita, with the cost of accessing the Internet being almost as low as it is in the United States. Research shows that New Zealanders are usually quick to embrace new technology. New Zealanders have been buying computers, signing up to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and going online at an internationally impressive rate.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Strategy for Schools, 2002-2004 has been developed in consultation with schools, researchers, tertiary education providers, businesses, and others. It builds upon the achievements of the 1998 strategy (Interactive Education: An Information and Communication Technologies Strategy for Schools) and the lessons learnt from it. The ICT strategy recognises that to focus on technical skills alone is to limit the vision of ICT in education. Rather, the focus must be on extending and deepening educational experiences (and on sharing those experiences) to work towards further developing an innovative and thriving society. AUSTRALIA General ICT policy elementsAn ICT policy in education cannot be formulated without addressing the degree of development of a country's ICT infrastructure and its overall ICT policy first. Schools will find it hard to connect to the Internet or train teachers online if the country's telecommunication infrastructure is underdeveloped and information systems and services are inadequate..1. Development of ICT infrastructure
Infrastructure development
Interoperation of information systems
Enhancement of public services
Cost savings in service delivery, purchasing, communication, etc.
Electronic commerce and secure transactions
Development of technological standards
2. Development of skills
Research and development
ICT education and training
3. Development of legislation and policies to correspond to the requirements of new ICT
Diffusion of information technology
Development of ICT industries
Trade policies for ICT-related goods and services
Pricing and taxation of electronic services
Protection of intellectual property
Privacy of personal data
Protection of cultural and linguistic diversity
Protection against illegal and harmful content
Adoption of standards
4. Institutional development and coordination
Institutional and regulatory structures
National ICT development coordination
International interface and cooperation
5. Access to ICT
Access to infrastructure
Access to information
6. Monitoring ICT
Monitoring the use of ICT
Measurement of the impact of ICT
 
Malaysia is, in many ways, an atypical country. It is hard to categorize and neither developed nor developing, or both, depending on the region. It is characterized by great disparities within the country and faces the dilemma of ensuring its regional and global competitiveness in ICT while at the same time ensuring equitable ICT access in rural areas. Thus there are projects such as the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC), a government-driven initiative to develop a Malaysian Silicon Valley, as well as the Internet Desa, a program to install Internet centers in rural areas.

SINGAPORE
The "ICT in Education" policies of countries in the Asia-Pacific region vary greatly. While some have not yet formulated any specific visions or plans, others are at an advanced stage of ICT integration, that is, they are focusing on the meaningful integration of ICT (including radio, television and DVD) into teaching and learning processes.

HONGKONG The Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS) believes the role of information and communications technology (ICT), and ICT-based initiatives should be given more prominence.

According to Sunny Lee, president of HKCS, ICT is an enabling technology, and its innovation is essential to the successful development of new knowledge-based industries.

The HKCS recently organised a forum to encourage the ICT industry to identify and provide ICT applications/services to support key new industries as promulgated in the HK government economic policy. PHILIPPINES
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