Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region V-Bicol
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE
Vinzons Pilot High School
Vinzons

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CAPACITY BUILDING SEMINAR

Date: July 27-29, 2020 Time: 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Venue: English Dept. Office

Narrative Report on Capacity Building Seminar

Change is inevitable. At the present time we welcome the “new normal”

environment which was caused by the pandemic Covid-19. This pandemic has affected
the lives of many people and posted a great challenge for each of us. Capacity Building
Seminar was conducted to equip the teachers with necessary information and training
that they need to cope with the challenges in education that we are facing at this
moment.

The Seminar started with an opening prayer. After that, it was followed by a short
message from Ma’am Anita Recodo. She also presented the House Rules to the
participants. These are the ff:

1. Be punctual. Always come before the time.

2. Actively participate in all activities. Avoid side conversations.
3. Listen when someone s talking.
4. Share your ideas. Raise your hand when you want to speak.
5. Don’t shoot the ideas of others.
6. Build on the ideas of others.
7. Switch your mobile phone to silent mode.
8. Follow the IATF Health protocols.

Ma,am Venus V. Lamadrid, the first speaker discussed Interactive Powerpoint

Presentation
Zoom offers the following:
 1. One-on-one meetings: Host unlimited one-on-one meetings even with the free
plan.
2. Group video conferences: Host up to 500 participants (if you purchase the "large
meeting" add-on). The free plan, however, allows you to host video conferences
of up to 40 minutes and up to 100 participants.
3. Screen sharing: Meet one-on-one or with large groups and share your screen
with them so they can see what you see. 

Ma’am Lamadrid also discussed the Pros and Cons of Zoom application.

Pros:

 Reimagining online video conferencing

 Mobile-friendly
 A group that zooms together, stays together
 Meetings at your convenience
 Unlimited number of meetings.

Cons:

 There is a duration of 40-minutes.

Ma’am Lamadid also discussed the steps in using Zoom. These are the
following:
1. Open the Zoom application
2. Copy the link
3. Invite the participants

As teacher, you will be the one to host a meeting for your students. You may
copy the link and send it to those you want to invite. Those who received the invitation
can click the link to join the meeting. Ma’am Lamadrid informed the participants that it
would be better if you will create a Group Chat(GC) with your students so that you will
just send the link once and you will no longer send it to your students one by one.

In addition, Ma’am Venus informed the participants that may set up the Zoom
before the students join the meeting in the way the teacher would want it to be.

Sir Joel Allaga raised a concern regarding one of the features of Zoom which
may allow the students to record the whole meeting wherein there’s a tendency that
students may use that against the teacher if there’s a student who has a different
perspective on what his/her teacher have said.

After Ma’am Lamadrid finished her presentation, Sir Joel Allaga volunteered to
serve as the host wherein he will be the one to start and manage the meeting.
Moreover, the participants continued to explore the different features of Zoom.The
participants enjoyed using Zoom and they agreed that teachers must be well
knowledgeable about the use of this application rather than the students so that
teaching and learning will be effective.

The Second speaker is Sir Mark Lester Acunin who discussed another online
platform which is the Google Classroom. Google classroom serves as Virtual
classroom.

Sir Camino presented video clips which presents a thorough explanation

regarding the different steps on using Google Classroom. The process of using Google
classroom was clearly elaborated by the speaker on the video that’s why the listeners
can easily follow the process.

The first part of the video presented the steps in signing into Google Classroom.

1. Type the web address: http://classroom.google.com

2. Enter your email and password.
Note: Google classroom is only available for Google Apps for Education
users, so you cannot sign into classroom with your personal Google account.
3. Click Teacher. The Welcome to Classrrom page opens.

The video also shows how to create a class.

1. Click the + icon in the upper right corner.

2. Click create class.
3. Type a class name and Description such as Section,Grade level and Class
time.
4. The created class will now appear.
5. As classes are created, you can navigate and view any class by clicking the
three horizontal lines in the upper-left corner.

Google Classroom has four main parts the Stream Section, Classwork section,
People section, and the Grades section. In the Stream section, it enables the teacher to
post announcements. Also, it allows the students to post something. Announcements in
Google classroom can be used to remind students of the assignments or activities or to
give access to file, links and videos. To create an announcement, click in the “Share
Something” box at the top of the stream page.
 In the Stream page, it also allows students to create post and comment on the
announcements and other post of their teacher. Students post are intended for students
to be able to ask questions or start a discussion. It depends on the teacher who will
manage the class. Teachers can choose to only allow students to comment on teacher
posts or turn off student’s ability to post and comment by clicking the gear button.
Teachers may also choose to mute individual students if their posts or comments
become a distraction. To do this, the teacher may click the three dots at the right of a
student’s post and select mute.

Next is Classwork page which enable the teachers to post the tasks/assignments
of the students. In posting the tasks, you should provide clear instructions as to how the
students will accomplish the task. Furthermore, in classwork page you may also create
questions so that you may allow your students to share their perspective about a certain
topic. Next is People section where you may see the list of your students and you may
also add students in your class. Last is the Grading interface where the students may
know how are they going to be graded example is Rubrics.

Ma’am Anita Recodo and Sir Joel Allaga served as the last speakers for the
Seminar. She discussed another Online Platform which is Google Meet. Google meet is
a better choice for work from home teachers, it is equipped and secure with useful
features. Teachers can use Google meet to set up conferences with parents, other
teachers, principals and others. They can even use it to have online class sessions.

Ma’am Anette discussed how to schedule a Google meeting from a Google

Calendar. It’s easy to schedule a Meet video meeting in Google Calendar, just create an
event and add your guests to it. A video meeting link is added to a Calendar event
either by inviting one or more guests to the event, or by clicking Add conferencing.

Steps are as follows:

1. In Calendar, create an event.
2. Click Add guests and enter the names or email of the people you want to invite.
3. Click Save.
4. Click Send to notify guests.

Guests can forward the meeting link to other people. If someone tries to join who
was not invited to the Calendar event, a meeting participant from your organization must
accept their request. For meetings organized by a personal Google Account, only the
meeting creator can admit these participants.

While Ma’am Anette discussed the steps, the participants followed each steps
and they continue to explore the features of Google Meet. Like Zoom, it allows you to
Share your Screen. Here you may present documents, slides and spreadsheets by
showing your entire screen or just a window.
It also allows you to control who can join the meeting because only people approved by
the meeting owner can enter. However, Google meet is better in the sense that it
doesn’t have a time limit like Zoom where it has a 40 minute duration and then you have
to start another meeting. In addition, the main advantage of using Google meet is that it
allows you to host large meetings for it can accommodate up until 250 participants.

After the presentation of Ma’am Anette, she reminded everyone to continue

exploring the features of Google Meet. That concludes the 3-Day Capacity Building
Seminar. The meeting was adjourned at 12:00 pm with a Lunch together at the E-Dept
office.

In our New normal environment, we may use varied teaching strategies as long
as we always make sure to prioritize the welfare of our students. There are a lot of
online platforms that we can use to continue educating our learners even at this time of
pandemic. As educators, we need to continue exploring the use of different online
platforms and expand the capabilities in using technology so that we can still have an
effective teaching-learning process.

Teachers and students may use the medium of online meeting platforms to
connect, share and learn about each other’s lives, cultures and desires. We can’t deny
the fact that Technology plays a vital role particularly at this moment. Through the use
of internet, we can manage to stay connected with our students and we can make sure
that learning among our students will not stop.

Prepared by:

RICA G. CANABA

T-I

Noted:

ANITA G. RECODO

MT-II

Approved:

EMILIA A. TIO, Ed. D.

HT-III, ENGLISH