Narrative Report of 5-Day National Virtual Inset

March 15-19
“Success is not an accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice,
and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”
Following the amendment of the school calendar and activities for SY 2020-2021 by
virtue of DepEd Order No. 012, s. 2021, the Department of Education offered online training
programs for teachers during the INSET Week on March 15-19, 2021. The training programs
were spearheaded by Information and Communications Technology Service – Education
Technology Unit (ICTS-EdTech).

DAY 1

The weeklong National Virtual In-Service Training by the DepEd Edtech commenced on
March 15, 2021. The registration which is Division-based via google forms started at 8:00 AM.
The Virtual Inset can be accessed through www.training.deped.gov.ph or at (region
code).lms.deped.gov.ph. The opening program begun by singing the National Anthem and
followed by a prayer, the DepEd Mission, Vision, Core Values

Master of Ceremony, Teacher Jeffrey and Teacher Pam

Dir. Abram Y.C. Abanil (Deped ICTS) officially started the program by addressing the
crowd in his opening remarks. He expressed his gratitude for all the teachers who participated
in the unprecedented Nationwide Virtual Inset in the country. There are about 500,000 users of
the Learning Management System. He said that before the pandemic ninety thousand (90,000)
teachers were trained by the DepEd Edtech however, upon using different platforms such as
Streamyard, later when they deployed LMS (learning management system) it has increased to
three-hundred seventy (370,000) teachers. He also mentioned about the Deped TV, they
covered about 220 episodes lately from 120 episodes, which is newly employed program by the
department. They were expecting for about 220,000 participants however, 500,000 participants
were able to attend, and they had to fix the website’s problem encountered.

DepEd TV Report was delivered by Mr. Salvador “Sir Badge” Manansala. He

showed a short clip about DepEd TV showing important information about the said topic. As
shown on the accomplishment report of DepEd TV, it is delivered on IBC-13 from 7am-7pm
Monday- to Saturday. He also talked about the Milestones in Education. It contains
different Recorded Classes on Grade Levels K-12. On DepEd LMS Report, the presenter
was Mr. Mark Anthony F. Papa. Ms. Aprilyn Marquez, presented the report on Deped
Commons, there are about 3, 369 Materials uploaded on DepEd Commons. The Open
Educational Resources was presented by Sir Sherwin Lomeda.

A fifteen-minute break followed the first set of presenters. Google Certification was
reported by Rowena A. Reyes. Number of passers in each region were presented for
Google Certification Level 1. A report on Microsoft Education by Mr. Mark Anthony “Maj”
Jamisal precedented. It has covered the Milestones, Opportunities and Challenges and
Programs and Projects. He also covered DepEd ETulay, what is it and Why ETulay. ETulay
is an online tutorial intended for students on different subject areas to help them and also
their parents in answering their modules. There are about 125 Tutors on ETulay. ETU
Future Programs were presented by the head of the ETU, Mr. Mark Anthony C. Sy. Microsoft
365 accounts will be provided to learners, robotics education, empowerment programs in
coding, Minecraft education, certification programs for public school teachers and learners in the
use of ICT, CPD points provided through training and workshops, support for conversion of app
based materials in teaching and learning, gamified materials, EdTech Equipment for all teachers
and learners, incentives for all teachers who work passionately with technology are the
presented programs.

In the afternoon, the topic about Effective Delivery of Synchronous Teaching for the first
session. He tackled about effective synchronous activities in the teaching-learning process,
mechanisms to troubleshoot technical difficulties and challenges, present practices and self-
assessment in the delivery of synchronous sessions, innovative solutions to propose the
Department to empower and maximize the use of technology in instruction, capacitate
colleagues in creating world class technology instructional materials aligned with the framework
of effective teaching methodologies. He also highlighted the Effective Strategies on
synchronous teaching. Second session of his talk was about asynchronous teaching. His
objectives were the same as synchronous teaching. He also gave Effective Strategies on how to
use asynchronous teaching. On his presentation, teachers were given the chance to answer his
questions by using the application which is Mentimeter. The questions are posed and directly
answered through that platform.

DAY 2

Another set of speakers joined the 2nd Day of our National Virtual INSET on March 16,
2021 via YouTube or Facebook. Registration started at 8:00AM through the link given by the
SDO Caloocan. The program begun by singing the National Anthem and followed by a prayer,
the DepEd Mission, Vision, Core Values followed by a Zumba dance led by Teacher Robbie and
Teacher April. Recap of the previous discussion was done by Teacher Divine.

Teacher Mark Papa oriented on how to activate the MS 365 Accounts for non-activated
accounts. He also scheduled the accessing of each group on the lms.deped.gov.ph portal since
I has been trafficking on the website.

Effective Utilization of Multimedia Materials: DepEd TV by Ms. Joy Salazar. Its aim is to
determine the benefits of educational Tv Program, discuss the steps in integrating Tv episodes
in their lesson and encourage learners to watch DepEd TV episodes as supplementary
materials.in learning. An open forum preceded the talk after about the DepEd TV programs.

Mr. Neil Arvin Bautista tackled about Video Editing Techniques in producing Quality
Video Lessons for the moment we do not have face-to-face classes. Its objectives are:
understanding the process of video production, understanding the importance of video lesson in
the new normal and producing 1-minute infomercial for DepEd TV sing the materials given by
the speaker. The process of pre-production, production and post production was also discussed
and given some certain points by the discussant. Some of the user-friendly video editing
software used are Kinemaster, Filmora, Slides and Power Director. For professionals are Adobe
Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects. Participants also made a short video on Filmora as
instructed.

The first session in the afternoon is about A New Normal: The Critical Role of
Assessment in Online Learning by Mr. Salvador E. Manansala basing on the DepEd Order No.
08, s. 2015, The Policy Guidelines in the Classroom Environment for the K-12 Basic Education
Program. Assessment should be used to inform and improve practices and promote learning
outcomes. In distance and blended learning environment it is necessary to utilize alternative
tools and strategies for assessing and supporting learning. The Principles of Assessment and
Teaching, Learning and Assessment Process is reviewed in the first part of the session.
Different Assessment Methods and Recording Methods are also explained. He highlighted the
also Effective Feedback, Rubrics and Things to Consider in Giving Online Feedback. A short Q
& A was done also after the session.

The last speaker for the Day is Ms. Minerva Grace O. Silvestre. She is one of the Core
Leader of the OER Resources. She talked about OER Readiness Review Criteria based on the
OUA Memo 00-1020-1054, Training workshop for the DepEd UNICEF-OER/ Ebook
Development. According to UNESCO, Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching,
learning and research materials in any medium- digital or otherwise- that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an open license that permits no cost access, use and
redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. OER Readiness Review Criteria according
to the LRMDS criteria was expounded in the talk. Q & A was employed in the last part to give
light to the teachers queries about OER. Reflection/ Wrap up was also given by the Masters of
Ceremony, Teacher Jeff and Teacher May.

DAY 3

A new set of learnings has been uncovered in the 3rd day of the Virtual INSET. Starting
the day with our National Anthem followed by a prayer and the DepEd’s Vision, Mission and
Core Values. Further reminders and a short message are given by Mr. Mark C. Sy about the
LMS system and netiquette issue. The first session’s topic is about Google Workspace for
Education Fundamentals by Ms. Rowena A. Reyes. Since Google is one of the well utilized
platforms in online teaching. As quoted “We believe everyone deserves access to great learning
experience” from Google, indeed it is helpful to the present education. It is their goal to
empower every educator. One the few things mentioned is Google Meet which is commonly
used in synchronous teaching, together the Google Classroom and Google Drive. The Google
offered vouchers for teachers to be certified as Google Educator.

The second session taught us about Poster Design in Adobe Photoshop through Mr.
Glenn Hurraň o. Learning basic of Adobe Photoshop, identifying Photoshop interface and
features, learning how to apply brushes effects on image and learning image resolution, image
size and image format are the objectives of his discussion. A hands-on activity on Photoshop
has been employed also after talking some principles on Photoshop, which is a good venue for
interested teachers in Photoshop. Q &A after on each session was also observed.

In the afternoon’s first session we have Overview of R.A. 10173, The Data Privacy Act of
2012 by Ms. Glenah A. Taguibao. The Data Privacy Act, the Do’s and Don’ts of Online Learning
for K-12 and College students and parents, guardians, teachers and schools, Threat Hunting
tools are the objectives of her discussion. Vigilance is the key to ensuring personal data online
to protect ourselves on further consequences.

The last topic was filled with excitement as Mr. Sherwin Lomeda brought to the teachers
on how to Solve People Puzzle. As he expounded on building stronger relationships,
understanding ourselves, valuing ourselves and other and valuing versatility, the teachers found
it interesting. “Maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses” is one of the
remarkable quotes in this session. “Change Me into We” is sharing what you have to other
people is a moral to us.

Day 4

The learning continues as we move on the fourth day of our Virtual INSET 2021, it’s
more exciting as we see the year-round piloting of DepEd Tech’s programs and activities. To
open the fourth day formally, it commenced with a Prayer. Mr. Ariel A. Delos Santos, one of the
EdTech Specialist was the first speaker talked about Interactive Instructional Materials. The
objectives of his discussion are: learn EdTech tools for interactive and collaborative leaning and
create simple interactive and collaborative presentation for teaching. Upon eliciting answers, he
used Peardeck application to show us example of an educational app where we can
collaboratively work with our students. Some of the applications he showed are Quiziz, Wheel of
fortune, Hot potato and Mentimeter. He emphasized that, as a teacher we should know how to
use the different kind of instructional materials since we are teaching digital natives.
Second speaker, was Mr. Earl Aaron O. Villanoza... His topic was "Manychat: Delivering
Online-Offline Learning (McDoo). He emphasized that chatbot can deliver interactive lessons
anywhere, online and offline. He also showed us how to create a chatbot using manychat
application, send programmed texts, images, audio and video and links to learners and provide
interactive conversation with learners.
Then, for afternoon session, the speaker was Mr. Mark “Teacher Maj” Anthony Jamisal.
He tackled the ETUlay-Breakthrough in Teaching. ETulay is an online tutorial program by the
DepEd Edtech to help students and parents as a supplemental activity to learning. Different
milestones of the ETulay was shared also by Teacher Maj.
Next speaker was Sara Jane C. Sarino. She discussed about Mobile Apps in Education.
She tackled the different types of mobile apps that can be helpful and useful to us teachers and
also the importance and benefits of mobile apps in education. Few of the apps shared by the
speaker are Garage Band, Quik, Geogebra and Apps Geyser. Lastly, the host of the session
wrapped up the presentations of the day.
Day 5
Sulong Edukalidad… Bridging Education and Technology, our weeklong Virtual Inset
filled with rich knowledge has reached its final day. It started with a prayer followed by the
Department’s Mission, Vision and Core Values. We can access the course through DepEd LMS
until May 8, 2021.
Ma'am Aprellene B. Marquez, was the first speaker. Her topic was " Digital poetry: A
collaborative Performance Project. She emphasized that poetry is very important in the lives of
the children because of the given benefits mentioned in her discussion. There are several
factors in teaching digital poetry such as knowing your learners, gadgets to be used, types of
poems, rubrics and collaboration with other teachers. A video was shown about digital poetry
also. The teachers made outputs on poetry entitled “The DepEd Family” together with a video
and they passed it through the given link.
Second speaker was Ma'am Maria May N. Sevilla. Her topic was "Technology
integration and Instructional Materials/Development in Preparation in English Language. The
session aims to examine the complexity of using and integrating technology in the classroom,
identify real goals and targets of using technology in the classroom, practice systematic
application of technology and evaluate teaching roles and duties to fit the changing needs of the
students and prepare for online/distance teaching with knowledge, surety, and confidence. She
emphasized that effective and smart use of technology in the classroom includes teacher’s
knowledge of the main objectives that he must teach without the presence of technology, his
understanding of contexts why lessons are taught to students and his awareness of available
tech tools, apps and software.
In the afternoon session, the speaker was Ma'am Rubilyn C. Pastrano. She tackled the
Hour of code (Programming of women). “Every girl deserves to take part in creating technology
that will change our world and change who runs it”, Malala, a Nobel Peace Prize winner. The
speaker said that its not being sexist, but it has been given that men have the opportunity in
taking part of technology. This session aims to determine the significance of Hour of Code and
Navigate the Hour of Code App.
Next speaker was Glenny E. Laping. He discussed about creating interactive Materials
Using Scratch Animation. She tackled the different interactive materials that we can use in
teaching. This is a basic animation about scratch and it is a block based animation. The
objectives of his talk: knowing what scratch animation is, creating a scratch account and coding
a simple animation. Lastly a recap about the whole day’s activity was made by the hosts,
Teacher Jeff and Teacher May.