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Photo below:
In one of Lee's volunteer missions in Paete, training the
Paete Elementary Schools teachers, parents and the business
community, the basics of the desktop PC and the Internet
Multimedia on the World Wide Web
January, 2003 update: The 3
elementary schools in the small town of Paete, as of this
writing, are now using their computer classrooms, where
the pupils (from Grade 4 to 6), teachers and parents enjoy
the high-speed DSL (via Digetel) Internet connection.
Alay Computer's ultimate goal is Internet classrooms for
'BatangPaete'
to be incorporated with the public school's computer
curriculum.
Ongoing progress &
development updates:
On August 1, 2005
The e-Mentoring program of Oracle.com
was successfully implemented in the 3 elementary school buildings.
Most enthusiastic and devoted sponsor, a Paetenian chemistry
professor,
Dr. Angel de Dios
of Georgetown University, Washington, DC, recently
volunteered 3 weeks of his summer vacation, training and
working with the teachers, pupils, parents and municipal
officials in the implementation of the
Oracle
think.com program and the Internet/WWW
technologies. See detailed news at
the BatangPaete
forum
December 20, 2005 update:
Paete Elementary School teachers and pupils are now in
touch online with Paetenians abroad via the very busy
Usap Paete forum
and Mailing List. Dr. De Dios'
Internet Resources Science lessons
in the forum are actively used by the teachers
and other online science readers.
January 2006 update: The first beginnings of the
very first national high school in Paete under the
neighboring town of San Juan, Laguna National High School
was launched (about 2 years ago) after 2 Paetenians sisters (Menchee
Q. Fulgado & Norie Q. Catiis donated
their inherited piece of real estate in honor of their
parents, whereupon a building is now standing and finishing
constructions. We at Paetenians International have
begun to extend our computer project to the new and very
first public high school in Paete, Laguna where another
Paetenian, Mrs.
Saida
Cagandahan-Dulay started a $20-Club
Scholarship project for outstanding students in the high
school. While the building is being erected the first group
of First Year class were holding their classes at the Upper
Palengke building. Paetenians started calling it U.P.
just like the Paete hospital is called PGH :-) Paete
General Hospital.
The first National High School
of Paete, Laguna based at the National Highway in Ibaba
(lakeside)
  
February 15, 2007 update:
To date, in Paete, all 3 elementary schools, the first
public high school which is still officially a branch of the
San Juan, Laguna Elementary School (pending Dep of Ed
accreditation as Paete's first public high school to be
named Poten & Eliseo Quesada Memorial National High
School (PEQMNHS) and the town municipal building are now
on Internet
WIRELESS network through assistance from the CISCO
team. The network is maintained by the AlayComputer
(BatangPaete) project so ably led by Dr. De Dios who is
based at Georgetown U in Washington, DC.
The PEQMNHS website
is at
http://peqmnhs.tripod.com/
being
constructed by Senior students of the high school led by
Rene James (Ar-jhay) Balandra (creator, webmaster and
moderator of the website). Their CyberPEQMNHS community blog
is presently at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/peqmnhs/
April 2007 Update:
A
Milestone! The 'Poten & Eliseo Quesada
Memorial National High School'
(PEQMNHS) has been duly
accorded its independence and is no longer a branch of the
San Juan Elementary School, by the DepEd. The first
graduates, the Class of 2007, will receive their
diplomas under the banner of PEQMNHS. Thanks to our Mayor
Emmanuel Cadayona's thoughtful action on this matter. And by
the way our high school webmaster, Ar-Jhay Balandra is the
first class valedictorian.
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"Many of my students are
visually and hearing impaired; I teach them how to
adapt to the hardware and software of today’s
technology; and as they now use their computers’
Word Processors, E-mail, Chat Messengers and the
World Wide Web, the blind thank me for being able to
‘see’, the hearing and speech impaired say how
wonderful it is to be ‘talking’ and ‘hearing’ even
if it is with a machine. What they don’t know is how
much they are teaching me about the reality of life
and humanity that I have always taken for granted! I
share Helen Keller’s sentiment when she said: ‘One
can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse
to soar!’ Through eVISION’s training program, I can
continue to give my students the opportunity to
‘see, talk and hear’. " - L. Quesada, User Support
Trainer
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Lee's current
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In 1993, she founded
the Filipino
Community Computing Sector
(FCCS) which laid the foundation of a free
Information Technology service to the Filipino community of
Metropolitan Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
The
town of Paete, Laguna is 15-minute drive to Pagsanjan Falls & 45
minutes to and from Manila. Paete,
the place to be: (Photo at left - Sunset at Paete
Wawa Park)