The day is fast approaching and according to the holy scripture, everything has its own season, if there is a beginning theres an end, I was so blessed to join the SMART mentors program, it was my first time to join a training like this and I see myself us an individual who still needs the professional growth in line with Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), I just pray that God will grant what I plan for my students and to my school as well. The mind tools that I've learned are now my weapons for the next battle.....ngb

May 2, 2007, Topic was Laying Foundation and Conflict Management, We are also given several activities to internalized the topic, the blocks in communication was also givrn emphasis like accuse, admonish, diminish, distract, give solution, judge, moralize, punish and sympathize. This tool is really useful in the part of SMART mentors. It was a wonderful dicsussion with the speakers, Thanks God for the big day......ngb

May 1, 2007, We have a very healthy discussions on the topic called Technology of Participation (TOP), this is basic group facilitation methods manual, one of the sub topics that is hard to forget is the acroname ORID, where O -stands for Objective, R- for Reflective, I-is Interpretative and D- for Decisional. The speaker maam Happy Balesteros stresses on the role of the facilitator in the different conferences, conflict managent and resolving issues in a certain organization, it has several components like Personal, Physical, Journey and Style that needs to be considered by a facilitator, In the afternoon, we are trained how to construct specific questions in ORID, after wards we decided to come up with Assessment of mentees in the implementation of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT)- Learning Activity (LA)s and other Mind Tools, the session was realistic because we come up in a finish product which is useful to the next SMART mentors. Thanks God for chance to see the light once again, life is challenging.

NORVEN