PeLS 17th Founding Anniversary!
In celebration of our 17th founding anniversary, we sincerely thank our past and present Officers, Board of Trustees, and dear members for your continued patronage over the years for making the Philippine eLearning Society the premier organization that spearheads the advancement of eLearning in the Philippines. Cheers to 17th glorious years of professional partnership!
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PeLS Webinar Series 2020: Effective Online Teaching and Learning
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What makes for good online teaching?
This webinar session will provide an overview of the skills and principles that make for effective and engaging synchronous and asynchronous online teaching experiences. It covers key elements such as preparation, camera and mic techniques, managing the flow of a lesson as well as managing participants and keeping them engaged and on-task. It will also demonstrate the effective use of the free Adobe Spark (digital productivity and creativity tools) to develop engaging instructional materials and also allow students to creatively construct their learning. The concepts discussed in this session are relevant for online and distant teaching & learning as well as a blended approach of online and face to face. About the speaker:
With about thirty years of teaching and education leadership experience, Dr Tim Kitchen is Adobe’s Senior Education Specialist for Asia Pacific. Tim regularly liaises with schools & universities focusing on enhancing creativity in education. He also manages the Adobe Education leadership and active use programs throughout Australasia and helps lead the Adobe Education Exchange which now has over 770,000 members. A passionate advocate for creativity in education, and a well-recognized education thought leader, Tim is a regular presenter for a wide range of national and international education events. Registration closes on May 7, 2020 https://bit.ly/pels-webinar2020_May8 |
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES & CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN EDUCATION
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Join us in our 6th learning session as part of our initiatives to equip educators and administrators with right principles in delivering instruction at a distance.
What you'll learn: Dimensions of a digital transformation framework Change management for school administrators and teachers About the Speakers: Aidan McCarthy – Principal Program Manager for K12, Microsoft APAC joined by Amit Pawar – Senior Solutions Specialist, Microsoft APAC Registration closes on April 29, 2020 Register at: https://bit.ly/pels-webinar2020_April30 |
TRANSFORMING FOR IMPACT
Join us in our 5th learning session as part of our efforts to equip educators and administrators with necessary knowledge and competencies to conduct remote online teaching.
What you'll learn:
Beyond disruption from the current healthcare crisis, the changing global economy brought about by IR 4.0 and shifting demands of Generation Z has a significant impact on education. How can we as Educators prepare and transition digitally for impact?
- The impact of IR 4.0 to education and its effect on skills gap
- Generation Z – The digital natives and its impact to teaching & learning
- Resources to aid teaching online and working from home
About the Speaker:
Cynthia Mak has worked in educational and professional publishing for over 19 years. Her work in business development and marketing has included extensive experience working with government agencies, institutions, corporations and non-profit associations throughout SEA and China in the development and deployment of digital learning to improve learning outcomes and engage students.Cynthia is an enterprising individual that’s focused on customer and partner success.
Register for free: https://bit.ly/pels-webinar2020_april24
What you'll learn:
Beyond disruption from the current healthcare crisis, the changing global economy brought about by IR 4.0 and shifting demands of Generation Z has a significant impact on education. How can we as Educators prepare and transition digitally for impact?
- The impact of IR 4.0 to education and its effect on skills gap
- Generation Z – The digital natives and its impact to teaching & learning
- Resources to aid teaching online and working from home
About the Speaker:
Cynthia Mak has worked in educational and professional publishing for over 19 years. Her work in business development and marketing has included extensive experience working with government agencies, institutions, corporations and non-profit associations throughout SEA and China in the development and deployment of digital learning to improve learning outcomes and engage students.Cynthia is an enterprising individual that’s focused on customer and partner success.
Register for free: https://bit.ly/pels-webinar2020_april24
Maximizing Digital Tools for Remote Online Teaching
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We cordially invite all eLearning professionals to participate in the fourth of our year-long webinar series for 2020. In this webinar, we will look at the whys and the hows of digital tools, and consider best practices for moving face to face classes into an online delivery mode. We are honored to have Mr. Nick Benwell as our distinguished speaker for this learning session. Mr. Benwell has been a Senior Solutions Engineer for Blackboard since 2014 supporting the usage and understanding of Blackboard tools with clients across the Asia Pacific regions. Nick has an MSc in Instructional Design with a specialism in online technologies. Prior to joining Blackboard, Nick was a teacher in K-12 institutions in England and Japan for 15 years.
Register for free: bit.ly/pels-webinar2020_april17 |
HELP & LEARN: A Webinar Series for a Cause
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Join us and our partner UpUp App - Total Rewards & Engagement in our HELP & LEARN campaign, an online webinar series that pledges to support causes to help communities in the midst of COVID-19 while you and your teams LEARN and GROW together.
For interested Speakers please register here: https://forms.gle/XDgojrgFxYc1Yw5bA For interested webinar attendees and corporate donors please register here: https://forms.gle/ZRCgJ7bKEunKes7f8 |
Webinar Series 2020
As the premier organization that spearheads the advancement of eLearning in the country, the Philippine eLearning Society is committed to intensifying awareness and maximizing the power of online instruction especially in times like NCOV-19. Join us on March 20, 2020 together with our partner, Cypher Learning, for our FREE Webinar Series 2020: Effective Online Teaching and Learning. A certificate of attendance will be issued by Cypher Learning. We look forward to your active participation.
Register at: http://bit.ly/pels-partner-webinar2020-march20
Stay safe and healthy. See you at the webinar!
Register at: http://bit.ly/pels-partner-webinar2020-march20
Stay safe and healthy. See you at the webinar!
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PeLS General Assembly 2019
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This is a welcome gathering to the Philippine eLearning Society Current, Renewing and Incoming Members. Important organization decisions and projects will be disseminated to the members for their information. The event is FREE to all current members. Interested individuals or renewing members will pay PHP 850 inclusive of annual membership and snacks.
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Announcing our new logo and look!
Cristin Porcadilla-Arante
Auditor, PeLS
Auditor, PeLS
Today, after fourteen years, we’re proud to show our updated trademark which includes a new logo, colors, and font. You’ll see the change anywhere we’re out in public like our website, Facebook, other social media, and collaterals. We believe the new look better matches what we’ve become since 2003: serving as a venue for “Promoting research on the effective use of eLearning, Sharing of eLearning experiences, Developing standards of excellence, Promoting interoperability of eLearning systems, Encouraging collaboration in the development of substantive content, Cooperating with international eLearning groups, and Promoting public awareness and appreciation of the nature and uses of eLearning.”
By sticking to our mission - “PeLS exists to lead the development of eLearning competencies through education and training and to promote collaboration among eLearning practitioners”, we also convey our constant effort in doing better with the evolving society. Needless to say, it is now time for a change. Along with this, we commend the designer of our new logo.
By sticking to our mission - “PeLS exists to lead the development of eLearning competencies through education and training and to promote collaboration among eLearning practitioners”, we also convey our constant effort in doing better with the evolving society. Needless to say, it is now time for a change. Along with this, we commend the designer of our new logo.
The colors used in the logo represents the colors of the Philippine flag where the organization is based and founded.
The upper left component of the logo, a laptop and the internet of things shows the use of information and communications technology as a delivery tool or media to enhance learning, thus electronic learning was born.
The upper right component of the logo, a book which represents learning and while the pages of the book (happy people) illustrates collaboration among the different people and organization of both the academe and the industry sector in ensuring the progression of learning and eLearning in the Philippines.
The lower component of the logo, the rays of the sun (arrows) that represents promotion and advancement of eLearning to start in the three island groups (the three stars) of the Philippines and eventually to all members of ASEAN community and the rest of the world (represented by the circle encompassing the three components). Another reason why this component sits at the bottom of the two other components because it serves to remind its members that the very foundation why this society was form is – to promote and ensure the advancement of eLearning in the Philippines.
The text on the right indicates the name of the organization. (Font used Suissnord for PELS and AvantGarde Md BT for Philippine eLearning Society.)
Lastly, the logo is a purely vector-based graphic and has no bitmap component, this ensures that the logo will not pixelate or lose quality when resized. Furthermore the logo does not contain any special effect (i.e. shadow, emboss, creative transformation, etc).
The upper left component of the logo, a laptop and the internet of things shows the use of information and communications technology as a delivery tool or media to enhance learning, thus electronic learning was born.
The upper right component of the logo, a book which represents learning and while the pages of the book (happy people) illustrates collaboration among the different people and organization of both the academe and the industry sector in ensuring the progression of learning and eLearning in the Philippines.
The lower component of the logo, the rays of the sun (arrows) that represents promotion and advancement of eLearning to start in the three island groups (the three stars) of the Philippines and eventually to all members of ASEAN community and the rest of the world (represented by the circle encompassing the three components). Another reason why this component sits at the bottom of the two other components because it serves to remind its members that the very foundation why this society was form is – to promote and ensure the advancement of eLearning in the Philippines.
The text on the right indicates the name of the organization. (Font used Suissnord for PELS and AvantGarde Md BT for Philippine eLearning Society.)
Lastly, the logo is a purely vector-based graphic and has no bitmap component, this ensures that the logo will not pixelate or lose quality when resized. Furthermore the logo does not contain any special effect (i.e. shadow, emboss, creative transformation, etc).
