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Title: School as an online community - Connie Veneracion, Manila Standard Post by: Mark David on April 09, 2007, 10:55:33 AM “The initial plans were nothing ground shaking. The usual pages for the school’s history, vision, philosophy, a description of the campus... the usual stuff that school Web sites are made of. But when we started discussing, over e-mails, pasta and Benguet coffee, about the possibility of creating individual Web logs for students and teachers, I felt we just might be breaking new grounds in the history of Philippine education. “Not that the idea of student Web logs in a school Web site is something new. Harvard University has been doing it for a couple of years. So, what was there to get excited about? Well, you see, we didn’t intend to be a second-rate trying hard Harvard copycat. We were thinking in terms of ‘more’ and ‘better.’ This is HEdCen, after all. HEdCen prides itself on being a non-traditional school. Many of us brought our children here because we believe that non-traditional education offers more. Hence, we envision HEdCen.Com to be different— revolutionary even, at least, in the Philippine experience.
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