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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7A-Yg2AEns)

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How many pieces of toilet paper do YOU use?

"You only use one, Mr. Randy??" Zipporah pointed at his one piece of toilet paper he had just ripped of the roll.

"Yes Ma’am" He smiled, showing his row of clean but uneven set of teeth.

The teachers had been instructed to tear off as much as they needed to "get the job done."

Once everyone had a chance to pick some tissue off the roll, Zipporah continued:

"Now everyone will have to say as many things about themselves as there are pieces of toilet paper…"

"Ahhh," the teachers realized. Aziz started as an example. "I’m forty-one years old….umm…  I’m really excited to be here…" "That doesn’t count, Aziz!!" scolded Zipporah. "We ALL know you are very excited to be here," she laughed.

We continued around the room, finding out the teachers’ number of kids, what they teach, and some even shared their relationship status:

"I am fifty," Sesa announced…

"And she is single," Catherine pointed to her, grinning as the rest of the class chuckled

"And looking," she continued in tease.

Oh stop it, Sesa gestured, merrily shrugging off the banter.

We then passed around papers for every teacher to write down what they want instruction on. The requests varied widely, including things like computer maintenance, spreadsheets, how to transfer photos from their phone to the computer, as well as programming.

"So, your computers had many flavors of antivirus running at the same time, like Panda Security, AVG, and Malware Protection Live," Wilbert explained using a melee of English and Tagalog.

"You only need one - it’s called Windows Defender…" he coached the class.

I continued the morning with an impromptu lesson on Events for programming from code.org’s unplugged activity, and we also introduced algorithms by asking the teachers to write us a procedure on how to walk around the room. In their first draft, they failed to specify some details causing Lucille Robot to interpret incorrectly, taking waltzing steps instead of straight steps.

"No, no, no," the whole class shouted, demonstrating live troubleshooting.

"Take regular steps!" They showed her.

Aziz finished the programming lesson with a note on malware: "Can programs be bad too? Who can give me an example of bad software"

Mr. Randy raised his hand. Aziz pointed to him. "A computer virus," he responded.

"Good, Yes" nodded Aziz.

The last slide showed an example of the Nigerian Money Scam.

"Who would respond to this?" Aziz enticed the class

"Three million pesos, to buy your dream house? Nobody?" he tempted them.

The class shook their heads no.

"How would they know they know my email? I just set it up yesterday!" Exclaimed Evelyn from the back of the class.

"No one would give away that much money," the rest of the class muttered suspiciously.

Even after we showed them a more obscure phishing example, no one took the bait.

I was glad to see they had such good intuition, but a rumbling stomach distracted my thoughts. It’s lunchtime! Eggplant with vegetables today -- my favorite :)

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New heavy duty wheels installed on the laptop cart! Go #teamwandzil #iescphilippines #iwork4intel #volunteeriesc (à Tacloban City)

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We work for Intel, can you tell? 

Zipporah was a bit shy and had to hide behind Damir who is kneeling. Aziz is the floating “i”. Ildikó is contorting herself into the “e”, a decent distance away from Lucille hair-waving-in-the-wind “t”, and Wilbert I’m-too-lazy-to-put-both-arms-up “l” 

We took these shots on the beach, just a hop and skip from the Elementary school. 

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He was sitting next to the board, writing this. As the days pass #TeamWandzil gets more and more love notes. It comes from the heart 😍 @ilovetacloban @cbholganza #iwork4intel #iescphilippines (à Tanauan Leyte, Phillipines)

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A Secret use for the Computer Screen

As we stepped into the classroom Tuesday morning, thirty-four large brown eyes peered shyly in our direction: thirty-four of over five hundred children of Sto. Niño elementary school in the village of Tanauan. Although they were technically on school break, these children were sitting in neat rows, curiously observing us whirl around the room setting up the projector, plugging in the speakers, short circuiting an extension cord (oops!), flipping through notes, and blowing up the beachball. It was finally happening. 

“All right everyone,” Lucille and Zipporah called out, “stand up now and move your chairs to the side of the room.” A minute later, all the children were standing in lines. 

“Now put one hand out, then the other one, now flip it over, and then the other one,” Zipporah said, demonstrating the steps of the Macarena. At this point the group was smiling...

“... and the last step is this...” Zipporah shook her hips around in a circle to a shower of giggles.

Through a little bit of craziness in the morning, Aziz’s introduction to the parts of the computer was a hit.

“So hey kids, this is the screen,” he pointed to the 2-in-1 classmate PC’s monitor.

“What do we use this for?” inquired Aziz, looking up at the class to see what they would respond. Filipinos are very quiet natured: most of them shrugged, or shook their heads I don’t know…

To help out, Aziz continued:

“Well, it’s very shiny. Maybe you can use it to put lipstick on?” he said, smiling.

Almost instantly, the class burst out in laughter, covering their mouths in modesty.

To help their direction for the week, each group of seven or eight student groups picked one project slip. Each had a topic, such as “Places you would like to visit” or “What do you like to do during school break?” For the next week, they will be using this subject to put together a presentation using all the software we will be teaching them.

Pretty soon after we handed out the 2-in-1s, the children had already figured out how to connect to the internet, go on YouTube, and start programs such as “The Magic School Bus Game”, and also to crash the computer with the “Tux Type” learn-to-type app.

To get their attention back, Lucille and Zipporah introduced them to the camera app.

“Guys, open the camera and take pictures of all your teammates!” Lucille instructed. Soon after, they had found the video button, and just like any child of the human race would do, made faces while giggling at each other, replaying the videos again and again.

By the end of the morning, the children were getting quite antsy. In one corner of the room, Jenny was poking Romeo, in the other corner, Randy Boy was slumping in his chair, placing his pink name tag on his forehead. He had quit paying attention for the moment, and was fixated on me. Every time I tried to raise my camera to snap a photo, he ripped the name tag off with the most mischievous grin, then placed the slip back on when I lowered the machine. This continued for a minute or so, until I covertly took an LCD instead of viewfinder shot and nailed this photograph. I suppose they still have one or two things to learn :)

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Dancing the Macarena with children of Sto Niño. They were super giggly especially when we demonstrated the hip shake move @ilovetacloban #iwork4intel #iescphilippines #volunteeriesc #TeamWandzil (à Sto Niño Elementary School Tanauan Leyte)

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First meeting with Sto Niño teachers. Some beginners and some already use excel for their grades, thanks to #iescphilippines. #TeamWandzil will take them to the next level! I love how the kids are peeking through the windows to see what's going on :) #iwork4intel (à Tanauan Leyte, Phillipines)