| Wikipedia Article |
| Amadeo is a 4th class municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines. It is nicknamed the "Coffee capital of the Philippines". According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 25,737 people in 5,470 households.
Amadeo is best known for the Pahimis Festival, which showcases the town's coffee industry. It is usually held on the last weekend of February. More here. |
| Pahimis |
| A TRIP to Amadeo, Cavite in February is a bit like traveling to Baguio City. As soon as you cross the junction that diverts to the towns of Silang and Indang, a cool, clean breeze grazes your skin while a heady perfume of coffee flowers fills your nostrils. The experience is quite enervating and offers the perfect excuse to escape Metro Manila, if only for a day. It's no wonder then why throngs of serious cyclists pedal from as far away as Novaliches to pass through Amadeo on their way to nearby Tagaytay. More from Sandra Diez |
| Birdwatching in Amadeo |
| The campsite (Balete, Falls, ca. 2004) is located in the far end of a dirt road that cuts through a coffee plantation. A few feet away is a ravine that opens up to reveal a refreshing waterfalls lined with huts for daytime picnickers. The campers have just gotten out of their tents when we arrived so we thought we were going to look around the place first. We followed the trail down to the stream and were dismayed to find out that garbage from the picnickers have accumulated just within sight of the waterfalls. At first only the noisy YELLOW-VENTED BULBULS could be seen until we followed the trail that goes uphill again. A flash of blue revealed a pair of WHITE-THROATED KINGFISHERS. Read more. |
| Short geographic location facts |
Latitude: 14.2
Longitude: 120.9333
(Decimal degrees)
Latitude (DMS): 14° 11' 60 N
Longitude (DMS): 120° 55' 60 E
(Degrees, minutes and seconds)
For a view of the map, click here.
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| Amadeo Coffee History |
The Coffee Industry of Amadeo Long before the Department of Agriculture launched its campaign to plant coffee to curb the constant drain of dollar reserves due to heavy importation of coffee, Amadeo was already engaged in coffee farming.
As early as 1880, Amadeo was producing Arabica, a variety known for its aroma and flavor, in modest scale. Formerly called Kapeng Tagalog, it was intercropped with other produce, supplementing community livelihood. However in 1890, an organism known asâCoffee Rustâ, swept the plantations. Rustlike patches on the leaves spread rapidly from tree to tree until entire coffee plantations appeared burned. Coffee fields were ruined. More here. |
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| Monday, March 22, 2010 |
| This site needs a major rework |
As you may have noticed, this blog has been dormant for quite some time. Meanwhile, more "social" websites have grown that could be useful to connect this humble initiative to (Think: Facebook).
The cbox could also use a more relevant replacement, so a twitter badge could come in handy.
Incidentally, this blog was begun in the hope of rekindling pride of place that is anchored on local knowledge. Perhaps ideas and materials from the Asian University Digital Resource Network could point this site to some useful reference models?
Photo Source: http://www.uga.edu/fruit/image/dormant%20spur.jpg Labels: AUDRN, local knowledge, rework |
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| Saturday, March 28, 2009 |
| bright child| gifted learner | creative learner (repost) |
Perhaps for most of us, a bright child and a gifted learner are one and the same. But there are some subtle differences.
Thus between a bright child and a gifted learner, the former is a good memorizer, the latter a good guesser. One is attentive, the other is mentally and physically involved.
More from Janice Szabos here. Now as to creative learners, perhaps they may not even be on the same page.  Image credits: http://www.bertiekingore.com/I think that's called "asynchronous learning"?
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| posted by Joel @ 7:27 PM |
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| Sunday, March 01, 2009 |
| 21st Century Learning at Headway School for Giftedness |
 Image courtesy of: http://pwoessner.com/
I was trying to embed an iframe code that would show a slide deck of a presentation but I'm told Javascript/CSS is not allowed. So just follow this link to the slide show. |
| posted by Joel @ 1:40 PM |
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| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 |
| Headway School for Giftedness and 21st Century Learning |
Just parking a work-in-progress. HSG's website will undergo a major revamp. Will keep you posted. Meanwhile, you may be interested to read this article about 21st Century Learning. |
| posted by Joel @ 3:18 PM |
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| Monday, January 22, 2007 |
| Blogparteeh '07 |
For some reason, which escapes me, my attempt to get an e-ticket yesterday was failure.
So I "stole" an idea from someone else's entry (which technorati recognized). This better work.
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| Friday, September 08, 2006 |
| Coffee Tree Table |
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| Sunday, August 27, 2006 |
| How can we get out of the commodity game? |
Some lessons from coffee in India.
It is estimated that only about 10% of coffee sales go to coffee production. Coffee processing and roasting accounts for 20% and 29%, respectively. Implication is, go for value added technology. Small scale at first, so farmers get more empowered. Here's more. |
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