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I personally love extending a hand to others. Being an Education student, what I can do now is by doing simple things (since I cant afford yet helping financially) like this– Mapping. Especially I’m in the world of teaching and what we are mapping now is for school around the Philippines. This experience made me realised that there is always a way to help the community, by which not just us but the future generation will have the benefits. Also, this contributes additional knowledge for me in terms of technology. And this I would do and continuously doing in the future.

Good Afternoon, I am an education student in PUP San Juan Campus. My experienced in MAPA TIME is quiet challenging, at first I’m nervous to enter the computer lab, because I don’t have any idea, what is mapping all about. I learned in Mapa Time to map a street, to fixed an area, to map a building, but my favorite part is locating schools, I realized that there are many school schools in the Philippines. During our sessions, I wondered how other teachers sacrifice their time and effort just to teach children in rural areas. As a student, I am willing to volunteer in the future, because I want to help locate schools.

God Bless!

HI! i am a student from PUP San Juan Campus and i want to share my experienced in mapping. At first, it is hard for me to understand what we need to do in this session and it really challenged me because I know that i am not that good at this. But now, I can say that I really enjoyed the sessions and i learned from this. I am so glad to inform you that through this we can help our community. This was a great experience! The sessions is a good use of time and effort. I learned to locate schools in different areas and i’m happy to say that I made a great change in OSM. If there are chance for me to volunteer in the future, I will love to because helping others is really a good idea.

I would introduce myself by saying that i’m a english major student in pupsj. I liked this CWTS mapping subject, where i get to experience a new skill. I get excited everytime we have this mapping subject because i get thrilled, not because the room is airconditioned but i get thrilled with the points that i will earn every time i do a task, i was doing MapaTime even at home when i have free time just to earn more points and to rank a higher place. I got in the Top 10, where i’m very happy that i achieve things like this. I hope to have this oppurtunity to do this again, maybe in the summer. I learned that we have to be patient in using MapaTime, finding the right ones so we can help a lot of people especially in tough times, and its a big deal that i had this oppurtunity. All activities are my favorite for i earn points and get excited about it. I would like to volunteer if this happened again, for i really liked what i’m doing here, helping and enjoying at the same time.Thank you.

Hello, I am a student from PUP SAN JUAN who was given an opportunity to experience the #MapaTime as our cwts. I love using technologies that’s why it is easy for me to cope up even though I was absent last 3rd meeting. This #MapaTime is one of the best ideas to help the community or even our country as a student. Locating schools, the roads, communities, establishments and other buildings are jobs done in this a field.This activity is worth of my time. Instead of using my gadgets, I open the site of openstreetmap and locate schools. I have learned that schools from province are bigger than what I studied. It was a great experience to see schools from provinces since I was not able to live in a province. Locating and editing schools are my favorite part. We are thankful to have an opportunity like this. If I would be given a chance to be part of it, I would volunteer in order to help younger generations. I would also like to thank our Professor and his students for guiding us and teaching us what we need to learn. THANK YOU! :)

I really have an interest at doing some kind of stuffs like this because i grew up with my little laptop and i have some experiences doing something on it. The session is really good use and helpful because it is entertaining and fun while you are helping others to identify schools just like what we made.But of course at first it may look so hard because you don’t have an idea doing it but after attending 5 sessions i can already consider it as an easy task. So i really do enjoy helping and doing this MapaTime. I have learned that mostly schools in rural areas are really hard to find and sometimes does not really identified as school because here mostly public schools are have some what similar by the colors or the structures of the schools but then in the remote areas that is not easy to go you cannot easily find schools with the help of this session we are now aware and most likely can help others to find those schools whenever they need it especially when there is a natural disasters and they need a shelter to evacuate. My favorite is when we are challenging each other by our points and how many schools we did. And i guess i would like to help and work as a volunteer when it is related to this.

HI, First i just to say thank you for being part of this organisation.I learned a lot ,yes i admit for the first time i enter this room i feel nervous because i do not have idea for mapping.But you teach me as well then i improve for what i do.Thank you for the moment that you teach me how to do well and also thank you for all the patient .thank you for the time and effort to help of us.Those things i learned for all of you is enjoy a lot and this knowledge that you give is so precious to help of us.This experience make inspire to all of us that make us memorable.Be a better students and that i learned i can share to those who ask .Thank you sir.

This is the fifth and the final session of the program and I can pretty much say that the time and effort that i exerted is definitely worth it. I am very happy to be part of this program knowing the significance of mapping, how it helps other people and at the same time I had a lot of fun doing it. Knowing how to map is also an achievement and it is an additional knowledge that may help me in the future.Being a part of this program gave me an opportunity to help and give or share the information that i learned. This may or may not be the last but It helped me and also knowing that I helped others through this simple act made me feel like I was a better person.

HI! I’m a freshman education student from PUP San Juan and i’d like to share my experience from my CWTS #MapaTime sessions. I’m honestly not the ‘techy’ type of person so i struggled keeping up with the pace at first, but when i got used to the mapping process i actually started to enjoy doing it. My favorite part in the mapping process is the part where we look for schools around the map, because it kinda felt like treasure hunting of some sort. After 5 sessions of #MapaTime, i realized that i could help communities through mapping in their locations as accurately as possible. Through my experience, i think more people should try mapping and help communities in this kind of simple activities. Lastly, i’d like to thank the instructor and the volunteer senior students for their time and effort in teaching us how to map. :)

Hi! I am a student from Polytechnic University of the Philippines, San Juan Campus under the course of Bachelor in Science in Secondary Education Major in English. As part of our CWTS subject, our professor taught us how to help to those who are in need which are far from us without our existence on that particular area, through #MapaTime. Among those five sessions that we’ve attended, it was indeed worth the effort and time we allotted. I enjoyed every session using Open Street Map with our Prof and his student assistants who are very approachable. I thank them for making us experience this activity that we will not just enjoy, but also let us help for those who are in needs.

I am a student of PUP San Juan Campus taking up a Bachelor of Secondary Education majoring in English.Having a mapping sessions is a good experience and a worth of time because I’m able to learn something new.I am thankful to my instructor for teaching us, especially to the teaching assistant because if without them I won’t be able to finish every task that have been given.I am not sure if I’m able to volunteer in the future because I am really not good at it.Thank you so much for the time and effort!

I am a student of PUP San Juan, taking a course of Bachelor of Science in Accountancy. Knowing that we will be doing mapping, I honestly don’t know what we will do in particular. Our instructor have done a good job on explaining its process and its benefits to the community/society that we belong with. At first, I am very much nervous for this is the first time that I will be encountering or doing this kind of community service but, thankfully, we have such a good instructor and students assisting us. I can say that this activity doesn’t waste my time as I learned a lot and one of the learning I’ve got is mapping the schools I am/ am not familiar with. Through that, I have been able to help people on recognising accurate locations of some schools. I want to thank my professor for this experience, that’s all.

At first, I thought this sessions it can be hard for me but it gives me a lot of knowledge on how to make a detailed map. This activity is very helpful to all of us to not get lost in the road especially if you go to the place that your not familiar. I am very thankful to my CWTS Prof. Ms. Joan Villanueva for giving this opportunity and also to our instructor and assistant for the very comfortable and wonderful experience.

HI ! I’m a Bachelor of Science In Accountancy student here in PUP San Juan branch, actually I like knowing and finding out new stuffs that is usually helpful for me and also for the others. Im riding my motorcycle everytime I go to the univesity, and it’ll be very helpful for me to know and understand some routes for me to make my way in the university much smoother. im very glad that I experienced this wonderful activity that is very useful for everyone, Im likely to join and participate other activities that will truly help everyone and also enhance some of my skills. I like to thank the university for offering this kind of activity that will help to improve the data of the DEPED on the number of schools that can be find and locate in the Philippines, also to improve the skills of their students to improve their technological skills. and also I would like to give thanks to our mentors because it will not be possible if we dont supervise and handle by them that is willing to give their help everytime.

Ako ay isang estudyante ng Politeknikong Unibersidad ng Pilipinas (San Juan Campus). Kasalukuyang kinukuha ko ang kursong Batsilyer ng Sekondarya sa Edukasyon (Major in English). Ang aking karanasan sa #MapaTime ay masasabi kong nakakalugod sapagkat marami akong natutunan lalo na sa paggamit ng mga bagong kaghamitan tulad ng kompyuter. Nagkaroon din ako ng kaalaman sa pagmamapping. Natutunan ko maghanap at magmapa ng ibat ibang paaralan sa Pilipinas. Natutunan ko din kung paano i-classify ang ibat ibang gusali,kalye/daan, at mga bahay sa isang lugar. Nais ko pang mag-volunteer sa susunod pang mga araw upang mas makatulong ako sa ibang tao at mapabuti ang kalagayan ng bansa. Sa mga susunod na magmamapa, dapat alamin ninyo ang mga tamang klasipikasyon ng bawat gusali at mga daan. At syempre dapat may alam kayo sa paggamit ng makabagong teknolohiya tulad ng kompyuter upang masc mapadali ang inyong pagmamapa. GOOD LUCK!

Isang magandang araw!!!, Sa loob ng ilang linggo na pagkakaroon ng sesyon marami akong nalaman ukol sa mapping sesyon.Sa kung paanu ito ginagawa at masusing inaayus ang bawat detalye na nakalaan sa bawat hakbang na nakapaloob sa nasabing teksto.Sa unang araw naganap ang pagpapakilala ng bawat isa at kung anu ang naging kanilang ganap ukol sa CWTS o civil welfare training service.At sa buong linggo nato natutunan ko ang iabat ibang paraan ng paggamit ng ibat ibang tools na nakapaloob sa mga ginagawa.