TIGblogs - Malcolm Lawrence

(Pinas is a slang we often use to refer to the Philippines…)

Hi everyone. I am new here and I am trying this one out. My name is Charity (please call me Cha) and I am from the Philippines. I am an educator and this year is my tenth year of professional teaching in Sciences, Technology and English Language as a Second Language. I did one year stint in online teaching and the rest are classroom teaching.

I am an associate of Diplo Foundation. I hope to blog on Internet Governance Issues, Education, Peace, Open Access to Learning, Women Empowerment, Health - if I could correlate these issues, I could try. I have blogged in our Diplo Community and in TIG. I want to try blogging heavily since I think this is a great opportunity to share experiences. I do write a lot - poetry, articles for commercial websites, education-related, and short stories so these are my experiences to writing. I am recently involved in the wikipedia updating of Internet Governance Forum under the Diplo group. I am translating the wiki content in my national language (as soon as all the sub topics are completed). It’s collaborative in nature so I’m all for collaborative learning. I am also currently writing some articles for publication that includes doing some research.

I love to travel and I have been to most of the places from North to South of my country - the Philippines. I’ve been to some parts of North America and places in Asia. I hope to do more traveling soon. I usually derive some inspiration for my writing from actual experiences and the places I have visited.

I have read some of the blogs here and it’s refreshing to read real “stories.” I’ve been disillusioned by the news I read on newspapers and on TV because it becomes sensationalized in most aspects. Blogging has more spontaneity that can rival most feature stories I read on paper. Everybody has a story to tell. Nice to meet you all!

Salamat! (Thank you…)

– Charity Gamboa