The West Visayas State University (WVSU) in Iloilo City is one of the recipient schools of the twenty-one personal computers (PCs) for the iSchools project in March 2008. “We are indeed thankful to receive the PCs and these will be deployed at the integrated laboratory school,” said Dr. Pablo E. Subong Jr., President of WVSU.These computers are part of the iSchools project implemented under the leadership of the Commission on Information and Communications (CICT) together with the partner state universities and colleges (SUC).
The deployment of these PCs comes with operating systems, applications software, an LCD projector, three-in-One printer, two units of air-conditioning equipment and networking accessories. Of the twenty one PCs, one is used as a server and the other twenty PCs will be used as workstations.
A total of six (6) public high schools in Region VI including WVSU laboratory school, will receive the computers. These recipient schools are under the supervision of WVSU. Of the six, four high schools are located in Iloilo. They are:
· Cabatuan National Comprehensive High School
· Calinog National Comprehensive High School
· Pototan National Comprehensive High School, and
· WVSU Integrated Laboratory School
The other two schools are located in Negros Occidental, namely Manapla National Comprehensive High School and Doña Monserat Memorial High School.
The PCs deployed in these mentioned schools will be used for trainings of teachers and staff which will start this April 2008. In addition to this, the computers will be used for the iSchools projects such as the Internet for high school students and e-Eskwela.
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