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Online RSPC 2022 highlights learners' functional literacy

 Not only the writing prowess of campus journalists, but also their digital competencies were harnessed as region IV-CALABARZON held the first ever Online Regional Schools Press Conference (RSPC) using AutoProctor application fused with Google form, March 14-18. Despite some participants’ technical difficulties, the week-long actual writing competition went through with 2,376 participants in which 108 were from DepEd Quezon. A total of 85.02 percent output submissions featuring the nine categories both in elementary and secondary levels, English and Filipino, were recorded despite some appeals from different divisions as to participants’ failure to access links and inability to cope with the AutoProctor system. “There was a 100 percent submission from DepEd Quezon’s campus journalists. We capacitated them on AutoProotor system during our cliniquing a week before the RSPC, this is why everyone successfully turned in their outputs,” EPS in-charge of Journalism, Mr. Abner Pureza stated. AutoProctor is an automated tool that ensures students don't cheat on online tests. As students take the test, it monitors their camera, microphone, and the screen they are looking at. If examinees try Googling an answer, this will be detected. Meanwhile, in an emergency meeting with the Regional Technical Working Group, Education Program Supervisors, and School Paper Advisers of the 22 divisions of CALABARZON, Chief of the Curriculum and Learning Management Division (CLMD), Mr. Job Zafe Jr stressed that this year’s RSPC in not just a test of the learners’ journalistic writing skills. “Each campus journalist has to face with three battles, the first is with himself, how he composes himself amid pressure on digital glitches and remain calm; the second is with other equally good writers from other divisions; and the third is with technology where his digital skills are also put to test,” Zafe explained. The CMLD Chief further said that handling technological glitches, and other core digital competencies integrated with learners’ writing skills are part of the competition– and that is functional literacy. In a related event, the RSPC rendered its formal opening program via streamyard at DepEd Tayo Philippines on March 16 with Regional Director Francis Cesar Bringas and Assistant Regional Director Cherrylou Repia giving inspirational messages. Contests In news writing, feature writing, sports writing, and editorial writing were also held on the same day. Contests in Column writing, editorial cartooning, copyreading and headline writing, and Science writing were simultaneously held on March 17, while photojournalism contest was conducted in March 18. Regional EPS in-charge of Journalism, Mr. Eugene Santos served as the focal person of the event hosted by Quezon cluster divisions such as Quezon, Lucena, and Tayabas. Quezon National High School functioned as the RSPC command center. +++ #SulongEdukalidad #RSPC2022 #RSPC #DepEdCALABARZON #SDOQuezon #CampusJournalism #QuezonCluster Abner L. Pureza Contributor: CID EPS | English | Campus Journalism In-Charge