- Sep 18, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: Sep 23, 2022
9/18/2022
Welcome to my homepage!
Take note of its address: It is https://www.mccanlast.com/ or mc can last.
The cover title is “In my own words in three languages.” The three languages are of course in English, where I am currently based in San Francisco (USA), my third language when I was schooled and growing up in the Philippines. My first and home language is Kapampangan where I was born and grew-up in San Fernando, Pampanga. Filipino is the mandated national language (wikang pambansa) in the Philippines, and one of the two official languages with English. It is based on the standardized Tagalog language spoken and written in Metromanila (National Capital Region) and most major town and cities. Filipino/Tagalog ranks among top foreign languages in America. Filipino (Tagalog) was officially certified as San Francisco’s third language spoken under the Language Access Ordinance by the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs (OCEIA) on April 2, 2014).
The homepage is the home of my published and unpublished works. It is my portfolio. It is my personal digital library of my previous works and future works. I have many written columns, articles, and essays in the print media such as Manila Bulletin-USA, Manila Mail, Philippine News, Filipino Insider of the San Francisco Examiner, and Pinoy Pa Rin Kami Entertainment Journal, that need to be digitized. Although, I have written them a decade or so ago, the message is still very much relevant to today generation readers and researchers.
When my daughter Sophia was designing my website, she asked me what to highlight in the “about me” page. This is what I sent her: MC Canlas is a popular educator. Community strategist, historian, and ethnotour docent. Later, I changed my mind, and I find the title pop-ed educator more appropriate to my works, and since popular education is not common or known in North America relative to the educacion popular in Central and South America.
I would want to get involve again in pop-ed education. This is my Facebook posting on 9/16/2022.
MC's TsokTok
This is correct. This is not TikTok. I am venturing on an online Chalk Talk; And TsokTok is its Filipino slang and spelling.
Before I migrated to America, my career path was in the field of education. I was a renowned (I think, I can say that) Tsoktoker and RTR (i.e., Room-to-Room) educator. I even made fun of my nick name MC. I often impressed my audience with it: “It is short for Mass Course as in the Basic Mass Course that every activist should undergone to. “
Tsoktok is a teaching-learning activity or approach where the learners and teachers interact through visual arts, body language and performances, story-telling, evocative and provocative, and complementing the so-called pedagogical process of Activity-Discussion-Input (ADI) and Discussion-Analysis-Syntheses (DAS).
In 1980 in the Philippines, in anticipation of the release of the IMF-WB funded textbooks to the school system, I was invited to present a model of a wholistic approach to the teaching and learning of history using chalk-talk and ADIDAS to institutions of learning in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
The change of regime from Martial Law and autocratic Marcos Sr to restoration of democracy and freedom, two national consultations of educators from NGOs and POs were held in 1986 and 1987. Spearheaded by the Institute for Popular Democracy (IPD), the consultations provided a forum for examining the context and practice of education in the popular movement, which gave birth to the popular education framework or the Context-Content-Method framework and the establishment of Popular Education for People's Empowerment (PEPE).
Tonight, I am invited to share my thoughts and experience as pop-ed educator. I will also share my version of chalk-talk in the age of remote and internet learning (zooming technology).
Ed dela Torre on our webinar last Saturday (9/17/2022) declared the "global debut" of TikTok ni MC to their network (Senior Citi Kwentuhan, E-Net Philippines, etc.)
This is now my new homepage. It is my new home and home base.
Welcome. Tuloy Po Kayo!