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KSS Center holds Public Speaking and Speech Improvement Summer Camp

journaliz — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:01:03 +0000

The students of the Public Speaking and Speech Summer Camp

The SERVITO’s KSS Learning Center held a Public Speaking and Speech Summer Camp for students and adults last May 25-28, 2010.

The said program which was the first of its kind in the town of Calasiao was attended by six eager students; where they learned English phonetics, how to improve their pronunciation, diction, accent,and intonation. They were also taught how to gain and build self-confidence, and overcome fear specially when speaking in public. Proper speech delivery which included appropriate hand and body gestures, facial expressions, and rapport building, was likewise discussed.

The four-day camp was highlighted by an exciting practicum where the enrollees delivered speeches in front of an audience which included their lecturers Maria Dolour Servito-Navarra and Journa Liz Servito-Ramirez who are both graduates of Communications & Journalism at the Brigham Young University-Hawaii.

Maria Dolour Servito-Navarra, as she discusses intonation

The next Speech Improvement and Public Speaking Program is scheduled on July 10- Aug. 21, Saturday classes only.

The students of the Public Speaking and Speech Summer Camp as they receive their certificates of successful completion together with their lecturers. (From L-R: Maria Dolour Servito Navarra, Jerald Maningding, Reywelle Bravo, Janine Quinto, Darwin dela Cruz) not in photo: Lance Stephan Parayno and Sarah Camille Cuyan

PHOTO GALLERY:

with Lance Stephan Parayno

with Janine Quinto

with Reywelle Bravo

with Darwin dela Cruz

with Jerald Maningding

HULA Dancing Lessons

journaliz — Tue, 11 May 2010 10:16:49 +0000

Servito’s KSS Learning Center now offers Summer HULA Dancing Lessons for kids and adults! Experience the Hawaiian Aloha spirit through learning the enchanting hula dancing!
SCHEDULE: June 7-11, 2010 (2-4pm)

PLEASE CONTACT:

JOURNA LIZ D. SERVITO-RAMIREZ
SERVITO’S KSS LEARNING CENTER
2nd FLR. STS BLDG., MC ARTHUR HIGHWAY,
CALASIAO, PANGASINAN, 2418
Tel No. 522-3073, or 522-5427
Cell No. 0939-898-7322
Email: journaliz@servitokss.com OR journalds@yahoo.com
Web site: www.servitokss.com

KSS SUMMER CAMP 2010

journaliz — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:25 +0000

KSS SUMMER CAMP 2010

Three weeks of fun and multiple learning experiences!

We are pleased to announce the SERVITO’s KSS Summer Camp

Sked:

WRITING CAMP MAY 18-21, 2010
(Campus Journalism & Creative Writing)

SPEECH CAMP MAY 25-28, 2010
(Speech Improvement & Public Speaking)

READING CAMP JUNE 1-4, 2010
(Oral Reading & Reading Comprehension)

The WRITING CAMP is designed to discover the writing potentials and enhance journalistic writing skills and literary/creative writing skills, too. It is also aimed at developing communication skills in English and Filipino, increasing one’s vocabulary, inculcating love of reading and writing and enhancing confidence in written communication.

The SPEECH CAMP will provide opportunities and learning experiences that will enhance speaking abilities before small or large audiences. Participants will be drilled on correct sounds of English thereby improving their pronunciation, enunciation and diction. Their confidence in speech delivery will then be prevalent.

The READING CAMP will showcase a variety of book nooks to make reading fun and comfortable for kids. Participants will be engaged in reading books according to their level and interest to boost their reading and language skills, leading to improved learner performance and increased self-esteem in and out of the classroom.

PLEASE CONTACT:

JOURNALIZ D. SERVITO-RAMIREZ
SERVITO’S KSS LEARNING CENTER
2nd FLR. STS BLDG., MC ARTHUR HIGHWAY,
CALASIAO, PANGASINAN, 2418
Tel No. 522-3073, or 522-5427
Cell No. 0939-898-7322
Email: journaliz@servitokss.com OR journalds@yahoo.com
Web site: www.servitokss.com

KSS TO THE NEXT LEVEL

journaliz — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:00:19 +0000

Success is a choice! That is the SERVITO’S KSS Learning Center’s battlecry.

Where KSS means Knowledge and Skills for Success, this study center which is a dream-

come-true for a family of education lovers, has moved to the next level.

From its original nook at the groundfloor of the STS Bldg., Mc Arthur Highway,

Calasiao, Pangasinan, it has moved up to its second floor, for a more spacious and more

conducive area for learning.

To accommodate an increasing number of tutees, students and professionals who

avail of KSS offerings – tutorage for all levels, speech training, campus journalism

workshops, reading program, memorology, and the International English Language

program, KSS Center now occupies the entire second floor area, five times larger than its

former location.

KSS will then offer additional crash courses starting this summer. KSS Manager

Journa Liz D. Servito-Ramirez announces the KSS Summer Camp schedule:

WRITING CAMP May 11-14, 2010
(Campus Journalism & Creative Writing)

SPEECH CAMP May 18-21, 2010
(Speech Improvement & Public Speaking)

READING CAMP May 25-28, 2010
(Oral Reading & Reading Comprehension)

These short sessions are offered to elementary, secondary school students from

private and public schools, and to beginning school paper advisers, English and Filipino

teachers, as well.

Furthermore, KSS is also organizing a kiddie book club and a professional book

book club in order to promote the habit of reading among the youth and adults.

This is in answer to the prevailing problem of deteriorating interest in reading books

among students and professionals as well, in today’s computer-based technology world.

For reservations and for further details, please contact, Journa Liz at the Servito’s

KSS Learning Center or call Tel. Nos. 522-3073, or 522-5427, or cell no. 0939-898-7322.
You can send your emails to journalds@yahoo.com and/or visit this web site:

www.servitokss.com

1,600 studes, mentors attend division training in journalism

journaliz — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:24:09 +0000

Some 1,600 campus journalists joined the 2009 Campus Journalism Workshop at PNHS.

A huge crowd of 1,600 high school students and language teachers attended the 2009 Division Training Workshop for School Paper Advisers and Campus Journalists held at the Pangasinan National High School (PNHS), Lingayen, Sept. 2-4.

With the theme, “The Millennium Development Goals Uniting the Nation to Fight Against Poverty Through Responsible Campus Journalism,” the seminar-workshop was highlighted by lectures on photojournalism, news writing, sports writing, editorial writing, copyreading and headline writing, editorial cartooning, and radio script writing.

Feature writers filled the PNHS Library.

Simultaneous lecture sessions were conducted at different venues within the PNHS Campus. Writeshops followed afterwards and students’ outputs were evaluated by the discussants.

Dr. Lourdes D. Servito, B.S. Journalism Cum Laude and KSS Consultant, lectured on feature writing to a group of around 400 students that jampacked the PNHS Library.

Dr. Lourdes D. Servito lectures on feature writing.

Critiquing of the students’ articles and selection of the best writers in each category were done by the lecturers, so as to help the campus writers improve their works by identifying and analyzing their strong points and common errors, as well.

Servito congratulates the top 15 best feature writers.

The top 15 best feature writers in English and in Filipino were awarded certificates of excellence by the KSS Learning Center as a gesture of encouragement and inspiration for the young writers.

Servito speaks at Campus Journalism Workshop

journaliz — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:56:48 +0000

Dr. Servito discussing tips in Feature Writing.

KSS Consultant/Campus Journalism Trainor, Dr. Lourdes D. Servito, discussed some tips on writing features during the Division Campus Journalism Seminar-Workshop held Sept 1, at Lingayen I Central School (LICS), Lingayen, Pangasinan.

Some 1,600 kids — Grade 2 to Grade 6 pupils from the public and private elementary schools of the Division of Pangasinan I attended the 3-day workshop, Sept. 1-3.

Local media practitioners and other veteran school paper advisers and administrators lectured on the different journalistic writing — news, editorial, sports, copyreading, headline writing, editorial cartooning, photjournalism, and radio broadcasting as well.

The aforecited lectures were conducted simlutaneously at strategic conference halls within the LICS campus. Feature Writing was tackled by Dr. Servito at the LICS District Conference Center with around 200 young feature writers and their school paper advisers.

Dr. Servito flashes a "shaka" with some 200 elementary feature writers.

Writing workshops followed after each lecture and the pupils’ outputs were marked and checked by the discussants.

To help the beginning writers improve their writing styles, Dr. Servito pointed out the strong points and the weak points, as well, duting the critiquing session.

The top ten feature writers in English and in Filipino, respectively, were awarded Certificates of Excellence by Dr. Servito. Servito’s KSS Learning Center provided the certificates for the 20 best feature writers of Pangasinan Division I, elementary level.

KSS SELA Manager Speaks on Editorial Writing

journaliz — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:00:54 +0000

Like mother like daughter. That’s what they commonly say. But Dr. Lourdes D. Servito, the Mom, will always say, she is proud that her daughter has become better than she is, in campus journalism.

KSS SELA Manager, Maria Dolour Servito-Navarra, the daughter who is a graduate of International Cultural Studies major in Communications and Journalism publicly acknowledges that her Mom was her coach, mentor, and trainor. While the Mom graduated a bachelor’s degree in Journalism (Cum Laude) in a local university, the daughter graduated Magna Cum Laude in Brigham Young University Hawaii, U.S.A.

Last year, Maria Dolour lectured in Feature Writing at the Pangasinan National High School during the Division Campus Journalism Workshops in Lingayen, Pangasinan.

This time, ten years after graduating from high school, she was back to her Alma Mater, Mapandan National High School, Mapandan, Pangasinan as a resource person in Editorial Wiriting during the two-day District-Based Seminar Workshop in Campus Journalism, Aug. 27-28.

The seminar-workshop attended by some 100 elementary and high school student writers of Mapandan District was also a reunion of successful alumni of Mapandan NHS as the chosen lecturers: Maria Dolour, Editor Class ‘98, for editorial writing; Marlon Perado, Cartoonist Class ‘99; and Caesar Francis Calimlim, Editor Class 2000, with their former language teachers, Gloria Franco Soriano and Rowena Caberto Casta, now Head Teachers of Filipino and English Departments, respectively, as organizers of the seminar.

About seven years ago, the first principal of Mapandan NHS was no less than Dr. Servito who organized the first school publications in the aforementioned school; the Mapandan Star, and Ang Pandan. Dr. Servito is now the Principal IV of Calasiao Comprehensive National High School.

Servito Lectures on Feature Writing

journaliz — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:23:12 +0000

Dr. Lourdes D. Servito, KSS Consultant, veteran school paper adviser now a principal, lectured on feature writing during the three-day Refional Training Workshop on Campus Journalism for Advisers and campus journalists at the Juan G. Macaraeg National High School, Binalonan, Pangasinan.

The workshop was attended by some 500 young penpushers from the various public and private elementary and secondary schools of DepEd Region I, Aug. 23-25, with Pangasinan II division as host.

Simultaneous lectures on the different journalistic writings were conducted with the local media men and other experienced paper advisers as resource persons in newswriting, editorial writing, copyreading and headline writing, photojournalism, sportswriting, radio broadcasting, and editorial cartooning.

After each lecture, writing workshops followed and the lecturers were tasked to read and comment on the participants’ outputs to help them out in improving their writing styles. The resource persons were also obliged to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the articles reviewed during the critique session.

Dr. Servito observed that the feature writers have a good stock of vocabulary, and were able to come up with creatuve titles and interesting feature leads.

Some of the points that need improvement however, included establishing connectivity and transition from the title to the lead, lead to the body, and from the body to the conclusion of the feature story. Choosing the right word, accuracy in fact, and editorializing were also some of the common concerns among the young writers.

KSS Center Manager awarded as national finalist at EAA

journaliz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:03:50 +0000

(from left to righ) Mr & Mrs. Jimmy Abalos, Mr. & Mrs. Gene Yamagata, Mrs. Elvira Torio, and Ms. Journa Liz Servito-Ramirez

SERVITO’s KSS Learning Center owner and manager, Journa Liz Servito-Ramirez was awarded as one of the 32 finalists, under the category of “Young Entrepreneur of the Year”, of the very first Entrepreneur Academy Awards (EAA) held at Cebu City, Oct. 10-11, 2008.

The award body sponsored by the Academy for Creating Enterprise (ACE), Brigham Young University-Hawaii (BYUH), and the Yamagata Foundation, aimed to look for and recognize Latter-day Saints (LDS) entrepreneurs in the country, who, at the height of present crises exhibit courage and determination to take risk on establishing and nourishing a business.

The finalists from various parts of the Philippines were flown to Cebu City for an all-expense paid experience. One million pesos worth of cash prizes plus trophies were awarded to the winners from the eight categories. On the other hand, having seen and felt the finalists hard work and zeal in their respective establishments, Gene Yamagata, founder of the Yamagata Foundation announced an unexpected decision of giving the remaining finalists P25,000 each as cash award.

The LDS entrepreneurs were indeed humbled by the honor and recognition they received; more overwhelmed by the generosity, prosperity, yet humility of the event’s sponsors and judges coming from the U.S. and Japan.

With the success of the EAA, the three sponsoring bodies have decided to hold another one by 2010.

KSS Launching

Boyet — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:54:38 +0000

The long awaited dream of the Servito family of having their own business establishment has finally brought to reality when on Dec. 8, 2006, The SERVITO’s KSS Learning Center was born.

The launching was highlighted with a ribbon cutting lead by Mrs. Ana Marie Z. C. Karganilla, Center Manager for Employment Resource Center Dagupan (ERC), and Mr. Dionisio B. Espiritu, Owner, Alpha Printing Press and Mentor/Trainor of ERC Entrepreneurial Trainings. President Nicomedes Cabrera of the Calasiao District from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints offered a fervent dedicatory prayer. The guests consisted of the Servito family’s friends, relatives, and church mates were then welcomed by the young owner and manager of KSS Center, Ms. Journa Liz. S. Ramirez. Following her remarks, President Antonio D. Macanlalay, then the Calasiao 1st Branch President rendered some words of inspiration. Words of encouragement and wisdom were likewise shared by Pres. Charlemagne E. Reyes, owner/manager of IntelliLearning Systems, and one of Ms. Servito’s mentors.

To give the visitors a little fun-learning intermission, Ms. Servito performed a memory demonstration, prior to Dr. Lourdes D. Servito’s presentation of the SELA Program (Speak English Like Americans).

An inspiring talk from Mr. Espiritu once again motivated the Servito family to push forward towards continuous success with a good start that very day. Following his words of wisdom was the launching ceremony headed by Mr. and Mrs. Domingo F. Servito to where the couple lovingly handed over the symbolical key to their second daughter with high hopes of its success.