What's cool with your school website?!

For starters, we love these schools for prepping up with websites we can ogle.  We scanned some and found a few interesting bits of information about them. 

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Capitol University
Good job for being hosts to the first academe-based call center in the country.  The website’s CU Cyber Account feature looks very helpful.  CU also has the most sleek alumni website in town. 

Recently, CU became the first academic institution in the entire Mindanao to make the grade for CHED’s mandatory evaluation known as the Institutional Quality Assurance Monitoring and Evaluation (IQuAME) program, effectively ranking it as a Class A -- “mature teaching institution.” 

Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan
Here lies the notable XU Museum.  And then we love XU for allocating some of its land in Upper Balulang providing greater housing opportunities for Cagayan de Oro. 

The XU website is cool with its ‘Campus Virtual Tour’ feature.  Check that out and know why the sun is always up in this page -- or in XU campus for that matter.  The Libraries Online Public Access Catalogue is interesting but not working -- not yet.  The ‘Zabyer’ Community says “all juiced up” and promising but hardly as it needs some more squeezing.  And then we all wait as XU is putting a hem for its 75th year celebration in 2008.

Lourdes College
We like LC for being one of the most distinguished Catholic colleges in Mindanao, and in fact the oldest in CDO.  The school will mark its 80th year in 2008 – you do the counting, backwards. 

Lourdes College is distinct for offering unique programs such as Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science in Social Work and Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management.  Hymns, charity and warmth are staple Catholic school fares, after all.

Meanwhile, there is more to be desired in the school’s website and we know why: Lourdes School has no resident geeks. An “old” school, indeed.

Liceo de Cagayan University
Liceo’s John Carl P. Pineda was in the Top 5 of the recent board exam for Physical Therapists.  That one is good.  And then we appreciate that this school is opening its doors to fiftysomethings (Read the latest news about Liceo’s Medical Transcription Scholarship offering). 

FYI: It’s a swipe (a hit!) because this school accepts credit card payments.  The celebrated designer Inno Sotto actually sketched the new school uniform for female students.

We find most useful the website’s Telephone Directory.  Else, we are always on the pry for what’s brewing up at Rodelsa Hall.  But of course, who wouldn’t want some world class performances and free invites -- for CDOKAY.    

Mindanao Polytechnic State College
We admire this school because “It offers vertically articulated programs to poor but deserving students” and for putting up satellite campuses in Jasaan, Oroquieta and Panaon.

MPSC is a certified residence to geeks for offering a Cisco Networking Academy Program.  Recently, MPSC Information Technology students John Ray Abamonga, Michael dela Cruz and Jayran Labrador triumphed in the 2nd National Cisco Networking Academy Program Skills Competition held in University of Baguio. 

With installations such as ‘Course Management System’ and ‘Bids and Awards’, there is something to look forward to in the website’s ‘Online Services’ section.  However, with an empty ‘Research and Development’ page, MPSC website grew pale.  CDOKAY wants that CISCO thing to work for you, geeks. 

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Ma. Joanna Victoria C. de Jesus
Student Contributor, www.cdokay.com