Vibal’s Happy Homeschool is Now in its Second Year!

 

Following the success of Happy Homeschool last school year, Vibal continues its independent homeschool program for Kinder to Grade 10 for SY 2021-2022. Enrollment is now ongoing, with classes officially starting on September 20.

Vibal’s Happy Homeschool now offers MAPEH and Computer in addition to the five major subjects English, Mathematics, Filipino, Science, Araling Panlipunan. Combining DepEd’s K-12 Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) curriculum and interest-driven learning, learners will attend online classes taught by Vibal’s licensed professional teachers, take offline modular self-paced courses, and will join non-academic programs and special courses based on their interest and learning journey.

Supporting Independent Homeschoolers

With independent homeschooling, parents can avail themselves of flexible curricular options for their children. They don't have to enroll with a DepEd-accredited school or homeschool provider but can conduct homeschooling on their own or with a learning and teaching provider like Vibal to support their child in a home-based learning environment.

Vibal’s Happy Homeschool is designed to provide independent homeschoolers and their parents with the support system and infrastructure of a school while retaining the flexibility for parents and learners to customize their learning journey through interest-led activities. Vibal will provide support through the help of learning specialists who would serve as students’ teachers and tutors. 

How are classes taught?

Classes are taught synchronously by Vibal's licensed professional teachers using VSmart School, our online school platform. Classes may also be conducted asynchronously through self-paced courseware in VSmart School, and/or assigned printed learning materials, such as Vibal’s Smart Class (modular class book), Vibal’s Smart Wizard (workbook), and Vibal’s Academic Book (textbook). 

Happy Homeschool implements a mixed ODL (online distance learning) and MDL (modular distance learning) learning modality. Learners are not required to undergo blended learning (mixed face-to-face and distance learning) at any point throughout SY 2021. 

To enroll or to learn more about Vibal Happy Homeschool Program, please visit 

www.happy homeschool.ph. You can also text or call 09687616294, or email happyhomeschool@vibalgroup.com or  marketing@vibalgroup.com.  

PH Book Hits Number One in New Releases in Amazon

 

A Philippine-published book has made it to the top of Amazon’s list of “Hot New Releases.” Vibal Foundation’s Boxer Codex: A Modern Spanish Transcription and English Translation of 16th-Century Exploration Accounts of East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific entered the number-one slot in “Hot New Releases” under the historical study reference category on August 2.

The Earth’s Biggest Bookstore

Amazon, the world’s largest online marketplace and bookstore, has an algorithm that showcases the recently released titles that are most bought. To be included in the Hot New Releases, which is essentially the Best New Sellers list, Amazon’s algorithm looks at the paid sales of a recently released title. Aside from being the number one new release in Historical Study Reference, Boxer Codex has also reached number 19 in the Southeast Asia History top list as well as number 38 under the History Encyclopedias category.

A New Hope for Filipino Publishers

In an interview, Vibal Foundation Executive Director Gaspar Vibal expressed his surprise as to how an academic book rose to the top of the Amazon list. He attributed its startling success to the pan-Asian appeal of a late sixteenth-century Spanish text that not only concerned itself with early modern Philippines but also China, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia. “This goes to show,” he added, “that it is possible after all for a Philippine publisher to be seen worldwide and to ride to the top of the Amazon lists.”

Boxer Codex, transcribed and edited by Isaac Donoso and translated and annotated by National Artist for Literature Carlos Quirino, together with Ma. Luisa Garcia and Mauro Garcia is a sixteenth-century codex that was eventually named after its last owner, the British scholar Charles R. Boxer. The sumptuously bound and illustrated manuscript contained a collection of eyewitness accounts of various cultures and places in East and Southeast Asia, including the Philippines. These accounts—rich with anthropological detail about pre-colonial customs and beliefs and lavishly illustrated with depictions of native peoples in their traditional costumes—were compiled into a book to convince the king of Spain to launch further expeditions in the region.

In the decades since this manuscript was discovered in 1947, a constellation of scholars has expanded our understanding of this valuable document, which gives us perhaps the clearest depiction of the lives of early Filipinos as well as the culture and politics of early modern Asia.

In addition to presenting the Spanish text and English translation side by side for comparison, Vibal’s edition contains an insightful and synthesizing introduction by Isaac Donoso that situates the codex within the global and historical context at the time it was written.

Interested readers may purchase Boxer Codex and other Vibal books at Amazon https://www.amazon.com, Lazada, and Shopee. The Boxer Codex 2nd Edition is also available for preorder at the Vibal online shop at https://shop.vibalgroup.com.