I was afraid that I'll push the wrong button. She said the computers,. along with a server running licenses from Microsoft software, a color scanner, a digital camera and a PC video camera they received, would debunk Anda's image of isolation and remoteness. Local officials, nuns, teachers and students were ecstatic when the computers were delivered and installed in one of the school rooms. Darren Lockie, Microsoft country manager, said CLC is the first of its kind in the world. Hopefully, the students of Anda can communicate with other students in the world.
Computers are the windows of the world.
Students, teachers and administration officials of the school were taught how to use Microsoft's Windows operating system, Micro-soft Office application suite, arid Encarta multimedia encyclopedia for academic instruction and school projects. The school's computer laboratory head, Dante Ravancho, underwent training at Bitstop Computer Center in Dagupan City in preparation for the computer donations. It is the only one in the entire Luzon selected by the Microsoft Foundation Inc. through Bitstop Computers as a beneficiary of the project. Now the once isolated island town is linked to the world via the Internet. The island was connected to mainland Pangasinan only some three years back when a bridge was finally completed.