From the Desk of Mr Daniel

About the Competition

iSports Media Challenge is organised in collaboration with the Media Development Authority. It aims to showcase the dynamism of youth sports in Singapore. Reaching out to all schools in Singapore, it is a window to the insider peek of students in sports actions. Its objectives are:

• To integrate ICT into schools;
  
• To promote a strong understanding of sports among the future leaders of Singapore;
  
• To promote and increase the awareness of our sporting activities and events acrossall Singapore schools;
  
• To educate and let the students of Singapore realise that they can play a part to contribute towards transforming Singapore into a global media city.
  

Who is in the Team

Chan Ziqi
Tan Sheng Hock
Zhou Xihao
Kirk Chew
Chia Xuewei

May has been a busy month for me. From competitions, mid-year exams and preparation for Home-based Learning and ISPL Training. What a busy month! I am also involved in my company's Multimedia Educators' Conference on 8 June.

Fortunately, the one week preparation for Home-based Learning was done. We did planning, materials preparations as well as prepare the students for LMS and eLearning familiarisation as well as account maintainance. Life still goes on in school as usual. Now that the first case had occured and more people are diagnos with the flu virus. If the situation did not improve when school reopens, Home-based Learning may be executed with instructions form MOE. Until then, normal life still goes on.

This week as been one of the busiest week for me. With 3 days of Learning Week from Monday to Wednesday. There is only 30mins of rest in between periods. I am so drained that I fell asleep the moment after dinner. During the Learning Week, I am in charge of the ISPL Briefing together with the teachers. The students has been cooperative, apart from 2 classes being late for the briefing.

One of the class is cute. Initially, they call ISPL as "Irritating Stupid People Learning"... :O I was like... -_- Hey guys, you are the ones going through this activity loh! Does that suggest you guys are... *LOL! So after realising that, my student immedately change it to "Intelligent Smart and Poised Learners"!!!

BTW, ISPL stands for Independent Self-Paced Learning. It is a termed used at Damai Secondary School for eLearning. It is a anual event that runs for a week for lower secondary students. This activity aims to prepare the school to ensure that learning continues dispite school closure due to crisis.

Exams are over! Results are out!

I hope everyone has done well for their papers. For those who did well, keep up the good work! For those who did not do so well, do not be demoralised. Find out where did you go wrong and improve for the next exams! :)

This week we are having the post examination activities again. From 25 May - 27 May, there will be a series of activities going on. A number of interesting activities has been planned for you guys. So join in the learning fun!

Together with the ISPL comm. teachers, we will be involved in the ISPL briefing, which is one of the learning week activities. The purpose of this programme is to allow everyone to be familiarised with the LMS features, ISPL time-table as well as standard operating procedures.

So, looking forward to all your active participation!

Damai Secondary School has participated in the School Cheers Contest organised by Mediacorp TV. The cheerleading video was filmed and produced by the members of DMSS Media Club, who are also participating in the iSports Media Challenge 2009. (See the bottom of this post for the list of Team Members)

1. Register as a member of Mediacorp TV website. Follow the registration and activation instructions.
   
2. Login to Mediacorp TV website
   
3. Visit the School Cheers Contest website and click on our video.
   (Recognise the above video thumbnail. The video was uploaded by Daniel Tan)
   
4. At our video page, click on the [Vote] button.
   
   

About the Competition

The competition is organised together with The Schools National which is an exciting new sports programme that puts the local school sports scene on centre stage. It aims to get Singaporeans excited about school sports and the youths in sports.

Who is in the Team

Chan Ziqi
Tan Sheng Hock
Zhou Xihao
Kirk Chew
Chia Xuewei

• Individual Single Submission


• 6 - 10 Pages


• Utilise the Flash Template provided


• Contains multimedia elements: images, video, animation and sound.
  
• Competition Deadline: 3rd July 2009
  
• Registration Deadline: 15th May 2009

Prizes:

1st
A set of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium software
An NParks goodie bag worth $30
A Popular Bookstore Voucher worth $80
An ornamental plant sapling

2nd
A set of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium software
An Nparks goodie bag worth $30
A Popular Bookstore Voucher worth $50
An ornamental plant sapling

3rd
A set of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Premium software
An Nparks goodie bag worth $30
A Popular Bookstore Voucher worth $30
An ornamental plant sapling

Merit Awards X 10
1 set of Nparks Goodie Bags with a $10 Popular Voucher each

Mid-year exams are here. Good luck to all students :)

The HOD of PE/Aesthetics/CCA tasked me to create an exam announcement to be broadcast every morning. Mr Gabriel came the week before to do some voice recording and I took the weekend to edit the recording and add some music over. After a few listens by the HODs and modifications, the broadcast is ready. Unfortunately, the school's amplifiers are bad and many classes cannot hear the broadcast on the first day. We took the morning to retune the broadcast and the afternoon to hack the amplification system to get the sound level right.

Since it is exams period, I am free from training. I took the time to fine tune my student's videos for Mr Lee's approval. Along the way, I sliced the videos up into 4 segments and uploaded it to our school's sports channel website.

Here is the video of the winning cheerleading team for you guys to enjoy. Visit the website for more!