From the Desk of Mr Daniel

Yes, Damai Secondary School's Sports Channel came in FIRST!!! We beat Crescent Girls School (Second) and Serangoon Secondary School (Third)!


Congraturations to our participating students:

We put in our best effort in building the website, preparing and uploading the contents with the hope to bring out Damai's sporting culture. We did not expect to win (the first). During the award ceremony on the 17th July 2009, we were all nervous when the organisers reveal the results for the secondary school category. When the names of the school for the fifth and fourth places were announced, we though there is no nope. As the names of the schools for third and second place were announced, we though there is no hope of winning. Little did we know that we came in first! We were speechless! For a moment, we were stunned. After sometime, we recomposed ourselves to receive the trophy and prize.


We would like to thank the teachers of the Sports Group, all Damai Students for the support, expecially the Softball Boys, Rugby Boys and Canoeing Girls for their time and effort render in the video interviews. Special thanks also to Mr Victor Lam for the wonderful photographs.


We would not have done it without everyone's support and help!

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

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!

Today is Damai Secondary School's Sports Day. Two days and the day before, Media Club Members who are involved in the iSports Media Challenge 2009 drew filming equipment and temporary store in my workroom. Today we arranged to meet at 6.30am in school so that they can collect their filming equipment.


Later in the morning, Asrio (the TA) and myself installed 3 software in computer lab 1 & 2 for next week's staff training. We spend the whole morning installing and troubleshooting technical issues. I took the afternoon off to settle my university course fee at POSB bank in Tampines. At Tampines central, I met several of my students who were shopping and having lunch there after the sports meet.


Later, I took the opportunity to renew my mobile contract with Starhub. At the same time, I upgraded my mobile plan and handset. Got myself a cool golden copper Sony Ericsson C905 with 8.1 megapixel camera.