From the Desk of Mr Daniel

Ouch ouch... Sunburnt from this morning's Dragon Boat Race filming assignment at Bedok Reservoir Park. I choose a good spot for filming and unfortunately, there is no shade. I only discovered my burnt skin after I came back home. I guess my tanned complexion hid the redness and the coolness of the office airconditioning system marks the pain. Luckily Kirk offer his umbrella for shading. If not I will confirm get a bad headache. Drank lots of H20 later that day to replenish the water lost.

In the afternoon, 2 students came to my office to show me their sketching practise. I gave them a sketching demo for human figure and facial drawing. Lately, I seems to be drawing a particular female look quite often... Hmmm... I wonder why... (LOL)

I have been tasked by one of the teacher-in charge, Miss Lee SF to do up a video presentation of the recent China trip which took place during the March holidays. I have been busy with other duties and priorities for the past 2 weeks therefore am only able to work on the video on Monday.

Monday - 1st Draft (Too many photos, boring... need to add some videos)
Tuesday - 2nd Draft (Ok, must add captions later when free)
Wednesday morning - Edit the video (alert of typos and inappropiate photo)
Wednesday before noon - Render final video and rush to hall for assembly

I stayed at backstage throughout to help with the presentation and laptop switching. Glad that everyone like the photo/video presentation and the songs used. At the backstage me, Shenghock and Xuewen discussed about the usage of Windows Movie Maker and observed how the audience react.

The past 2 days was tiring and rushing but worthwhile. Here are some highlights of the video. I am not able to upload to Youtube due to copyright issues as well as it being a large video (8 mins, 2GB). Enjoy it!

Got a request from Miss Poh on Thursday to restructure the website content and to feature Friends @ YOG section on the landing page. Wait until Saturday then do it as I took the day off during yesterday's Good Friday holidays.

Besides featuring Friends @ YOG section, I also took the opportunity to feature Damai Secondary School's Sports Channel (I will blog more about it in another day) and Students' Resources. I did two more extra features so that the website layout will be balanced and do not look wierd.

Thursday morning's PW lesson is with Sec 2E4 and afternoon's PW lesson is with Sec 2E5.

Last week, I taught human facial drawing. The students have been introduced to human figure drawing the previous week before last. This week, the students are suppose to be undergoing drawing excercises but for Sec 2E4 and 2E5, they are still at human head drawing this week because they missed last week's lesson due to the school sports day. I can't finish the lesson for Sec 2E5 because Miss Tay wanted to conduct the literature test review for Sec 2E5 first. We will see how the students progress next week. Miss Tay wanted the students to be able to draw properly before they progress on to comic panel drawings.

Hopefully, after all the drawing practise, most students will be able to draw their comic panels decently. BTW, here is a photo of the class demonstration I did with Sec 2E4. I didn't add the mole there. The dot is due to a depression on the white board. Wonder what shall I name this character?

There are a few staff trainings ongoing on these 2 weeks:

1. LMS (Commontown) Training (for Lower Sec. Subject Teachers) [COMPLETED!]
   This training is to prepare the subject teachers for ISPL (eLearning) week in July.
   
2. Staff ICT Enrichment Training (For all Teachers) [COMPLETED!]
   This training introduces free/open-source applications (Google Docs, Microsoft Skydrive, Youtube Downloader & Freemind) to all teachers.
   
3. Staff ICT Needs Training (For interested Teachers)
   I will be sharing Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 to the teachers because recently, they purchased the academic versions of Adobe Web Premium CS4