Well...received the mark back today, and, as predicted, did not go well. I must admit, though, I was surprised about some of the comments the lecturer put on the page, as he generalised the whole group, rather than stated some true facts about 'Yay Annoying one' that went and did his little lecture. I think he must have been getting ready for his presentation today (the one that did the lecture in our critique) because he pretty much did the same thing this week - lecture - as he did last week. Oh, for a shot gun, or any other type of weapon, for that matter. Don't we all feel that way about someone one time or another?
Last Wednesday, the other person in the group and I got together for afternoon tea to discuss the problems that happened and to talk about other things as well. Well, we did it again this week as well, and it was good. Lots of laughter as his flat mates joined in the conversation as well, so that was good fun. It was good to discuss the problems of the marking and other things about the critique without the problem of being eavesdropped on by people who could report it back to 'Yay Annoying One'.
Anyway, my art and craft pieces did not get put in the competition, so it would have been nice to have been told and had my pictures returned to me before now, but, hey! No hard feelings to them. They must be awfully busy as they are (yeah, right). It would have been nice to have received my pictures back, though, because then I would have been sure that they were in a safe place and that they weren't on someone's floor or anything like that, getting grotty or anything like that.
Okay...life at college is being a real pain to me at the moment, I know, so I will shoosh up now and leave you. Ciao!
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Monday, May 02, 2005
Group critiques...the bane of my life at the moment
As you would have read, last week, onWednesday, I had a group critique to present with two other people. Well...
It started off just fine. Two out of the three of us were the ones that began the critique, with the other one just hanging back until his 'part' in it. Well, I tried to get the other person who was starting with me to do what I wanted them to do, but as this was probably their first ever Education Faculty presentation, they weren't quite sure what they were supposed to do. But it turned out well, the class were talking, and the readings were being brought in through questions that related, rather than asked whether they had read the readings.
Then the person that hung back started their bit of the critique. They didn't critique, they lectured. When it had been going for about five minutes, I felt my brain going to mush, and I was trying to keep up so that I could place relevant comments in at the appropriate spots, but I just made a mull of that, so I stopped. His 'lecture' went for about twenty to twenty-five minutes (a good part of the presentation - only goes for about forty to fifty minutes at the most), and we, the other presenter and I, really only wanted him to shut up from about half way through onwards. He turned our brains to mush, and we had to turn our peers' brains back on afterwards! That was tough...
However, I hope that we will be able to recover our lost marks (yes, we have lost marks due to the poor critiquing that occurred...and the poor interaction with the class - not getting the class involved! HELLO!!! I had them involved when I was leading the discussion...but anyway!) during this Wednesday's or next Wednesday's tutorial period. Oh, please let the marks get better! I really didn't like the sound of what our lecturer said this morning about it. Oh well...
Oh, and Art and Craft...I don't know still whether either of my art works have been put in, but if they have, I really don't think they will get anywhere. I've seen a couple of the sketches and they look pretty impressive. Oh well...again...
It started off just fine. Two out of the three of us were the ones that began the critique, with the other one just hanging back until his 'part' in it. Well, I tried to get the other person who was starting with me to do what I wanted them to do, but as this was probably their first ever Education Faculty presentation, they weren't quite sure what they were supposed to do. But it turned out well, the class were talking, and the readings were being brought in through questions that related, rather than asked whether they had read the readings.
Then the person that hung back started their bit of the critique. They didn't critique, they lectured. When it had been going for about five minutes, I felt my brain going to mush, and I was trying to keep up so that I could place relevant comments in at the appropriate spots, but I just made a mull of that, so I stopped. His 'lecture' went for about twenty to twenty-five minutes (a good part of the presentation - only goes for about forty to fifty minutes at the most), and we, the other presenter and I, really only wanted him to shut up from about half way through onwards. He turned our brains to mush, and we had to turn our peers' brains back on afterwards! That was tough...
However, I hope that we will be able to recover our lost marks (yes, we have lost marks due to the poor critiquing that occurred...and the poor interaction with the class - not getting the class involved! HELLO!!! I had them involved when I was leading the discussion...but anyway!) during this Wednesday's or next Wednesday's tutorial period. Oh, please let the marks get better! I really didn't like the sound of what our lecturer said this morning about it. Oh well...
Oh, and Art and Craft...I don't know still whether either of my art works have been put in, but if they have, I really don't think they will get anywhere. I've seen a couple of the sketches and they look pretty impressive. Oh well...again...
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Well...what do you know...Life DOES go on...
I did not make it into Small Music Ensemble, but that is all okay. I'm not really worried about it, but it would have been nice to have been in it just one more time. It just gives me more time to do up coming assignments that I have to have completed by the end of my prac. Also, I think Small Music would have been during the first week of my prac, so I would not have been able to perform in it anyway. Too inconvenient. So...as the title suggests...
Today the Women's Sporting Competition (mentioned in the previous post) had their soccer comp. Each college plays the other once. We did brilliantly today, as (there being eight colleges) we drew three games and won four. This means that we came out with 18 points in the end (3=win; 2=draw; 1=loss). This is a large improvement on last year's effort, where I don't think we probably won more than one or two, and who knows whether we drew any at all. Considering most colleges at least lost one game (I believe), this may place the college as first for soccer for the year. That would be nice. The Men's Sporting Competition soccer is on tomorrow. Who knows how well they will go, but I hope they go just as well as we did. So far, overall, D&S are coming first or second in the Women's Competition; it would be nice to maintain that form throughout the year.
Apart from having to go out and buy foundation for the first time since my Year 12 formal, I don't think there is anything really exciting to say. Oh, and...they didn't have the type that Mum and I got back in 1998 (it had been discontinued), so I had to go to a different type...but fortunately it is in the same brand. :)
Anyway...no more interesting news from down here, where the weather is a balmy 19*C tomorrow (23*C today), with a low of 5*C tonight. :) Seeya'!
Today the Women's Sporting Competition (mentioned in the previous post) had their soccer comp. Each college plays the other once. We did brilliantly today, as (there being eight colleges) we drew three games and won four. This means that we came out with 18 points in the end (3=win; 2=draw; 1=loss). This is a large improvement on last year's effort, where I don't think we probably won more than one or two, and who knows whether we drew any at all. Considering most colleges at least lost one game (I believe), this may place the college as first for soccer for the year. That would be nice. The Men's Sporting Competition soccer is on tomorrow. Who knows how well they will go, but I hope they go just as well as we did. So far, overall, D&S are coming first or second in the Women's Competition; it would be nice to maintain that form throughout the year.
Apart from having to go out and buy foundation for the first time since my Year 12 formal, I don't think there is anything really exciting to say. Oh, and...they didn't have the type that Mum and I got back in 1998 (it had been discontinued), so I had to go to a different type...but fortunately it is in the same brand. :)
Anyway...no more interesting news from down here, where the weather is a balmy 19*C tomorrow (23*C today), with a low of 5*C tonight. :) Seeya'!
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
College Life
Well, with life back at college getting back into the groove of things again after a three week holiday, it is time to recount some things that I have been up to for the last week and a half.
We have, as part of an intercollegiate competition, something called the Sir Frank Kitto Cultural Competition between the seven colleges at UNE. This competition is to encourage students at Uni that aren't into sport or other activities like that, but are more into art, craft, public speaking, debating, writing poetry or stories and acting. So far this year, the competition has had the public speaking section (already discussed in a previous post). This term is full of activities, such as Art and Craft, Theatre Sports, Short Story and Poetry and Small Music Ensemble.
Because I enjoy both the cultural and sporting competitions I enter in events in both that I know I can help the college with. That is why I have given the co-ordinators of this college a couple of pictures that I drew a week ago, hoping that they might be accepted into the inter-college part of the competition after the competition in college to get a place. They are pencil sketches of my left hand. Sounds boring, but let me assure you, drawing your left hand with your right is a fairly hard thing to do, with the light changing, let alone your hand wanting to cramp up every now and then.
Along with this, Small Music Ensemble rehearsals have begun. I don't know whether I will be accepted in among the singers (there are only going to be 6 singers - 15 people only allowed to be on stage for the performance). If I'm not, though, I won't be pining, as I have been in it for the last three years, and I think, with a couple of seconds and a third, it's alright that I won't be in it if that is what they wish - there were 8/9 of us trying out.
I, with two other people, have a group critique that we have to 'present' to the class tomorrow for education. This group critique is to generate discussion about the social justice distinctions in society. Sounds boring? Well, it is. Some of it. It's actually quite interesting in some respects, but when you are reading the same thing over and over again, you get tired of it, as no doubt some of you have already learned. This critique tomorrow is about social classes, and the problems of them in the classroom. I had a good reading to study as part of the group, and the questions I have made up to start discussion on it, I hope will inspire people other than the usual conscientious few take part in discussion. If not, then tough luck. They won't learn to open their mouths to take part in discussion is their own decision. Can't force them.
Anyway, apart from this dreary life of mine, college food has been interesting, and, sometimes, even edible. J/k. Tonight, though, was Indian Night (the kitchen likes to have a theme night every now and then), and it wasn't good. I'm not a huge one for spicy food...and they had chilies in each dish! Woohoo!
Oh well. Life does go on...or so I've been told...
Ciao!
We have, as part of an intercollegiate competition, something called the Sir Frank Kitto Cultural Competition between the seven colleges at UNE. This competition is to encourage students at Uni that aren't into sport or other activities like that, but are more into art, craft, public speaking, debating, writing poetry or stories and acting. So far this year, the competition has had the public speaking section (already discussed in a previous post). This term is full of activities, such as Art and Craft, Theatre Sports, Short Story and Poetry and Small Music Ensemble.
Because I enjoy both the cultural and sporting competitions I enter in events in both that I know I can help the college with. That is why I have given the co-ordinators of this college a couple of pictures that I drew a week ago, hoping that they might be accepted into the inter-college part of the competition after the competition in college to get a place. They are pencil sketches of my left hand. Sounds boring, but let me assure you, drawing your left hand with your right is a fairly hard thing to do, with the light changing, let alone your hand wanting to cramp up every now and then.
Along with this, Small Music Ensemble rehearsals have begun. I don't know whether I will be accepted in among the singers (there are only going to be 6 singers - 15 people only allowed to be on stage for the performance). If I'm not, though, I won't be pining, as I have been in it for the last three years, and I think, with a couple of seconds and a third, it's alright that I won't be in it if that is what they wish - there were 8/9 of us trying out.
I, with two other people, have a group critique that we have to 'present' to the class tomorrow for education. This group critique is to generate discussion about the social justice distinctions in society. Sounds boring? Well, it is. Some of it. It's actually quite interesting in some respects, but when you are reading the same thing over and over again, you get tired of it, as no doubt some of you have already learned. This critique tomorrow is about social classes, and the problems of them in the classroom. I had a good reading to study as part of the group, and the questions I have made up to start discussion on it, I hope will inspire people other than the usual conscientious few take part in discussion. If not, then tough luck. They won't learn to open their mouths to take part in discussion is their own decision. Can't force them.
Anyway, apart from this dreary life of mine, college food has been interesting, and, sometimes, even edible. J/k. Tonight, though, was Indian Night (the kitchen likes to have a theme night every now and then), and it wasn't good. I'm not a huge one for spicy food...and they had chilies in each dish! Woohoo!
Oh well. Life does go on...or so I've been told...
Ciao!
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
It's Alright!!! I'm Still Alive!!! :)
Just to put you at your ease, Peter.
Life for me has been interesting over the holidays. I went to the Football at Cronulla (I had to back the Sharks that day - they were versing the Bulldogs!) with my friends from Sydney. We had a great time, the Sharks beat the Bulldogs very nicely, and the Bulldogs are maintaining a wonderful form at the moment - losing most of their games! Yay! Unfortunately, St George hasn't won more than one game. Oh well...life goes on.
Last Saturday I got together with my best friend, Emma, and we had a good little browse around Gymea shopping centre, buying a couple of things necessary for life - clothes. Some nice light trackpants for me, so that I don't freeze here in Armidale while going for a walk in the morning (or afternoon). We then went on to Southgate, and I bought some pants for prac. - very necessary.
Prac is about seven and a half weeks away, and then I have my interview, which is booked (just did that) for the 29th of June. It was either that date or the 27th. I still don't know where my prac. is at the moment, but no doubt I should be able to get one of the places that I put down for - Maitland, Singleton, Port Macquarie, or Coonabarabran. Very diverse range of places, I think.
Anyway...back at College, if you hadn't figured that out. Life is going on just the same as usual, pretty boring, and full of work. Anyway...as time is running short, I shall leave you now.
Seeya' round!
Life for me has been interesting over the holidays. I went to the Football at Cronulla (I had to back the Sharks that day - they were versing the Bulldogs!) with my friends from Sydney. We had a great time, the Sharks beat the Bulldogs very nicely, and the Bulldogs are maintaining a wonderful form at the moment - losing most of their games! Yay! Unfortunately, St George hasn't won more than one game. Oh well...life goes on.
Last Saturday I got together with my best friend, Emma, and we had a good little browse around Gymea shopping centre, buying a couple of things necessary for life - clothes. Some nice light trackpants for me, so that I don't freeze here in Armidale while going for a walk in the morning (or afternoon). We then went on to Southgate, and I bought some pants for prac. - very necessary.
Prac is about seven and a half weeks away, and then I have my interview, which is booked (just did that) for the 29th of June. It was either that date or the 27th. I still don't know where my prac. is at the moment, but no doubt I should be able to get one of the places that I put down for - Maitland, Singleton, Port Macquarie, or Coonabarabran. Very diverse range of places, I think.
Anyway...back at College, if you hadn't figured that out. Life is going on just the same as usual, pretty boring, and full of work. Anyway...as time is running short, I shall leave you now.
Seeya' round!
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