Rubber Chicken’s Dojo

i’ve been doing this ict license for school for the last two months. it does not make me any more qualified as a teacher but it does mean that the school gets more funding, which seems pretty stupid if i’m only a contract teacher who probably won’t even be there next year. anyway, a part of it is writing a belief statement about what you believe as a teacher and how ict affects learning, from your perspective. it got me thinking, nay, worrying, about what the hell i actually belief in as a teacher, what teaching theories i follow and what the fuck it all means. i drew a blank, a zero, nada, nothing. so while i was procrastinating and thinking about what the hell it all means, i stumbled upon this. in my years of studying psychology i was never one to buy into the pop-psychology gimmick. but after reading this, the impostor phenomenon, certainly strikes a chord. what if? what if i’m not actually cut out to be a teacher and i’m just turning up to school everyday and fucking around with these kids and not actually teaching them anything? what if i’m just posing as an educator and reinforcing the shitty institution of learning that the queensland government has built up over the last 70 years? what if i’m just adding to the list of shoddy teachers that clog the system and don’t allow really good teachers to shine? what if i’m just overreacting? this is what procrastination leads to…

yesterday being the second last day of the school holidays, inyoung and i headed to runcorn for what we thought was going to be a korean festival. we saw some pamphlets for it and it mentioned food and traditional korean dancers/musicians (sa mul nor ee). so we found our way there and had a look around. not many australians, 90% koreans, some peddling food and/or chinese medicine. seems like it was just meant to be a big korean cookup for the korean community. the esky full of cooked rice was a highlight! inyoung wasn’t really impressed with it. she is not a big fan of her own people for some reason. she can be quite jaded sometimes when it comes to talking about seeing koreans in australia. anyway, the photos i took were shit. i had a quick lesson from dave about light metering afterwards, which was useful.here’s a shot:

the ottawa senators opened their new campaign on the road in stockholm, sweden against rivals, pittsburgh, early this morning. after being swept by the penguins last year in the playoffs, things were looking good when jason spezza put the sens up 3-2 at the end of the second period.

Spezza celebrates his second career short-handed goal

however, the sens could not hold on, allowing the tying goal early in the third. neither team could break through so the game went to overtime. a jason spezza turnover in the neutral zone gave the pens an odd-man rush and tyler kennedy slotted home the winning goal. pens win 4-3.  *sigh* here we go again…

(pittsburgh defender) hal gill, not the best fighter in the nhl. had five fights last year, lost six… that’s how bad he is.

dean brown, commentating on the ottawa senators vs pittsburgh penguins

sheffield wednesday’s unbeaten run of three games came to a screaming stop as they were hammered 4-0 at plymouth argyle overnight. the crowd at home park saw three goals in the first half an hour. owls defender, mark beevers, gifted plymouth an own goal before two more just before the half hour mark by paul gallagher and jamie mackie respectively, doused off any chance wednesday may have had. the loss slides the team down five places to 10th.

sheffield wednesday climbed into the top six overnight with a 1-0 victory over championship strugglers, nottingham forest. a crowd of over 20,000 packed into hillsborough to see etienne esajas get a wicked deflection off his shot which went past forest keeper, paul smith. the owls dominated forest from the start with a bagful of possession and numerous chances. wednesday are starting to find a little bit of form now with two wins on the trot. this latest victory takes them to fifth place, one point ahead of city rivals and scum, sheffield united.

sheffield wednesday scored two late first half goals to secure a 2-1 win over charlton athletic at the valley overnight. coming from a goal down, wade small and marcus tudgay each scored a goal that sent the visitors to the top ten on the table. small made a fine run from half way in wednesday’s first real attack of the game, before cutting in on the left and slicing one past charlton keeper keeper, nicky weaver. three minutes later, tudgay pounced on some sleepy charlton defense and put on in from the edge of the box. the win sends the owls up to nineth, on 12 points; remarkably with a -3 goal difference thanks to the 6-0 hammering they copped last week in their last away match at reading.