Archive for August, 2009

28 August…

For those who don’t know: Last Thursday 27 August, a girl in Year 11 died whilst skiing at Perisher Valley yesterday. Please read this SMH article to understand what is written below. Tomorrow, I’ll write an analysis of today’s media coverage. Today, we witnessed a tragedy, spirit and camaraderie. The events of today were attended [...]

Reflection Statement

Tomorrow (Friday) is the deadline for HSC English Extension 2 major works. As part of their work, a reflection statement is written to, supposedly, ‘reflect’ on the major work they have composed. This week, the phrase has been uttered many times, in different ways, expressions and the like. Given that Year 12 finish school in [...]

My Social Map

I thought I’d show you how my social networks interact with each other. This might shed some light on how you might organise your social networks to best interact with your fans. Shown below are my most used networks/services and how they interact with each other. (Click to see bigger) As you can see, I [...]

Here we are

Six weeks ago, many of us never thought that this day would come. For the last two weeks, I and everyone in year 12 have had trial examinations. These are the final school assessments before the HSC exams in October.  I must say, that even with all the hype surrounding Trial exams, everyone handled it [...]