Back in Uniform

 The school is much less colourful today than it was yesterday. Seems a bit of a shame, really. It was especially nice seeing all the crazy Year 12 students around in a mix of costumes and 'personal fashion'.

I taught 54 Year 11 students last year, plus about 17 new Year 12 students this year, so I know quite a few of the Year 12 students. The costumes were awesome for obvious reasons - who doesn't like to see a 6'7" knight wandering around the school, or a sheik? But it was also nice to see that a number of the Year 12 students are grown up enough to make clothing choices based on a sense of style other than Glassons or Fake-Hip-Hop.

Not that there's anything wrong with Glassons or hip-hop gears, just that the younger kids seem to choose that sort of stuff as a default choice, either that or 'what my parents bought', which was the 'fashion choice' I made in third form. Well, in intermediate anyways. I wore some pretty awesome clothes in high school - big green German army coat, oversized black jersey (which ended up greyish and full of holes by the end of fourth form), ridiculous 'MC Hammer pants' as my friends dubbed them... Yeah, I was pretty stylee.

The MC hammer pants weren't actually that exciting. They were tapered at the bottom, and a little baggy in the legs. And they were a kind of dark purple colour. They weren't actually balloony, but most of my friends were wearing super-taper black jeans, so even slightly baggy pants were a cause for mocking.

So anyways, after this fun stroll down fashion-memory lane, onto modern times. I've been reading about some of the other entries in the Iron Game Chef challenge, and it sounds like there are some good entries. I've also been reading hix's blog, and really enjoying some of his thoughts about managing projects and writing. I've also been following links from hix's blog, and been thinking about Game Design. I think I have learned many valuable things, and will certainly try to apply some of them to next year's IGC, and possibly to this year's Kapcon Scenario Design Contest.

Speaking of the SDC, I haven't done any work on it for some time. I really should get my games finished and playtested before the end of Term 3. I'm going to be ambitious and maybe aim to finish the first one by the end of the holidays that are coming up. If I have one in the bank, then I can relax about the other. If it gets done, it gets done.

Lastly, I made a kick-ass worksheet for 1984 last night. My Year 13 class are reading it at the moment, and I decided to make a little worksheet to help them link the novel to the Theme Study (Y13 Wide Reading). It has a pretty border, and a clipart picture of a book, and it asks leading questions, and has a True/False section. It's not quite as cool as all the awesome Shawshank stuff Debbie made last night, but it's the best resource I've made in a couple of weeks.