I’ve tendered…

Wed, 22 Aug 2012
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…my resignation from the teaching service.

I submitted my letter/the form a fortnight ago but I waited to ‘go public’ with the info because I wanted to personally tell as many of my students as I could.

I didn’t manage to reach everyone but the JC1 cohort knows now so I guess that’s that.

Anyway, I wanted to ‘go public’ with the news because I’ve had messages and whatnot from a number of people asking me about it.

I’m tired of repeating myself, so in a nutshell:

  • Why I’m leaving:A multitude of reasons, the most important of which is a ‘pull’ factor i.e. the appeal of doing creative work in the arts industry.

    Moreover, since I’m relatively young and relatively unencumbered by financial constraints, better to try this now than never.
  • Last day of work: Sun. 9 Sep 2012.
  • Plans for the future: Writing creatively full-time for six months with certain targets that I’ve set. If I don’t ‘meet those targets’, my ‘punishment’ is to go back to working at a ‘proper’ job and stop using air-quotes so liberally.
  • Obesity: Yes.

Last but not least, the picture has no bearing to the content of this post, apart from the word “tender”. That was not an air-quote, BTW.

musee.sg: Curating creativity.

Thu, 10 May 2012
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I don't know why this is considered creative? But it was the first Google Image search result and it looked eye-catching so I thought I'd use it.

So I’m trying something a little different this year with my students.

In the past, whenever I wanted to show them something creative to students for the purposes of school work (and also just to generally expose them to good aesthetics, intelligent design, etc.), I’d e-mail them to ‘push’ the info to them.

That doesn’t work because students don’t always check their mail (or e-mail from me tends to be ignored… I don’t condone this but I don’t blame them either.)

Also, we have a school-based Content Management System (CMS), but students have to ‘pull’ the info from the site.

And knowing how human beings are like i.e. we follow the path of least resistance, it ain’t gonna happen… (in this case.)

So based on some feedback several of my ex-students gave me last year, I thought I’d set up musee.sg in my own personal capacity to ‘curate creativity’.

I think teaching creative thinking isn’t enough; people also have to be immersed in a creative environment or at least exposed to creative things on a regular basis to become creative too.

So students and anyone who’s interested in this can:

I thought I’d use social media because it just pushes everything to the students who are always on Tumblr/Twitter/Facebook anyway.

BTW I’m developing this organically so everything’s a bit spartan now in terms of design and stuff.

Also, organic means that it might die or it might evolve, but what the hell – let’s see where this goes.

Appreciate any support if you can spare some!