Flip-flop, flip-flop I saw my fist pair of flip-flops this morning, so I am happy to share the SPF 50 smothered, short wearing, put the sun glasses on and the music up loud, best weather yet, week 13 confessions e-mail.
Friendly Competition
For the 3rd year, 2nd semester AFD students were responsible for coming up with a mural design for the York Region CSV (community safety village) and this year’s winning design was created by Genuman Ho, Phillip Trieu, Gordon Chan and Michael Alves, from Jim Graves’ section of the AFD271 class. These students managed to edge out their competition, from the other section with both a strong final design and an excellent presentation, which effectively addressed the needs of the client. PC Phil Houghton from YRP said, “I think all of the murals were outstanding and truly captured what we asked for in the projects. It was hard to choose the actual winning one but this Project 0189 was able to capture a variety of units actually working as well as a variety of YRP officers in action.”
As always, Bill Suddick is now working closely with “Project 0189” on the final execution of the actual full size 8′ x 12′ mural. Special thanks should go out to both Phillip and Jed for their continued support of this great opportunity provided to our AFD students.
Doc Fest
Journalism Broadcast invites all students and faculty to the 2009 JBC DocFest at The Hive, 4-6pm on Tuesday April 21. Come watch some very cool productions about weekend warriors; Iraq War resisters; a haunted building; belly dancing; and a mockumentary documentary about documentary making!
SCA Media Awards
A little less than a week left for ticket sales and preparation for the SCA media awards (http://senecamediaawards.ca/) April 23rd. It looks like it will be another great event, and all are encouraged to order your tickets today and support this student run event. Also, don’t forget about Jed’s “thank you” reception at 4:00PM in the afternoon of awards day, Jed will host a reception that will be a great time to take a breath at the end of a very busy semester.
PotLuck
Well the lunchroom is almost finished, and with the end of the semester here, it seems it would be a good time for a little get together event to utilize officially kick it off. The first annual “Promo Week – SCA potluck lunch and great food celebration” is ON. I have put up a signup sheet on the bulletin board, and would like all who are interested in participating either the Tuesday or Wednesday of the Promo week (April 28th and 29th) to add their names and contribution. If you do not have your name on the list, you will not be eligible to participate, so I would strongly encourage you to put you name on the list for sure. Your contribution does not have to be a food item we will need plastic plates and utensils, drinks or even desserts. If you have any questions about the requirements, please let me know. I have already talked to a number of you and so far, it seems like it will be popular.
Faculty Forum 2009 Evite
Real Education: Classroom, College, Community is the focus for the one-day forum for all faculty, teaching staff, chairs and deans dedicated to collaboration, conversation and community building. Being held at the Newnham Campus – SeneCentre, May 5, 2009 from 8:30 – 5:00. This will be a great event to cover, teaching and learning strategies, opportunities to speak with colleagues in an open dialogue, resources and services available to faculty and teaching staff and professional development. For more information, contact Bev Brewer (Bev.Brewer@senecac.on.ca or 416.491.5050 x2883)
In closing
I start collecting the content for these e-mails almost after I hit the send button the week before, but the main building is Thursday night, and Friday morning. Well, the thinking anyway, the writing starts about an hour before it hits cyberspace. I look for things in my daily routine that remind me about something that I try to tie in as the main message, so the nice man driving the Audi, who passed me this morning waving his hands at me got me thinking. I am not sure exactly what I had done, but either he was trying to tell me that my sunglasses are too big for my face, or he felt that I needed to keep my eyes on the road more. It is possible that I was grooving to the tunes a little too loud and my mind drifted for a second off my inside the line responsibility, but what a nice man to share his feelings so openly on a public highway. If I can take anything from it to share with you, it would be that it is ok to look stupid and make funny arm, finger gestures to passing motorists, if in the end it makes you feel better about your own driving or life.
I do know this, I will be happy to get week 14 started next week, but I may take a different route in on Monday to do so.
Thanks! 13 (+1) down and 1 (+1) to go.
Jim