National Interschool Blogging Championship
Though we suffer from no lack of Interschool competitions, Singtel and MOE have decided that we can also pit our 'diaries' against one another.
All schools will have their own group blogs, with several student representatives in charge of moderating and approving posts from the general student body. And of course, these 'student leaders' will be supervised by their teachers. The theme for this competition is 'Voices of Singapore Teenagers', once again demonstrating MOE's incompetence at recognising that we aren't Singapore Teenagers, but rather Singaporean Teenagers or Singapore's Teenagers.
This point has been overlooked many times before, in campaigns such as 'Uniquely Singapore' and 'Singapore Idol', which should be renamed 'Uniquely Singaporean' and 'Singaporean Idol' respectively so as to keep in line with PM Lee's suggestion that we all use Standard English, as embodied by famous linguists such as 50 Cent in the Club, Usher, and Beyonce.
Y'all cool with me here? Ya'll innit? Ixnay to the englay?
Anyways, entries will be judged based on depth and clarity of thoughts, organisation and creativity. I'm surprised that they didn't name the judging scheme COC or PEARLS or what not, as this is totally out of line with MOE's penchant for giving things acronyms.
In any case, it'll be an interesting thing to watch, and perhaps those of us who are still schooling can contribute some of our thoughts, which after having more complex ideas simplified, points catergorised alphabetically and typed in such a way the text is shaped to look like an elephant, will be published on the Campus Moblog.
All schools will have their own group blogs, with several student representatives in charge of moderating and approving posts from the general student body. And of course, these 'student leaders' will be supervised by their teachers. The theme for this competition is 'Voices of Singapore Teenagers', once again demonstrating MOE's incompetence at recognising that we aren't Singapore Teenagers, but rather Singaporean Teenagers or Singapore's Teenagers.
This point has been overlooked many times before, in campaigns such as 'Uniquely Singapore' and 'Singapore Idol', which should be renamed 'Uniquely Singaporean' and 'Singaporean Idol' respectively so as to keep in line with PM Lee's suggestion that we all use Standard English, as embodied by famous linguists such as 50 Cent in the Club, Usher, and Beyonce.
Y'all cool with me here? Ya'll innit? Ixnay to the englay?
Anyways, entries will be judged based on depth and clarity of thoughts, organisation and creativity. I'm surprised that they didn't name the judging scheme COC or PEARLS or what not, as this is totally out of line with MOE's penchant for giving things acronyms.
In any case, it'll be an interesting thing to watch, and perhaps those of us who are still schooling can contribute some of our thoughts, which after having more complex ideas simplified, points catergorised alphabetically and typed in such a way the text is shaped to look like an elephant, will be published on the Campus Moblog.
