sacha chua living an awesome life

lots of students
problems because of few resources
frustrating to be a teacher and not be able to teach properly
what's holding them back?
you want to be able to teach better
you want to be able to get the message across
because the worst thing you can face each day is a classroom of bored, unmotivated, uninterested students who aren't learning
and it's painful to check exams and see a lot of failing marks
it hurts because you feel inadequate. you're not getting the job done.

if it's just a living
if the results of their teaching are good
other people will notice
there is a direct benefit
if they perform better in future classes

if we teach well the first time around, less need for reteaching
good recommendation letters
develop creativity and problem-solving (for teachers)

On This Day...

• 2012: #SMref panel: Changing Nature of Influence–Moderator: Terry Foster–Panel: Matt Juniper, Patrick Thoburn, Ron Nurwisah, Eric Alper — These are notes from the panel moderated by Terry Foster (Cision) on the changing nature of influence. Check out the Twitter [...]
• 2012: Sketchnotes: AndroidTO–The Business of Mobile — These sketchnotes are from the keynotes and Mobile Business track of AndroidTO 2012. Feel free to share this! You can [...]
• 2011: Practising drawing: variations on a theme — You need to doodle your way through lots of faces until you get the hang of drawing them the way [...]
• 2010: How I got into computer science — How did I get into computer science? I don’t know. I grew up immersed in computers. A preschooler: [...]
• 2009: Weekly review: Week ending October 25, 2009 — Plans from last week: Work: Set up two idea labs and send invitations Follow up with experts Write the script/speaker’s [...]
• 2009: The man who should’ve used Connections — Wow. There are some seriously talented IBMers out there. This is the latest installment in “The Man Who Should’ve Used Connections”, [...]
• 2009: Thinking in terms of decades — One of my mentors is about to celebrate his quarter-century anniversary with IBM. Over biscuits and tea at my place, [...]
• 2007: Business practice maven-wannabe — That’s what Stephen Perelgut and I came up with: business practice maven-wannabe. I want to get really good at observing people [...]
• 2006: What does a portfolio for a tech evangelist look like? — Software developers show printouts of code. Artists bring a portfolio. What does a tech evangelist wannabe show? Testimonials? Speech transcripts? A short pitch for [...]
• 2006: KMD2004 meeting — Start: 2:15 PM End: 4:00 PM Dave Kemp, Sacha Chua, MJ Suhonos Sacha will send Dave Kemp login information for the wiki Discussed feedback [...]
• 2005: Midterms and mushrooms — My midterms were actually pretty fun. I missed a number of points—made a mistake in one formula, forgot to mention something [...]
• 2005: Joel on Software against tailoring software — Shrink-wrapped software makes more financial sense, says Joel Spolsky, warning of the dangers of consultingware. No problem with that, but _I_ like [...]
• 2005: planner: so addictive, even the vim people want it — Seen on gmane.editors.vim : Is there a vim script that mimics the emacs planner mode? There’s a couple of wiki plugins, but [...]
• 2005: Presentations and getting naked — No, no, this is still safe-for-work material. Presentation Zen has some great insights on being in the moment. Great musicians aren’t as [...]
• 2004: Coding life — I have come to the realization that as much as I love coding, I don’t think I’d want it to be [...]
• 2004: In other news — Pretty much done with the code for the little project they gave us. Am a few days ahead of the Friday [...]
• 2004: Backlog: After the conference — Half of my personal mail was in Japanese thanks to the keysigning. I liked that a lot. I should write in [...]
• 2004: Met Jean-Christophe Helary — JC Helary is a professional French/English/Japanese translator who handles documents from the countryside. He comes to Tokyo every month for business meetings [...]
• 2004: Mail problems — cyrus (Hiya, Jijo!) is dropping mail from me again, so I have to send mail using my own MTA for now. [...]
• 2004: More Emacs tips — http://www.douglasjohnston.net From Douglas Johnston: In case you’re interested, the second part of my “Emacs retreat” is online at the blog. (It’s mainly for [...]
• 2004: 11/1 Mozilla Japan free seminar — From: EGOTA Motohiro Subject: 11/1 Âè 1 ²ó Mozilla Japan ̵ÎÁ¥»¥ß¥Ê¡¼¤Î¤´°ÆÆâ¡£ To: blue@blue.gr.jp, ylug@linux.or.jp, linux-users@linux.or.jp Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:57:17 [...]
• 2003: More GCBirzan stories — education — *GCBirzan* I teach CCNA courses for a local Cisco Academy Mmm. In our database class, we're allowed to use any [...]
• 2003: GCBirzan’s cool SQL contest — education — *GCBirzan* I didn't really like the fact that the teacher used a lot of [...]
• 2003: Debian Bug Squashing Party — Debian bug-squashing party, Sunday November 9th 2003, Ecublens, Switzerland To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, the GULL (Groupe [...]
• 2003: Another CS class using eclipse — education — http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~eclipse/1-Install.pdf
• 2003: Contemplate thread scoring — I’m somewhat interested in long threads on some mailing lists, as chances are those are the ones with cool insights. I [...]
• 2003: More questions for my questions — Cross-reference: TheologicalQuestions#1