Solo Music Video Debut

Okay so this video was made to summarize my learning in my Language and Literacy class. I took the idea from my cousin SaintKris and put my own lil twist to it. REmix'ed haha. Enjoy.

Literacy In a Student's Life

Here's another video for school. It is the same as my last assignment but this time, I have to find out how a students engages in literacy. So we were asked to interview a student in high school if possible to get their views on literacy in thier life. Lucky for me, I knew one from work and she was happy to help out. Enjoy

Mitch

First Video of the Year

Untitled from Mitch Catacutan on Vimeo.

So here's a little video a made for school. It's based on the literacy practices that take place in my life. I, like some in my class, thought that literacy was just being able to read and write but it's much more than that. Music by Saint Kris. Enjoy

Mitch

Season Over Before It Starts????

So I haven't written in a while and this is actually the worst time for me to start doing this (maybe it's the best time who knows?) but whatever...

Shout out to Tavian Dela Cruz and Bennett Mableson who I haven't given props to yet. Peyton's Bday is coming up soon so I'll be able to get some pics of them to post up on here (although everyone who reads this has already seen them)...

Shout out to Saint or soon to be aka Saint Kris to the rest of the world, who's hard work has him doing some crazy stuff right now. I always say that you get what you put in and I know that Saint has been working hard in all aspects of his life these past 5+ years I've moved to Winnipeg. Great Stuff! When does he start acting??? Just throwing it out there.....

Shout out to Cam and Eric, these guys have been instrumental in helping getting Saint out there whether it's the videos, the shared links on facebook or tweets, to calling into Hot 103 for "Saint Kris O'Clock". I'm sure that Saint has been shown his appreciation for everything. I just wanted to say thanks too. I don't know exactly why but I do....

Anyways.... to the post...
Withoutthe NBA this season I needed something to fill in my time (like I'll have alot of it with school, work, coaching, soccer and basketball), I decided to finally do a fantasy draft with some buddies (Joel, Judd, Glen, Jarrett, Trent, 12 in total). To be honest, I didn't prep very much for it. I had my top 3 picks in my mind and I went from there. I decided with #1 AP (RB-Min), 2 Rogers (QB- GB) and 3 Vick (QB-Phil).

I ended up with 8th pick and watched all 3 go in that order, I ended up with Aarin Forster (RB-Hou) (I actually called his name out "Adrian Foster") as my first pick. I had locked up on of the top 3 RB's on everyone's wish list online and coming back I was looking to take another high end running back to secure the foundation of my team (in fantasy football, RB's are the highest valued players cuz they get the most touches and chances to score TD's). I found the perfect pick - Frank Gore RB- SF. Not only does he play on my fav team but he is the Stud of my fav team so this would be the prefect pick for me coming back. It'll still leave me with a high end QB.

As the person before me picked his player leaving me the chance to pick Frank Gore, I took one last look down my sheet if there was anyone that could possibly be a better pick for me. As I looked down my sheet and I actually started to announce my pick, I saw Peyton Manning as the 28 or 29 ranked player in the draft and I instantly though of 4000+ passing yards (1 pt / 10 ys = 400+ pts) and at least 30+ TD's (6 pt / TD = 180+ pts). So I instead of saying Frank Gore, I said "my NEW MAIN MAN: Peyton Manning". I had just become the biggest Peyton Manning fan EVER!!!! I felt pretty good about my team going home that night even though I don't know much about football.

So a few days later I finally get a chance to catch up on some sports and I see Aarin Foster Tweeting about his hamstring that might keep him out the first 3 weeks. Great! It's a good thing I drafted a bunch of RB's cuz I knew that I would be dealing with some injuries so I was prepared for that.

Things looked good going into tonight. On the eve of the season, Judd texts me at work that Peyton might be out the whole year cuz he had a set back in his recovery from neck surgery. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not prepared for that. I draft Matt Hasselbeck who's now QB of the Titians (at least I think it was. I don't even know) with my 13th out of 15 picks. Oh no, looks like I might be on the market for a QB. If this happens, my fantasty football season is done and I just donated $40 to someone. Hopefully Peyton makes a miracle recovery and breaks passing and td records!!!

Either way......Go 49ers!!!!! Playoffs Baby!!!!! I've been saying it for the last 5 years and I'll keep on saying it till you do

NBA Players talking about March Madness

Here's a little video I came across with some Pistons players. Ben Gordon and Charlie V went to UConn and Tayshwn Prince went to Kentucky. Now as we all know, their old schools will be facing off this weekend in the Final Four. Here's some insights they give us on the tournament and some friendly trash talking.

Mitch

ps I wonder how much the winner of thier team's pool gets?

Just One More Week

I know it's been a while since I've posted something on here. Graham keeps on bugging me about it everytime he gets a chance. I have plenty to catch everyone up on from the birth of a new Dela Cruz to the road for provincials for my JV basketball team. I have one week left of school with plently left to do (most of it being my own doing) but once I'm done this week, I'll be in my teaching block with a bit more time to spare. So stay tuned......

Mitchy Mitch

Science Lesson

So we've been talking about the circulatory system in science and my first lesson in the classroom was labling the heart followed by a lesson on the blood flow through it. Now we are talking about disease and I had athersclorosis. So to iontroduce the topic to the class I made video from a website I learned about in class this past semester, www.xtranormal.com. It allows you to type what you want each character to say and then you press preview and it'll say it for you. With this being said, I was pretty impressed that they were able to prounce atherosclorosis. So I played this in class and referred back to it during my lesson. It went over well and when asked questions that referred to the video, the kids were able to answer showing me that they paid attention. It was pretty cool. I think that I put the bar up a bit so I'll have to make another one for my next lesson.

Week 2 at Westgate

Some Dancing at Westgate from Mitch Catacutan on Vimeo.

So here's what the fuss is all about at Westgate: this new guy is getting kids to dance!!! Here's proof. We did some jive one week and then I did a hip hop lesson where they picked cards that had dance moves on there (shopping cart, robot, grapevine, etc) and they had to come up with their own routine. Now kids from other classes hear about this from their friends who have me and they ask their teacher if they can learn dance. My supervising teachers say how kids are asking when am I teaching again in their class. I've inspired a girl in one of my classes to offer to teach the class jazz dance on Monday. Should be fun and hopefully I'll have some video of that.



As I was in early to shoot with some students, the vice principal came in and told me that he's been hearing some complaints about me. I was quite shocked as he had a pretty serious look on his face. I responded "really" in a crack voice. In a serious face he said, "I hear that students are having TOO much fun in gym class" and quickly smiled after he said that. It took me a second to realize that he was joking around with me and once I figure it out, I smiled and replied "well, is that a bad thing?". As he went to leave the gym, he said "thanks for all the great stuff you've been doing here." It was really pretty cool to hear this.

I've been going into shortly after 7 to work with basketball players on their shot because they want to make the team. It sucks that I'm going to most likely cut a few of them and they are the ones coming in and putting in the effort. One mom came up to me and asked if her son had to come to all the practices if he son made the team. I didn't quite answer at first but said that anyone that makes the team will have to attend all practices because I didn't know who's mom she was. So I asked her who her son was and it was a kid who's runners were so old that he looked like he was skating when we ran lines. The mom said that he's getting new basketball shoes and that she's so pumped to see him out for something outside of school. I feel bad though because I'll be cutting her son next week and she'll probably go out and get him new shoes this weekend. As much as I'm excited about coaching, this is the part I hate the most. I love to see the enthusiam but when it comes down to it, I can't take everyone. Wish that there was more time in the day so I can do something for these kids that want to play but aren't good enough to make the team. So many kids call me Coach and are going out of their way to be nice to me. They really want to make the team and I know they won't think I'm as cool after I cut them.

Once my team is made though, I'll be really excited to get to work. We moved up to AAAA this year so we'll be playing some quality basketball this year. I def won't have the offensive fire power that we did last year but having some players for the second time around will make for a better defensive team. Coming into tryouts I didn't think that we would have much of a bench but we have some younger brothers of guys who played for me last year and they are the 2 of 3 people that can do a left handed lay up at full speed. So I think that we will be about 9 deep with a starting lineup of four 6 footer returning players and one provincial point guard. I am expecting this team to be one of my best defensive teams that I've ever coached (tough to top one of my Prov teams though). I hope that you can come and check out a game this year. I'll be sure to post our schedule on a regular basis.

So that's my week. Sorry it went longer than I had orginally intended. Enjoy the video.

Mr Catacutan / Mr C / Coach / Mitch / Hey You

A random night with G-Bo, Saint Kris and Sungnation

So I was coming home from golfing at Heckla when Saint called and asked if I wanted to be a part of a freestyle video like the old nike vids. It was an easy yes and after picking out some outfits, we got to prov and try to bring out our best moves. Can't wait to do the next version.

This is actually posted so that I can show this as part of my basketball lesson. You should still check it out anyways.

Mitch

Saint Kris......need I say more????

Saint Kris - Remember the Rain from Nice! Productions on Vimeo.

No intro necessary. Enjoy.

How do we Assess?

Assessment Riot from Mitch Catacutan on Vimeo.

Here's another music video that was made for class and this time it was for marks. As part of one of our last writing assignments, we were given the choice to show what we've learned in a different way like a video, podcast, etc. After the success of our first video, Jen and I decided to make another video talking about assessment as, for, and of learning. Jen came up with the idea for the song, wrote the lyrics, and used her beautiful voice once again. It's a fantastic song and we added in some jive, swing, and lindy hop moves in there to go with the music. Jen has been teaching me some moves and hopefully someday I can be as good and her friend, Thor, who is feautred in the video as well (you'll know which one he is). Anyways Hope that you enjoy it. Thanks again Jen, had a great time and thanks for making me look so good.

Mitch

Just Another Saint Kris Video!!!!

Saint Kris - Return of the Dragon from Nice! Productions on Vimeo.

It's like there's no limit to what this kid can do. He's so hot right now!

Just Another Video for School...

Here's a video for a science presentation. It was used to introduce our topic and create disequilbruim among the students. Check it out and see if you can answer the questions.

Enjoy

Mitchy Mitch

Science Video from Mitch Catacutan on Vimeo.

Today with Rob Goodman

Here's another video that I did for a presentation. Our book that we had to present was a series of interviews so we decided to present it in a newscast kind of form. My group had tons of fun filming this. The filming didn't go perfect so I've included a small blooper reel. The presentation went great with many of laughs (including laughing at ourselves) and we got a great mark. So here it is.

Enjoy

Today with Rob Goodman from Mitch Catacutan on Vimeo.

Blooper Reel from Mitch Catacutan on Vimeo.

Just Having a Blast

So with just over a week left of classes before I head off to rip it up at Westgate Collegiate, I've been having some troubles doing homework. I've actually been trying to find other things to do to keep me from doing work. It was last week where I couldn't sleep and I ended up watching a video that my brother had made (inspired by Eric and Cam's video) to make one of my own. So I sat down and wrote a song about school. It was intended to give us a bit of a laugh to release a bit of the stress that we are all going through. It funny how much I'm inspired by my classmates who I would call friends by now. We get along so well and enjoy learning together so much that we've asked to see how we can keep the same people for next year. It's not just 7 or 8 people that want this; it's ALL 28 of us. Pretty cool if you ask me. Anyways, so I got a great voice and now a good friend to sing and we made something that we wanted to dedicate to our classmates. They bring out the best in me and I just wanted to say thanks in a creative way. Thanks and enjoy!

Mitchy Mitch

I Love Education from Mitch Catacutan on Vimeo.