Thoughts on Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth played the title character in this year’s adaptation of the comic book Thor.  His character was described as the God of Thunder and Chris Hemsworth played it well, if I might say so.

Chris Hemsworth managed to portray confidence, sorrow, acceptance, and humility in the character of Thor.  It was like watching a continuum of emotions being played out during the course of the movie.  He made Thor relatable and human.


When I first saw the trailer for Thor, I realized that the actor playing Thor was the same actor who played George Kirk, James T. Kirk’s father, in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek (2009).  Albeit he had a small part in the film, his face seemed very familiar to me and I decided to find out what movie or show I had seen him in before.


I googled Chris Hemsworth to find out more about his filmography.  My gut feeling was confirmed when I remembered what show he was in.  It was in an Australian show called Home and Away which I used to watch a couple of years back.  He played the character of Kyle Hyde, the new principal’s son.

I asked myself why I didn’t continue watching it when I realized that this was the time that I started college and the time constraints made it difficult for me to continue watching the show.  :(


Nonetheless,  I’m happy to know that I can continue watching Chris Hemsworth on the big screen since he will be continuing his role as “Thor” in “The Avengers” (2012) and he has a movie with Kristen Stewart called “Snow White and the Hunstman” (2012) where he plays “The Huntsman”.  I think Snow White and the Huntsman will be a dark adaptation of the children’s story; I will have to check it out too.


I leave you with a quote from Chris Hemsworth about approaching the role of Thor:


“You sort of fill your head with information and research you have.  But on set, it was about making it truthful and finding a way that I could relate to it, like the scenes between fathers and sons and brothers.  You personalize that, and that helps ground the story.  And then I can relate to it and hopefully, an audience can too.”


*quote is from Hammer Time by Robin Lynch/Celebritext in Smile Magazine*
*pictures are from www.chris-hemsworth.net

Thoughts on Tom Hiddleston

I first saw Tom Hiddleston act in Thor (2011) as Loki, Thor’s brother.

I was drawn to his actions, the way his face displayed the emotions that his character went through in the course of the film, the gestures he did (like when his character, Loki, was in the palace with the Warriors Three and Sif and they were talking about Thor’s banishment while Loki was looking at and carefully touching his hand [the hand which the Frost Giant touched] ...and he was looking at it strangely).

I also like the way his voice changed throughout the movie, from silkily suggesting to Thor to go against Odin’s command, to pleading to Odin regarding his actions (“I could have done it! For you, for all of us..!”)



Anyway, I researched on Tom Hiddleston to know more about this actor and I came across lots of articles about him.  It turns out that Mr. Hiddleston and Mr. Kenneth Branagh (the director of the film, Thor) previously worked together in a show called Wallander.  Tom Hiddleston played Kenneth Branagh’s sidekick, Magnus.  I checked out the synopsis for the show since I am not able to watch it where I am.  I don’t have access to PBS.



I guess this picture sums up my feeling of not being able to watch it. O_o

React/Comment in the light of Classroom Assessment and Evaluation: “The most important “things” in life cannot be measured”

Classroom assessment and evaluation seeks to gauge the student’s performance through validated tests and other ways but does this really measure a student’s performance? Or more importantly, what the student has learned? Can knowledge be measured? Can intelligence be measured? What about multiple intelligence? Can that be measured?

Teachers create tests based on objectives they have stated in their lesson plan with the aim of inducing learning in students.  They develop written exams [like multiple choice exams] by item analysis and norming to get a standard to which the student will be compared to.  The test validity is checked and distractors are analyzed.

As good as the process seems, I believe this can only measure a student’s knowledge up to a certain point.  It does not measure the entirety of the student’s knowledge.  These tests assess only what is in the present, they don’t measure how a student will apply what he has learned later on in life.  Sometimes these tests are only geared to logical-mathematical, and language-oriented students.  What about the musical oriented students or the artistic-oriented students?  How can their learning be measured and evaluated if the test does not appeal to their intelligence?  Will a written test be appropriate to measure what they have learned?  They might have learned in another way which is different with how the test wants to gauge it.  That is why I believe that a student’s knowledge cannot be measured.  A student’s knowledge is like a river [flowing through life].  Classroom assessment and evaluation is like a port in the river, it can see the effects of the river up to the area which encompasses the port.  In other words, classroom assessment and evaluation only measure a certain point in a student’s knowledge development.  It does not measure the knowledge which a student can acquire in his whole life.

I believe that knowledge cannot be measured but classroom assessment and evaluation seeks to at least measure it in the form of tests.  These tests might not measure the entire scope of knowledge that a student has amassed and some tests are not geared correctly towards the student’s intelligences but a properly created test can provide a certain measure which is enough to satisfy scholastic standards.

“ Should formative assessment be recorded and computed as grade?”

I think that formative assessment should be recorded and computed as grade since it is still a record of a student's performance albeit in the middle of the lesson.  Formative assessments gage a student's understanding of the lesson while the lesson is going on.  It provides the teacher with a point of comparison to know if the student is learning the lesson accordingly.  Say for example that there is a student whose name is Carl.  His teacher, Sigmund, wants to know if his student is learning about Psychoanalysis (their topic) up to schedule or is learning it accordingly.  The topic is being covered for two weeks, after which there would be a mastery exam about Psychoanalysis (which would be the summative assessment).  He administers a 10 item multiple choice exam about the topics covered at the end of every meeting to gage if the student understands the lesson (formative assessment).  Teacher Sigmund finds out that Carl had a couple of items mistaken after the discussion on the three parts of the personality.  He also finds out that Carl correctly answered all the items after the discussion on defense mechanisms.  Armed with this knowledge, he can adjust his lesson to fit Carl's needs.  He can also check to see if there was any change in Carl's learning after he administers the summative assessment.  For Carl's part, the results from the tests every meeting can give him feedback on what he needs to follow-up on or reread and what topics he already has learned.  More importantly, it can give him assurance that he already has some good test results which can be added to his overall grade on the lesson.  Formative assessments should be recorded because they can provide additional components to the final grade a student can get in a subject.  They can be included in the final grade computation so that a student will know that his final grade is not depended upon the results of his final exam which would put less anxiety on the student.  It would also let the teacher calculate the final grade objectively and with confidence, since he has taken into account the assessments of learning which were administered after every meeting.

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I will be posting about nonwork related stuff soon..

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