Whangaparaoa College Leavers 2010

So, you don't know what happened?

Read ALL about it here..

http://wgp2010.co.cc/

New year..

As the new school year approaches, I start to wounder if the standard of ICT teaching has been raised to expectations. With the welcoming choice to leave school and study elsewhere, its gonna be interesting to see if we:

A. Get Taught, not DIY style teaching and
B. If the teachers understand what they are doing.

These are factors that I expect in any school, and just did not find them in 2009.

Let the year start!

Some Updates and A (Semi) Major Breakthrough! :-)

Hello, Long time no post.

I have still been working on random things, mainly to do with the GetBusi proxy. I would love to access sites that are supposedly 'Kidstimewasting' gmail? Clearly not.
After requesting access to gmail, and no response, we came up with a method to access gmail at school. After studying GetBusi for ONE lesson, I found a very funny thing...(Not saying what it, as the ICT "Pros" may stop it...) This funny thing will allow you to access SOME sites that are blocked (Gmail for one) and even allow you to use them when you have no quota! :P

So, recap...
- Use internet on some sites with no internet quota!
- Access some blocked sites

Now To Present..... The WGPC Laptop DeCrapper!

So... What does this program do?
Well, It gets rid of that very annoying "Please Wait" window And will remove the WGP ICT License agreement from showing up every time you log on or switch users!

How Do I Use It?
Just run the "WGPC Laptop DeCrapper" program and follow the onscreen instructions. Basically just press enter twice when the black box comes up. (VISTA ONLY!)

Where Do I Get It?!
Download HERE
Or, It may be finding its way around school ;-)
Megaupload link here (The one above is best)

Please Leave a comment if this worked for you! Thanks!

Another Rant...

So, my feelings for the rest of the year...
I think that we are not gonna be learning much that online tutorials can't teach us, especially if the teacher does not know anything about Dreamweaver CS4, and again, especially if the teacher has taught him/herself via online tutorials. I would like to see some proof of specialized education with the programs that we are learning. I.E, the Adobe CS4 applications that we were *required* to buy. (The Adobe CS4 Web standard), Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, and Contribute.

I still have had no information on what the end product of this course will be I.E no information on what are target thing is that we are creating. I realize that we are doing work now for our portfolio. From what I have figured out, we are creating a website.

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How to get onto GMail at school (Fully Legal As Far As I Can Tell...)

So, School has blocked the use of gmail. I think that is wrong, Here's a way to get around it, Legally... Found by James D, Tutorial by Will T

Step #1
Goto igoogle here: https://www.google.com/ig

Follow picture guide! (Clicky ;-) )

More Rants.....

Well, During my ICT lesson on monday, we actually used our $3.500 laptops for the first time in the class. And, today, I used it, BUT I was low on battery, but no spare plug nearby for power... There was power points sparsly spread around the back, But im sure there is not enough for everyone, Especially sat where I was. Where are the floor points like the library? I thought there would be a dedicated room for ICT. Not needing to move to find a power point!....

To top it off... A few of the class (Including me) Had actually done what was expected of us and finished our Homework! Only to find out that lesson, the people who had not done what was expected of them (to do their homework), had that lesson to do it...Leaving the people who had done it, nothing to do (If you count putting your homework onto your blog/wiki a lesson...then we had work)... We were actually asked to help the ICT people do their jobs that they are paid to do..!! Do we get paid to help? No. But I would have done it if I was paid $450 for around 2 hours work, sure! I thought we go to school to learn stuff, Not to help people with their full time jobs...?

Just give us more work, Don't slow us down just because the people who don't do their homework slow down the people who want to do well...