MSPA wrote:

I used Scratch 1.4 editor once.
My elementary school friends didn't even know what Scratch was until I was allowed to use it during break in 5th grade.
I'm finally in 6th grade and unable to access Scratch since my school now is so strict on computer safety >:U

ealgase wrote:

We have 15 year old macs, and half of them don't have working batteries. WE NEED MORE FUNDING

ealgase wrote:

We have 15 year old macs, and half of them don't have working batteries. WE NEED MORE FUNDING

The Attack of the XXXXXX

In our class

1… How XXXXXX came to be.

OMG XXXXXX is SOOOOO FUN!! EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL IN AUSTRALIA SHOULD DO IT M8!!! 11/10 IGN
~ An Example

2… Why is XXXXXX so bad?

CatsUnited wrote:

1. The 3, 2, 1, GO! sound is so high-pitched
2. It makes learning <sarcasm>“fun”</sarcasm> by making it as addictive as Candy Crush Saga and Flappy Bird.
3. The good offline edition costs lots of money and requires a powerful computer that can handle good 3D graphics.
4. Anyone outside of Australia can't even use it becuase of it's “.au” domain!

One scary story I heard from my teacher was:

XXXXXXX is fun! At my old school with the Year 5's, after they saw XXXXXXX, they decided to quit doing anything else on their computers and just did it all day, every day on the holidays.

I find it scary because all our 50 minute long computer sessions could just become XXXXXXX sessions for the rest of the year and no-one would learn how to use Win7 becuase about 16/27 people in our class struggle to use Windows 7, let alone Windows 8, let alone Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, let alone Ubuntu, let alone Arch Linux.

And the worst part? If we don't get enough points in each session, we get banned from the computers FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR!!!!! Nano describes what I mean (if you click on him)!


Now this is serious!

3… Mah( ) situation

XXXXXX Supporters vs No Supporters
Supporters 26/27 children Mainly kids who don't know how to use Windows 7 well, let alone 8, let alone Mac, let alone Ubuntu, let alone Arch Linux.
No Supporters 1/27 children CatsUnited (everyone's gonna hate me now…)

Person1 wrote:

OMG I Just got 500 POINTS!!! (emoji spam (nah not really emojis aren't in the real world))

Person2 wrote:

Well I'm going onto the computer and get 2000 POINTS!!!

PaganoLeo10 wrote:

We mostly have OS X Mavericks and OS X Yosemite at our school.
Browser: We, at first used Safari but when our teachers saw Chrome - Oh my goodness, they went crazy for it.

IE users 24/27
Google Chrome users 3/27

CatsUnited wrote:

^ My “Get everyone to use Google Chrome and think of a better name for this” plan is working! I got one more person to use it!

nathanprocks wrote:

CatsUnited wrote:

^ My “Get everyone to use Google Chrome and think of a better name for this” plan is working! I got one more person to use it!

Are you allowed to install themes and extensions?

TheHockeyist wrote:

Well, we can download, but everything must go onto our school server.

natemonster321 wrote:

TheHockeyist wrote:

Well, we can download, but everything must go onto our school server.

I used to download butt tons of pictures that i thought looked cool into my pictures folder at school. At the end of the year, I moved them all to my flash drive. its so tiny yet 32 gb If they went through the school server, and someone actually looked through those, they would think I was a rabid fangirl of Doctor Who. But I'm a boy, not a girl.

nathanprocks wrote:

natemonster321 wrote:

TheHockeyist wrote:

Well, we can download, but everything must go onto our school server.

I used to download butt tons of pictures that i thought looked cool into my pictures folder at school. At the end of the year, I moved them all to my flash drive. its so tiny yet 32 gb If they went through the school server, and someone actually looked through those, they would think I was a rabid fangirl of Doctor Who. But I'm a boy, not a girl.

I've downloaded many gigabytes on my school's internet. Probably at least 30GB in total in the last 2 years. I usually use my school laptop or their desktop computers to download, but sometimes I take my MacBook Pro to school if it is a file that I can only get on Mac such as huge updates.

Last year I figured out how to access other students files on the network. They didn't set the right permissions on the folders, so I could open Windows Explorer and type the path to where the student files are stored on the server. I also figured out how to access it from my iPad. I didn't modify or delete anyones files but I did find photos of some friends from a few years ago that they deleted after I showed them because they were embarrassed. xD

jji7skyline wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

natemonster321 wrote:

TheHockeyist wrote:

Well, we can download, but everything must go onto our school server.

I used to download butt tons of pictures that i thought looked cool into my pictures folder at school. At the end of the year, I moved them all to my flash drive. its so tiny yet 32 gb If they went through the school server, and someone actually looked through those, they would think I was a rabid fangirl of Doctor Who. But I'm a boy, not a girl.

I've downloaded many gigabytes on my school's internet. Probably at least 30GB in total in the last 2 years. I usually use my school laptop or their desktop computers to download, but sometimes I take my MacBook Pro to school if it is a file that I can only get on Mac such as huge updates.

Last year I figured out how to access other students files on the network. They didn't set the right permissions on the folders, so I could open Windows Explorer and type the path to where the student files are stored on the server. I also figured out how to access it from my iPad. I didn't modify or delete anyones files but I did find photos of some friends from a few years ago that they deleted after I showed them because they were embarrassed. xD

Whatever you do, don't try to tell your school that you discovered a “bug” or “exploit” because they can just get you arrested for hacking and accessing “private” information. This is what happened to one boy who documented all the flaws in the code of a school server and sent them to the school, he got arrested and got jail time for hacking. If you really want to report the issue, do it very, very anonymously.

ARRESTED??

eolhc1963 wrote:

W have a BYOD school so everyone has their own laptop. I LOVE IT! Almost everyone in my core class (in high school) has a macbook or macbook pro. We could by our own or rent a school one. most people (like me) bought their own because it was like $1000 cheaper, no overexageration!

Video

jji7skyline wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

natemonster321 wrote:

TheHockeyist wrote:

Well, we can download, but everything must go onto our school server.

I used to download butt tons of pictures that i thought looked cool into my pictures folder at school. At the end of the year, I moved them all to my flash drive. its so tiny yet 32 gb If they went through the school server, and someone actually looked through those, they would think I was a rabid fangirl of Doctor Who. But I'm a boy, not a girl.

I've downloaded many gigabytes on my school's internet. Probably at least 30GB in total in the last 2 years. I usually use my school laptop or their desktop computers to download, but sometimes I take my MacBook Pro to school if it is a file that I can only get on Mac such as huge updates.

Last year I figured out how to access other students files on the network. They didn't set the right permissions on the folders, so I could open Windows Explorer and type the path to where the student files are stored on the server. I also figured out how to access it from my iPad. I didn't modify or delete anyones files but I did find photos of some friends from a few years ago that they deleted after I showed them because they were embarrassed. xD

Whatever you do, don't try to tell your school that you discovered a “bug” or “exploit” because they can just get you arrested for hacking and accessing “private” information. This is what happened to one boy who documented all the flaws in the code of a school server and sent them to the school, he got arrested and got jail time for hacking. If you really want to report the issue, do it very, very anonymously.