Generalstarwars333 wrote:

TailsFanV51 wrote:

I'm in a new grade, I use a school computer every weekday at lunch
It uses Windows 10, and I haven't found a blocked site yet. Not even Scratch is blocked.
I use Chrome btw

Why would they block scratch? It is an educational website. It literally ends with .mit.EDU. EDU as in EDUcation. And the mit stands for Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a university. This entire website is a glorified, overdone college website. Why would they block a college website? And it is also a huge educational tool for teaching kids about how to code and stuff. Them blocking scratch would be like blocking…heck…I dunno. Google or something. It would be like declaring the library off limits to all students and burning its contents. It would not make any sense. Also, if you have not found a blocked site yet, I do not think you have been trying very hard.

modedii wrote:

Well, look at all of us, just sittin' here, on the forums, learning nothing.

Generalstarwars333 wrote:

nickeljorn wrote:

Generalstarwars333 wrote:

iamagrocerybag wrote:

TheRealNetherBefore wrote:

Generalstarwars333 wrote:

What I want to know is how you would even get to youtube from microsoft word in the first place.

I guess the thinking is that you could put a youtube link in word then access it via word and bypass the school's blocking system, but IDK.

Kind of reminds me of when a supply teacher taught us we could access blocked sites by putting them into google translate and visiting the translated page google provides. Don't worry, they were teaching us this since pretty much every site except Wikipedia and BBC Bitesize was blocked and we needed to research stuff, not just so we could break the rules.

I was about to say. Lol, why is every site except Wikipedia and BBC blocked? We aren't even allowed to use Wikipedia for schoolwork, but it's not blocked.

Ah, your school is the kind that believes wikipedia is behind the fall of the roman empire, the black death, the spanish inquisition, the first world war, the great depression, the holocaust, and 9/11, is it?

This reminds me of science class in seventh grade. Whenever we made a Google Slide for a presentation, one of the teachers would put in all caps “DO NOT CREDIT GOOGLE” because it was just a search engine.

I mean, that's an actual thing though. You can't credit google because it is not the source of information, just the means of accessing those sources. Wikipedia is an actual source you can give credit too. Crediting google is like saying you buy groceries from a car. You don't buy groceries from a car. You buy it from a store that you get to using the car. The car is just the way you get to the groceries, like how google is the way you get to the sources.

iamagrocerybag wrote:

Generalstarwars333 wrote:

nickeljorn wrote:

Generalstarwars333 wrote:

iamagrocerybag wrote:

TheRealNetherBefore wrote:

Generalstarwars333 wrote:

What I want to know is how you would even get to youtube from microsoft word in the first place.

I guess the thinking is that you could put a youtube link in word then access it via word and bypass the school's blocking system, but IDK.

Kind of reminds me of when a supply teacher taught us we could access blocked sites by putting them into google translate and visiting the translated page google provides. Don't worry, they were teaching us this since pretty much every site except Wikipedia and BBC Bitesize was blocked and we needed to research stuff, not just so we could break the rules.

I was about to say. Lol, why is every site except Wikipedia and BBC blocked? We aren't even allowed to use Wikipedia for schoolwork, but it's not blocked.

Ah, your school is the kind that believes wikipedia is behind the fall of the roman empire, the black death, the spanish inquisition, the first world war, the great depression, the holocaust, and 9/11, is it?

This reminds me of science class in seventh grade. Whenever we made a Google Slide for a presentation, one of the teachers would put in all caps “DO NOT CREDIT GOOGLE” because it was just a search engine.

I mean, that's an actual thing though. You can't credit google because it is not the source of information, just the means of accessing those sources. Wikipedia is an actual source you can give credit too. Crediting google is like saying you buy groceries from a car. You don't buy groceries from a car. You buy it from a store that you get to using the car. The car is just the way you get to the groceries, like how google is the way you get to the sources.

Nice analogy there.

DaEpikDude wrote:

modedii wrote:

Well, look at all of us, just sittin' here, on the forums, learning nothing.

^^^^^^^^^^^^


(also for some reason the TBG forums aren't blocked by my school wifi)

Generalstarwars333 wrote:

DaEpikDude wrote:

modedii wrote:

Well, look at all of us, just sittin' here, on the forums, learning nothing.

^^^^^^^^^^^^


(also for some reason the TBG forums aren't blocked by my school wifi)

Well, see, yes, there is the…what… ten or twelve of us who are on this forum, and others who just use the forums, but there are also tons of people who actually learn from scratch. I know I learned from scratch. I have just ended up being mostly on the forums and in some rp studios because that is what I personally enjoy. There are plenty of teachers who use scratch to teach kids code, and the website is, first and foremost, an educational website. If you are some teacher or administrative person who is just seeing the website for the first time, it is not immediately apparent that you can exist here solely on the forums. What you mostly see is stuff about how scratch is educational and people using the things they have learned to make orange cats spin in circles while the screen changes colors in whatever way is most likely to prove fatal to epileptics. And even on the forums, there are places you can learn stuff, like the section for actual coding things.

SkittyGirl_ wrote:

My school computers don't block Instagram,Deviantart,& Twitter.
But they blocked Tumblr because it was categorized as "p0rn* so I cant go there for FireAlpaca tutorials and tips when im not on my own personal computer/phone.

Generalstarwars333 wrote:

SkittyGirl_ wrote:

My school computers don't block Instagram,Deviantart,& Twitter.
But they blocked Tumblr because it was categorized as "p0rn* so I cant go there for FireAlpaca tutorials and tips when im not on my own personal computer/phone.

I mean, tumblr is also the hole from which most internet cancer claws its way into reality, so you cannot really blame them for blocking it.

SkittyGirl_ wrote:

Generalstarwars333 wrote:

SkittyGirl_ wrote:

My school computers don't block Instagram,Deviantart,& Twitter.
But they blocked Tumblr because it was categorized as "p0rn* so I cant go there for FireAlpaca tutorials and tips when im not on my own personal computer/phone.

I mean, tumblr is also the hole from which most internet cancer claws its way into reality, so you cannot really blame them for blocking it.

Oof yeah,forgot to include that in that post.
They haven't blocked Discord yet so that's alrighty

SkittyGirl_ wrote:

Generalstarwars333 wrote:

SkittyGirl_ wrote:

My school computers don't block Instagram,Deviantart,& Twitter.
But they blocked Tumblr because it was categorized as "p0rn* so I cant go there for FireAlpaca tutorials and tips when im not on my own personal computer/phone.

I mean, tumblr is also the hole from which most internet cancer claws its way into reality, so you cannot really blame them for blocking it.

Oof yeah,forgot to include that in that post.
They haven't blocked Discord yet so that's alrighty

modedii wrote:

SkittyGirl_ wrote:

Generalstarwars333 wrote:

SkittyGirl_ wrote:

My school computers don't block Instagram,Deviantart,& Twitter.
But they blocked Tumblr because it was categorized as "p0rn* so I cant go there for FireAlpaca tutorials and tips when im not on my own personal computer/phone.

I mean, tumblr is also the hole from which most internet cancer claws its way into reality, so you cannot really blame them for blocking it.

Oof yeah,forgot to include that in that post.
They haven't blocked Discord yet so that's alrighty

I'm curious if they blocked Reddit or not.

SkittyGirl_ wrote:

Also guys,remember the Consbreastution.

SoftAndWet wrote:

SkittyGirl_ wrote:

Also guys,remember the Consbreastution.

the what

PonyoPenguin wrote:

iamagrocerybag wrote:

stupid iBoss SSO Integration filter

YEP. iBoss is the same thing I'm dealing with here. Actual news sites/resources for teachers are blocked but I can find any game I want on an “unblocked games” site. Makes sense to me.

SkittyGirl_ wrote:

They blocked Reddit & Twitch,What I have said Discord is that we can access the site but we cant chat on channels on there since the loading screen is infinite.