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My Year With The Netbook!

achazman1234 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:39:25 +0000

When we first got the Netbook’s everyone was excited. We thought we would use them in as many lessons as possible but it turned out we didn’t use them very much at all. We used them mostly in IHE but very rarely. I think the experience with the Netbooks was quite good but we needed to use them more in lessons to grab the full experience of how well they can affect our education. The Netbooks definitely helped us work faster and more efficiently in class so we got a lot more work done. Sometimes rewarding us with some free time at the end of lessons. Which made us want to do the work more. At home I used the Netbook mainly for Facebook and Youtube. So it helped me connect with other people aswell and as my computer is really slow and would barely work MSN properly, this really helped. When I give the Netbook back i’m going to be quite sad and so are my parents because im going to need to use their laptops for Facebook instead of my own. Most of the people in JS won’t mind giving the Netbook back because they have their own laptop and can use that but I have nothing else to use except my mum and dads laptops. The experience with the Netbook for me has been great and I would like to thank my class for winning them, and the school for having the competition that made it all possible.

Chloe’Marie’Morgan.

achazman1234 — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:57:58 +0000

I’ve known Chloe since March 2009. I had seen her walking around school and I notice that she was friends with one of my bestfriends. When I got home one night I asked my friend for her number and a few days later me and Chloe were together. We lasted 3 months and a bit but i didn’t feel there was anything left in our relationship so i ended it. We got together again for about 2 weeks but we didn’t see eachother once. On the 14th of November 2009, me and Chloe got together again, and we are still together today. She means an awful lot to me and when ever something happens to her i know she will tell me about it. She is the most amazingly, fantasticly beautiful girl i have ever met and i hope i never have to replace her. I think about her all day, every day and i really do love her alot.

Friends

achazman1234 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:15:17 +0000

Samuel Gillingwater

I’ve known Sam my whole life and i love him to bits. We have been through so much together and to be honest i wouldn’t be me today. I would support him with anything. He has stuck by me when I’ve been a complete idiot and flipped out at him. He has helped me through so much. I want me and him to be best friends forever because he means a lot to me and i think he will go on to do great things in whatever profession he chooses to go into and i want to be by his side supporting him if he needs me!

Jamie Gillam

Jamie is amazing, to be honest i don’t think their is a better friend than Jamie, he helps people, he puts others first, and me and him have some really fun times together. When he is upset, it’s really easy to tell, because their isn’t as much laughter in the room, he is a one of a kind guy and if i had to pick a guy for friend of the year, he would be top on the list. We play fight, we disagree on things, and we are there for eachother and even if he did put a chair on my back and sit on it, sending me to hospital, he is still a really good friend and i hope we stay friends forever.

Amelia Smith

Amelia is amazing, she has helped me through so much and i love her to bits. She is ALWAYS there for me, and even when I’ve been a complete numpty, she has made me feel better and even though i don’t think she knows it, she means a hell of a lot to me. She is beautiful, caring, loving, and she ALWAYS puts her friends before everyone else. When we’ve argued, I’ve felt like there is something missing. Amelia is a really special person, i don’t think I could live without her.

Iran Thind

Iran is a different sort of friend to the others, i only really know him because we walk to and from school together, but that doesn’t stop us having a laugh. When we hang out at school all he does is make me laugh and he just knows how to make you smile. He is always so layed back and ready for a laugh, unless he is annoyed about something, which isn’t very often. We have had miniature fall outs in the past, but everything has been forgotten about almost immediately because we can just make a joke about it all afterwards.

Harry Gibbs

Me and Harry haven’t exactly seen eye to eye most of the time, and we have argued quite alot, but we joke about things, we insult eachother, we hit eachother, but at the end of the day we always end up being mates. The first time I really got to know Harry was when me, him and Sam went up the city on a half day and we had a massive laugh. Since then we have frequently hung out with our little group at school and outside of it. Harry doesn’t give himself credit for the amazing stuff he does, the way he has improved at football, just by playing on the astro with our little gang. Harry is an awesome guy and i hope we’re friends for a very long time.

Danni Barnes

Me and Danni are really close and i think she is amazing, Danni is beautiful, even if she doesn’t think she is. She puts herself down alot and i’ve never understood why. Sometimes she is a bit annoying, but friends look past the negatives and take the positives out of a friendship, and Danni is always their for me, and i can’t think of a time she has annoyed me to a point where i won’t talk to her. She is a really nice person, and i think she needs to give herself a bit more credit.

The truth is, i love all my friends, i could write a paragraph about every single one of them, i could even do one about all my class, but im lazy and its bedtime as im writing this… If you read this and your my friend, i love you to bits.

and Stuart, if you ever feel compelled to show/read this to the class, im ok with it. Even though it’s embarrassing.

What i did on hall day 22/1/10

achazman1234 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:50:36 +0000

On hall day i spent all day doing the posters. They may not be very good but i spent as much time on each as possible. We were making a childrens book and our one was about 3 boys who got taken up in the air whilst holding onto a balloon and they get taken to a jungle. they enroll into a handful of encounters and in they end they get home happy and safe! I like our book and think it could be a bestseller and to be honest i don’t think I will ever do as much work in a group again. Even though i only made 3 posters. But in my eyes its alot!

My first half term with the netbook!

achazman1234 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:12:55 +0000

My first half term with the Netbook was ok. Sometimes it gets frustrating carrying it around all day, but at the end of the day it’s helping my learning. We use the netbooks in a few lessons, some of we don’t though. We mainly use them in EH but we use them in DT,PSHE, Music, Science and ICT.

Sometimes the netbook gets on my nerves. Because I walk home, the netbook bag hits the back of my legs and gives me bruises. But a few bruises is such a small price to pay for something so technical and something that is helpin me learn more in class. Since I have got the Netbook I have been able to make my work more understandable because I can type up my work and email the teacher rather than write it with my scribbly handwriting.

The Netbook has made classwork easier because we can research things in class whilst doing the work. I think all the class have benefited from the Netbooks because it seems like since we got them, the class has settled down and got on with most of their work. Its been great since we got the netbooks because now if I get locked out my house because my mum has gone out i can go on it in my garden because we have wireless. It’s really good that the school decided to let a class win the Netbooks and I think that our class has treated the netbooks well and whoever wins them at the end of the year deserves it. Our class have benefited greatly fro the netbooks in the first half term and I think that they will benefit anyone given the chance to have one of these great little laptops. I don’t want to lose the netbook at the end of the year because it has made it easier for me to do homework and I have already done more homework this year than I did the whole of the last year. I know its only one or two pieces but it’s still an improvement.

In the first half term with the netbook has been great. ive learned more, ive been able to think about my work a bit more and it has helped me connect with friends over the internet. Their has been a few problems with my netbook though. The screws came loose and I got an electric shock in EH. It hurt.

I have looked after my netbook as well as I can and I am incredibly proud to say i haven’t dropped it ONCE. It’s a lifetime achievement. I have had something more than I month and I haven’t broken it!

Anyway, my first half term with the netbook has been great. I hope that my whole class has treated them as their own and I hope they are all trying their best to win the one the school is giving away at the end of the year.

My first half term with the netbook = EXCELLENT

Life!

achazman1234 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:52:54 +0000

School days!

The usual school day routine

6:30 am – Wake up

7:20 am – Leave for school

3 pm – Walk to the Astroturf

4/5 pm – Start walking home

6 pm – Get home

7/8 – Dinner

After dinner – My private time in which i do what i want (to an extent).

Organisation

On school days I am a lot more organised in the mornings. I always leave for school at exactly 7:20. I don’t seem organised at school but at home i am really organised and even paranoid about how things work and where things are. If my room is messy i clear it up as soon as i can. I spend a lot of time on the internet because I can act myself on my computer and I know where everything is and im not worried about losing anything. Even though im organised at home im very unorganised at school. I forget my pens, pencils, ruler etc.

Family

I dont see my dad very often. I see him most days but its only usually at dinner. He lays floors all over England and I have to look after my mum if she is ill. I would really like spending more time with my dad but he works to bring in money. I only generally spend time with him when we go golf on a sunday. Me, my uncle and my cousin are really close. We go to every MK Dons home game and me and my cousin play football at Downs Barn almost every weekend. I used to stay over my uncle’s every saturday but now i dont because he can’t afford it. Me and my cousin aren’t so close anymore because he lives on a boat with his girlfriend and even though they are moored up near my house we dont see eachother much. My brother is at university in Bangor and my sisters are all living with there boyfriends. My oldest sister Louise lives with her boyfriend Mark. She has 2 kids, Savannah and Olly. I dont see her much anymore because her boyfriend had a fight with my dad last time he was round. My second oldest sister, Kerry, lives with her boyfriend James. They have 2 kids, Alfie and George. Me and her boyfriend get along really well whenever i see him. He was like a brother to me as soon as i met him. My youngest sister, Leanne, lives with her boyfriend James. Leanne is always there when i need her and her boyfriend looks out for me and if im in a problem he knows before i tell him because he always has people watching out for me incase im in trouble. My family are always there for me and and if im being honest, im a spoilt brat, and they deserve better than me being annoying all the time.

Friends

I have the most AMAZING friends in the world. Sam Gillingwater has been my bestfriend ever since i can remember and hopefully it will stay that way. I aint really old enough to know who my real friends are and who are just pretending. But some people i am friends with are truely the best. I have loads of friends. Most of them look after me like im family and i try return the favour but i really aint the best at that. I take advantage of having so many friends sometimes and to be honest it is going to back fire on me sooner or later. I’m happy to have so many friends, I dont know what i would do without them. I love them, they are the people who really matter!

My Girlfriend

Me and my girlfriend have been together a week, but we have been together twice before, once for 2 months and once for 3 weeks, she makes me so happy and not once have i stopped thinking about her, there are so many things i can say about her, but she would probably be embarrassed so im just going to say she is beautiful and i love her a lot, she means the world to me!

Football!

achazman1234 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:38:09 +0000

When i was younger i was football crazy. I joined a team when i was 5/6 and in my first game i scored from the half way line. I still remember it because everyone told me afterwards that i had real potential to be a pro when i grew up. As i got older i was being told to play in positions i wasn’t good in. So i moved to a club that my dads friend managed. I played my first game against a team that i could of joined when i was 5 and i knew some of there players as well. We lost 13-1 and i scored our only goal. But it was a fair scoreline. Because at the time they were the best in MK and our team was one of the worst. The next 2 seasons really made me believe i could be a pro. I was top scorer in the league by more than 10 goals both seasons, I was made captain and i captained my team to 2 leagues and 4 tournament wins. After that season the team folded, but every player from the team went to MK City, including me, except a few players. My first season at MK City we won the league, we won every tournament we were entered in and i was top score again. The second season. We finished second, but i still got top goalscorer, but i felt i wasn’t good enough for the team so i quit. I hadn’t played for 2 years so i decided to try join United MK. They gave me the forms to sign up, but then i went on holiday and when i got back it was to late to join so i have to wait until next season to join a team. I found out a few months ago that i was meant to have a trial for Watford, MK Dons, Birmingham and Leicester. My dad wouldn’t let me go to the Watford or Birmingham ones because they would want me to be in Watford/Birmingham for 3pm every day and my dad wasn’t prepared to threaten my education for something he didn’t believe i was good enough at. I went to the MK Dons and Leicester ones and had a chane to join there academy’s but Leicester wanted me in Leicester for 3:15 and MK Dons wanted me to train with kids my age on one day, kids older than me on another day and kids younger than me another day. If i decided to join i would of been losing my social life. I really do think im good enough to be a pro at any level. But when i tell people that i want to be one, my dad always puts me down and says there is no way im good enough. All i need is some support from my family or friends and ill be able to join a team without thinking im wasting my time. I miss playing football. I miss getting up early on a sunday and getting ready, i miss celebrating when we win, i even miss being annoyed when we lose. Since ive stopped playing for a team, it feels like there is something missing, and writing this has made me realise that the thing missing, is football!

My second week with the Netbook

achazman1234 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:10:06 +0000

Thursday 12th November

It started as a normal day, woke up, got dressed, checked my e-mails and then went to school, i nearly dropped my Netbook about 5 times on the way to school but i managed to keep hold of it. Just about. Once i got to school i didnt turn it on because i thought we were going to use them in 2 double sessions that day and i had forgotten my charger so i didn’t want to waste the battery. It turned out we only used them for one double session which was IHE. But in ICT we used the computers to set up this site and start our first post “My First Week With The Netbook”. Once i got home i finished my first post, and posted it, i went on facebook to sort some stuff out. When i had sorted it out i went on meebo and talked to my friends until i was tired and then i switched it off and went to bed.

Friday 13th November

I couldn’t wake up straight away so i had to text my mum to pull me off my bed. Once i was up i ate my leftovers from dinner the night before in a sandwich and left the house to go to school, still eating the sandwich. I nearly tripped because I was concentrating on eating my sandwich and then my Netbook came off but i just managed to stop it before it hit the floor. Once i had got to school i went on it because i knew we didn’t have any more than 2 sessions on the laptop. I was still addicted to BLOONS but i decided to make a drastic change in what i played so i decided to play BLOONS 2. On my way to my first session i walked into a wall and thought i had hit the laptop to. So as soon as i got the chance i checked it was ok and all in one peice and luckily it was. We used the Netbooks session 3/4 in science to make a Powerpoint or Poster on Cholera and i managed to complete my work with a couple of minutes spare so i triple checked my work to make sure it was good enough to e-mail to the teacher. When i got home i just went on Facebook and Meebo until i felt tired so i went to bed.

The weekend 14th/15th November

I had nothing planned on Saturday so i woke up and went on my Netbook. Once i got bored of it i went downstairs and watched tv with my mum. I didnt really do anything that day apart from hang out with my parents for a change. I went on my laptop for a while before bed but i had to go to bed early to get up for golf in the morning. So i off turned off my Netbook again and went to bed. On sunday i woke up at 7AM and got ready for golf. At the golf course i saw Nick Rabson and was embarrassed because he was talking to my dad and i was just standing there like a lemon. Once we got home, me, my mum and my dad went to the pub and played darts until about 5:30. Once i had enough of losing i went home and came on my Netbook. I had a lovely Roast dinner that night and other than that i just played around on my Netbook and went to bed so i could get up bright eyed and early in the morning for school.

Monday 16th November

I woke up at 6:30 as usual and got dressed. I thought i hadn’t charged my Netbook so i was worried until i got to school until i checked the battery life and realised i had charged it. I don’t remember using it in school on Monday but im probably wrong as i have the mind of a goldfish. I didn’t use it after school either because i had my girlfriend round my house and we were watching movies until my mum dropped her home and then i went to bed.

Tuesday 17th November

I woke up at my usual time. Had some breakfast and made my way to school. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it being hall day. I was more enthusiastic than anything. We didn’t use the Netbooks much but we had used them alot in lessons so it was fun to do some practical stuff in the afternoon. It was a good hall day because at the end of the day we had to make a pitch on a brand new fizzy drink or an ice cream or something else in our groups. My group made a energy drink called BACKFLIP and our group was voted the best by Jess and Charlie. So it was a fun/good hall day overall. After school we went to the astro for a while but it got boring wuickly so me and Sam went home. When i got home i went on my Netbook and thats all that really happened that day apart from i had a lovely dinner.

Wednesday 18th November

When I got to school i played BLOONS because i hadn’t played it in a couple of days. We used the Netbooks in PSHE but I can’t remember what for. That was the only lesson we used our Netbooks in. When i got home i decided to put it on charge straight away because i thought it was going to die on me. I needed to clear my head with a few things later that day so i sat out in the garden with my netbook and listened to some music. It was quite a good day. But it could have been a LOT better.

My first week with the Netbook!

achazman1234 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:55:17 +0000

Thursday 5th of November

This was the day we got our Netbooks. I could tell everyone was excited by the amount of noise in class. Since i got myNetbook i’ve treated it as well as i can. the day we got the netbooks i took mine home straight away. I got home and turned it on instantly. I tried downloading some stuff but i found out we cant. I put it on charge before i went to bed so i could bring it to school full of charge and life in the morning,

Friday 6th November

i woke up and was happy to see that getting the netbook wasn’t a dream. I started to use my netbook bag as a school bag for all my stuff, except my P.E kit. When i got to school i turned it on straight away so i could explore it a bit more before classes started. Unfortunately we only used the netbook in one lesson on friday but it was fun using it anyway. I took it straight home again and i went on it when i got home. It was like my life was being revolved a laptop. I was on it until my eyes siad they had had enough so i packed it up, put it on charge, and went to sleep.

The weekend

At the weekend i woke up and turned on my netbook after breakfast. I updated my status on facebook and decided to turn it off as i was going out. When i got home i went on my netbook again and took it downstairs to watch the boxing. I went posting crazy watching David Haye beat Nikolai Valuev in a boxing spectacular. After the fight i made my own dinner and then i went to bed so i could get ready for the incredibly boring sunday ahead. When i woke up on sunday i just went downstairs with my netbook and chilled with my parents. They were “a bit” hungover so they wasnt talking much so i posting alot on facebook and searching for an online MSN to go on. overall my weekend was great with my new bestfriend, THE NETBOOK.

Monday 9th November

I had charged up my netbook the night before and as i got into our tutor base i turned it on. The class was all playing on there netbooks on the class famous BLOONS. It was addictive. We used the netbooks in Science in the afternoon and using the netbook was still a new and exciting thing to me so i found myself being a tad hyper. Once again i was hyper when i took it home that afternoon and started messing around playing games on the netbook. Every now and again the internet would freeze on the laptop and still be working on my Playstation. So i don’t really know what was to blame. it must of been my internet just on a minor fault or it was the laptop messing around.

Tuesday 10th November

The start of the day was good. We used the netbooks in french and in EH so we it was an all round good day with the netbook at my side. It was fun in french because we could have a laugh with th eother classes because they didn’t have them. When i took it home that day i thought i had lost it because i had got used to it so much. I searched around my house for half an hour and didnt realise it was in my hands the whole time. The battery was nearly dead so i put it on charge and left it alone until the morning.

Wednesday 11th November

I woke up and checked my emails incase there was something important. It was a normal morning for the best part. But when i was leaving for school i didnt bring the laptop with me. So i had to go back and get it. Once i had got it i rushed to school and i nearly dropped it like 5 times. But when i had calmed down i just turned it on and played BLOONS again.

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