Guajome.net site, Good or bad? Options

[Strange_Will]

So many of us have used GPA's website, I wanted to get a good poll of what you guys thought of the site.

Personally I think we can get something that way more school oriented than the business project management software Sharepoint. While the site works okay, and can be quite flexable, it isn't quite used what it's for, which is online discussion over projects.

Also it really bugs me that we have to use frontpage to edit files on sharepoint, it's kind of an outdated and given up piece of software, and Microsoft's new Visual Web Devloper isn't compatable with it!

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Overall I think we can find something that lets parents, students, teachers, all stakeholders of Guajome interact via the website in a more effective way. I really wish that students could access their folders from home, and had an internal PM system instead of an E-mail much like these forums. Less management, faster, and more reliable.


Thats my opinion, whats yours?

[Guest-[William DeGrande]]

i would do this in my login file but my confermation letter is taking FOREVER!!! so im doing this as a guest.
any who i kinnda wish the guajome.net would at least put up a forum or at the exteream least make the teachers put up a bit more things on there 'lilly pads' site. for example my english teacher (Ms. Schmidt) told me to look on her site for somthing and lo and behold... NOTHING! her site was compleatly empty. nothing was there.

[Strange_Will]

i would do this in my login file but my confermation letter is taking FOREVER!!! so im doing this as a guest.
any who i kinnda wish the guajome.net would at least put up a forum or at the exteream least make the teachers put up a bit more things on there 'lilly pads' site. for example my english teacher (Ms. Schmidt) told me to look on her site for somthing and lo and behold... NOTHING! her site was compleatly empty. nothing was there.

I suggested GPA got a forum before the whole GuajomeUnderground.org thing went down, shows them who was right in the idea that forums create tremendous power. They still refuse to do it, even though they still have the ability to get parents more involved, it's like they don't want them to.

Also I was writing software to replace their site at Guajome.net, it was going to incorporate grades and classes under your user account, so when you log in all your classes are right there in front of you with any recent postings by your teachers. Also it used a PM system much like a forum so that we didn't have to deal with e-mail overhead, and allowed better control over usage and such. Parents got to log in and their children would show up allowing them to see what classes their children took. The ability to upload and download files to and from your user account... Teachers could see how often parents checked their child's grades.

It was really awesome, alas just a proof of concept, it was eventually scrapped. I'm thinking of writing plugins for my CMS I'm building and showcasing, then selling it to Guajome and other schools.

[FragMaster007]

speaking of guajomeunderground what is it? i mean when did it start, why did it start?

[Strange_Will]

A teacher that was going to be fired started the site, gained up some teachers, parents, and students (myself included) that didn't like what was going on at GPA, eventually it turned into a giant ass grabbing circle of people supporting any bit of stupidity thrown on the site as long as it was anti-GPA. I started to voice my opinion that this kind of behavior is a waste of time and getting us nowhere and giving the whole movement a bad name. That was my first mistake: Using my brain.

After learning that the site owner was bipolar, I said that rumors of it was going around the school, she thought I was being disrespectful (aka: she was being bipolar) and ended up banning me.


Anyway, in the end I was ultimately right, Guajomeunderground faded away into nothing due to it's lack of organization and people in general being more interested in starting trouble and being dumb shits than getting something done, and I was right on the side of how much power web communities wield, being as they dragged GPA through countless hours and thousands of dollars of time being wasted on it (along with paying staff to check up on the site...).

Again, I recommend they run their own site, but they're not interested still, now they're scared of the power GuajomeUnderground had, not to mention Guajome, the most technology oriented school in Vista has faded back into the stone age, where most of administration goes apeshit if you mention new uses for technology that involve communication or innovation.



Anyway, looks like the admin forked over the money to get the domain back, I was looking into purchasing it too.

[FragMaster007]

wow. the disoganizaton sounds relly familiar, as if somthing like this happend before... any way it almost alllwas is a bad idea to voice youre thought to help fix somthing.( Espically when its on a web site that is based on anti anything!)

[FragMaster007]

wow. the disoganizaton sounds relly familiar, as if somthing like this happend before... any way it almost alllwas is a bad idea to voice youre thought to help fix somthing.( Espically when its on a web site that is based on anti anything!) its all most ironic relly. a group of anti-GPA trying to change the school created somthing so powerfull they are to afrade to even retry! but instead it made things worse instead of being more profeciant in tech now they are only doing basics... but i guess that eather way it was gonna happen with all the hacker this school was creating.

[Strange_Will]

School wasn't creating hackers, their classes were nowheres near good enough to teach anything about what makes the school insecure, the ones causing trouble did it because they learned stuff on their free time, apparently there are still students doing it being as I've caught keyloggers on machines before, so someone out there knows how to screw with the system still.

Basically there are no good tech classes because GPA doesn't know shit about technology, how it should be taught, or how important it is to the life of anyone that wants to do more than flip burgers for a living.


I wanted to start low level programming classes, nothing too serious, but something fun and that could be useful. Alas they dropped a 40 kid class on me and I only had about 8 computers, quickly bailed on that.

[FragMaster007]

that sucks. and some kid in my intro 2 fitness said that its was the hackers for got wat his name is...

[Strange_Will]

Calling them hackers are giving the script kiddies at GPA a little too much credit.

[FragMaster007]

I'll say...