S1 Red Eye Picture

Click on this link to load the red eye picture.

http://bit.ly/13577T

Save it to the desktop
Load it into iPhoto

Once in iphoto you will crop it, remove the red eye and retouch the photo.


S2 Guitar Hero Gig S2B

Beastie Boys no sleep till brooklyn – James on Drums, Cameron on Bass and Donnie on Lead.

Coldplay Shiver – Gemma on Drums,Chris on Bass and Rory on the Lead

Credence clear water revival – up around the bend – Donnie on Drums, Cameron on the Bass with Ross on Lead

Find out when the song was recorded and who wrote it as this will be useful for writing the report


S3 Computing Homework

The S3 Standard Grade Computing Studies class are to complete the games for Spreadsheets this week for homework and have it posted up on the Flickr group.

Post a question in the group if you have any problems.


S1/2 work for WB 21st September 2009

The Royal Institute Christmas Lectures 2008 – The Hi-Tech Trek

Your work for this week is to play about with the RIGB Hi-Tech Trek website. There are a number of games to play here that look at all the internal aspects of a Computer System.

To access the site click on the following link: http://bit.ly/VCNfZ


Making the video – S1 Band manager

At the moment pupils in S1 are working on making a music video, some of the songs they have chosen will make interesting videos I hope. to access the playlist of videos click the following link.

S1 pupils should find this easy to use.

http://open.spotify.com/user/ghscomp/playlist/0iK4S9AYqK2j8TXAzEETSe


Computer Animation Competition 2009

Animation09

Gairloch high has been entered into the Animation09 competition being ran by The University of Manchester. There are a number of categories in which pupils can enter which can be found by looking at the link above.

We will be using the program Scratch which can be downloaded for Mac or PC by clicking this link. I look forward to seeing entries from the pupils. Both S1 and S2 will be getting the chance to do this in class for a short time.

A great resource to learn more tricks in Scratch is Learn Scratch


Here come the drums, here come the drums

The image below is all that remains of Gairloch high’s first Guitar Hero competition and indeed this term.

Empty drums

The site will be updated in the first week back with the focus for each class again next term.


The new term

To start off this term here is the program for the computing pupils:

  • S1 will be looking at comic brush and digital photography
  • S2 will be looking at the school E-mail system
  • S3 are going to be continuing with programming for now
  • S4 are going to start the project and prepairing for their prelim in December
  • Higher and Advanced higher pupils will be looking at Software Development and Peripherals

More information will be available on these activities soon.


Higher/Int 2 Computing

Here is the web address to go to for scholar access

http://scholar.hw.ac.uk/site/computing/subindex_f1ncomp5topic1.asp

I want you to look over bit map size calculations and anything we’ve done so far that you may be having trouble with.

Mr. McSwan.


Welcome

Welcome to the new online home of Gairloch high school’s Computing department.

This website is being set up to provide useful information to parents and pupils of Gairloch high school as well as links to online resources.

More information will be available for the start of the new term in August.