Shauna Says:

Hello everybody! My name is Shauna and I'm in year seven and this is my last session at PEAC ever.

I love Cool Internet Freebies. I thought at first when I saw it "Ooh, yay, games!" Then I found out that it wasn't about games. It was about open source software.

But I didn't care that we weren't learning about games. It was heaps more fun! I learnt about lots of useful products so I can use them at home. This course is fantastic. We now can use great open source software products at home. We also made new friends and learnt lots of new things. Good on you, Mrs Winton!

Now, how did I go in this course? I think I did pretty well! I think I figured out GIMP pretty easily, Cool Text rocked, and Open Office was pretty easy too, but Audacity I found very difficult! I haven't had time to do Scratch yet, though I plan to. So overall, I think I did pretty well.

Is PEAC important when it comes to education? I would say so. If it weren't for PEAC, I wouldn't know certain things, like in Bubbleology I learn't about soap molecules, air, water and bubble skill for example. In two computer courses I learnt a LOT of stuff that I use nearly every time I go onto the computer. In a photography course I learnt lots too that I will always remember. In Are The Burgers Better at Hungry Jacks I learnt about health and stuff about food. In Game of Life I learnt about stuff which will help me in the future.
And Cool Internet Freebies helped me A LOT! I know heaps about open source software now, and I hadn't even heard about it before! I've showed my friends and now they have benifited from it too.
And if it weren't for PEAC maybe I might not have got into ATP at the high school I'm going to. Plus, it helps young students who need a challenge get a challenge.

I suggest Mrs Winton that you do a PEAC course which does one certain product. Like music products, photo-editing software, etc. Maybe you could, for example, compare the photo-editing softwares to see which one is the best! It would be interesting to see which software won each time.

Thank you Mrs Winton for a great PEAC course!