Today, something very interesting happened in school. Usually, for the first two periods after recess, my classmates and I would go for our OPW lessons in the computer lab. OPW stands for online project work, where secondary 2 Victorians have to create a three-dimensional image which is an upgrade of a school facility. This project is graded and if our submission is one of the top 3 best submissions in the entire level, we get an additional 2% overall marks, which could help us in getting into the secondary 3 subject combination of our choice.
Usually, during these lessons, we would go the computer lab and continue writing our proposal for the project, which includes how we are to improve the school facilities and how this will benefit the school as a whole. But today, instead of this, several vendors came to our school to teach us how to use "Google sketch up". This is the software that we are supposed to use to create our 3D image. As we do not have any background knowledge about this programme, these vendors had come to our school to teach us the basics of the software that would enable us to complete the project without much difficulty. The training course is spanned over a 4 week period where the vendors would progressively teach us more and more ways to use Google Sketch up.
So today, we had our first time using the software, and I must say that I was very impressed by it. We could mould figures of complex shapes in a short time. We learned how to use the basic features of the programme and even how to make a chair in less than a minute! We were shown the more common errors made by past users of the system and how to create models in a short period of time.
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