Opera Campus Crew Blog

In my previous post, we mentioned that the Tupi National High School in the Philippines is now powered by the world's most powerful browser. It's now time to get the students acquainted with their school's official browser!

The First Day High! presentations were conducted right at the beginning of the school year, so the students will know how to use their browser, even before they officially lay their hands on the computers for their classes. First Day High! was a series of four presentations done in one day in all four year levels, with attendees totaling 180 students plus six teachers. The presentations were done by myself (Mindanao State University) and Xyrilloid (South East Asian Institute of Technology), and both of us are alumni of the high school. The presentations were fun because some of the students knew us, and it was definitely fun to discover things that they never thought they could do with a browser!The presentations were the jolly ones, instead of the usual formal presentations on a stage, and that made the teaching more interactive, as it allowed us to move around them and get hands on with them.

We taught them tips and tricks that would make their Opera experience even better, such as Speed Dial (which contains links provided by the school and synchronized with Opera Link), Mouse Gestures, Page Zoom, Notes, among others. We used Discover Opera as a guide in what to teach the students. Our very own experiences with Opera also testify to the power of the browser. Their school having been equipped with the world's powerful browser is something to thump their chests about! And to further their chest-thumping, they each received an Opera pen and two students per class received shirts as prizes on who learned the most in the presentations!

The event was supposed to be scheduled for June 8th, but was moved to the 17th because the school had to install new airconditioning systems in the new lab, and some of the merchandise arrived late. Lesson learned: request in advance to avoid delays! But it was the postal system's fault. Our posters were almost flattened when they arrived.

To wrap things up, we put up posters of the Desktop and Mini browsers, and of course, the Opera 10 Teaser Posters to let them know of more exciting things from Opera.

More images here.