work for 11B


What to do:

1) first of all, you have all the work to complete re testing. At the front of the room there is a box with a sample piece of coursework that you can have a look at to check what the exam board considers a* grade work.
2) look in Shared / ICT / GCSE ICT / Project 2 / Mark guides and read through the testing section for information
3) in the shared / ICT / GCSE ICT / Theory there is a file called Software.doc

Use Google's define:Keyword operator to find out what the different terms mean.

e.g. Define:"device driver"

see also:

ICT: GCSE revision books at front
www.ictgcse.com
www.teach-ict.com

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Year 10s: Please download this worksheet

Year 9s: Please download this worksheet

Year 11s: Please download this worksheet

Cover work for year 7 students

Monday, 10 July 2006

Task: Produce a news report about a sporting event.

Audience: Students in KS3

Software: PowerPoint

Event: A sporting final – e.g. the world cup or the wimbledon final

Contents: title page

Profile of the two players/teams in the final (2 pages)

Did anything of interest happen in the match? (1 page)

What was the match like? (1 page)

What was the score? (1 page)

What did they win? (1 page)

What was the track record of the teams/players getting to the final?

(1 page per team)

Who did they beat to get there? (1 page)

What is next for the players/teams? (1 page)

Images: Research images on the net – but BE SELECTIVE!

Notes: Your powerpoint needs 11 slides

Use the outline tool to plan what you are going to do, BEFORE you start to write about the event (use the plan above)

Consistency – make your background/colour schemes and fonts the same all the way through

Cover work for year 10 students

Monday, 10 July 2006

Students are working on their coursework. They should ensure that they have completed as many of the following tasks as possible:

• Create database
• Provide evidence of setting up database table using screenshots of everything that they have done
• Entered 30 records into the database
• Planned and annotated 2 forms by hand
• Created their final form in access
• Provide evidence of setting up database form using screenshots of everything that they have done
• Provided evidence that they have spotted an error in the database plan that they made, and corrected it (phone field from number to text …)

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Thursday 25th May


Period 1: Year 8 ICT

Things to do:

a) You need to add 2 more pages to your web sites:
1) make sure that you have links to at least 3 websites on the internet
2) make sure that you have thought about consistency - all your pages should have the same background and layout.
3) try looking on google news to se if there is anything in the news about your website's theme. Try adding up to date information about your topic that you have found out about.

b)

Period 2: Year 10 ICT

1) Find details of the cheapest PC system that you can find to buy on the internet. This must be a new PC, and include the following:

Monitor
keyboard
mouse
CDRW
modem

Also, get a price for a cheap printer

You may NOT get a price of ebay.

Copy and paste the details into a word processor. Make sure that you include the price and the retailer from whom you are going to buy it.


2) Produce a summary table like this if the specification:

|component name | details
|========================================
| processor type and speed
| RAM (amount)
| type of optical drive
| Size of HDD
| size of monitor
| type of monitor
| graphics card (?)


Friday 26th May


Period 3: Year 10 ICT

1) Find details of the cheapest PC system that you can find to buy on the internet. This must be a new PC, and include the following:

Monitor
keyboard
mouse
CDRW
modem

Also, get a price for a cheap printer

You may NOT get a price of ebay.

Copy and paste the details into a word processor. Make sure that you include the price and the retailer from whom you are going to buy it.


2) Produce a summary table like this if the specification:


|component name | details
|========================================
| processor type and speed
| RAM (amount)
| type of optical drive
| Size of HDD
| size of monitor
| type of monitor
| graphics card (?)

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Year 11s – period 1 and 3
Anyone who has not already completed the evaluation sheet (Shared – ICT – GCSE ICT – Project 2 – Evaluation – EvaluationGuide.doc) should do so. Work to be printed out and put on my desk with name CLEARLY visible!
GCSE Revision: Use a range of web sites and revision books to revise the following topics:
Effects of ICT on society: consider how computers affect how we work – what jobs have been affected and how.
Laws relating to ICT:
· Data Protection Act
· Computer Misuse Act
· Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
· Health and safety regulations


Year 10 – Period 2
Make sure that USER REQUIREMENTS (inc analysis of how tasks are carried out and problems encountered) are completed.
Continue with the section on collecting information.
Tasks required:
· Write up of how appointment was made
· Details of visit
· Questionnaire to collect information about the organisation (i.e. the facts that you wrote about in the user requirements section)
· Think of different ways that you coud have got the information that you needed (phone, fax etc.) – write up a section explaining how you would have used these methods if you had not been able to go and interview Mr Smith.
· Analyse these different methods – what are the advantages and disadvantages of each of these methods (inc. conducting and interview). Decide which method (the one you used?) would be the best way of collecting the information that you need.


Year 9 – Period 5
Keeping safe online: Please ask students to suggest a range of ideas for keeping their personal information safe when going online. They should use these ideas to design a poster for year 6 students (AUDIENCE) to advise them on what they should and should not do.
Anyone who has done this/needs something to do should do this:
Data entry: Students need to open their databases and make sure that they have details of at least 15 cars entered into their database.