cover for DP Tuesday 30th October
8S1
As you are no doubt aware, we are launching a school website that has blogs, wikis and some networking - similar to sites like bebo in many ways (but I control it!)
Obviously, given some of the concerns that have been raised about these sorts of sites, we are not making it available online just yet - one of the prep activites is asking students to define what they consider acceptable ways to behave whilst using sites like this ...
Your task:
research online, discuss with friends and think yourselves how you feel students should behave.
Keywords for internet research: AUP, acceptable use, responsible etc
Once you have some ideas, create a powerpoint aimed at explaining to a year 7 audience what the rules are and why they should be followed. Remember - rules are not all about DON'T - try to come up with at least as many DO's as well!
Potential topics to cover:
respect for others
ownership of work
copyright
bullying
ofensive language
positive cooperation
collaboration
Year 10 ICT
For the second part of this project you have to produce a series of short essays/reports about different aspects of ICT.
Today I'd like to you to research the Data Protection Act
You need notes on this for 2 purposes:
1) As a set of revision notes for your exams (end of year 10, mocks and GCSE!)
As such, copy and paste just isn't good enough - you'll need, at the very least to include YOUR explanaitions of what the different parts actually mean ...
2) Tied in with this is the fact that you have to produce a guide for the film club on what the data protection act means for them - what can they and can't they do with the member details that they store. We'll be discussing this in more detail next lesson, but you need to make a start reviewing the notes that you made for part 1 (Above) and considering how they can be explained to someone your own age.
Try:
http://www.teach-ict.com/
http://www.ictgcse.com/
google for Data Protection Act / data protection registratar
Monday, October 29, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Cover for DP 15th October
All year 11 classes.
As some of you are aware, I went on a course last week run by the exam board on how to mark the coursework that you are working on at the moment. The key feature that they stared was that all evaluations (of suitability of software, hardware, database design, form design, report design mail merge template design etc) need to be related to the user requirements, so these need to be made far more specific…
Here are the things that you need to tweak urgently:
1) Make your user requirement statements more specific: e.g. “add a record” becomes “Mr Smith needs to be able to add member’s details when they join the club”; “change a record” becomes “Danny tells Mr Smith that he has a new mobile number. Mr Smith needs to update Danny’s records” etc.
2) If you are aiming for a C+ grade, you’ll need to add user requirements so that you can evaluate the forms and letters – the improvements that you have made all focus on making them look more professional etc, so you need to add a requirement for solution that you design to be professional looking and match the company/team colour schemes / logos etc
3) If you are going to recommend one PC over another based on the cost, you’ll need to add a user requirement that the system shouldn’t cost a lot …
4) If you have said that you want to be able to produce letters, you’ll need to include a printer in the spec that you produce. You’ll need to find a printer that prints only black and white and another that prints colour – explain which is the better, and why.
Letters to and from Mr Smith.
You’ll remember that I said that you are supposed to be doing this project for real – the moderator from the exam board has stated that you have to include evidence that Mr Smith replied to you in writing when you wrote to him asking for an appointment to discuss his current filing system.
To do:
Write a letter from Mr Smith to you, agreeing to meet with you on the date that you suggested and saying that he looks forward to discussing with you how you’ll be able to help him.
DO NOT write this in your template
Now – print this out and fold it as though it was going in an envelope. Add to your folder.
All year 11 classes.
As some of you are aware, I went on a course last week run by the exam board on how to mark the coursework that you are working on at the moment. The key feature that they stared was that all evaluations (of suitability of software, hardware, database design, form design, report design mail merge template design etc) need to be related to the user requirements, so these need to be made far more specific…
Here are the things that you need to tweak urgently:
1) Make your user requirement statements more specific: e.g. “add a record” becomes “Mr Smith needs to be able to add member’s details when they join the club”; “change a record” becomes “Danny tells Mr Smith that he has a new mobile number. Mr Smith needs to update Danny’s records” etc.
2) If you are aiming for a C+ grade, you’ll need to add user requirements so that you can evaluate the forms and letters – the improvements that you have made all focus on making them look more professional etc, so you need to add a requirement for solution that you design to be professional looking and match the company/team colour schemes / logos etc
3) If you are going to recommend one PC over another based on the cost, you’ll need to add a user requirement that the system shouldn’t cost a lot …
4) If you have said that you want to be able to produce letters, you’ll need to include a printer in the spec that you produce. You’ll need to find a printer that prints only black and white and another that prints colour – explain which is the better, and why.
Letters to and from Mr Smith.
You’ll remember that I said that you are supposed to be doing this project for real – the moderator from the exam board has stated that you have to include evidence that Mr Smith replied to you in writing when you wrote to him asking for an appointment to discuss his current filing system.
To do:
Write a letter from Mr Smith to you, agreeing to meet with you on the date that you suggested and saying that he looks forward to discussing with you how you’ll be able to help him.
DO NOT write this in your template
Now – print this out and fold it as though it was going in an envelope. Add to your folder.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Cover for DP - Thursday 11th October
11C
Review "ICT and society" section of text book p.209+, answer questions: activity 3, page 217, case study p231-2, question 232-9 in word doc called "theory.doc"
Many of you have left your notes from yesterday on the desk - they are on the filing cabinet at the front of the room. It is certain (since I am writing it) that there will be questions in the Mock exam (in 2 months' time) on the impact of ICT on Society ...)
year 10 B,C,D
Ensure that all the gaps in the template are completed. if you "don't know what to do", try reading the instructions - it does help!
For evidence of different formatting techniques in MB 17-19, you need to show that you have used the master page to format the whole leaflet, tables to lay things out or styles to format your work. EXPLAIN what these techniques do and WHY you have used them.
Open a new internet connection
Go to drupaled/thsweb - this is the school blog/wiki software (Do NOT google for it - type it into your browser as you see it)
login using your school email number (2004xxx) and the password: pass
locate and subscribe to a group - I'll leave it to you to work out which one!
Find your first assignment and complete the tasks.
7S
create a powerpoint on the following topic:
What do you think the rules should be for using the internet in school?
Go to Start/my computer/shared/ict/year7ict/school rules.ppt
For each rule, say why you have you think that it is important
Format the slideshow for students your own age.
Make sure that it is easy to read - do NOT do really fancy backgrounds!
Save your work as"school rules" in your my documents/schoolwork/year 7/ict/ folder.
Thanks
DP
11C
Review "ICT and society" section of text book p.209+, answer questions: activity 3, page 217, case study p231-2, question 232-9 in word doc called "theory.doc"
Many of you have left your notes from yesterday on the desk - they are on the filing cabinet at the front of the room. It is certain (since I am writing it) that there will be questions in the Mock exam (in 2 months' time) on the impact of ICT on Society ...)
year 10 B,C,D
Ensure that all the gaps in the template are completed. if you "don't know what to do", try reading the instructions - it does help!
For evidence of different formatting techniques in MB 17-19, you need to show that you have used the master page to format the whole leaflet, tables to lay things out or styles to format your work. EXPLAIN what these techniques do and WHY you have used them.
Open a new internet connection
Go to drupaled/thsweb - this is the school blog/wiki software (Do NOT google for it - type it into your browser as you see it)
login using your school email number (2004xxx) and the password: pass
locate and subscribe to a group - I'll leave it to you to work out which one!
Find your first assignment and complete the tasks.
7S
create a powerpoint on the following topic:
What do you think the rules should be for using the internet in school?
Go to Start/my computer/shared/ict/year7ict/school rules.ppt
For each rule, say why you have you think that it is important
Format the slideshow for students your own age.
Make sure that it is easy to read - do NOT do really fancy backgrounds!
Save your work as"school rules" in your my documents/schoolwork/year 7/ict/ folder.
Thanks
DP
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Cover for DP
Thurs Period 1 9S
Continue with spreadsheet model from last lesson.
Todo:
Make sure that all data from info sheets 1-3 are entered – after each sheet is finished, the questions at the bottom need to be recorded on the Answer sheet document.
Once the model is complete, load the test sheet doc from the shared files. Record the answers next to the questions up to question 6.
At question 6, add the new data to the model, save it with a different name and repeat the first 6 questions – record your answers next to the previous answers for the first recording studio.
Thurs Period 2 10C
Review work so far – ensure that everything is complete. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS – they explain everything that you need to do!
Make sure that your leaflet is consistent – that means that the layout should be the same for every page, that you have used the same font, size and colour for the descriptions, titles etc.
You need print screens of 2 double pages – annotate to say what fonts etc you have used – read the instructions for more information!
Think back on our discussion about which web site is most suitable for you to use as a source of information:
Imdb.com (internet movie database)
Film distributor’s site
Blockbuster.co.uk
Who is the audience for each site? Do any of them have an audience in common with your leaflet? If so, explain why you think that this would make if a useful source of information.
Thurs Period 3 10D
Remind Dominic Cowles to go through his work updating the areas for improvement identified yesterday.
Review work so far – ensure that everything is complete. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS – they explain everything that you need to do!
Make sure that your leaflet is consistent – that means that the layout should be the same for every page, that you have used the same font, size and colour for the descriptions, titles etc.
You need print screens of 2 double pages – annotate to say what fonts etc you have used – read the instructions for more information!
Think back on our discussion about which web site is most suitable for you to use as a source of information:
Imdb.com (internet movie database)
Film distributor’s site
Blockbuster.co.uk
Who is the audience for each site? Do any of them have an audience in common with your leaflet? If so, explain why you think that this would make if a useful source of information.
Thurs Period 4 10C
Review work so far – ensure that everything is complete. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS – they explain everything that you need to do!
Make sure that your leaflet is consistent – that means that the layout should be the same for every page, that you have used the same font, size and colour for the descriptions, titles etc.
You need print screens of 2 double pages – annotate to say what fonts etc you have used – read the instructions for more information!
Think back on our discussion about which web site is most suitable for you to use as a source of information:
Imdb.com (internet movie database)
Film distributor’s site
Blockbuster.co.uk
Who is the audience for each site? Do any of them have an audience in common with your leaflet? If so, explain why you think that this would make if a useful source of information.
Thurs Period 5 10C
Create a new Word document called “Theory”
Save it in your GCSE ICT folder
You will need to get a copy of the ICT for You text book from the shelves at the back of the room. As I have mentioned before, you will have to do some theory exams – one at the end of year 10, your GCSE mock at Christmas in year 11, and your GCSE – we need to start putting together notes and doing work towards it!
Review chapter 1 – hardware and software.
You need to do:
activity 1 – to warm up your brains!
Activity 2 – starting to create a set of revision notes
Activity 3 – download, don’t draw a diag of the internals of a computer and annotate.
Web sites that you could use:
www.ictgcse.com
www.teach-ict.com
Thurs Period 1 9S
Continue with spreadsheet model from last lesson.
Todo:
Make sure that all data from info sheets 1-3 are entered – after each sheet is finished, the questions at the bottom need to be recorded on the Answer sheet document.
Once the model is complete, load the test sheet doc from the shared files. Record the answers next to the questions up to question 6.
At question 6, add the new data to the model, save it with a different name and repeat the first 6 questions – record your answers next to the previous answers for the first recording studio.
Thurs Period 2 10C
Review work so far – ensure that everything is complete. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS – they explain everything that you need to do!
Make sure that your leaflet is consistent – that means that the layout should be the same for every page, that you have used the same font, size and colour for the descriptions, titles etc.
You need print screens of 2 double pages – annotate to say what fonts etc you have used – read the instructions for more information!
Think back on our discussion about which web site is most suitable for you to use as a source of information:
Imdb.com (internet movie database)
Film distributor’s site
Blockbuster.co.uk
Who is the audience for each site? Do any of them have an audience in common with your leaflet? If so, explain why you think that this would make if a useful source of information.
Thurs Period 3 10D
Remind Dominic Cowles to go through his work updating the areas for improvement identified yesterday.
Review work so far – ensure that everything is complete. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS – they explain everything that you need to do!
Make sure that your leaflet is consistent – that means that the layout should be the same for every page, that you have used the same font, size and colour for the descriptions, titles etc.
You need print screens of 2 double pages – annotate to say what fonts etc you have used – read the instructions for more information!
Think back on our discussion about which web site is most suitable for you to use as a source of information:
Imdb.com (internet movie database)
Film distributor’s site
Blockbuster.co.uk
Who is the audience for each site? Do any of them have an audience in common with your leaflet? If so, explain why you think that this would make if a useful source of information.
Thurs Period 4 10C
Review work so far – ensure that everything is complete. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS – they explain everything that you need to do!
Make sure that your leaflet is consistent – that means that the layout should be the same for every page, that you have used the same font, size and colour for the descriptions, titles etc.
You need print screens of 2 double pages – annotate to say what fonts etc you have used – read the instructions for more information!
Think back on our discussion about which web site is most suitable for you to use as a source of information:
Imdb.com (internet movie database)
Film distributor’s site
Blockbuster.co.uk
Who is the audience for each site? Do any of them have an audience in common with your leaflet? If so, explain why you think that this would make if a useful source of information.
Thurs Period 5 10C
Create a new Word document called “Theory”
Save it in your GCSE ICT folder
You will need to get a copy of the ICT for You text book from the shelves at the back of the room. As I have mentioned before, you will have to do some theory exams – one at the end of year 10, your GCSE mock at Christmas in year 11, and your GCSE – we need to start putting together notes and doing work towards it!
Review chapter 1 – hardware and software.
You need to do:
activity 1 – to warm up your brains!
Activity 2 – starting to create a set of revision notes
Activity 3 – download, don’t draw a diag of the internals of a computer and annotate.
Web sites that you could use:
www.ictgcse.com
www.teach-ict.com
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