Thursday, July 12, 2012


Year 10 cover (10A/10C/10D)

Having seen everyone’s work, you all have some way to go towards finishing the digital poster and the writeup (Activity 2 review – last section)

Remember that this is meant to be a digital poster, so you can use the animation available to you in powerpoint to do things that you couldn’t do in print.

Also, remember that this is effectively a poster and not a presentation – this means that you need to limit the text – no long recipes etc.

Make sure that activity 2 review is complete – use feedback from other people to improve your work



Year 9s

Logo development

Several pieces of feedback that you should act upon:
1)      The aim of this is to promote local charities, not raise money
2)      Local can be a wider area than just Tenbury
3)      The union jack imples the UK – rather larger than “local”

Since we last discussed research, the exam board has made a decision about who will do the catering at the event – getting outside contractors such as clockhouse is no longer acceptable YOU have to plan for and cost the catering that you will put on.

Research task: what equipment will you need in order to do the catering? Where will it come from and how much will it cost? All this needs to go into the sources table

You also need to produce a 20 sec radio advert. With your test buddy, you need to start planning what you will say, what sould effects you will need and if you want to include any music.

The sound recording (you speaking) must be recorded outside lessons – we will edit it in class however.

Remember to put all sources into your sources table.

Year 8

Shared/ict/year 8/ and there is a worksheet called year 8 comic strips – this should be fairly self explanatory.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Cover for DP :: 24th April

 All year 10s


Controlled assessment login today!


Go to Assessment files on the desktop
Cab 2011
Cabv2
Open any of the web pages and navigate to Activity 2, model 1.

You need to set up the spreadsheet to match the plan that they exam board has come up with on the pdf you have just downloaded.
Don't try to do the formulae at the moment, concentrate on making the 2 tabs set up with the headings and layouts planned. There should be some A3, laminated sheets of this available for you to refer to as well.

If you do complete all this, then look at the section at the top of the page that asks you to research extra information. YOU will need to find a formula to use that will let you calculate BMI, plus you will have to find out what BMR means as well as making sure you ahve a link to a page of exercises and calories burned per hour.

Also, where could you find information about the calories per 100g for different food types?

After you have done all this research, it needs to go into the SOURCES TABLE!

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All Year 11s

key words that you will be expected to know about and use in answers:

  • collaborating
  • multitasking
  • teleworking
  • wiki
  • voip
  • online forums
  • video conferencing
  • microblogging (this is twitter, but you can't use brand names)

In your books make a table showing how each of these are important to individuals and organisations (businesses, bands, clubs, groups, societies etc)

list at least 1 positive and 1 negative for each group
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Next lesson we will be doing some exam practice questions about software (remember the videos that we watched)

Use this link to make some notes (in your green books) on the following:

  • application software
  • operating systems
  • open source software (what does this mean, and how could it help businesses and organisations?)

http://www.teach-ict.com/gcse_new/software/types_software/miniweb/index.htm

Try these revision quizzes AFTER you have made the notes!
http://www.teach-ict.com/gcse_new/computer%20systems/operating_system_types/quiz/ontarget_operating_system_types.htm
http://www.teach-ict.com/gcse_new/computer%20systems/operating_system_functions/quiz/ontarget_operating_system_functions.htm

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