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