Cover for Mr Phillips

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 (?)

Cover for DP 2-5-06



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.

Tenbury High School
GCSE ICT revision sites

All this information (and more) is available through the virtual workspace.

• Didcot school - there are a wide range of revision notes available here, including sample tests for you to take based on GCSE questions.
• teach-ict.com - check out the mini sites for each of the sections of the GCSE theory
• ictgcse.com - the whole site is useful, but the general theory section is particularly good, and written for students to understand.
• Some self-marking past papers are available here.

the virtual workspace has resources available from SAM learning and LETTS that can help you too.
Click on Resouces - Information and Communications Technologies to find links to the different sections

I have found a rather useful tutorial for creating a database in MS Access. The tutorial can be found here.

Hope that it helps!

Cover work for Year 10B (19th October, 2005)

Here is a checklist of work that you should have in your folders. Use this lesson to ensure that it is all there:

Evidence of:

• Paper based research (2 sources)
• Use of copy and paste
• Use of number
• Use of clipart
• Planning layouts
• Consistency
• Process of development
• Spell checking
• Saving work (file names and folders)
• Advanced searching using google
• Explanation of what search terms mean

Task:

Just as you did for the clip art, you need to compare different resources that you have found, and say why the sources that you used were most appropriate.

You will need:

Screenshots of:

• Blockbuster showing a film that you have used
• Imdb.com or another film site that is nerdy about films
• A web site produced by the company that made the film.

• Who is the target audience for each of these websites?
• Describe what you think the audience is
• What you think the audience wants from the websites (the purpose)
• Whether you think the website is appropriate for you to use or not (hint – which one is aimed, as is your leaflet, at people just wanting enough information to choose a film to watch?)

Evidence that you have used web based sources if information:

• Screenshot of a page from your leaflet
• A screenshot of that film on the blockbuster website
• Annotation explaining what you can see.

cover for Year 11D (19th October, 2005)

Use this lesson to ensure that everything we have done is up to date.

Checklist:

• User requirements
• Step by step breakdown of tasks
• Problems with current system
• Methods of collecting data – describe/evaluate different methods Explain how you went about collecting your information (times, dates, phone calls etc (make it up!))
• Inputs, processes and outputs
• Hardware - explain main components that you need to think about
• Justify choice of PC system in light of tasks that company wants to do
• Software choice – between access and excel
• Database design doc – including annotations
• Primary key
• 1 to many relationship
• set up the 3 tables in access. (for the widgets table, leave the field types as text for now, and don’t do the validation)

This is a good explanation if what a database is, and how it works:

http://www.ictgcse.com/sub_projects/ictgcse_th_dbase1.htm

If you are struggling to understand how the tables link together, try this page:

http://www.ictgcse.com/sub_projects/ictgcse_th_dbase2.htm

If you feel that you have completed all the above, try picking a topic from:

http://www.ictgcse.com/sub_projects/ictgcse_proj_theory.asp

Make some notes in Word for revision, before the mocks.

NO ONE SHOULD JUST BE BROWING THE INTERNET!

GCSE revision sites:

The following sites are ones which I would reccomend for your revision:

• www.ictgcse.com

an excellent site - especially for the theory (Theory, projects and exercises - General Theory)

• Self Marking past papers

Past exam papers and answers

• www.teach-ict.com

Look at the GCSE - General Theory or Exam links

... and of course:

• www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebytesize/

I hope that this helps!

MisterPhil

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The first in an occasional series, here are some reminders about writing ....

• Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
• Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
• And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.
• It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
• Avoid cliches like the plague (they’re old hat).
• Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
• Be more or less specific.
• Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
• Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
• No sentence fragments.
• Contractions aren’t necessary and shouldn’t be used.
• Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
• Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it’s highly
  superfluous.
  
  
  Hope that this helps!

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