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  Primary and Transition ICT
>> Secondary ICT
>> Secondary Business Studies
 

Go Robo!

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Author: Trevor Blunn
Princethorpe College, Warwickshire

Go-Robo is a programming language enabling students to develop control of a range of WowWee Robosapien robots. The software is suitable for KS2-3 students and makes for cross phase liaison.

  KS2 & KS3 ICT Confidence Builder View project | Download resource
 

Author: Jude Quinn
Prospect Technology College, Reading

The aim of this project is to increase the confidence of Y7 students using ICT for the first time and to create a link between some of the skills they have developed at KS2.

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New! Basic Flash Games

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Author: Mark Bashforth
Wakefield College, Yorkshire

This teaches the basics of game design using Flash 8. Each set of code has been explained to help with the understanding of ActionScript. The aim is to produce a simple shooting game, using collision detection.

 

New! Functional Skills-Spreadsheets

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Author: Trevor Blunn
Cedars Upper School, Leighton Buzzard

This scheme builds knowledge and confidence in handling spreadsheets, whilst also enabling students to progress through national curriculum and Functional Skills assessments.

 

New! Functional Skills-Data & Portfolios

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Author: Trevor Blunn
Cedars Upper School, Leighton Buzzard

This scheme teaches students word processing and data handling basics, preparing students for Functional Skills tests and equipping them with life skills.

 

New! Digital Journeys

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Author: Dai Thomas
Warden Park School, Sussex

These units of work [with many downloads within the resource] help students work with simple multimedia to produce digital narrative work ... a digital journey.

 

Drag and drop using Flash

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Author: Mark Bashforth
Wakefield College, Yorkshire

This resource has been created to support basic action scripts in Adobe Flash 8. The action script allows you to drag and drop objects onto other objects, very useful for creating interactive games.

 

Talent Show

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Author: Alan Jones
Warden Park School, Sussex

This resource for Y9 students uses a school talent show as its focus - they design tickets and posters, develop a financial/booking system and record attendance.

 

The Band - Summative Project Brief

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Author: Darren Cooley
Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College, Bradford

This resource meets the needs of the creating a summative project brief; the author is using it in his school to help prepare Year 9 groups for the DiDA programme.

 

Website for a mobile phone!

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Author: Mark Bashforth
Wakefield College, Yorkshire

This resource is a guide towards creating a website [using Wirenode] for a mobile phone. Wirenode provides a personal domain name which can be used with a WAP enabled mobile phone.

 

Investigation Crime Squad

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Author: Hardip Mothada
Twyford CE High School, London

This develops coursework skills in Y9/10 around a typical DiDA D201 task. It explores topics such as encryption, mobile communications, information security, forensic science and some of the moral and ethical issues posed by new technologies.

 

Scratch

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Author: Trevor Blunn
Cedars Upper School, Leighton Buzzard

Scratch is aprogramming language from MIT which teaches the basics of computer programming using a straightforward graphical interface. Students to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art.

 

Digital Video [Across the Curriculum]

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Author: Trevor Blunn
Cedars Upper School, Leighton Buzzard

KS3 students are using MS Photostory and MS Movie Maker for creating digital video projects across a range of subjects. This resource will be of use to teachers who want to encourage cross curricular use of Digital Video.

 

Basic Robotic Skills

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Authors: Helen Robinson & Anthony Gostelow
St Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School, Kent

This project is designed to support the K3 ICT control unit in a fun and exciting way, by using Lego Robolab software, presentations, games and worksheets to develop their programming skills. .

 

Digital Video for Teachers

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Author: Rob Bashforth
Stocksbridge High School, South Yorkshire

This Digital Video course is an ideal starting point for any teacher wishing to facilitate classes where students shoot and edit movies, plan time and collaborate in teams.

 

Assembling a PC

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Author: Trevor Blunn
Cedars Upper School, Leighton Buzzard

An understanding of assembling computer hardware is an essential prerequisite of GNVQ and AVCE courses delivered at KS4/5. This is a photographic resource.

 

Practical Networking

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Author: Trevor Blunn
Cedars Upper School, Leighton Buzzard

Computer networking is a component of every GCSE and A level ICT course but it is largely theoretical. By the use of photographs and illustrations, this site gives a practical introduction.

 

Adobe Studio 8

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Author: Mark Bashforth
Wakefield College, Yorkshire

This basic online training resource focuses on the use of the suite of products in Adobe Studio 8 - Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash - becoming more and more popular with students studying DiDA and GCSE ICT.

 

Using Logo

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Author: Konrad Konlechner
Mayflower School, Billericay, Essex

This project focuses on the creation of turtle graphics using a free version of Logo programming language, encouraging students to problem solve in a virtual environment through the medium of computer control.

 

Relational Databases

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Author: Trevor Blunn
Princethorpe College, Warwickshire

The project provides instruction on creating a loan system using a relational database in MS Access. Students work through exemplar materials to address the KS4 curriculum for ICT.

 

Access Databases

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Author: Trevor Blunn
Princethorpe College, Warwickshire

The project provides an introduction to using and designing databases at KS3, using MS Access in particular.

 

Business Spreadsheets

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Author: Steven Dinmore
Dartford Technology College, Kent

This resource provides a scheme of work for students sitting GCSE ICT who often ask the importance of learning spreadsheets. Students imagine that they own a business seeking more efficient stock control mechanisms.

  Image work ... through sound! View project | Download resource
 

Author: Jane Cooke
Ivybridge Community College, Devon

** Becta ICT in Practice Award Winner 2006**

How would you describe an image with sound?? This is an interesting resource which explores images/image types through the use of sound! [KS3 ICT]

  Desktop Publishing View project | Download resource
 

Desktop publishing is the first of four tasks that students will write up as part of their GCSE course. Students are encouraged to do well with coursework, thereby avoiding undue pressure in the final examination.

  Using Audacity for Audio Content View project | Download resource
 

Author: Hardip Mothada
Drayton Manor School, London

Over four lessons, this project aims to help KS3 students produce a radio advertisement. The resource includes example sound files, PowerPoint slides, and student worksheets.

  Database work for Citizenship View project | Download resource
 

Author: Matthew Hogan
Eaton Bank School, Congleton, Cheshire

Over five lessons, this project encourages students to share data with a partner school - analyse the data and present their findings.

  Engaging Girls in ICT View project | Download resource
 

Authors: Trudy Eperon
Prospect Technology College, Reading

 

The project aims to encourage girls at KS3 to engage in ICT and can be used as an introduction leading to the KS3 strategy units or run as an extra curricular computer club.

  Multimedia studies: AVCE and AS2 ICT View project | Download resource
 

Authors: Deborah Halifax and Tim Rushbrooke
Windsor Boys' School, London

This resource is designed for AVCE ICT Unit 20 and AS Media Studies and therefore TWO projects are submitted here. Most pages are common to the two different qualifications but assessment differences are taken into account in the frameworks.

  Multimedia Presentations View project | Download resource
 

Author: Ross Jardine
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, London

This project develops a Flash presentation around tourism. The resource is scalable, making it a suitable basis for the Individual Project in Unit 7 Multimedia GNVQ ICT.

  Networking View project | Download resource
 

Author: Catherine Malik
Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, London

This unit provides an introduction to the Unit 8 Edexcel Full course Intermediate GNVQ ICT and covers a series of 50 minute, activity packed lessons.

 
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New! Lions' Den

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Author: Phyl Stroud
Warden Park School, Sussex

This project takes you through the processes and activities involved in planning and marketing a business idea ... and then how to convince the 'Lions' Den' panel to back your business venture!

 

New! Setting up a Sweet Shop

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Author: Asif Anwar
Birkdale High School, Dewsbury

A fun resource aimed at KS3 [Y7/8] learners aiming to develop skills for GCSE coursework. Also a good starter to those using the Unit 1 OCR Nationals in ICT.

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Multivision ...

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Author: Rob Bashforth
Birkdale High School, Dewsbury

This ICT project is driven from an eportfolio and centred around a hi-tech mobile phone company. The scenario is ideally suited for achieving level 6 at KS3 and for KS4 ICT.

 

Rapid web-based eportfolios

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Author: Dai Thomas
Warden Park School, Sussex

This KS4 DIDA project offers a SCORM package for rapid web-based e-portfolio's. SCORM is a method of standardizing content for display within an e-learning system such as Moodle, Learnwise or Kaleidos etc.

 

Spreadsheet modelling

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Author: Alan Jones
Warden Park School, Sussex

The project is intended to address a particular problem for all teachers who wish to develop spreadsheet modelling capability for more able pupils in a mixed ability setting.

 

Enterprise Studies on Car Design

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Author: Peter Stone
St Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School, Kent

The project has been adapted from a graphics project and can still be used as such but elements have been added to this original project to fulfil enterprise requirements. The focus is 'car design' with a plethora of advertising opportunities.

 

Introduction to Business

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Author: Michelle Billington
Moor Park Business & Enterprise School, Preston

This series of tasks encourages Y10 students to think about the issues surrounding the setting up of a new business.  

 

GCSE Finance & Accounting

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Author: David Salbstein
Finchley Catholic High School

This resource focuses on profit and loss accounts and the balance sheet, along with the tools required to analyse them. There is also a look at how businesses use cash flow forecasts, how they find sponsorship and how they create budgets.

 

A 2Good4You Healthy Food Quest

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Author: Asif Anwar
Birkdale High School, Dewsbury

This fun project comprises a series of tasks surrounding the setting up of a new healthy food outlet within a specific deadline. It is suitable for Y7/8 students.

 

2tone

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Author: Phyl Stroud
Warden Park School, Sussex

Pupils are asked to design and present a data handling system for the management of a fictitious music company called '2tone'. The system should host customer information and be able to solve problems.

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