Work to send home
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In this unit you will be asked to create a presentation about yourself and present it to the class using suitable presentation software, a projector and a spoken commentry from you!
You will consider using fonts, colours and sounds based upon their suitability of purpose to enhance your presentation.
You will also upload your presentation to the VLE for the teacher to mark and you may even be given a chance to mark your own or even the presentations of everyone else in the class
This will be a great way for others in the class to learn interesting things about you and also a good way for you to impress your teacher
In this unit
you will identify the purposes of information. You will consider how to
set up a survey sample and phrase questions appropriately, so that you
can gather information that is relevant to the task.You
will explore the Internet as a source of information and learn how to
narrow down a search. Finally, you will learn how you can be misled by
inaccurate or incomplete information and how to judge the reliability
of a website.- In this unit
you will plan and create a leaflet to give pupils in Year 6 information
about subjects they will study in Key Stage 3.You
will explore the use of images, text, colour and layout to enhance your
leaflets. You will consider how to match the design of your leaflet to
a given audience and purpose. Finally, you will identify evaluation
criteria and use them to evaluate your work for different audiences and
purposes. In this unit you will use web technology to design and create a website for a virtual visit to your school.
Over the lessons, you should develop sufficient understanding of web technology to create and evaluate an efficient and effective website design. When producing your webpages you will need to consider that different web browsers display web pages in different ways and take account of this.
websites.A range of applications could be used to create web pages and websites. You may also have the oppertunity to add and edit your own digital images or even create your own computer graphics, such as a site logo.
- In this unit, you will extend and refine search methods. You will explore the Internet as a source of information and
consider the importance of evaluating the information you find in terms of its reliability, validity and possible bias.
Finally, you will decide how well the information satisfies the reason
for looking for it and the extent of its fitness for purpose. In this case study you will explore ICT systems within the context of designing a new water ride in a theme park.
Look at the course materials and then try to answer the questions at the end of the sections. Remember that this is as much about finding out what you don't know as much as what you do know.
