Quiz

Create a Digital Story

Make a photo story of your digital lives. 

Select pictures that represent your digital life: your favorite digital media (Internet, cell phones, mobile media, etc.), how you use them, when you use them, what you do with them, and why. 

You can choose which software you use to complete this task Suggestions; PowerPoint, iMovie, Prezi, Moviemaker, Powtoon etc...

Arrange your content in a presentation. Below each slide you must write a few sentences describing each picture. The sentence can explain what you are doing, when, and why.

Tip: make sure pictures and sentences fit together to tell a story.  It may be better to incorporate sound and movie files

Check out this example here

DEADLINE Wednesday 03rd September

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Resources

SoundBible 

Freeplay 

Creative Commons 
Inserting Powerpoint Images

WELCOME BACK: CLASS BLOG DISCOVERY TASK

This is our class blog for;

Year 10: GCSE Computer Studies

AND

Year 11: GCSE ICT (Information Communication Technology)

The class blog allows for communication between teacher and students, but it also allow communication between students. Along with Twitter, this a forum where you can express your thoughts, feelings, and ideas about our technology class. Using the blog often and participating in discussion will create a digital learning community that can benefit us all in lots of ways. 

Your task is to browse this website. Click on links to other sights, watch videos, read about assignments, browse the photo feed and twitter feed, and view other students' contributions and websites. After browsing the site, please answer the following questions about what you have found

1. What is a blog? Can you find out what the word blog stands for, and how are they usually used?
2. Tell one thing you liked about my site.
3. Tell one thing that could be improved, or tell about something you would like to see on the site
4. List two things that you learnt last year
5. Tell me one thing that you found difficult
6. Tell me one thing that you found easy
7. What is your target at the end of this year?

Y11 Unit 3 T Shirt Design

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Project Resources

1. Some great fonts here at Dafont.com. font styles need to downloaded and loaded to your computer.

2. Search for Vector Images here and other websites like it. Alternatively take vectors from the selection on Y:\Secondary\ICT\Year 11\Year 11 Digital Design Resources\T Shirt Design.

3. See how the t-Shirt will be assessed using the Project Rubric

Year 11 Project 1; Surrealism (making a landscape collage in Photoshop)

Surrealism Pp

You are expected to make your landscape collage using a wide range of copyright free digital sources; to demonstrate your understanding of international law.


Copyright Free Media at Creative Commons

*Melting object effect tutorial (easy) using Pen tool shape layer model.

*Dali melting object effect tutorial using Warp and Liquify (difficult).

* I like this tutorial. Shows how to mix color with texture using linear burn. Also showing an easy method for creating shadow.

* A useful tutorial showing how to blend images together in a collage 

(Y10) Unit 2: Trip to New York; Computer Modelling

(Y11) Photoshop Activity

Y10: Using Google Docs to Analyse a set of data.

Google Documents allow the live updating of a shared work space.

However, there are limits on the number of synchronous collaborators for each Doc type.

10 people can edit a Presentation at the same time.
50 people can edit a Spreadsheet simultaneously.
50 people can edit a Document at the same time.

There is a limit of 200 combined viewers/ collaborators for all of the different Doc types.

Classwork:
Add your name to this spreadsheet. Add your resting and active heart rates to the sheet

Activity 2:
Use formula's and functions to analyze, average, chart and explore the data.

Activity 3:
Plot a graph or chart which shows the clearly and meaningfully shows the results. Be careful with labelling axis and add a title!

Can you notice any trends?

Extension Activity: What, if any, are the disadvantages and advantages of using a Google Docs spreadsheet compared with Excel

“The Next Steven Spielberg Uses A Smartphone” - Smartphone Filmmaking.

What a mobile filmmaker does?

·         Acting

·         Directing

·         Editing

·         Cinematography

·         Writing 

·         Music Production

·         Marketing

A quick lesson on video file formats!

What kind of video comes out of your camera? This is often referred to as the source video or raw video format.

What kind of video does your video editing program accept? You want to make sure that whatever comes out of your camera is supported by the video editing program you want to use.

What kind of sharing format is best for the online video platform you've selected ?

Video Editing Software

wevideo (google docs extension)

imovie (for mac)

imovie (iphone app)

video edit (iphone app)

splice (iphone app)

many other apps available for android

Examples

http://vimeo.com/12819723 Apple of my Eye

http://bit.ly/14HR4lC Music video

https://vimeo.com/15608787 Goldilocks short film

Further reading

http://www.guardian.co.uk/blackberry-keep-moving/how-to-make-great-films-on-your-smartphone

(Y11) Internet Statistics to make your head spin

This video shows the internet in statistics: the number of users and how it is being used. Also, it demonstrated the number of ways we can connect to a larger audience, and how it this trend continues to grow.

Some of these statistics may make it into your final presentation (Hopefully as an Infographic)



Infographic: The future of social activism

Infographic: The Internet in 2020

Presenting figures or perceptions: Creating an Infographic

What Is An Infographic? by Infographiclabs

Year 11 Assignment: Cross Curricular Technology and History: Internet Research, Anti War Movements in the Internet Age

Part 1 GROUP WORK

You will look at Anti-War movements, both historic and contemporary. 

As a group, you will consider the opposition to the U.S involvement in the Vietnam War (1962 - 1973) and the opposition to the invasion of Iraq (2003)

You will examine to what extent the Internet has improved access to information and the mass mobilisation of people and ideas. How it was, and how it is now?

You can use any information you think is suitable but you are expected to source all of the information you use in the Information Sources Table and acknowledge the reliability of your information, give evidence of the techniques you used to find it and judge your sources for bias and propaganda



You are expected to make your presentation an interactive experience by including a wide range of copyright free digital sources; to demonstrate your understanding of international law.

Part 2 INDIVIDUAL WORK

Use this worksheet to create your own ePortfolio which demonstrates your learning of the standards in this project

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Resources

Copyright Free Media at Creative Commons and Freeplay

Information Sources Table Guide
ePortfolio Layout Guide
Project Review

Project Rubric

Year 10 Assignment: Cross Curricular Technology and History: Internet Research, Perceptions of the United Nations

Part 1 GROUP WORK

You will be given a research brief. You will be expected to work as a group to research and create a presentation using any appropriate software (maximum of six slides, or equivalent).

       

• The United Nations and (perceptions of) their role in the Kosovo Conflict
• The United Nations and (perceptions of) their role in Haiti
• The United Nations and (perceptions of) their role in the Rwanda Conflict
• The United Nations and (perceptions of) their role in Palestine

You can use any information you think is suitable but you are expected to source all of the information you use in the Information Sources Table and acknowledge the reliability of your information and give evidence of the techniques you used to find it.

You are expected to make your presentation an interactive experience by including a wide range of copyright free digital sources; to demonstrate your understanding of international law.

Part 2 INDIVIDUAL WORK

Use this worksheet to create your own ePortfolio which demonstrates your learning of the standards in this project

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Resources

Copyright Free Media at Creative Commons and Freeplay

Information Sources Table Guide
ePortfolio Layout Guide
Project Review

Project Rubric

Understanding the Media: Political Affiliations

Political Affiliations

Reflective Writing

What is Reflection2.pptx

Year 11: Computer Graphics> T Shirt Design Project

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Project Resources

1. Some great fonts here at Dafont.com. font styles need to downloaded and loaded to your computer.

2. Search for Vector Images here and other websites like it. Alternatively take vectors from the selection on Y:\Secondary\ICT\Year 11\Year 11 Digital Design Resources\T Shirt Design.

3. See how the t-Shirt will be assessed using the Project Rubric

Year 10 Email Survey

Cloud Computing Project

Resources
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Create a contents page in Word. Click here

Create headers and footer in Word. Click here and in Google Docs here

Starting header and footer from Page 3. Click here and in Google Docs here

FlipSnack. Making a Fash Flip book. Click here