ICT Skills - Graphics

Photoshop

Learning Objective: 
Develop image manipulation skills using Adobe Photoshop

Starter

Real or Photoshop?

Main

Task 1: Download the Montage Resources in classroom.google.com - resources

Task 2: Create a montage of your own using some (or all) of the tools and techniques listed below. 

There is a YouTube video for each skill in the classroom.google.com resources pack.

• Crop
• Layers
• Drop Shadow
• Outer Glow
• Free Transform
• Stroke
• Quick Selection

Plenary

Classroom discussion on Tools used today in class
Can you think of any other tools we could use?

Code For Life

Lesson Objectives

 - introduction to Code For Life website

 - review of coding skills

Main

1. Go to the Code for Life site - HERE

2. Log on with your Username and Password

3. Click the Play Now!  button 

AQA GCSE - Population Model - User Needs

Lesson Objectives 

LO1 - Understand what user needs are
LO2 - To be able to identify the user needs for a population model

Outcomes

Red - You will be able to explain what user needs mean
Amber - You will be able to explain the user needs for a population model
Green - You will have written up the user needs in our evidence document

Starter

RED TASK

• Find out what is meant by User Needs - BBC Bitesize

Main

AMBER TASK

• Go to classroom.google.com and find our room
• Open the user needs assignment shown below
• Read what you need to do in today's lesson

GREEN TASK

• Open your Word Evidence document
• Write up the USER NEEDS for each task in the Design of Solution section

Plenary

• Ensure all previous wor is up to date in your Word Evidence document

Extension

Flowcharts Research - HERE

Flowcharts Quizzes - HERE

Y9 - Intro to Python L1 - Printing & L2 - Variables

Lesson Objectives
 - Understand and be able to use basic Python Syntax


Starter

Main

1. Before you start, create a New Folder in your ICT folder
and name it Python



2. Go to Google Classroom and find your class.

3. Open Python Lesson 1.

4. Read through and complete the slides for Lesson 1 & 2.

Plenary

Log-in to www.codecademy.com using your Google+ Wildern Details



Complete the Python Syntax section

Year 8 Exam

Your Y8 Summer Exam is an online test

You will ONLY be able to answer the questions ONCE so be sure you have answered correctly before clicking Submit.

You have 45 minutes to complete the test.

If you finish before the 45 minutes are up, you are to go on to www.code.org 
 IN SILENCE until EVERYONE has finished the test.

Click on the link below to access the exam.

EXAM LINK

http://goo.gl/forms/KXeOkR6gQU

Unit 4 - Computer Systems - Evidence

Lesson Objectives
 - to collate Computer Systems work for assessment


Starter
Look back at all the excellent work you have done so far this half term.

 - Operating Systems
 - Health and Safety
 - Binary and ASCII
 - Networks
 - Parts of a Computer
 - Inputs/Outputs

    

Main
Collate your work for Assessment in your Evidence Document - HERE

Plenary
Add your Name and Class to the Header of your work and send to the 901_Mon on Titan printer

ICT Skills - MS Word

Learning Objective: 
Develop Word Processing skills using Microsoft Word

Starter

In partners, or on your own, look at the text on the sheet.(pictured below)

How could you make this clearer for the reader you use?

Think about SPAG, fonts, sizes.    

1. Circle the areas you would change in the text above.    

2. Make a note in the margin what would you do to change the areas you have circled.



Main

Task 1

Go to classroom.google.com and find your class name.


Task 2

Start a New Word file.

Open up the assignment HERE and work through the sheet to create a document about you.(There are paper copies of the worksheet if needed.)

REMEMBER: 3B4ME

You must ask a friend first if you are unsure of how to do something, then ask another class mate, then check your teacher's blog before you ask a teacher.



Plenary

Share your About Me document with a friend and ask 2 questions:
 - What do you like about it?
 - Is there anything I could change to improve it? 

Web Exam - Top Tips

Lesson Objective

To develop your web authoring skills through a discussion regarding 'top exam tips'

Starter

Jot down 10 top tips you would give someone taking the ICT web exam this week

Main 

Your Task 1:
Design a top tips poster in Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Publisher, Adobe Photoshop or paper
Here are my tips:

1. Highlight / under line the 20 requirements in the paper
2. Think about audience / purpose for every decision
3. 6 marks in evaluation = make 6 different points
4. Should only have one template file (in templates sub-folder)
5. Web pages must be HTML files.
6. No marks for ASP pages :-(

Your Task 2:

1. Read through the how to guide at: goo.gl/620crB 
2. Watch the video tutorials at: goo.gl/5GJqNm

Plenary

Share your tips and posters with others - eRefs awarded

Unit 2 - Hardware

Starter

Go to Google Classroom HERE

Find our class - 11p/Isc5

Main

Tasks 
1. Read through the slides and fill in your own notes on Secondary Storage

2. Quizzes - HERE