Outcomes Content Scheme Assessment Resources

Session 5
Outcomes

By the end of the session you should:


The QCA scheme of work

This link takes you to the QCA scheme of work for ICT. From here you can chose to download all the units as either Word or .pdf documents.

Structure of the units

Task - complete one (or more) of these Word documents (save the documents, then open them).

Your school should have customized the scheme of work - saying (at least) which software and other resources will be used to teach the unit. School schemes may also be based on LA schemes:

When completing the lesson observation task - reference should be made to the appropriate scheme of work, and the activity objectives, along with the National Curriculum.


Units 1a and 6a

Refer to unit 1a

Where is Father Christmas - teachers' notes also Ou est pere Noel?


Text editors, wordprocessors, desktop publishing (DTP) and multimedia

What type of application has been used to produce these: document 1      document 2?
... or can you spot which of the paragraphs in this document have been typed incorrectly?

A free DTP program that you can download from here (choose scribus-1.3.3.12-win32-install.exe for use with a Windows PC). You may have to allow the download, then save the file. Double click on the saved file to install the program.


Downloading software

This link takes you to a page listing of free software that can be downloaded onto your own computers (scroll down the page for start of the list - security settings in college will prevent this being done on college machines). If thee's time, I'll demonstrate the process on my own machine.