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Design and Technology, Manufacturing and Engineering (Click on requirements)
Key Stage Three Design and Technology
Key Stage Four ICT (Click on requirements)
LETTS ICT Revision and Study Guides
Double Award and Vocational ICT
General (Click on requirements)
Recommended
Fund Raising CD 
Need to raise more school funds? This superbly structured CD aims to assist all groups, especially schools & colleges, to structure an effective funding policy & includes case studies of fund raising initiatives & contact details of useful organisations. - Cost only £27.50. Click here for more details and an order form.
Author Steve Cushing
Fund Raising Support
Keep up-to-date with voluntary sector news from around
the world. To help raise money for your school visit Chartynet.
Want to know more about European funding for ICT. Join the DTI European support for information society projects here.
Charities Aid Foundation
Recommended Key Stage Three Books
Welcome to Design in the Making for 11-14 year-olds, which offers comprehensive coverage of the National Curriculum through separate focus areas.
By recognising the popularity and success of the separate focus areas approach in schools, Design in the Making offers you a course that is easy to plan and implement, coupled with the assurance that it provides everything your pupils need to know to produce high quality outcomes in their designing and making.
The Pupil's Books
Provide comprehensive coverage of the revised National Curriculum
through tried and tested activities and new ideas;
Support the development of design skills in the context of making;
Differentiate major tasks and homework activities so that pupils
can develop skills and competence regardless of their ability or prior
knowledge;
Include step-by-step guidance through making activities;
Offer smooth progression throughout Key Stage 3, with each section building on knowledge and skills learnt before;
Are split into sections, to ensure that the course can be used whatever
the timetabling arrangements;
Give safety advice throughout;
Start each section with objectives that are linked to the Programme
of Study;
Put design and technology into a real-world context;
Include regular self-assessment and formal assessment opportunities.
The Teacher's Guides:
Include a series of lesson plans that link to the topics in the
Pupil's Books. Each lesson plan provides a structured approach to
teaching a particular topic;
Provide teaching objectives for each lesson;
Give support for non-specialists and supply teachers;
Include step-by-step guidance through making activities; Include a
series of worksheets to support each lesson and activity; Provide
a number of general skills worksheets that can be used throughout
the course;
Have a section on preparing for Ofsted and guidance on what inspectors
are looking for;
Give ideas on how to develop design skills.
Recommended Key Stage Four Books:
Recommended ICT Books:
Heinemann have produced an excellent support book. Whilst it has been written specifically to support the OCR ICT Syllabus (Business), it makes for good reading and offers loads of lesson ideas. The book covers a wide range of contexts from e-banking to road transport systems and contains a large number of excellent starting points together with some fascinating facts about ICT use in society that are hard to find anywhere else. The book is available with an accompanying tutor resource pack complete with CD resources.
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Author: Steve Cushing Age Range: SECNY ISBN: 043545496X Publication :Jan 2002 Price: £13.99 |
This new text has been written to support OCR's brand new GCSE ICT specification B. The book also contains the information and knowledge required for all other GCSE ICT courses. The text builds on and develops the knowledge tht has been taught at Key Stage 3, so students can progress smootl to GCSE level.
All the material is totally fresh, designed to motivate students and introduce them to the world of ICT. Every page is in full-colour, each clearly set out and written in a style appropriate for this level. Students will see how ICT is used in business and industry and how it has become a vital part of their lives.
Questions feature throughout to test students' understanding and to reinforce their learning.There are plenty of opportunities for self-paced and investigative learning. Extended case studeis support the OCR exam and the students' own coursework.
There are questions at the end of each unit which prompt students
to develop their own overview of the subject matter. As an additional
bonus, students are able to gain certification for CLAIT or IBT II
whilst working through the text. This title is accompanied by a photocopialbe
Teacher's Resource Pack. Please click on the link below for further
details.
Click Here to order your copy of the textbook.
Click here to order the new tutor Res File.
Hodder and Stoughton also have an excellent new book aimed at the new Double Award ICT courses.
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Applied ICT: GCSE Double Award ISBN: 0340850337 Publishing dater: 28/6/2002 |
This brand new text has been written to meet the requirements of the new Applied GCSE course in ICT. Unlike other courses, Applied ICT focuses on how ICT affects all forms of communication in society, bringing new ways of functioning, trading and doing business. The three units of the course cover the applications of ICT; how it is used in organisations; and its role in society. Aplied ICT Double Award Student text matches these units, and brings the contents to life through activities set in real business contexts. A key element running through the book is the focus on a number of members of a family, showing how they work with and use ICT. The family ranges across three generations, with members in the worlds of work, university and school. Through the experiences of this family, the book explores the use of ICT to: communicate with friends, customers, suppliers and staff improve business efficiency manage finance manage stock control market products and services manage information and control systems There are many up-to date business case studies within the book, supplied by IBM and other leading companies. The book will be relevant to all three major courses in Applied ICT, and is supported by a fully comprehensive Teacher's Guide
Applied ICT: GCSE Double Award Teacher's
Guide
Steve Cushing
ISBN: 0340850329 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
£45.00 RRP Wire-o binding
This Teacher's Guide accompanies the brand new student text written to meet the requirements of the new Applied GCSE course in ICT. Unlike other courses, the Applied ICT focuses on how ICT affects all forms of communication in society, bringing new ways of functioning, trading and doing business. The three units of the course cover the applications of ICT; how it is used in organisations; and its role in society. The Guide has four main sections; three match each unit of the course, with worksheets and help sheets referring directly to the student book. The fourth section contains suggested schemes of work, lesson plans and course support. There is a particular focus on assessment, with support for each of the assessment methods of the major awarding bodies (online, exam based and coursework).
LETTS Question and Answers- updated yearly, an excellent guide for students. Click here to order.
Revise GCSE ICT
LETTS Study Guide
- new guide to support the new syllabuses available from spring
2001. Fully integrated into the new syllabuses written by OCR, AQA
and EdExcel.
This title is suitable for students taking their GCSE examination in summer 2003.
Revise GCSE is the clearest, most effective means of achieving exam success. Written by experienced examiners and teachers, each Guide offers complete study and reference support throughout a GCSE course, as well as being the ideal revision guide in the approach to the exams. There is simply no better way to prepare for GCSE.
ISBN 1858059402
List price £9.99
Recommended Syllabuses
The Learning Shop recommended ICT Specification is:
OCR ICT (B) GCSE - An excellent fully supported syllabus linking to Key Skills. Click here for more details and PDF copy of syllabus plus sample papers.
Can be taught alongside a range of other vocational qualifications such as CLAIT and CITB. ·
Appropriate for whole cohorts with considerable flexibility to enable teachers/tutors to co-teach Key Skills, Short and Full course ICT candidates together.
Builds upon prior learning by taking a practical and systematic approach to develop a body of skills, knowledge and understanding in a work related context.
Fully supported case study and examination papers with extensive guidance and exemplar material provided. · 60% fully supported coursework assessment with considerable flexibility in terms of evidence requirements.
ICT work carried out by candidates in other areas of the curriculum and outside school can be used as the basis of coursework evidence.
Utilises the Key Skills Tests to ensure maximum flexibility and candidate choice ensuring full proxy arrangements for awarding IT Key Skill units.
The recommended ICT VGCSE Specification (Syllabus) is:
ICAA VGCSE ICT
The recommended Design Technology Specification (Syllabus) is:
OCR VGCSE Manufacturing
Free Resources
Please note these free resources are not always up to date. They are modified at each INSET course to include the latest developments and then added to the website after the course to provide delegates with the latest version for use in schools and colleges.
Photoshop Course Materials (v5.5)
Web Design Level One Materials - Pagemill
Presentations at the NEC
Other Powrpoint slides from INSET sessions:
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