Thursday, 20 December 2012

New E-Components - Online Resources & Exam Revision

Student TextbookThe Edexcel GCSE ICT has extra online resources these can now be accessed by logging on to the Sixth Form Moodle site. 

On the right hand side is number of topics:
GMail
My Courses
Personal Learning Plan

Select My Courses and find Course category [SG1004] - GCSE ICT on this page you will under Section 1 a link to the online resources for Unit 1: Living in the Digital Age called Edexcel GCSE ICT 2010 Student Active Teach -Unit 1

Links to extra tasksThe Extra Worksheets, Links and Tasks can be found on this link

In Section 3 Exam Revision
There is also a link to three examination papers and the marks schemes for these papers. 

Remember the exam is in January on 15th in the morning starting at 9:30 am be early.


Monday, 10 December 2012

Solving a Last-Minute Hitch

Passports and Identification Needed for Travel

Satya and Simon realise that now that they are seventeen they will need to replace their child passports with adult one.

Your task should you accept it is to help them do this?
Read Pages 43 to 44 this details all the security feature that are included in passport to protect travellers. 

Task 2.3
Use the following sites to look for information about applying for a passport
https://passports.ips.gov.uk
http://www.passport.uk.com
http://www.passports-office.co.uk/
How could you recognise that Real Website from the unofficial ones

Task 2.4
Why did the Official Site come so low down on the search list

Monday, 3 December 2012

Planning a Trip

Unit 1: Living the Digital Age
On the Move
Read Pages 41 to 42. 
Tasks
Skill Builder 2.1 Write down the keywords that Satya & Simon could enter into a search engine to find out information about InterRail passes.
Skill Builder 2.2: Using the Inter Rail Website answer Satya & Simon Questions.
Task 2.1 - plan a trip to Paris using differnet methods of transport to get there. 
Which is the cheapest?
Skill Builder 2.3 once you arrive in Paris where do you stay to be near to the tourist sites.