Monday 27 April 2009

Hi Everyone

Welcome back to school, I hope you all had a great holiday. this term some of the highlights for you might be 'Brochures' using Ms Publisher, 'Original Story Writing' then animating your story using 'Scratch' and a new item for this course 'Databases'.

Today you are going to look back over your holiday and write 200 words in your blog about your holiday activities.

the first thing you are to do is to use the planning sheet in Year 10>Info Man>Writing a Report.

When everyone has finished you will read the other student's blogs and then vote for the best one.

Prize for the person with the most votes!

• Remember asking yourself the questions who?, how?, what?, when?, where? and why? will help you to write an interesting and effective report. It must be suitable for a teacher audience.


• Read it through slowly to make sure that there are NO mistakes (proofreading) and then use the spellcheck to make sure!


• Keep your sentences short and then come up with a heading with IMPACT!


• Ask the person next to you to check your work and sign it off with the word Checked and then their name! Then, any errors which I find will not be your fault but the checkers fault.

I'm really looking forward to this term there is some really interesting learning coming up.

Mrs H

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Week 9 Term 1

This week we will complete your PowerPoints and use the check list to make sure that you have included everything you needed to. I want you to take some time to spell check and proofread the whole of your PowerPoint. Make sure that you have answered the Selection and Justification slide correctly including the chair (or workstation) you choose, with the reasons why you choose it and the features which helped you to make up your mind. You also need to say why you did not choose the other chair and include those features which you did not like.

I will need to have your PowerPoint handed into the handin folder in the Year 10 folder. You should also complete and put your check list into the same folder. Save both of them with your name and PPoint or Check List. Don't forget to upload the photo to your blog, add a post and then tell me about all of the important points and why it is so important to sit properly.

When everyone has completed their PowerPoint I will bring in the chocolate cake!

We will then revisit spreadsheets, learning how to prepare the graphs to go with the spreadsheet. I have a Unit Standard for you to complete for spreadsheets which will give you two Level 1 NCEA credits for next year. I hope that we can complete this before the end of the term.

I am looking forward to marking your JAM assessments. Make sure that you have carried out every part of the check list so that I can give you maximum marks.

Mrs H

Week 8 Term 1

This week we are learning about adjectives on the BBC site for the Do Now section of the lesson.

We have been using the BBC site for nearly a term now and I am beginning to see improvement in the writing on some sites. The skills you are learning in 'Do Now' should be put into practice in your posts ie. adverbs, apostrophes, personal pronouns etc they should be used to improve the quality of your writing, which will give you more marks for JAM. Spell checking of every post is also a must. I have commented before on the use of a lower case 'i' - this is incorrect, it should be a capital 'I' when you are writing about yourself and is 'text talk' which is not allowed in our posts. Although many of you have made a good effort and are improving I would like you to make sure that you include some of these features in your posts this week.

I have uploaded a You Tube video on the basics of PowerPoint so if you forget how to do something you can go in and revise it. It includes backgrounds, adding pictures, text boxes and adding notes pages. This would also be useful for students who have been absent and who need to catch up. You will need to use headphones when you view it. It is located on Learning Resources>Information Management>Year 10>PowerPoint Vids.

This week we are focusing on getting the ergonomic chair and workstation slides completed. Remember that you need to choose a chair from the two you investigated for features and say which one you chose and why. Comment on the features which you liked best about the chair you chose and say what it was about the other chair which you did not like and which put you off chosing that one. You do the same process for the workstation.

You should have time to begin the 'posture' slide this week. Read the Tick Sheet again so that you understand what you need to do for this slide. See me if you are not sure on anything at all.

Blog Marking

At the end of this week I want to start marking your Blogs. You will need to make sure that you have uploaded the following items to your Blog by then please.

Setting up your Blog
A short paragraph which tells me about your experience setting up your Blog.

Keyboarding
A paragraph which tells me how you felt about learning to keyboard with the correct finger pathways. If it was not a positive experience for you what would you suggest we should do to improve things next year. How has your keyboard speed improved? What was it when you started at the beginning of the year and how has it improved? Please also comment on the speed part of learning this skill.

Adding your keyboard graphic
Add the keyboard graphic to your blog - follow the instructions at the bottom of this post if you are unsure how to do it.

Ergonomics Tick Sheet
Post your tick sheet in a post.

How to load a graphic to your Blog

1. If you are uploading your keyboard graphic first of all select everything and group it.
2. Copy then paste it into PAINT
3. Select the dot in the bottom right hand corner of the PAINT screen and bring it up to fit around the graphic. This will stop your picture having wide white borders when it goes onto your Blog.
4. Save As and name your document. Then Save As a JPEG document.
5. Open your Blog and choose Add an Image.
6. Browse to the image and select.
7. Set the picture place to centre and upload the image.
   

Where we are at with Blogs

Getting the blogs up and running for the whole class is a slow business. The following blogs are not working yet:

Class 10.1
Johnnie and Ayla.
Class 10.2
Taylor, Malcolm, Tipene, Heremaia, Rangi, Mikayla, Uru and Pararaki.

If the people listed above could please do the following for your Do Now:

1. Logon to Blogspot
2. Go to Dashboard
3. Choose Settings
4. Choose Publishing
5. Go to Blog Spot Address
6. Make sure that it says - yourlogonyear10informationmanagement - in the box
7. Make sure that you have the complete word for year
8. Make sure that information has an r in it
9. Make sure that management has an e in it
10. If you find an error, correct it, and ask your neighbour to check it for you

One other thing could be at fault:

If your logon is not your first name plus the first letter of your surname please let me know. I know that two people have a number 1 at the end of their logon.

Your Blogs

It has been very interesting for me to read through your blogs and I appreciate the honesty in the things you say there.

Care does need to be taken in the following areas: no 'text' talk, use capital letters and full stops for sentences, especially when you talk about the word 'I'- a lower case 'i' is not correct. It is also very important to remember to use the spell check, which is available, as it will pick up a lot of your mistakes. As we have been studying adverbs I would like to see more used in your sentences.

I have been leaving comments on your blogs and where necessary I ask you to correct them so that you can be proud of the standard of your work. Well done! Keep up the good work.

From Blogs to Wikis

This week we are moving on to a unit called Ergonomics in the Office. During this unit we are researching what you can do, while you are working on the computer, to prevent injury to your body. The choices you make when selecting and setting up furniture and equipment are very important. We will also research other things you can do which will help, these are to do with the way in which you carry out your work.

While completing this unit we are going to learn a different way to carry out our research using a Wiki. To find out what a Wiki is check out the You tube video in the Year 10 Information Management, Wiki Vids folder. What happens is that as you complete your research using mostly the usual methods you will add the knowledge that you gain to a web site which I have set up as well as pictures and graphics which you find. When you have finished researching we will have a whole web site (wiki) of information which you can then use to produce a PowerPoint which will show Mrs Standen and I what you have learned about keeping yourself free from injury.

Setting Up a Blog as a Porfolio

Next week we begin to set up an individual blog which will take the place of the 'portfolio' we used last year. We would like you to think about how you could show us on your blog the process you used to learn the keyboard and what the correct posture should look like.

Keyboard Revision Unit

As we are coming to the end of our Keyboarding Revision Unit I am pleased to see so many of you were prepared to try really hard to get the use of the correct finger pathways right. It is so important to take the time you need to practice these. If you continue to use the correct technique each time you use the computer, whether at home or school, you will eventually be able to 'touch type' meaning that you will not even need to look at the keyboard.

We will continue to focus on accuracy, but will also begin to build up your speed slowly. Each lesson we will allow 10 mins for this.

Teaching and Learning Plan

Course Introduction

We have set up this blog as a communication and reference area for you. We will use it to let you know what is coming up in the course, what and when work is due and to give you feedback on your personal portfolio content.

We will be upgrading the Year 10 course this year to also include an introduction to animation, basic programming, web page creation and a range of Web 2 tools such as blogs, podcasts and wikis to give you a range of basic skills which you can integrate into your other class work. It is hoped that this will encourage you to think seriously about taking IT at senior level and then consider IT for further study at Polytechnics or Universities when you leave school.

We will also trial the use of a blog as a digital portfolio this year rather then keeping a paper based record. Use of a blog means that other people, including your parents or caregivers, can see, and comment on, the standard of the work you produce.

Course Assessment

A Combination of JAM Certificate and Level 1 NCEA Unit/Achievement Standards to be carried over to 2010

Term 1
Week 5, 6 and 7
Ergonomics 'PowerPoint' Assessment
Marks 1-5

Word Processing
Unit Standard 12883 - 3 Credits

Term 2
Week 6, 7 and 8
Story 'Scratch' Animation
Marks 1-5

Desk Top Publishing
Unit Standard 2792 - 2 Credits

Term 3
Week 6, 7, 8 and 9
Web Challenge or Web Site Topic Choice
Using 'Synthesite'
Marks 1-5

Spreadsheets
Unit Standards 18743 - 2 Credits
Web Page
Unit Standard 18734 - 2 Credits

Term 4
Week 5
Year 10 Internal Examination
Marks 1-5

File Management
Achievement Standard 90031 - 2 Credits