Student Learning Characteristics Survey

Bletchley Park - Code Breaking

Starter:
Watch this clip

1. What happened at Bletchley park?
2. Where is it?
3. When was Bletchley park used?
4. Why was it used?
5. What was Colossus?

Main:

Create an information booklet about Bletchley Park.

Your target audience is GCSE Computer Science students who are visiting the park.

You must include:

• An introduction about Bletchley Park.
• Where is it?
• Is it a house or estate?
• An image of the house
• An overview of how it was used during WW2
• Who were based there?
• What were they doing?
• Why were they needed?
• Information about Colossus
• The spec of the machine
• What could it do?
• How did i assist the Allies?
• What would have happened without it?
• An image of the machine
• Actual people who were stationed there
• Find 2 people who were stationed at Bletchley Park
• At least 1 man and 1 woman
• Tell their story

Plenary
Write a blog post about what could have happened if Colossus had not been built.
Why was it so significant?

BBC School Report - Writing Group

Writing

Continue reading the main stor

Writing is a big part of a journalist's job, whether they work online, on radio or on television.

The resources on the right are designed to help journalists of every level improve their writing skills.

There's also great advice on making your web stories clear and interesting - and a very important section on how to make sure your stories don't fall foul of media law such as libel, copyright and contempt of court.

One of the newer ways for journalists to cover stories is through live event pages, featuring regular short updates to keep people quickly up-to-date with all the latest news.

The guide to sub-editing is a must-read to get some top tips for how to check stories and scripts for mistakes before they are published or broadcast.

And if you're wondering what SEO means, it stands for Search Engine Optimisation - in other words making headlines more easily discoverable via Google and other search engines. It's an increasingly important part of the business as the competition for online readers grows ever fiercer.

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RESOURCES

• Video: Writing an OOV (5 mins)
• Video: Writing headlines (6 mins)
• Guide: Writing for the web
• Guide: Who does what in an online news team?
• Guide: Writing live pages for news
• Guide:SEO tips for beginners!
• Guide: Top tips for sub-editing
• Guide: Stay safe and legal

School Report Evaluation

Formulating Ideas and Designs - 8w3

LO: To plan and storyboard your website in line with User Needs
LO: To understand the importance of the planning stage in relation to the systems life cycle

Outcomes - you can tell me or someone else why the planning stage is important and have started to plan your ideas on paper. 

STARTER:

What does your website need to do / look like / "be" like?

Make a list!  Call them User Needs.

Why plan? Why make this list? 

MAIN 1

Now you have identified your User Needs you are going to start planning your website on paper.
This is a very valuable process. Why would this be fundamental in real life?

Website Design Process

Create something like this. What software will you use and why?
What pages will you need? Why ?

Mini Plenary - at this stage, how does your website meet the needs of the Users that you identified in your Starter? 

MAIN 2 - (Extension) 

Complete your website evaluation that we started last week - Remember to PEE

MAIN 3

Start storyboarding....

Download a copy here


Plenary 
Why is the planning and design stage important within the systems life cycle?  
How has today's lesson helped you formulate your own ideas for your website? 


Homework - Due Wednesday 2nd April

Finish your planning for homework.  
Complete a storyboard for each page outlining what images you intend to use, font, layout. 
More importantly explain why and how your user needs will be met and how designs will address your target audience. 

8w3 - Website lesson 1

LO - What makes  'good' website design ?

          How can you apply your knowledge to your own design ideas? 

Starter

Have a look at the following two websites. Have a good look around and navigate your way around the site - who is the audience, how can you immediately tell, what special features of the website do you like / could be useful? 

Task 1 

For each website - copy and paste these questions into a Word Document.  Call in Web Design and save it in your Sites, Unit 1 folder.

• Who is the target audience and how can you immediately tell?
• What is the purpose of the website?
• Is the information relevant to users?
• What special features have been used to make the website more appealing for it's audience?
• Is it clear, up to data, accurate and unbiased?
• Are the images meaningful for the audience?
• Is the font size suitable ?
• Is the site easy to navigate and use?
• Does the site contain useful links?

PEE all over our work - how can we improve our evaluations?    WIIFM?  (What's in it for me?) 

Extension:  If you have time, do the same but for a website that you use a lot.  

Task 2

Ideas for your own website.  Now look at a website which is a similar purpose to your project - ie: a new restaurant, bowling alley, charity.

Critique the website - how would you make it more appropriate for a teenage audience and why?   Add this to your document.  

Plenary - can you answer the Learning Objective question?  
How might you transfer any of these ideas about your own web design ideas

Computing

LO: To develop a wider understanding of the computer science involved in computer games consoles.

Resources
Teach ICT website
BBC bitesize
Free Online Dictionary of Computing

Grade descriptors:

Grade F

Candidates recall, select and communicate a basic knowledge and understanding computer hardware, software and other related technologies.

Grade C

Candidates recall, select and communicate a good knowledge and understanding of the function, application merits and implications of a range of computer hardware, software and other related technologies.
They analyse problems, identifying and collecting some information relevant to solve them from the context of the problem. 

Grade A
Candidates recall, select and communicate a thorough knowledge and understanding of the function, application, merits and implications of a broad range of computer hardware, software and other related technologies.
They systematically analyse problems, identifying and collecting the information required to solve them from the context of the problem.

9bCS Cover Thursday 6th March

Jurassic Systems

Watch the video clip then see what you can get the system to do.