What's New?

Please note that New Hall School and The King John School are both abandoning the AQA A Level in ICT in favour of the Edexcel A Level in Applied ICT. Consequently, the AQA A/AS Level pages will no longer be updated.

1/3/07

Added: Deborah Orr: We don't need researchers to tell us that kids watch too much television (to the Critical Thinking area)

Updated: Assessing the credibility of Bizarre Media Stories (cross-over between ICT and Critical Thinking)

24/2/07

Added: Assessing the credibility of bizarre media reports

Added: The No-smoking Nazis are such a drag

22/2/07

Added: Sixth Form Tutorial Material and Flaws tables to Critical Thinking

15/2/07

Added: Help on structuring the transactional website report for A Level in Applied ICT, Unit 2, strand A

13/2/07

Added: You Tube Critical Thinking Videos

5/1/07

Added: Speed Awareness

2/1/07

Added: Sample Credibility exercise for Critical Thinking Unit 1 and sample articles for Unit 4/AEA

10/12/06

Added: Guide to A Level Critical Thinking Unit 3 - Resolution of Dilemmas

Updated: GCE Applied ICT Unit 1

29/8/06

Now Online: The Skeptic Express now has a dedicated Critical Thinking area, containing an Interactive Quiz and a discussion forum for teachers.

16/8/06

Added a link to my article on A Level Critical Thinking, written for The Skeptic Express

Updated link to: http://allenbrowne.com/tips.html

1/7/06

Added information on the A2 Units of the GCE in Applied ICT

Added a link to: http://www.pass-ict.com/

27/5/06

Updated: GCE Applied ICT Unit 6

23/5/06

Updated GCE Applied ICT Unit 4

Added links to Audacity/Podcasting tutorials

10/4/06

Added link to: Help with PC Upgrades

5/4/06

Addded lots of content relating to GCE Applied ICT

19/3/06

Added: GCSE Revision Podcast on the Bolsun Community School Case Study

Added Link to QUICK - The Quality Information Checklist

Added link to ICTGCSE to GCSE Revision Resources (this site now has very good podcasts and other revision resources)

12/3/06

Added link to: http://ict.edexcel.org.uk/home/eportfolios/samples/ (GCE in Applied ICT)

4/3/06

Added: GCSE 2007 Case Study

Updated: Critical Thinking

3/1/06

Added a page about the A Level in Applied ICT

28/12/05

Critical Thinking lessons are now available as Podcasts. Ask Mr Yates for more information.

21/9/05

Updated: Marking sheet for Edexcel GCSE coursework

14/9/05

Welcome back for another school year!

This is what I managed to do with 8 weeks summer holiday!

Added link to http://www.reviseict.co.uk/ (good revision site for GCSE)

8/6/05

Added: FrontPage Tutorial (cut-down version to save reprographics costs - thanks to Roger Vipond)

Updated: Critical Thinking

17/4/05

Added links to User Interface Hall of Shame

22/2/05

Added KS3 Vocabulary List

2/2/05

Added new Candy Floss. Updated old Candy Floss.

3/1/05

Added: New GCSE Revision Guide

Added link to: Edexcel GCSE 2006 Case Study

13/12/04

Added: Windows Movie Maker Tutorials

6/12/04

Updated AS and A2 areas. Including changes to coursework guidelines for ICT3 and ICT6 following this year's standardisation meetings.

1/12/04

Updated: AS Level Revision Guide

Added: Excel Candy Floss

Added link to: Experimental Fat Max

27/11/04

Removed AS Level Access project guide (now outdated)

Updated AS and A2 Revision Guides

Added link to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/chatguide/

4/11/04

Added a new guide to doing a GCSE Project in Access and a Sample Database

Updated AS Level notes on: Output Devices

26/10/04

Updated link to: http://www.vbatutor.com/

17/10/04

Added link to: http://www.senselang.com/

10/10/04

NEWS: NHS IT Strategy (an IT "disaster" in the making?)

Added link to: Government IT Outsourcing Disasters

Updated link to: The Billericay School

Updated: Castles

18/9/04

Added link to: Free Payne-Gallway Keyboarding book!

11/9/04

Added link to: Edexcel GCSE 2005 Case Study

18/8/04

Added link to: http://www.webhostingstuff.com/

17/7/04

Added: KS3 Castles Project

Added link to: http://q.20q.net/q.cgi

Added link to: http://www.fotosearch.com/

7/7/04

Updated: Careers and Universities

14/6/04

Added: ICT Teacher Wanted!

9/6/04

Added: Solving a Double Booking Problem in Microsoft Access

Added link to: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/deibel/rt/

Added link to: http://www.drivemeinsane.com/

6/6/04

Added: Internal Coursework Deadlines for ICT3 and ICT6 (KJS)

11/5/04

Added: GCSE Last-Minute Revision Questions

6/5/04

Added: Types of Software (KS3 and GCSE revision sheet)

Made a minor additions to the coursework guidelines for ICT3 and ICT6

6/4/04

Updated: Students' Work

1/4/04

Updated link to: http://www.southend.ac.uk/courses/search.asp

30/3/04

Added: Links to LNAT/LSAT sample question sites

Added link to: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

26/3/04

Added: Student Handout 2 (AS Level Critical Thinking)

25/3/04

Updated: Critical Thinking

24/3/04

Added: Critical Thinking

3/3/04

Added: Balls

Added: Ask Mr Excel

2/3/04

NEWS: Pupils Face Camera Phone Ban (BBC)

Added: Web Design Coursework Guidelines for GCSE

Added: Other Acceptable GCSE Projects

Added: Morgan's Adventure Park (GCSE mock examination)

8/2/04

Updated link to: http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/gradley/vbatutor/index.html

20/1/04

NEWS: Pros and Cons of Moving UK Jobs Abroad (BBC)

16/1/04

NEWS: Hi-Tech School Library With No Books

7/1/04

NEWS: Online GCSEs "Close to Reality" (BBC)

5/1/04

Added link to: BBC Robot World

30/12/03

Added: OCR Entry Level Certificate in ICT (courtesy of Coleridge Community College)

Added link to: http://www.mightycoach.com/articles/mm2/ (Windows Movie Maker 2 Tutorial)

Added link to: http://www.flowol.com/

Added link to: http://www.cherwell.oxon.sch.uk/subjects/ict/flowol/

Added link to: http://www.cherwell.oxon.sch.uk/subjects/ict/whodunnit/

Added link to: http://www.cherwell.oxon.sch.uk/subjects/ict/leaflet/index.htm

21/12/03

Added: Revision Questions for GCSE ICT (Edexcel)

14/12/03

Minor corrections to AS Revision Guide and GCSE 2003 Mock Examination

13/12/03

Updated: ICT2 notes on User Interfaces

Updated: AS Level ICT Revision Guide

Added link to: http://members.lycos.co.uk/richardolivier/ (all about input devices)

11/12/03

Updated: Codes of Practice/Codes of Conduct and the A2 Revision Guide to take account of clarification of the specification issued by AQA. Students should be careful not to confuse a "code of practice" with a "code of conduct".

Added link to: http://www9.oekakibbs.com/bbs/poo_test/oekakibbs.cgi (great drawing application online and free - can anyone find any more like this?)

8/12/03

Updated: Web Design Links

7/12/03

Added: Form to Database to Tripod to Chart to Mail Merge

Added link to: http://www.helpdesks.com/ (Help Desk Software and Resources)

Updated: ICT6 Major Project Guidelines (added guides to drawing ERDs)

Updated: ECDL Sample Tests

Added: Advanced ECDL

Minor additions to Web Design Minor Project

Updated: Web Design Links

1/12/03

Updated: ICT6 Project Guidelines

Updated: ICT6 Project Ideas

Updated: ICT6 Internal Standardisation

30/11/03

Updated link to: http://www.cooltext.com/

Updated: Access Links

Updated: Excel Links

Updated: PowerPoint Links

Updated: Publisher Links

29/11/03

Updated: Notes on Software

Updated: Notes on Disaster Recovery

Added links to: Arabic/Islamic Web Design Tools (by popular request)

Added link to: http://javaboutique.internet.com/

Updated: Word Processing and Keyboarding Resources

26/11/03

Added link to: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/30/index4a.html?tw=authoring

24/11/03

Added link to: http://www.becta.org.uk/careersict/

23/11/03

Added: GCSE Mock Examination 2003-4

Added link to: http://sixthform.info/gerard/ (good lesson notes for A2 Level ICT)

22/11/03

NEWS: Online to Help Third World

Updated: ICT3 Internal Standardisation

Updated: ICT6 Internal Standardisation

Minor update to: GCSE Database Implementation Guidance

Added: General Coursework Guidelines for ICT3

Updated: Web Design Project for ICT3

Updated: Database Project for ICT3

Updated: Spreadsheet Project for ICT3

Updated: Presentation Graphics Project for ICT3

Updated: Word Processing Project for ICT3

Updated: DTP Project for ICT3

17/11/03

Updated link to: Creating a Symmetrical Design with Windows Paint

16/11/03

Updated: GCSE Database Coursework Guidelines

15/11/03

Updated: ICT6 Project Guidelines

14/11/03

Added: Useful ICT Shortcuts for Staff (Word Document)

NEWS: Area Man Knows All the Shortcut Keys

12/11/03

Added: How to Use a Calendar in a Form (thanks to Julie Hodgson, Year 13 KJS)

11/11/03

Added new Candy Floss (Electronic Class Register)

24/10/03

NEWS: Spam "turning people off" e-mail

Added links to GIF Animator software

13/10/03

Added: Key Skills Level 3 Assignment

9/10/03

NEWS: Smart Cards Help Man City Improve Security

28/9/03

Added: LOGO links

18/9/03

Added link to: http://www.drawflash.com/index.htm (online drawing)

Added link to: http://www.popcap.com/ (has an excellent typing game called Typer Shark)

17/9/03

NEWS: CIA Spies Shun Computers

NEWS: It's Time to Tackle Threats to the Net

Added Candy Floss: Excel check-digit calculator for ISBN numbers (zip file)

Updated Word Processing Resources

Updated link to: http://www.fatmax.org/

13/9/03

Updated: Spreadsheet Coursework Guidelines for ICT3 (AS Level project)

Updated: ICT2 notes on Generic Software

Updated: ICT4 notes on Management Information Systems

12/9/03

NEWS: UK enlists world's help to predict climate

NEWS: When screensavers are a crime

7/9/03

Added a Key Skills page (for students).

Added Key Skills scheme of work to the Teachers page.

Updated AS Level Spreadsheet Project Guidelines

1/9/03

Added guide to creating Macros and Command Buttons (Word Document - for ICT6 projects)

Added guide to Using Passwords in Access (Word Document - for ICT6 projects)

Updated link to Psionica Exams Database

Added link to: http://www.greenwood.notts.sch.uk/ICT/ictmain.htm (there is a good ICT5 textbook here)

9/7/03

Added link to: Test Your Tech Jargon

Guide to Naming Conventions (Word Document)

Using the Access Lookup Wizard (Word Document)

8/7/03

NEWS: To Rip or Not to Rip? - the ethics of software piracy

NEWS: High-tech babble baffles many

6/7/03

Added: What Makes a Good Web Page?

Added: New Hall School KS3 Scheme of Work for ICT 2003-4

Updated: KJS Scheme of Work for A/AS Level ICT 2003-4

4/7/03

Added: KJS Scheme of Work for A/AS Level ICT 2003-4

Added: New Hall School - Year 12's first AS Level ICT lesson

Updated the AS Level Page and added areas for Coursework Guidelines pages (not yet complete) for a more varied ICT3 Choice

Updated A Level Theory Notes on Organisational Structure, Information Systems Life Cycle and Knowledge, Information and Data

29/6/03

Two new additions to Candy Floss

18/6/03

Added new Candy Floss - multiple choice quiz

Added: Horses Database Worksheet

3/6/03

NEWS: Cows Help Refugees get on the Internet

Added a link to: Winzip Tutorial

14/5/03

Updated: Web Design Links

1/5/03

NEWS: Exam Board to Replace Paper Marking

10/4/03

Added new Candy Floss

Added link to: http://members.aol.com/EdensorHS/revision/examopen.htm (GCSE revision web site)

1/4/03

Added: ICT "General Knowledge Test" (password-protected Word document)

Added: KS3 Spreadsheet Test (password-protected Word document)

NEWS: "The Floppy has become a Stiff" (send your tributes to the floppy disk)

29/3/03

Added: Year 9 "Dating Agency" Project - Teacher notes for end of KS3 integrated project (word document)

Added images to: Video Clips/Images

Added details of Edexcel Case Studies to GCSE ICT Revision

19/3/03

Corrected errors in the Writing Formulas worksheet

18/3/03

Added: New Candy Floss

12/3/03

Added: Party Planner Worksheet (KS3 spreadsheets worksheet)

Added: Writing Formulas (KS3 spreadsheets worksheet)

Added: Year 7 Spreadsheet Lessons (zip file)

Added: GCSE Mock Examination (zip file)

11/3/03

Added news story: Is E-mail Snooping Necessary?

28/2/03

Added link to Queen Mary College Bursary Competition (a unique opportunity for anyone considering studying Computer Science)

24/2/03

Added new Candy Floss

Added news story: Pupils find Internet a poor learning tool

Added news story: E-mails you wish you'd never sent

22/2/03

Credited "Jo" for the "Fun With input Masks" Candy Floss

20/2/03

Added news story: Why Learn When You Can Surf? (excellent article from the Daily Telegraph by John Clare - should be compulsory reading for all ICT teachers and school managers!)

Found other classic John Clare articles and added them to ICT in Education

Added news story: Visions of Computers of the Future

19/2/03

Added new Candy Floss

8/2/03

Added News Story: Death of the Floppy Disk?

Added news Story: UK Colleges Open Doors Online

4/2/03

Updated: Candy Floss

A few very minor additions to the FrontPage 2000 Tutorial (large Word Document)

3/2/03

Updated: ECDL

1/2/03

Updated: Normalisation 2003

31/1/03

Added: Normalisation 2003 - a "walkthrough" of January 2003, ICT2 Q.9 (with thanks to Fat Max)

22/1/03

Added news story: Web Browsers go Back to Basics (good story about interface design)

Added news story: http://212.100.234.54/content/55/28917.html (American military panics about security information on the web)

Added link to: http://www.open2.net/ictportal/tech/os/keyoperatingsys.htm (what is an operating system?)

Added link to: http://www.open2.net/ictportal/ (Open University Course in ICT from the BBC)

Added link to: http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,1323,5911_151151,00.html (current estimates of Internet populations)

Added link to: http://www.psionica.co.uk/alevelict/ict3/tutorials/exceltutorials.htm (Excel tutorials)

Added news story: Life Looks Good for Linux (alternative operating system grows in popularity)

Added news story: Computer Virus Author Jailed as "Global Menace" (The Guardian)

Added news story: Virus Sentence Sends Out Shockwaves (BBC)

6/1/03

Added news story: Just How Dangerous are Internet Chat Rooms?

5/1/03

Added a link to: http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesComputer.html (ICT Quotations)

Added a link to Mr Chips or Microchips (transcript of a BBC documentary about the value of ICT in education)

4/1/03

Added a link to: http://www.mcubbin.btinternet.co.uk/

Removed Network Topology from the A2 Level Revision Guide. This is now in the AS Level Revision Guide. This is in response to a subtle changes in the AQA syllabus for 2003-4. If anyone thinks I should make any more changes, please let me know.

30/12/02

Updated the A2 Level ICT Revision Guide

Updated: video database (Candy Floss)

Added media story: What's the point of picture messaging?

Added media story: Technology allows in-flight care

Added media story: Computer "turned teacher into a killer"

Added link to: http://www.ashfordman.org/ict/background/a_level_ict_news_stories.htm

18/12/02

Added details of the GCSE and A Level Specifications

Added link to: http://www.brentclc.co.uk/brentclc/ocr/ppoint/students/index.htm (presentations about input devices)

14/12/02

Added more new Candy Floss

Added a link to: Software Reality

5/12/02

Added new Candy Floss

29/11/02

Added links to the Westminster School ICT Department. It has very good information on university entrance, tutorials on web technologies and programming and tutorials for the ECDL.

Updated link: http://elonka.com/mirrors/CFT/coverstory.html

Added link to: http://www.counterguide.com - hit counters and access statistics for web designers

20/11/02

Added media Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2494633.stm

Added: link to http://www.4degreez.com/popupsmustdie/eliminate.htm

14/11/02

Added: Link to: http://urban.arch.virginia.edu/computing/Help/cdburn/Roxio_Easy_cd_instructions.htm (how to copy data to a CD-R disc using Roxio Cd Creator 5)

See: http://urban.arch.virginia.edu/computing/Help/cdburn/Roxio_Easy_cdrw.htm for CD-RW Disks

Added link to; http://urban.arch.virginia.edu/computing/Help/scanning/basics.html (Scanning Basics)

3/11/02

Added: GCSE Software Homework

Added: Year 7 Word Processing Assessment