TB1L1 Phone Features

BA2 differentiate between mobile phones according to how well suited they are for particular activities

• Create a folder called ICT GCSE inside your My Documents folder
• Inside that create another new folder called Unit 1

STARTER:

Do you agree that a Mobile Phone is a 'must have' Digital Device?

TASK 1:

Open up the file Phone Ranking Table from O:\ICT\GCSE ICT Year 9 2014\TB1 and using the Specification sheet provided, explain in each box why you have decided each phone is the best for that particular purpose.

Save this piece of work in: My Documents\ICT GCSE\Unit 1 as Phone Ranking Table

TASK 2:

In software of your choice, research and produce a list of all of the features/functions of a modern day phone. Using the list below, develop a phone for each of the following people. Remember to think about the specifications covered before.

• Sportsman
• Fire Brigade
• Sailor
• Architect
• Accountant
• Football Manager 

Note: You can develop your own phone, it does not have to be an existing product

Appreciate that different phones are available, with different functions and these can be used for different purposes.

EXT 1: Go on to the internet and suggest current models of phones that would be appropriate for the jobs you have listed. include images in your findings.

EXT 2: Pretend it is the year 2000... Provide a selection of 'top of the range' phones (with images) listing functions and features from that era.

Compare them to the iPhone 5s and Galaxy S4......


Save this piece of work in: My Documents\ICT GCSE\Unit 1 as Phone Models

TASKS FOR TODAY:

• Phone Ranking Table
• Complete Features for Jobs list
• Find phones available today that suit those jobs (crush proof, waterproof etc)
• List the features/best phone around in the Year 2000
• Complete/Hand in homework

PLENARY/HWK:



ShowMyHomework.com - Phone Features Table

CA Activity 1 Logo & Strapline

BA2 identify the key requirements for the second section of the Controlled Assessment by creating a Logo and Strapline

You must create an original logo and strapline for your festival.

 

The logo must:

• Be one that you have created yourself using digital tools
• Use only a single colour
• Be suitable for your target audience
• Be saved THEN exported in a format that can be used in your products.

EXPECTATIONS: (In your review you should have!!)

• Sketched page of your logo and strapline
• Feedback
• Saved 'First' version of your work
• Feedback
• Completed 'Second' version of your work
• Feedback
• Updated Sources Table
• Completed Review for this section

NOTE: Use the shape manipulation tool as well as the Arrange > Join > Add/Subtract features to 'cut out' your shapes in DrawPlus (vector based)

Logo Example using Shape Manipulation and Join features

 

CA Activity 1 Investigation

BA2 identify the key requirements for the first section of the Controlled Assessment

By the end of this week you must have completed:

• Investigation comments section - including reasoning!
• Feedback - Taking the form of:
• Has your research supported your name? Length? Words used? Use of Festival? Is there an existing festival with that name?
• Your target audience - meaning no one of the other ages is allowed in?
• Dates/Venue - 1 day, is there anything else on in your areas at that time?
• Are the venues 'local' enough? Cost of hiring?
• International/National artists? Cost?
• Other things? What do people really need? Cost?
• Response to the feedback - most important for high marks! Green font?
  
  Investigation Review
• Scan of your Survey and explanation of what you did to produce/get this completed
• Copy + Paste of all your graphs and summarising what they tell you
• Sources Table

TB1L10 Haves & Have Nots

BA2 explain the causes of unequal access to mobile phone services its impact on lifestyles and life chances

STARTER:

Consider life without a mobile phone. Are individuals who for some reason don’t/can’t use a mobile phone disadvantaged? What do they miss out on? Is this necessarily a bad thing?

TASK: Barriers to Access

In software of your choice (possibly a PowerPoint slide or Publisher (poster)) create a list/MindMap of the causes of unequal access to mobile phone services.

On separate slides, provide examples of each category you have thought of.

You may work in pairs (print 2 copies)

TASK 2: Haves & Have Nots

Consider how not being able to use a mobile phone for whatever reason impacts on an individual’s quality of life and life chances, e.g. their access to goods and services, entertainment, opportunities for interacting, keeping in touch and socialising.

What are their knock-on effects for education and training, health and well-being, employment opportunities?

 In your PowerPoint/Poster, summarise your thoughts then suggest three ways of helping a particular groups of ‘have nots’.

PLENARY:

Next lesson and catch up....

TB1L9 Business Phones

BA2 describe the use of Business Mobile Phones by analysing how their usage impacts on work/life balance

 

 

On Entry - What is meant by Business Phone and Work/Life balance?

STARTER:

Blackberry logo

‘Research indicates that Blackberries significantly improve business effectiveness, responsiveness and customer service.’

Why do you think a Blackberry can make so much difference?

2 minute Pair/Share - Be prepared to feedback on your partners ideas...

  

TASK 1:

 

Using the answers you have just discussed work in groups of 2 or 3 to investigate business phones such as the Blackberry. Consider the following:

• What features do they have that make them particularly suitable for business use?
• What can’t they do?
• How can equipping an employee with a business phone make them more productive?

Be prepared to feedback your answers...

TASK 2:
 

Business phones can make employees more productive but at what cost?

Complete Business Phones Year 9 found in O:\ICT\GCSE ICT Year 9 2013\TB1

Think of possible drawbacks to the organisation of equipping employees with Blackberries.


EXT:

Using your learning from prior lessons, consider how mobile phones could be used to monitor an employee’s activities...

Prior Learning:
Lesson 1 – features of phones
Lesson 4 – an employed adult’s phone usage
Lesson 6 – applications of Bluetooth technology
Lesson 7 – legal and other restrictions on phone usage
Lesson 8 – security risks posed by mobile phones.

Print and Show me + Collection of Homework


PLENARY: Work/Life Balance

What do you think about someone who takes their work mobile phone away with them on holiday?

In pairs, think about what professionals need to do to strike the right balance.

Post your answers as a comment on THIS post. Remember to select Name/URL as your profile and only include your FIRST names only on your post

EXT: Consider other's views and comment on their posts...

CA Activity 1 - Database

BA2 identify the key requirements for the third section of the Controlled Assessment by adding, searching and reporting on a Database
The artist database stores information about artists who might be available to perform at your festival.
You will need to add some artists of your own choice to the database.

You will need to select the artists from the database that suit the preferred music genres of your target audience.

TASK 1:

Find details for between three and five more artists and add them to the database. These artists can be people that you know.

TASK2:

You must create a list of the artists you require for the festival. Festivals UK’s booking agent will use this list to try to book them.

The list of artists must:

• include between five and ten artists that suit your target audience
• be grouped or sorted so that it is easy for the booking agent to use
• include the logo and strapline for your festival
• include a sensible title and column headings
• include relevant fields so that the agent can discuss the booking
• be easy to read on screen, avoiding unnecessary scrolling or extra pages.

To export your logo ready for your report you need to go to File > Export and select PNG and 32 Bit Depth if you want it transparent

Exporting from DrawPlus as a PNG

TASK 3:

Make sure that your Sources Table has all of the artist added to it that you added to your database

TASK 4: Screenshots you must have in your review (you may end up having more):

Complete your Review document for the Datbase section

1. 5 new entries to the database
2. First (basic) search/query
3. Results of first query
4. Adapted second (advanced) query (2 or more criteria)
5. Results of second query
6. Sort query results
7. How you did it
8. Report of the query

SB1 Images

BA2 differentiate between Bitmap & Vector images by manipulating both forms

YOU HAVE 2 HOURS TO COMPLETE THESE TASKS, WORK THROUGH AT YOUR OWN SPEED BUT YOU MUST COMPLETE ALL TASKS THIS WEEK

STARTER:

Have you ever heard of Bitmap or Vector images? Where have you heard of them - can you relate what they mean AND give examples?

 

TASK 1 - Bitmap:

 

Work through the worksheet found in O:\ICT\GCSE ICT Year 10 2013\SB1 FEN\Lesson 5 Working with images (or below) to gain an understanding of the basic tools used in Photo Editing software (Serif PhotoPlus)

 

USE THE PROVIDED IMAGES!

 

TASK 2 - Vector:

 

Create a simple cartoon character using Serif DrawPlus.

What tools do you recognise? What are the differences in the software?

Vector based Image

 

TASK 3 - Bitmap:

 

Using the skills you have just gained, create your own image in the same way - making sure you have used - layering, cropping, colour balancing etc. You are aiming to create a Montage.

 

Photo Montage

 

 

HINT: YOU MAY WANT TO USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR YOUR CONTROLLED ASSESSMENT...

SB1 Using a Database

BA2 explain the purpose and target audience for an example database and differentiate between data and information

STARTER:

What type of website is the iTunes Store...? Discuss with your partner

• How is it used?
• What is it used for?
• How is it different to a 'normal' website?

18061954

What does this number mean?

KEY TERMS: Is this number currently DATA or INFORMATION? What would help it change into one or the other...?

TASK 1:

 

‘Flesh out’ this scenario. Who are their customers? What sort of clothes do their customers like? Why do their customers need/want a personal shopper?

 

Decide on an audience profile and fill in the Audience Profile Form.doc (O:\ICT\GCSE ICT Year 10 2013\SB1 FEN\Lesson 1 Using a database).

 

Save this profile in your user area. (Create a new folder called SB1 for this block of work).

TASK 2: Adding

 

Copy & Paste the Database "fashion_V2000" to your own area!

 

Have a go at adding at least 3 new clothes items and 2 new suppliers.

 

Does this work first time? If not, why not? What did you do about it?

Screenshot the records you have added and paste them into a new document, explaining how you went about doing this and also answering the questions above if appropriate.

Save this as Database Theory

TASK 3: Searching

The following people have approached your online personal shopper Clothes4U business and have requested that you find them clothing items:

• Mrs Brown wants an evening dress. Her budget is £500, but she hope to get away with spending less.
• Jon wants to spend his birthday money (£100) on an item of sports gear. 
• Anja needs a list of the email addresses and phone numbers of companies that stock T-shirts.

Add these 6 screenshots to your ongoing document

 

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL 3 SAVED!

KEY TERMS:

• Flat File Database and Relational Database - what do they mean?
• Validation - how does it work? what does it do?

TASK 4: Reporting

Create 3 reports that present the results of your queries in a more formal way. Consider:

• Lost data/headings
• Layout - Portrait or Landscape?
• Suitable Title for each - "Report to show..."
• Try to get your reports to fit to one page (width ways at least)

TASK 5: Customising

Find a suitable image from the internet and add this to the header of your Report(s).

When the reports are suitbale to print, print all three.

Complete any outstanding screenshots/annotations in your ongoing document and print this too.

EXT:

Explain in detail how different search criteria works:

• =100
• < or > 100
• <= or => 100
• Between 50 And 100
• Like "*T-Shirt*"

Also explain the significance of searching across a Relational Database

You should have:

1. Audience Profile Form
2. Screenshots (including Adding Data, Errors, Queries) plus annotation
3. Three completed reports
4. Search criteria definitions
5. Homework

HWK:

ShowMyHomework.co.uk - Uses of a Database

 

 

 

Year 10 - End of Teaching Block 1

BA2 organise your Teaching Block 1 work and justify the conclusions you have come to

TASKS:

1. Use the Progress Tracker to identify what work (if any) you are missing and print if necessary - this includes homework
2. Put this work in order as per the Progress Tracker OR the top sheet of your folder
   
   SHOW ME!!
3. Once all the work is tagged together, use the Green Pens to self evaluate your work
• mini review what you have done
• complete missing sections
• correct spelling/grammar/bits that don't make sense
4. Using your completed project as a guide, write a review of your work
• highlight what you feel you now know, that you didn't before
• what advise you would give to particular audiences when thinking about purchasing a phone
• where your thinking might take you in the future when thinking about mobile technology...

You have 2 hours to complete EVERYTHING!

 

EXT:

 

If you believe you have finished everything, complete an animation (in software of your choice (or online)) summarising what you have learnt in this unit...