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 2 - Design

BA2 identify, and eventually produce, key elements of the standard design phase for your product


Consider what documents you will need to produce to support your design decisions. Think back to the practice work you completed earlier in the year.

Previous ideas for Moodboards & Storyboards

Some ideas might include:

• Rough sketches - Blank Paper
• Structure Diagrams (Family Tree) - Copied from Proposal
• Moodboards - Checklist in shared exam area
• Storyboards - Template in shared exam area

The design section of the Activity 2 Log and Review of your design phase, as well as the updating of your Assets Table also has to be completed by this deadline: 20th June

The tasks are available on ShowMyHomework

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

 

CA1 Proposal

BA2 analyse your brief and relay your concepts through the construction of your Proposal

Answering in full sentences/paragraphs

• Target Audeince
• Investigating the Target Audience
• Include
• Scanned survey
• Graphs showing your results
• Brief Summary
• Your chance to write down what your site will do!!
• Structure
• Explain how it will work/link together
• Include
• Structure diagram/hierarchy chart/family tree from PowerPoint template
• User input/processing/output
• How will the product be used and what will theuser get out of it?
• Accessibility
• How will you cater for those with a special or particular need?
• Content
• What media will be included and why? (Images/Sounds/Text/Videos..?)
• Software
• Research what software is a vailable and what you will use (Serif Webplus)

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

Algorithms, Flowcharts & Pseudocode

BA2 develop a suitable algorithm and psuedocode for your hangman game that adheres to the task you have been set

Writing Algorithms

 
 

 

 

CA Act 1 Investigation & Product Review

BA2 criticise an existing digital product to find both positive and negative points to inform your own product research

You will be making an interactive multimedia/web product for 14/16 year olds based around the theme of The Sporting World - it can be educational, informative or just for fun.

TASK 1:

List at least 5 interactive websites that you have looked at for inspiration in the research phase in your Assets Table

TASK 2:

Using the Review Template, complete the Strengths, Weaknesses and Overview of 1 of the sites you have listed in your Assests Table.

The site you have chosen to review does not need to have a 14/16 year old slant, but perhaps it should...?

Try to use the skills you acquired during the practise review lesson to help you.

The deadline for this is 25/4/14.

HWK: Attend after school catch up to meet the deadine.