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.

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....

CA Act1 Reviewing a Digital Product

BA2 understand the importance of the design review process by evaluating and criticising an existing digital product

ON ENTRY:

Consider the following question:

"The most common form of feedback is 'it's good'. If a product is only 'good', would you still buy it?"

 

 

STARTER:

You will be reviewing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/ during this lesson.

You have 12 minutes to review 1 of the following factors of the Cbeebies website

1. Strengths
2. Weaknesses
3. Improvements

Come and stick your work on the wall in the correct area in the room.


TASK:

In the shared exam folder (Unit 4 CAB May 2013) there are 2 files for you to write up today's findings from all 3 of the sections you have covered.

Decide which one you wish to use - One has guidelines, the other does not.

To reach the higher grades you should be pushing yourself to use higher writing skills.

Challenge yourslef to 200+ words per section...


PLENARY:

HOQ: We have thought today about Strengths, Weaknesses and Improvements. What other areas are there to think about when designing a product, if any...?

How well do you believe you have achieved today's Objective?

On your post-it note, explain one thing that you have learnt about the design review process and will be able to take it away with you from today's lesson.

I really do not understand at all!	I think, with help, I could explain the design review process
I could explain the design review process confidently	I could explain the main areas of the design review process and suggest other ideas too!

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...