Year 11 Wednesday 25th March

Hi everyone,

Sorry I can't be there on Wednesday. Here is you work to carry on with:

1. Complete your PowerPoint presentation (on the past, present and future of either cell phone, game system or computer) from yesterday.
2. Check that your presentation demonstrates good design.
3. Post a new blog post (by going to www.cashmere.moodle.ac.nz, logging in and clicking on your user name), attaching your presentation and explaining the good design features you have chosen to use.
4. Start Internet research on your choice of cell phones, game systems or computers. Record sources of information and look for key events and dates that show how the technology has changed over time. Record in a Word document.

Year 10 Wednesday 25th March

Hi everyone,

Sorry I can't be there tomorrow.
Here are your instructions to start on: Find file in iNet - ICT - Collections - DigiTech Booklet Collection and save it in your own home drive (H:).

1. On page 1, fill in your name and form class
2. On page 2, fill in the name of the person whose collection you are doing your project on, describe their collection in as much detail as possible, identify your stakeholders and say how they will be affected
3. On page 3, fill in what questions you need to ask your stakeholders and decide how you will ask them - you may print a one page survey, or email your questions. Do some research on similar collections and record your results.
4. On page 4, fill in what your stakeholders would like in their ideal solution.
5. On page 5, fill in the problem statement, describing your main stakeholder’s problem; under constraints, fill in due date = Thursday 9th April, solution must be on my page of the wiki ; under attributes, describe the special features of your planned solution; under resources, describe what you will need to solve the problem.
6. On page 6, think about something you have planned recently and answer the questions.
7. On page 7, write a list of all the steps you will need to take to solve the problem. Then make sure they are in a sensible order. Split up the jobs so that you know when each is to be done, remembering the due date
8. Use page 8 and 9 to plan your wiki page and any other Internet resources you will use. Add extra pages if you need to.
9. Make your wiki page and other Internet resources.
10. Link your page to and from other parts of the wiki
11. Contribute to other people’s wiki pages
12. Finally, evaluate your solution on page 10 of the booklet.
13. Print out your booklet front page and hand in.

Stakeholders

The word "stakeholders" refers to all the people (or groups of people) who are affected by a problem, an issue or a solution.

Clicke here to practise identifying stakeholders and thinking about how they are affected.

A story

A monstrous shark appeared at Sumner and attacked a surfer.
People of Christchurch were scared.
The lifeguards sent out their boat with stunguns to scare off the shark.
They chased the shark and stunned it, then collected it in a net and drag it into the beach.
Everyone on the beach crowded around to see the shark and congratulate the brave lifesavers.

Post script:
The shark was taken to Lyttelton to be sent to the Chatham Islands for release.

Publishing Your Web Site

You can publish your web site by following these instructions:

1. Make sure that your web site is working correctly inside a folder
2. Right click on the folder and Send To --> Compressed folder
3. Go to home.cashmere.school.nz/mydesktop and log in
4. Under Home Pages, click on Page Uploader
5. Browse to find your compressed folder, click to Uncompress the file, and Upload
6. Click on the name of the folder and then on your main page to view it and find the URL

Note that none of your file names are allowed to have spaces or punctuation in them.

Software

Use the Internet and your brain to help you answer the following questions about software.

1. Find a definition of software - copy and paste and say where your definition came from
2. Explain what software is in your own words.
3. Make a list of different types of software.
4. For each type of software you listed in the last question, give an example.
5. Use Start -> All Programs on your computer to add to your list of types and examples. You may choose to set it out using a table.

For example, an Internet browser is a type of software. An example of an Internet browser is Internet Explorer.

Links that may be helpful are:

• Webopedia
• Software applications
• System software

Setting up a blog

To set up your blog you need to:

1. Go to www.blogger.com
2. Click on Create A Blog
3. Enter your email address (username@cashmere.school.nz)
4. And repeat step 3
5. Enter a password and MAKE SURE YOU REMEMBER IT!
6. And repeat step 5
7. Enter your first name
8. Type the letters you see
9. You may need to repeat steps 5-8 until it works.
10. Enter the title of your blog eg "Jane's Blog"
11. Enter the URL or address you would like for your blog - you may need to try different options if your choice if name has been used.

Web 2

What is Web 2?

Questions to answer - either in your blog or by eail to fy@cashmere.school.nz if you cannot access your blog.

1. What is Web 2?
2. Give some examples of Web 2, and explain the purpose of each one.
3. What is a wiki?
4. How are blogs and wikis the same? How are they different?
5. Who writes wikipedia? Do you think you can trust it? Why/why not?
6. What is Flickr useful for?
7. What is delicious?
8. If you have time, experiment with igoogle or netvibes and report on what you do.

Hardware

Computers need hardware!

Questions to answer in your own blog:

• Why do computers need hardware?
• Find a definition of hardware - copy it and say where the definition came from.
• Explain the difference between hardware and software in your own words.
• Hardware can be split into four sorts: input, output, processing and storage. Give an example of each sort of hardware.
• What special hardware do networks need?
• What hardware is used by other sorts of DigiTech?
• Take a photo - not of a person - with a webcam or digital camera. Add the photo to your blog post or your user profile (go to dashboard to edit your profile).
• Record your voice using your headset. Email this file and your blog URL to your teacher fy@cashmere.school.nz
• If you have time: use Photostory 3 to make a video clip and add it to your blog post.

Accessing school email from home

To access school email from home, go to home.cashmere.school.nz/mymail

Answer these questions in your own blog:

• What is CC? What is BCC?
• How do you attach a file in CHS Mail?
• What formatting options do you have in CHS Mail?
• How can you make folders and move emails into them?
• What is the draft folder for?
• How do you add friends to the address book in CHS Mail?

Year 10 DigiTech Blogs

Last Friday, my Year 10 DigiTech class made blogs.
They can be found by clicking here:

• Scott
• MrDuck
• Ami
• Kate
• Hayden
• Atanisha
• Jesse
• Ashleigh
• Ashley
• Jonty
• Emma
• Katrina
• Jack
• Nikita
• Jonathan
• Michael H
  
• Oliver
• Jackie
• Harley
• Josh
• Kira