Saturday, February 14, 2009

Actv8 Activities

Choose one or more of the following activities to do.

Digital technologies

  1. List all the examples of digital technologies that you can find in the magazine.
  2. Choose one example from your list and research its history, uses and future.
  3. Make a poster about this piece of digital technology.

DigiTech careers

  1. List all the careers involving DigiTech that you can find in the magazine.
  2. Choose one career from your list and research the qualifications needed, the pay rates and what people do in this job. You might find this web site helpful.
  3. Make a poster (or presentation, or web site) about this career.

Competitions

  1. Make a table for each competition in the magazine, showing what the prize is and what you have to do to enter.
  2. Decide which competition is the hardest, the easiest and the most fun.
  3. Have a look on the Actv8 web site and see if there are any current competitions you could enter.
  4. Pick one competition and work on an entry for it.

Further Studies

  1. Make a list of all the places you could study and all the scholarships you could apply for.
  2. Choose one of the places to study and find out more about it.
  3. Present the information you found in a way that you can then share with the class.

Articles

  1. Pick an article that interests you.
  2. Summarise its content.
  3. Analyse its layout and presentation.
  4. List further questions that you would like to ask about the content.

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