Year 10 Thursday 17th June

Morena, Year 10!

Today I am not sick but am at a course.

Your work today is:

1. Finish your hardware worksheet from Thursday ( in iNet --> DigiTech --> All Teachers --> Year 10 if you were away), make it fit onto one page by deleting the instructions and reformatting, and print for your folder.

2. Find out about what is inside the computer's main box (called a system unit). You might like to use Jegsworks or an old but useful program in My Computer --> Apps called Computer Works. Store the information you collect in either a Word document or a PowerPoint presentation. Remember to say where your information came from, and use pictures to help you describe what you find out.

Extra for Experts

1. Explain why bits and bytes are important when comparing pieces of computer hardware.

2. What terms are used describe large quantities of bytes?

3. Can you find a way of showing the comparative sizes and speeds of different pieces of hardware?

4. Find a definition of programming that makes sense to you.

Year 10 Thursday Work

Morena, Year 10s!

I am at home sick - have no voice to talk to you with.

What I want you to do today and tomorrow is to work on Animation.
You will collect information and images and display them using PowerPoint.

Use the wikipedia page on animation to find the following

1. A definition of animation.
2. A list of techniques with one example of each.

Use the wikipedia page on computer animation to find the meaning of important terms

1. CGI
2. Key frames
3. Tweening
4. Rendering
5. Sprite

Use your computer's Start > All Programs to identify any software that can be used to make animations. Make a list of them and choose one to experiment with. An easy choice would be UnFREEz which you used in Year 9 - you made a series of frames in Paint and saved them as file type: gif, then put them in to UnFREEz. Other options are MovieMaker and Blender.

Plan and start to make a simple animation (no more than 10 frames) about one of these topics:

• The recent weather
• My favourite sport
• My hero!

Year 10 Friday Work

Ahi ahi marie, Year 10!

Your job today is to prepare for an activity we will do next week.
If you search my blog (this website) for "shark" you will find a shark story.
We will be making a quick video to tell this story next week using PhotoStory.
Your job today is to read the story and find pictures to tell it. You will need to save them in your home drive - make a folder called shark images in your multimedia folder to put them in to.
You will need pictures of high resolution - you can tell by looking at the file size.
Some images will be blocked - I wonder why?

PS you may like to draw some images of you own in either Paint or Art Rage. This is fine, but you will not have time to do the whole video this way.

Year 10 Thursday 10th September

Good morning, Year 10. Today I am on a course, hoping to get some good ideas for our class project next term. There are two jobs that I want you to work on today:

1. Consultation

For your collections project, you need to "consult the stakeholders". This means to ask questions of the person who owns the collection and anyone else who might care about it. Your goal is to understand the collection as well as possible, and to get some idea of what problems the collector has that you could help with. Good questions start with these words:

• What...
• Why...
• When...
• How...
• Where....

Please write a list of questions for your collector, either my father Frank or a person of your choice. Email your questions to me. If your collector is not Frank, you should also either eamil your collector if you know their email address, or print the questions to take home for homework.

2. Preparation for Multimedia

Next term, we will spend a couple of weeks looking at multimedia, and we will make a story using PhotoStory. You can find the story here. Your job to day is to find (or create using Paint etc) pictures that will let you tell the story. I suggest you use Google images and save the images you find (right-click, save picture...) in a folder called shark story inside your DigiTech folder.

Year 10 Friday 4th September

Good afternoon, Year 10. Sorry I cannot be there today - I am not sick this week but have taken leave to travel out of town for the weekend.

It is hard for me to set relief about our collections project, so I am giving you a lesson out of sequence. It is about pictures in DigiTech, so it is still relevant but does not fit in this part of the course. To find it, go to iNet -> ICT -> Year 10 -> For Students -> Graphics, save in your DigiTech folder and fllow the instructions. Please do as much as you can - some parts are harder than others so if you are stuck on one question, try another one. Please email me (fy@cashmere.school.nz) your work at the end of the period.

Friday 28th August

Good afternoon, Year 10. Today's work is about applications.

Applications are computer programs that let you do specific jobs.
Use this web page to make notes on the three different sorts of interface:

1. Text
2. Text and menus
3. Graphical

Then use the right-hand menu on the same page to make brief notes on the different sorts of applications:

1. Word Processing
2. DesktopPublishing
3. Spreadsheet
4. Database
5. Graphics
6. Presentations
7. Communications
8. Browser
9. Web Pages
10. Email
11. Project Management
12. PIM
13. Integrated & Suites

Then do the quiz.

Your period's work should either be posted on your blog or emailed to fy@cashmere.school.nz

Thursday 27th August

Instructions for Year 10

Good morning, everyone. Your work for Thursday is to investigate Web 2.0. One of the great things about Web 2.0 is that everything can be labelled with tags, also called labels in Blogger, or key words when you are searching. At the top left of my blog, you should see a white box labelled Search Blog. If you type Web 2 into this box and click on Search Blog, you will find all my posts that have labels of Web 2. On Monday March 9th, I posted some questions about Web 2 and used the label of Web 2. You will need to do some research to answer these questions. Please email your period's work to me at fy@cashmere.school.nz

Hardware Task

Your job is to use hardware and software to describe hardware! You are allowed to be creative! You will hand in your work at the end of the period by emailing it as an attached file to fy@cashmere.school.nz

Hardware to use
· Your computer and its attached “peripherals”
· Headset and microphone
· Webcam

Software to use
· Anything you like that is on the school network

Questions to cover are:
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?

Things to do with hardware:

1. Use a webcam to take pictures of hardware in the room and add to your work.
2. Use a headset to record your voice talking about hardware. You could add this to your PowerPoint, or save it as a separate file.

Things to do with software:

1. Use PhotoStory to make a video about hardware.

Year 10 DigiTech Blogs 2

Students in my Year 10 DigiTech class are making blogs to learn about Web 2.0 tools.
You can see the blogs here:

• Aaron
• Adam
• Amy
• Cameron
• Chrissy
• Greg
• Harry
• Jacob
• James
• Jesse
• Josh H
• Josh L
• Kayla
• Kimberley
• Nikki
• Sam
• Tesha
  
• Tom
• Chris
• Kharn
• Mel
• Angelo
• Bradley
• Iyesha
• Robin
• Todd
• Bryden
• Jack

Applications

We are going to spend a couple of weeks exploring computer applications. You can choose do take an applications course in Year 11.
Applications are a type of software. They are computer programs that do specific jobs for the user.
Either in your blog, or in a Word document, make notes from this website about the different types of applications and what each one does. Remember to use formatting features to make your work easy to read.

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.

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