[Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9

Mon Mar 17 09:21:45 EST 2008

Thats sounds like a fantastic subject. I would take that!!!
:)

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:11 AM, lisa.field <
lisa.field at overnewton.vic.edu.au> wrote:

>  Thanks Diane.
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> This gives me some great ideas!
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> *Lisa Field*
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> *9 Yellow Pastoral Care*
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> *From:* yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Diane Peat
> *Sent:* Friday, 14 March 2008 10:36 AM
> *To:* 'Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List'
> *Subject:* RE: [Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9
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> Hello Lisa
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> We run Year 9 Media at our school – girls only independent. It's called
> Media to distinguish it from Year 11 Multimedia. We look at the main types
> of media – newspapers and magazines, television, film and radio, and now the
> internet as well. To start the semester, I get them to use Photoshop to
> adjust pictures and photos ready for use in their films or magazines, so
> they have a couple of weeks on that.
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> The major assessment tasks are
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> 1.     Newspaper/magazine – using Adobe InDesign
> We start with some discussion on types of newspapers (tabloid, broadsheet,
> gutter press) then we look at parts of newspapers – obituary, classified,
> features, sport, etc, what impact the newspapers have on people these days,
> particularly compared to the use of the internet by teenagers. We look at
> magazines and the impact of advertising and pictures on teenagers and the
> general public. The girls are then asked to create four pages (they usually
> run out of time and create two!) of a magazine. Magazines are much easier
> for the girls because they can relate to them more readily than a newspaper!
> The idea is that they all use the same master document to create their
> pages, so that someone (usually me) can put them together into a book with
> page numbers and a table of contents at the front. I get them to write the
> stories themselves which means that some may write very short articles and
> create a big advertisement. Or I might get the girls who really struggle
> with words to create front and back cover and the table of contents. I get
> them to bring in magazines – they love that! – to look at for their ideas
> but the content must be their own. Being girls, they usually opt for stories
> about clothes, makeup and music.
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> 2.     They write, film and edit a five minute documentary – we enter
> these into the Bayside Youth Documentary Film Festival and have terrific
> support from the film maker who comes in for about six workshops during this
> period. We also had a full day on Tuesday at Sandringham Secondary College
> where they looked at how to film, use of lighting, shadow, etc, as well as
> watch previous docos from winners in the festival. We use Adobe Premiere Pro
> for editing but there are other software programs out there that are less
> expensive.
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> 3.     We use Audacity (free download) to create an advertisement for
> their films which (hopefully) we play in time to generate interest in the
> students to come along at lunch time to view the "World Premiere" of their
> films. This is usually at the end of semester when we are all stressed and
> worn out!
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> Added to that, we do tasks in class – Photoshop, Illustrator (for
> advertising poster) and, if time – which there usually isn't – we also watch
> an older film or television show, so the girls can do a film review.
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> I hope that gives you some ideas – please feel free to contact me off list
> if you want more info.
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> Stay out of the heat today!
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> Regards
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> Diane Peat
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> Firbank Grammar School
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> BRIGHTON
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> *From:* yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *lisa.field
> *Sent:* Friday, 14 March 2008 8:02 AM
> *To:* Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* RE: [Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9
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> Hi all,
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> I have started teaching this year and have only recently joined this list.
> Thanks for all the emails thus far. They have been very useful.
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> I mainly teach Year 9 Multimedia- which is a stand alone subject. Classes
> have 100 minutes of Multimedia per week.
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> Students have their own notebooks and currently the program looks at
> giving them the skills so they can utilise their notebooks adequately in
> other subject areas.
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> I would, however, be very interested as well to hear what other schools
> are doing at Year 9. We have recently had a change of curriculum and are
> still looking at developing this program further.
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> If anyone has any ideas/suggestions for me as well, it'd be greatly
> appreciated. So far we have looked at Microsoft Outlook and Word and are due
> to complete a unit of Cybersafety at the end of term.
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> Thanks,
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> *Lisa Field*
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> *9 Yellow Pastoral Care*
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> *From:* yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *James GIBNEY
> *Sent:* Thursday, 13 March 2008 10:02 AM
> *To:* yr7-10it at edulists.com.au
> *Subject:* [Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9
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> *From:* James GIBNEY
> *Sent:* Wed 3/12/2008 12:57 PM
> *To:* yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au
> *Subject:* ICT in year 9
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> Hi all,
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> this year I have been fortunate enough to be on a Teacher Professional
> Leave program with three other staff members looking at reworking our year 9
> program. We get one day off a week. As ICT coordinator I am interested in
> how schools incorporate ICT into their Year 9 program. For ICT we currently
> have a standalone program for each year 9 class which runs for one semester
> of 2 periods a week. The software covered is PowerPoint and Access with some
> Dreamweaver/Flash if we get through all the work.
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> I am interested in how other schools have structured their year 9 ICT
> program and the following questions:
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> - the value of ICT as a standalone subject or taught within other
> faculties
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> - use of EWBs, gaming consoles, tablets and other hardware/software in the
> classrom
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> - class sets of laptops and managing them
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> - other ideas
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> Any information on or off list would be appreciated as would any
> discussion or opinions. If you have a particularly impressive program and
> you are amenable I would like to come along and have a look.
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> I look forward to the flood of ideas and suggestions.
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> Regards
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> James Gibney
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> St Helena Secondary College
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> the North West of Melbourne.
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>  Winner of the 2007 Australian Chamber of Commerce and Business Council of
> Australia National Work and Family Award for a Medium-sized Business.
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