[Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9
Diane Peat
dpeat at firbank.vic.edu.au
Mon Mar 17 10:34:50 EST 2008
Actually I think the main reason why 96 out of 104 girls in Year 9 have
chosen it, is because I told them I rarely give homework!!!
Diane Peat
Firbank Grammar School
BRIGHTON
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[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Christopher Jansen
Sent: Monday, 17 March 2008 9:22 AM
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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.
This gives me some great ideas!
Lisa Field
9 Yellow Pastoral Care
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Sent: Friday, 14 March 2008 10:36 AM
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Hello Lisa
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.
The major assessment tasks are
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.
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.
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!
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.
I hope that gives you some ideas - please feel free to contact me off list
if you want more info.
Stay out of the heat today!
Regards
Diane Peat
Firbank Grammar School
BRIGHTON
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[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of lisa.field
Sent: Friday, 14 March 2008 8:02 AM
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Subject: RE: [Yr7-10it] FW: ICT in year 9
Hi all,
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.
I mainly teach Year 9 Multimedia- which is a stand alone subject. Classes
have 100 minutes of Multimedia per week.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks,
Lisa Field
9 Yellow Pastoral Care
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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
Hi all,
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.
I am interested in how other schools have structured their year 9 ICT
program and the following questions:
- the value of ICT as a standalone subject or taught within other faculties
- use of EWBs, gaming consoles, tablets and other hardware/software in the
classrom
- class sets of laptops and managing them
- other ideas
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.
I look forward to the flood of ideas and suggestions.
Regards
James Gibney
St Helena Secondary College
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Australia National Work and Family Award for a Medium-sized Business.
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