Modified 23 December 2008
Theme 2 :
Mainly Working smarter| Pages covered and dates | Activity | What learner must do | Focus of exercise |
| Housekeeping: Managing files and folders
Chapter 1.3 Pages 39-47 Complete by 16 April |
1-Photographs | Print screen dumps and put in portfolio | File management |
| 2-Searching | Print screen dumps and put in portfolio | Using Search as part of file management | |
| 3-File management | Print and put in portfolio | File management | |
| 4-Zip files | Print and put in portfolio. Will compare your spreadsheet with mine. Look at my answer. I will check the formulas in your work. | Compressing files | |
| 5-Summary | Print screen dumps and put in portfolio | Read only | |
| Housekeeping: Looking after the hard drive and Backing up
your files Chapter 1.3 Pages 48-59 Complete by 18 April |
6-Recycle bin | Do on your computer at home | Recycle bin |
| 7-Defrag | Do on your computer at home | Defrag and analyse | |
| 8-Install software | Do on your computer at home. Complete Checklist and put in portfolio | Install software | |
| 10-Questions | Print and put in portfolio | Revision of Housekeeping | |
| Understanding and using sections
Chapter 2.2 Pages 113-121 Complete by 25 April |
1-Maths | Print and put in portfolio | Columns |
| 2-Definitions | Print and put in portfolio | Keyboarding and columns | |
| 3-Dog training | Print and put in portfolio.
Complete Checklist and put in portfolio |
Columns, sections and tabs | |
| 4-Music genres | Print and put in portfolio | Columns | |
| 5-Practice sessions | Print and put in portfolio | Section breaks | |
| 6-South Africa | Print and put in portfolio.
Complete Checklist and put in portfolio |
Sections, following instructions | |
| 7-Herbs | Print and put in portfolio | Integration and section breaks. | |
| 8-Checklist | Complete Checklist and put in portfolio | Answer checklist truthfully | |
| Working with paragraphs
Chapter 2.3 Pages 122-145 Complete by 9 May |
1-Metaphor | Print and put in portfolio | Line spacing |
| 2-Netiquette | Print TWO documents and put in portfolio | Line spacing, paragraph spacing | |
| 3-Computers in society | Print and put in portfolio | Line spacing, paragraph spacing | |
| 4-Practise indent | Print and put in portfolio | Indenting | |
| 5-Music Genres2 | Print and put in portfolio | Indenting | |
| 6-PractiseIndent2 | Print and put in portfolio | Indenting | |
| 7-Drugs | Print and put in portfolio | Indenting, line and paragraph spacing | |
| 8-2-Speech recognition | Print and put in portfolio | Paragraph , indentation, bullets | |
| 9-ExerciseOutline2 | Print and put in portfolio | Outline numbering, indenting | |
| 10-ExerciseOutline2 | Print and put in portfolio | Outline numbering, indenting | |
| 11-3Children | Print and put in portfolio | Keyboarding, outline numbering, indenting | |
| 12-Children | Print and put in portfolio | Paragraph borders | |
| 14-Computer Club | Print and put in portfolio. Complete Checklist and put in portfolio |
Tab stops, columns and various formatting features | |
| 15-1-Test a choc | Print and put in portfolio. Complete Checklist and put in portfolio |
Tab stops, columns and various formatting features | |
| 15-2-Kliphuisie | Print and put in portfolio. Complete Checklist and put in portfolio |
Tab stops, columns and various formatting features | |
| 15-3-E-game | Print and put in portfolio. Complete Checklist and put in portfolio |
Tab stops, columns and various formatting features | |
| 16-Checklist | Complete Checklist and put in portfolio | Answer checklist truthfully | |
| Due 6 Jun | Page S14 Integrated task Activity 3 | Housekeeping on Mr Wannalearn's computer - (Using utility software for trouble shooting) - 40 marks |
Question 1 - 5 marks per section Use skills of columns, breaks and advanced word processing to create document. Counts for end of year |
| Creating and editing a presentation Chapter 5.1 Pages 267-279 Complete by 13 Jun |
1-Explore PPT | Explore | Exploring PPT |
| 2-Elephants | Just save in portfolio | New PPT | |
| 3-Elephants | Just save in portfolio | Adding text to PPT | |
| 4-Elephants | Just save in portfolio | Working at basic level in PPT | |
| 5-1-Own presentation | Print and put in portfolio. Just save in portfolio. One of the presentations must have narration. Read the document from http://www.hartnell.edu/faculty/frc/guides/RecordingNarration.pdf also found on our network at school | Just save in portfolio | |
| 5-2-Career | Print and put in portfolio. Just save in portfolio. One of the presentations must have narration. Read the document from http://www.hartnell.edu/faculty/frc/guides/RecordingNarration.pdf also found on our network at school | Just save in portfolio | |
| 6-Elephants | Just save in portfolio | Working at basic level in PPT | |
| 7-Jazzing up Activity 5 | Just save in portfolio | Formatting and backgrounds in PPT | |
| 8-Elephants | Print and put in portfolio | Print PPT | |
| 9-DVD OR Networks | Print and put in portfolio. | DVD care or Networks in every day life | |
| Adding multimedia Chapter 5.2 Pages 281-289 Complete by 20 Jun |
1-Elephants | Just save in portfolio | Images in PPT |
| 2-2-Different PPTs | Just save in portfolio. | Images in PPT | |
| 3-Elephants | Just save in portfolio | Animations | |
| 4-Elephants | Just save in portfolio | Transitions | |
| 6-Elephants | Just save in portfolio | Slide master | |
| 7-Elephants | Just save in portfolio | Movies and sounds | |
| 8-Group PowerPoint | Complete the rubric worksheet and submit as well. Add your names as a header and a disclaimer as a footer. Be sure to add a video from your own cell phone/digital camera | Work as a group | |
| Making a
PowerPoint interactive Interactive presentations Chapter 5.3 Pages 291-301 Complete by 27 June |
1-Elephants - based on work done in Theme 1 | Explore | Navigate with Go to Slide |
| 2-Elephants | Explore | Navigate with Action buttons | |
| 3-BasicComputerDevices | Explore | Navigate with Hyperlinks | |
| 4-BasicComputerDevices | Explore | Navigate with Action buttons and Hyperlinks | |
| 5-MyPhotos | Diagram and PPT in electronic format | Create own PPT | |
| 6-Computers in Education | Diagram and PPT as handout | Create own PPT with links | |
| Due 24 Jul | Practical task | Practical task using additional package on legal, ethical, social and environmental issues of ICTs, and future trends - 60 marks | Counts for end of year |
| Presenting spreadsheet data and results Chapter 3.2 Pages 165-183 Complete by 1 Aug |
1-TimetableGames | Print and put in portfolio | Formatting spreadsheet |
| 2-Formatting | Print and put in portfolio | Conditional formatting | |
| 3-TestResults | Print and put in portfolio | Conditional formatting | |
| 4-2TimetableGames2 | Print and put in portfolio | Conditional formatting | |
| 5-Distance | Print and put in portfolio | Column chart | |
| 6-Election | Print and put in portfolio | Pie chart | |
| 7-Shares | Print and put in portfolio | Line chart, interpreting chart | |
| 8-ComputerSales | Do not print | ||
| 9-ComputerSales | Print and put in portfolio | Printing graphs | |
| 10-1-Type | Print and put in portfolio | Selecting chart types | |
| 10-2-Survey | Print and put in portfolio | Representing data in a chart | |
| 10-3-Diet | Print and put in portfolio | Representing data in a chart | |
| 10-4-Calories | Print and put in portfolio | Representing data in a chart | |
| 12-RugbyPlayers | Print and put in portfolio | Scales in charts | |
| 13-MotorCars | Print and put in portfolio | Changing chart types | |
| 14-Number of learner | Print and put in portfolio | Numbers as values/text | |
| 16-Own graph | Print and put in portfolio | Describing a chart | |
| 17-1-Babes Boutique | Print and put in portfolio | Create charts to answer questions | |
| 17-2-PricesHouses | Print and put in portfolio | Modify and answer questions about charts | |
| 17-3-Branchsales | Print and put in portfolio | Editing a chart | |
| 17-4-Testmarks | Print and put in portfolio | Modify and answer questions about charts | |
| 17-5-Marks | Print and put in portfolio | Modify and answer questions about charts | |
| 18-Checklist | Complete Checklist and put in portfolio | Answer checklist truthfully | |
| Introduction to Access
Chapter 4.1 Pages 203-221 Complete by 8 Aug |
1-CD_database | Explore. View and listen to the video clip (as a swf file) or video clip (as a html file) about a database ( I do not know which is quicker to download) The quiz works in the html video clip | Objects of databases - table, queries, forms and reports. |
| 2-Match columns | Explore | Testing concepts | |
| 3-CD_database | Explore | Exploring table | |
| 4-CD_database | Explore | Exploring table | |
| 5-CD_database | Explore | Exploring table | |
| 6-CD_table | Print and put in portfolio | Exploring table and printing | |
| 7-CD_table | Explore | Data types | |
| 8-Life Sciences | Print and put in portfolio | Data types | |
| 9-SportStudents | Print and put in portfolio | Create table structure with data types, enter data | |
| 10-Canteen | Print and put in portfolio | Create table structure with data types, enter data | |
| 11-Animal Hospital | Print and put in portfolio Look at the video file on False/True, Yes/No as a swf file or the video file on False/True, Yes/No as a html file. (I do not know which is quicker to download.) | Create table structure with data types, enter data - look at Yes/No, True/False | |
| 13-1-Learners | Print and put in portfolio Saving a database is easy. You just click the Save icon on the menu bar or pull down menu. To save a database to a different folder or storage medium use Windows Explorer. You must use Copy and Paste. Save As does not work. Have a look at the video clip seem as an html and a swf file. (Html seems to download faster.) | Create table structure with data types, enter data | |
| 13-2-Employees | Print and put in portfolio | Create table structure with data types, enter data |
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