THE 'ICT PAGES'
Most of this was last updated 2004 - I no longer teach ICT to GCSE and AS groups, but still teach KS3 ICT, so these sections are up to date.
"This is THE best site for ICT Revision and other materials for AS / A2 students" - Mister P
"Geography!! Big respect to Mr. Parkinson for the ICT section. Loads of links and useful stuff. No more colouring in jokes from FatMax!" - Paul (Fat Max)
Most of the links on these page relate to AQA 'AS' & A2 ICT
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Materials to support the KS3 Strategy Updated September 2006 |
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CLAIT + / Web Design Course |
USEFUL TEXTBOOKS
I have found the following textbooks useful, and have used them in planning and teaching ICT materials.
"Microsoft Excel 2000: At a glance" - Microsoft Press (1999) ISBN: 1 57231 942 9
"Spreadsheet Projects in Excel for Advanced Level" - Julian Mott and Ian Rendell (Hodder and Stoughton, 2001) ISBN: 0 340 80007 0
"Successful ICT projects in Excel" - P.M. Heathcote (Payne-Gallway, 2000) ISBN: 1 903112 26 5
"AS Level ICT" - P. M Heachcote (Payne-Gallway, 2000) ISBN: 0 95324909 3
CLAIT: Tutors Handbook
CLAIT+: Tutors Handbook - used for Year 10 Core Skills
"AS and A Level ICT through diagrams" - Alan Gardner ISBN: 0 9 913435 9
Co-ordination Group Publications: GCSE ICT
"AS ICT for AQA" - Sharon Yull & Tracey Stump (Heinemann, 2003) ISBN: 0 435 45487 0
SET TEXT FOR 'AS' STUDENTS
"The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster
This short story, written in 1909 looks at a society where machines control everything, and people live in underground honeycombs and communicate through them, and get to the point where they don't even want to be touched by other people. One man wants to rebel against this, and there is a moment when the machine, which people have had in their ears since they were born, stops as it has worn down and is unable to repair itself, and there is a terrible silence. Humanity has to go back to the surface, to face the sun...
Read it HERE.
"Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advances of science, the earth was exactly alike all over...What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury ? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking ? "
Geography and ICT collide....
