Information Processes & Technology (IPT) – 2005 Preliminary

The Year 11 IPT course at Pittwater House has been developed using a constructivist approach. Students engage with a variety of learning activities suited to the various learning styles, all of which provide ‘hands-on’ opportunities. The course has been designed to be both fun for students and to provide a sound theoretical grounding in preparation for the HSC IPT course,

Examples of some of the projects pupils may be offered are outlined below:

/ The next Matthew Reilly
Prepare a story/newsletter using MS Word. Then prepare for publication using MS Publisher. / / The Matrix
Use the Matrix and the Internet to collect information that will help you save your world.
Dream worker
Use MS Paint and MS PowerPoint to create digital works of art that can be included in a digital movie edited with MS MovieMaker 2 / / Party Time
Plan and cost your end of year party or trip using MS Excel. Develop a promotional web site using MS FrontPage. /
/ Making money with computers
Use MS Excel to develop a money making solution for your first business opportunity. / Fashion Central
Use MS Access to develop an interactive database of cars or fashion of your choice. /
Hacker Control
Explore the depths of the Internet and learn everything you need to know to become an IPT “Hacker”. / / Oceans 14
Devise an ethical, socially acceptable and efficient method to store and retrieve ‘Gold’ on the school Intranet.. /
/ Design, develop and deploy an interactive multimedia production using a multimedia authoring environment and digital image, video and audio capture. / / Devise a new media TV production based on transmitting and receiving data such as music or images.
The Big Screen
Design and create a web page using MS Frontpage, HTML and Java to promote a teen movie. / / The End Game
Create an interactive CD-based computer game using MS Paint, MS PowerPoint and VBA. /

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Assessment Tasks (YR11)

Scope and Sequence – Preliminary Course (YR 11) – 2005

Week / Term 1 / Term 2 / Term 3
1 / Introduction to IPT / Implement (I) / This is your life / Part 3 Topic Review
2/3 / WP/DTP / The next Matthew Reilly / Storing & Retrieving / Oceans 14
3/4 / Graphics/
MM / Dream worker / Collecting / The Matrix / Transmittting & Receiving / Big Brother
5/6 / Spreadsheet / Making money / EXAMINATIONS / Processing / The Game
6/7 / Internet / Hacker Control / Organising / Party Time / Displaying / The BIG Screen
Part 1 Topic Review
8 / Plan (UM) / This is your life / Analysing / Fashion Central / Course Review
9 / Design (D) / Part 2 Topic Review / EXAMINATIONS
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Assessment Tasks (YR11)

Your Name:
Task Name: / / The next Matthew Reilly
Task Description: Individual Task / Allotted time
1. Using MS Internet Explorer, find a long story on the Gutenberg web site ( Copy the story and save a draft of it using MS Word. (P5.1).
2. Prepare your story for publication using MS Publisher by copying from the Word version (P2.2). Your ‘publication-ready’ version should include::
  • a layout of three columns per page
  • a page border
  • include a series of paragraph/chapter headings and
  • at least one graphic per page relevant to the story for at least the first ten pages of your publication.. (P6.2, P7.1).
3. Prepare a MS PowerPoint presentation to describe what the Gutenberg web site is about.
4. Submit printouts of your Word, Publisher and PowerPoint documents
Note: The documents to be constructed in accordance with the marking guideline. / Wks
2 & 3
Deliverables: / Draft of story
Published version
PowerPoint presentation (printed 6 slides per page)
Due: / Draft in Word – middle of week 2
Publisher Version – middle of week 3
PowerPoint presentation – end of week 3
Marking Guideline
The next Matthew Reilly
Component / Maximum
Marks / Marks
Awarded
Produces a Word Document with:
  • Header containing name & class details & task name
  • Footer containing page numbers
  • Story content draft
Produces a Desktop Published Document with:
  • Page Border
  • Distinctive styles and headings
  • Included graphic(s)
  • Overall quality
PowerPoint presentation on Gutenberg web site / 5
5
5
10
5
5
10
30
25
Total: / 100
/ Name:
Task Name: / Dream worker
Task Description: Individual / Allotted time
Use MS Paint, PowerPoint and Sound Recorder to create digital works of art that can be included in a digital movie edited with MS MovieMaker 2
Deliverables: / Drawings
Photographs
Animated images
Video clips
MovieMaker2 movie
Marking Guideline
Component / Max. Marks / Marks
Drawings
Photographs
Animated images
Video clips
MovieMaker2 movie / 20
20
20
20
20
Total: / 100
/ Name:
Task Name: / Making money with computers
Task Description: Individual, pair or group / Allotted time
Devise an information-based money making venture. Plan your venture using as many non-computer-based information technologies as you can think of.
Use MS Excel to develop a money making solution for your information-based business opportunity.
Consider the social and ethical issues involved in your venture.
Examples of information-based ventures are dating services, assignment services, news services, stock market indices, library searches,
Deliverables: / Planning document identifying non-computer based information sources.
MS Excel solution
Report on social and ethical issues involved.
Marking Guideline
Component / Max. Marks / Marks
Plan
Excel solution
Report on issues / 60
20
20
Total: / 100
/ Name:
Task Name: / Hacker Control
Task Description: Individual or pair / Allotted time
Explore the depths of the Internet and learn everything you need to know to become an IPT “Hacker”.
Using the Internet write at least 1,000 essay on one of the following topics:
“The best example of a (numeric, textual, visual, kinaesthetic, musical, lone, group, naturalist) hacker I found on the Internet was ______(name(s)) who ______(300 words). In comparison ______(name(s) was a cracker who ______(300 words).
The social and ethical issues involved in each of the above scenarios were ______(400 words).
Deliverables: / Minimum 1,000 word essay
Marking Guideline
Component / Max. Marks / Marks
Hacker description
Cracker description
Social & ethical issues / 30
30
40
Total: / 100
/ Name:
Task Name: / The story of your life
Task Description: Group / Allotted time
Design, develop and deploy an interactive multimedia production using a multimedia authoring environment and digital image, video and audio capture.
This major assignment needs to cover in detail each of the five stages of the system development cycle. (UMDI-TEM).
Deliverables: / Multimedia production
Accompanying report
Marking Guideline
Component / Max. Marks / Marks
Multimedia production
Report / 50
50
Total: / 100
/ Name:
Task Name: / The Matrix (Collecting)
Task Description: Individual / Allotted time
Use the Internet and a variety of hardware devices to collect information that will help you save your world (or another theme agreed with your teacher).
In undertaking this task pupils should first develop a storyboard sketching a creative theme for their planned presentation.
Upon conclusion of the task, pupils should write up a reflective review report addressing the following questions:
  • How does this task link to the theory contained in the course text?
  • What problems were encountered? How were they overcome?
  • What did I learn by doing this task
This task can be undertaken either as an individual, pair of group of four, six or eight students. In pair of group presentations pupils must agree and clearly indicate the individual contribution of group members to each task deliverable.
Deliverables: / Planning storyboard
Internet Explorer-based presentation containing:
  • Internet sourced elements
  • Scanned images
  • Scanned text (OCR)
  • Digital still picture
  • Analogue video footage
  • Digital video footage
Reflective, individual Review Report
Marking Guideline
Component / Max. Marks / Marks
Produces a Word Document with:
  • Header containing name & class details
  • Footer containing task details
  • Page numbers
  • Spelling and grammar checked
Produces a Desktop Published Document with:
  • Page Border
  • Distinctive styles
  • Included graphic(s)
  • Complex Table
Quality of ideas and alternatives developed / 5
5
5
15
5
5
10
20
30
Total: / 100
/ Name:
Task Name: / Party Time (Organising/Analysing)
Task Description: Pair or Groups / Allotted time
Plan and cost your end of year party or ‘schoolies’ trip using MS Excel. Develop a promotional web site using MS FrontPage.
Deliverables: / Outline of event & feasibility study
Database of options considered (in Excel)
Promotional web site
Marking Guideline
Component / Max. Marks / Marks
Event outline (Requirements report)
  • Preliminary investigation
  • Interviews
  • Questionnaires/Surveys
  • Project Plan
  • Gantt chart
Feasibility study
  • Economic feasibility
  • Technical feasibility
  • Schedule feasibility
  • Organisational feasibility
Excel database
  • Data dictionary
  • Number of attributes
  • Number of records
  • Analyses
Promotional web site / 5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
10
25
Total: / 100
/ Name:
Task Name: / Fashion Central (Analysing)
Task Description: Individual or pairs / Allotted time
Plan a MS Access database of cars or fashion of your choice.
Document your planned database with an ERD and DD
The database should contain many different data types.
Create and populate the database
Undertake searches and produce a variety of charts using the database
Deliverables: / Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD)
Data Dictionary (DD)
Access database
Search results
Charts
Marking Guideline
Component / Max. Marks / Marks
Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD)
Data Dictionary (DD)
Access database
Search results
Charts / 10
10
40
20
20
Total: / 100
/ Name:
Task Name: / Oceans 14 (Storing & Retrieving)
Task Description: Individual work / Allotted time
Devise an ethical, socially acceptable and efficient method to store and retrieve ‘Gold’ on the school Intranet.
Pieces of ‘Gold” are pieces of multimedia content such as sounds, texts, videos, drawings, animations etc.
Your task is to retrieve as many pieces of “Gold” as you can, ‘melt the gold’ i.e convert it into another form using Codecs, converters or compression and store the resultant ‘nuggets’ in your folder. You must also appropriately acknowledge your sources for all pieces of “Gold” and the methods used to create your ‘nuggets”
Deliverables: / Pieces of “Gold” in original format
Gold nuggets
Review Report
Marking Guideline
Component / Max. Marks / Marks
Pieces of “Gold”
Gold nuggets
Review Report / 30
30
40
Total: / 100
/ Name:
Task Name: / Big Brother (Transmitting & Receiving)
Task Description: Individual work / Allotted time
Devise a new media TV production based on transmitting and receiving data such as voice, text, music or images.
Deliverables: / Planning Storyboard (P7)
Project Plan (P7)
Media Production (P4
Review Report (P5)
Marking Guideline
Component / Max. Marks / Marks
Planning Storyboard
Project Plan
Media Production
Review Report / 10
10
60
20
Total: / 100
/ Name:
Task Name: / The Big Screen (Displaying)
Task Description: Individual work / Allotted time
Design and create a web page using MS Frontpage, HTML and Java to promote a teen movie. Promote the movie with as many other methods of displaying data that you can devise.
Deliverables: / Planning Storyboard for web page
Project Plan
Web site
Other display elements
Marking Guideline
Component / Max. Marks / Marks
Planning Storyboard for web page
Project Plan
Web site
Other display elements / 10 (P7)
10 (P7)
40 (P1)
40 (P2)
Total: / 100
/ Name:
Task Name: / The Eng Game (Processing)
Task Description: Individual, pair of group / Allotted time
Create an interactive CD-based computer game using MS Paint, MS PowerPoint and VBA.
Deliverables: / Planning Storyboard for game
Game
Marking Guideline
Component / Max. Marks / Marks
Planning Storyboard for game
Game / 20
80
Total: / 100

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Assessment Tasks (YR11)

Assessment Matrix:

Objective / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / Total
Outcomes / P1.1, P1.2 / P2.1, P2.2 / P3.1 / P4.1 / P5.1 / P6.1, P6.2 / P7.1, P7.2
The next Matthew Reilly (Individual) / 20% / 20% / 40% / 20% / 100%
Dream worker (Small Group) / 20% / 20% / 40% / 20% / 100%
Making money with computers (Group) / 40% / 40% / 20% / 100%
Hacker Central (Individual) / 40% / 40% / 20% / 100%
Term 1 Homework / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 100%
Part 1 Topic Test / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 100%
Mid-Year Examination / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 100%
The story of your life (Individual) / 20% / 40% / 20% / 20% / 100%
Term 2 Homework / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 100%
The Matrix (Small group) / 20% / 20% / 40% / 20% / 100%
Part 2 Topic Test / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 100%
Party Time (Small group) / 40% / 40% / 20% / 100%
Fashion Central (Small Group) / 40% / 40% / 20% / 100%
Oceans 14 (Individual) / 20% / 40% / 20% / 20% / 100%
Big Brother (Group) / 20% / 20% / 40% / 20% / 100%
The Big Screen (Small group) / 40% / 40% / 20% / 100%
Part 3 Topic Test / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 100%
The End Game (Group) / 20% / 20% / 100%
Final Examination / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 100%
Term 3 Homework / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 20% / 100%
260% / 360% / 340% / 140% / 180% / 260%

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Assessment Tasks (YR11)