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 * =YEAR 11 INFORMATION PROCESSES & TECHNOLOGY..= || [[image:images.jpg]] ||

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1. ONLY THREE PEOPLE HAVE SUBMITTED HOMEWORK fro week 8. Please have diaries open and ready to receive homework credit/debits. The week 8 homework MUST be submitted before the end of the first lesson.

Week 9 homework due IN WRITING on Friday.


 * Homework for week 8 only:** Chapter 3.2. Submit by email to terry.fogarty@tphs.nsw.edu.au on Thursday. Must be an INDIVIDUALLY typed document.

2. Each group leader to send me by email the web address of the group wiki.

Week 8/9 class activities
Groups create collaborative wikis and blogs.
 * Tuesday Period 4**

1. The group leader (person shown in **bold** on the groups page) is to create (or use an existing) WikiSpaces Wiki.

2. All group members are to participate in collaborating and contributing to the wiki.

On the wiki, address the following questions:

What is a wiki? What is the best wiki-engine? Why? What is a blog? How could you use a wiki for school work? How should a BLOG be used for school work


 * Protocols:** Any person making an entry on the Wiki must sign & date their 'dropppngs' with the initials and date e.g. (FT 6/6).


 * Before the end of the lesson:** Update the BLOG you created for the last task.

Groups brainstorm how the various parts of Word Processing software relate to the seven Informatio Processes of:
 * Wednesday Period 7**

C - collecting O - organising A - analysing S - storing and retrieving T - transmitting and receiving P - processing D - display
 * Create a new page in your Wiki called 'COAST-PD'
 * Define and provide and example of each of the seven information processes e.g Displaying is the presentation of of information. For example, you can use the 'Print' command to dispaly text to paper.
 * Create pages for each of the seven information processes linked to the COASTPD page (one per process). Write as much relevant information as you can about how Word Processing relates to the particular information process.


 * Before the end of the lesson:** Update your Blog.


 * Thursday Periods 7 & 8
 * Groups consider chapter three of the textbook "Planning Design and Implementation'

Create a new wiki page with a six row by four column table similar to the one shown below.

Complete the table:

//**The system development cycle consist of five stage which we refer to as UMDI-TEM.
 * //1. The System Developement Cycle


 * || **Stage in Cycle** || **Typical Input** || **Typical Output** ||
 * **U** || ||  ||  ||
 * **M** || ||  ||  ||
 * **D** || Designing solutions || Design Specifications || Built solution ||
 * **I** || ||  ||  ||
 * **TEM** || ||  ||  ||
 * 2. Data Flow Diagram
 * Recreate Figure 3.6 (p. 102) using CMap.

Create and new page in your wiki to display the CMAP image

Insert and appropriate link in your System Developement Cycle Table to the DFD image.

Answer the question: How is a data flow diagram different from a system flow chart by 'Stating, Explaining and using and eXample'. Make sure you give a graphic account. BUT be verry, verrrry careful - no inappropriate language.


 * Before the end of the lesson:** Update your Blog.

How can we use GameMaker?
 * Friday Periods 5 & 6 (Individual Task)**

Have play with GameMaker (installed on the computers) for about 15 mins. Then read the GameMaker HELP.

Do some research on the Internet and find out how other are using GameMaker.

Consider how we could use GameMaker to write an Educational Game (the proposed game must not be violent, aggressive or anti-social nor be a tpyical 'shooting' game.Preferably the game should deal either with numbers, yexy or pictures (e.g a crossword puzzle, snakes and ladders or jig-zaw puzzle).

Write a wiki-based report of how you believe we can use Gamemaker.

Update your Blog to record what you did today.

Last Task (Non-assessable)
TASK 1 (2 periods) Thursday 8th June 2006

Create a document that contains a definition and picture of the following terms:
 * Network card (NIC)
 * Router
 * Hub
 * Switch
 * CAT5, CAT6 cables
 * Modem
 * Wireless access point
 * Fax
 * Printer
 * Workstation
 * Server
 * Firewall

//Remember to Include a picture/photo in each definition//. You will need to do this without using Google Images.

At the end of the lesson email your document to Terry.Fogarty@tphs.nsw.edu.au

Previous Assignment (being marked)

 * Due:** Week 5 Term 2
 * Weighting: 20%**



Next Assignment
To be advised by Mr Duley
 * Due:**
 * Weighting:

2006 Mid-year examination outline
Exam Outline (linked removed to - exam succesfully negotiated by students

2005 Mid-year Examination (Marked and returned)


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