Introduction to some fundamental software development skills for Year 10 students. This is all about designing a simple programme in Scratch that meets the requirements of the brief.

Blender is an open source 3D modelling and animation tool.

This tutorial provides an introduction to a simple modelling technique called Box Modelling. Ideal for introducing younger students to 3D modelling and for rapid prototyping with senior students.

Blender is available from: http://www.blender.org/

This is an example of creating a PDF file from XHTML using XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) and Formatting Objects.

The example includes markup and XSL files that can be parsed to create a PDF. The example PDF was created using the Apache Formatting Objects Processor available from http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/. For those using Ubuntu Linux FOP is available in the repositories.

An assessment schedule for a Level 1 IT class using Generic Technology standards.

An assessment schedule using Generic Technology standards.

This was a proposed programme for Level 3 ICT. At the time this was intended to be assessed using Generic Technology standards but the new Digital Technology standards would likely be incorporated as they are released.

This is a broad integrated course that introduces some higher level skills introduced at Level 1 and 2. Projects would typically incorporate 2 or more different media or techniques.

A proposed plan for splitting up Level 3 into specialist areas. This covers some of the key media and related skills commonly used in IT.