Free Teaching Resources
These are primarily resources used by Josh during his time as a secondary teacher and have been made available for free with the hope they may be of use or provide some inspiration or ideas.
The freebies still use the shopping cart but do not go through the payment system. You will get the usual email with a link to download the files.
You are welcome to use these free resources within the bounds of the Creative Commons license.
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| 10ICT Course Outline |
A simple Year 10 course overview over two terms that covers introductions to Graphic Design, Web Design and Software Development (using Scratch). The course is intended to introduce the basic skills and lead students toward the Year 11 course. |
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| 10ICT Project: Music Player Packaging |
A graphic design project based around producing imagery for a portable music player package. Students were able to use raster or vector image manipulation techniques to meet the requirements of the brief. |
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| 10ICT Project: Software Development |
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. |
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| 10ICT Project: Web Site |
A web design project for a Year 10 ICT course. The focus is on building up a simple HTML/CSS site and run through testing and delivery (via a FTP upload). Includes markup and CSS for a simple site. |
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| Blender: Introduction to Box Modelling |
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. |
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| Design Process Posters |
These A3 posters outline the basic tasks that typically occur in each key stage of the design process. |
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| Formatting Objects Example |
This is an example of creating a PDF file from XHTML using XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) and Formatting Objects. |
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| ICT Project Outlines |
These are the project outlines that I used in my ICT classes. The standards indicated in the outlines were usually assessed across a range of projects so will appear in multiple projects. |
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| Level 1 ICT Assessment Schedules |
An assessment schedule for a Level 1 IT class using Generic Technology standards. |
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| Level 1 ICT Course Outline |
A course outline (from 2009) using Generic Technology standards for assessment. |
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| Level 2 ICT Assessment Schedules |
An assessment schedule using Generic Technology standards. |
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| Level 2 ICT Course Outline |
A course outline (from 2009) using Generic Technology standards for assessment. |
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| Level 3 ICT: Programme Plan |
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. |
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| Level 3 IT: Human/Computer Interaction Course Overview |
An initial plan for splitting up Level 3 into specialist areas. This course was intended to cross over with a programming and/or multimedia course |
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| Level 3: Multimedia Course |
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. |
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| Level 3: Specialised Course Overview |
A proposed course for three specialised streams for level 3 students: Media, Human/Computer Interaction, Programming/Computer Science. |