What's New - August 2006

31/08/06

Added news story link, 'Norwich pioneers free city wi-fi'

Added news story link, 'Outrage at Zimbabwe bugging plan'

30/08/06

Added a complete SoW for the OCR Entry Level in ICT (3912) by Shaun Joynson

Added news story link, 'Google makes novels free to print'

Added news story link, 'Hackers grab AT&T customer data'

Added news story link, 'Mobile phones allowed on Ryanair'

29/08/06

Added a new multi-choice quiz for A2 2517 - Organisational structure

Added a new maze quiz for GCSE Systems Flowcharts

28/08/06

Added the teach-ict forum for students and teachers to post questions, opinions and ideas about ICT

27/08/06

Added a new game type - Multi-Choice with one question per page - use this to create your own quizzes for starters, plenaries or to test students' understanding during a lesson

26/08/06

Added news story link, 'Playstation 3 tackles world ills (distributed systems)

25/08/06

Added news story link, 'technology lets ads get personal'

Added news story link, 'boost to Galileo sat-nav system'

23/08/06

Added the following video tutorials for Word

• Creating a mail merged letter using a database

• Using mail merge to extract data from a spreadsheet and populate a payslip

Added news story link, 'Joke generator raises a chuckle'

22/08/06

Added a new game type - MAZE - which can be used to create your own games/quizzes

Added news story link, 'UK will lead digitial TV uptake'

Added news story link, 'Milton Keynes gets high speed net'

21/08/06

Added the following video tutorials for Photoshop

• Using the graphics pen filter

• Creating an embossed effect

• Creating a stained glass effect

• Creating a mosaic tiled effect

• Creating a wind effect

Added news story link, 'Artificial muscles light up TVs'

20/08/06

Added a PPT for A2 2517 - well designed Interfaces

Added the following video tutorials for Photoshop:

• combining parts of different images to create a new, fantasy image

• using the liquify tool

• creating a watercolour painting from an image

• adding a neon glow to an image

• adding a lens flare effect to an image

• adding lighting effects to an image

19/08/06

Added a PPT for A2 2517 - Business Functions within Organisations

Added a PPT for A2 2517 - Roles and Responsibilities within Organisations

18/08/06

Added a complete project for Yr 9 called 'The Fashion Project' - based around desiging key business documents. A useful skills based project which does not follow the NC.

Added news story link, 'cinema meets digital technology'

Added news story link, 'US judge rules wiretaps illegal

17/08/06

Added the following new video tutorials to the Access section:

• Adding a field to an existing query

• Creating a report from a query

• Creating an 'OR' query

• Creating a 'NOT' query

• Creating an 'IS NULL' query

• Creating a query to search between two dates

• Creating a query using a WILDCARD

16/08/06

Rewrote AS/A2 mini website on GPS

Added news story link, 'From mortal to model'

Added news story link, 'File sharing darknet unveiled'

Added news story link, 'Hackers target latests Windows fix'

15/08/06

Revamped the AS/A2 menu to make it easier to find theory in each module

Added a PPT for OCR A2 2527 Organisational Boundaries

Added a PPT for OCR A2 2527 Organisations - Relationship to the Environment

Added a PPT for OCR A2 2527 Organisations - Systems & Subsystems

Added a PPT for OCR A2 2527 Organisations - Internal Resources

Added a new section to the Video Tutorials section for Access help

14/08/06

Created the following video tutorials for photoshop:

• starting a new project

• opening a picture you have already saved

• drawing a line using the brush tool

• preset brush effects

• filling a shape with colour

• preset paint fill effects

• gradient fill effects

• filling a background of a picture with colour

• rotating an image

• flipping an image

Added news story link, 'Police decryption powers 'flawed''

13/08/06

Added a new interactive multi-choice quiz for GCSE Word Processing

Added a new interactive multi-choice quiz for GCSE the Internet

Added a new interactive multi-choice quiz for GCSE Data Capture

Added a new interactive multi-choice quiz for KS3 7.1 Internet Safety

Added a new interactive multi-choice quiz for KS3 Units 7.1 & 7.3 Audience and Style

12/08/06

Added a new interactive Racing Cubes game for GCSE Data Capture Forms

Added a new interactive Racing Cubes game for GCSE Storage and Memory

Added a new interactive Racing Cubes game for KS3 7.4 Spreadsheets

Added a new interactive Racing Cubes game for GCSE Systems Life Cycle

Added a new interactive Racing Cubes game for KS3 7.5 on Data

Added a new interactive Racing Cubes game for KS3 8.2 The Internet

Added a new interactive Racing Cubes game for KS3 8.4 Spreadsheets

11/08/06

Released a new quiz type in our free quiz creation range - Racing Cubes

Added news story link, '25 years of the IBM PC'

Added news story link, 'Stalemate for high-def DVD war'

Added news story link, 'Texting study to catch criminals'

10/08/06

Added news story link, 'Young drive radical media shift'

Added news story link, 'HSBC to review online security'

09/08/06

Added news story link, 'Hijacked handheld turns data spy'

08/08/06

Added news story link, 'One in ten victims of ID crimes'

Added news story link, 'Sony taps into instant message crowd'

Added news story link, 'AOL apologise for data search error'

04/08/06

Added news story link, 'Searching for a mobile interface'

03/08/06

Added news story link, 'Artwork changes to suit mood'

Added news story link, 'How the Internet transformed business'

Added news story link, 'How the Web went world wide'

02/08/06

Added news story link, 'Photos transformed into 3D model'

Added news story link, 'Child online safety card unveiled'

Added news story link, 'The broadband boom and you'

01/08/06

New menu design incorporated into the site.