What's New - February 2010

08/02/10	Added the following video tutorials for Word 2007 to the site: - inserting word art - changing word art text - changing word art letter spacing - making word art letters the same height - vertical word art - changing the style of word art - changing word art colours - adding an outline to word art letters - adding a warp effect to word art - adding a shadow effect to word art - adding a 3d effect to word art - rotating word art - wrapping text around word art - spell check - adding words to the dictionary - change the dictionary language - hide spelling errors - turn grammar checking on - check and correct grammar - hide grammar errors - using the thesaurus - using the translation tool
07/02/10	Added the weekly 'Teach-ICT Has Got News For You' quiz for news stories. Can your AS/A level students guess the news stories behind the pictures? (available for all) Added the weekly interactive ICT news quiz for 07/02/10 - available for all. Added an editable, printable version of the weekly ICT news quiz for subscribers Added the following video tutorials for Word 2007 to the site: - using the ribbon - showing the ribbon - minimising the ribbon - pinning recently used documents - justifying paragraphs - indenting paragraphs - indenting first line of paragraphs - hanging indents - adding tabs - line spacing - character spacing - columns - hyphenation - border around paragraph
06/02/10	Added the following video tutorials for Word 2007 to the site: - strikethrough - change case - drop cap - highlighter tool - symbols - equations - text effects - format painter - remove formatting - saving work - using save as - save work for Word 97-03 - Setting work to autosave as 97-03 - Setting the autosave feature - save work as another format e.g. txt - save as pdf file - print preview - adding print preview icon to the quick took bar - adding quick print icon to the quick tool bar - quick print - printing options - send a document as an attachment from within Word
05/02/10	Added the following video tutorials for Word 2007 to the site: - creating a new blank document - creating a new document from a template - using an online template - opening an existing document - adding 'new' and 'open' docs to quick taskbar - selecting text - deleting text - moving text - copy and paste - undo, redo - formatting and paragraph marks - find tool - find and replace tool - font size changes, grow and shrink - font style changes - underline styles - bold or italics - font colour - superscript - subscript Added a link to the following news video stories: - 'packet switching' system's first comptuer network - Cardiff centralises crime and traffice CCTV monitoring - How a 3D rugby match is filmed - Robotic blood tests 'save time' - New face of recognition software
04/02/10	Added a superb workbook for OCR Nationals, Unit 22. Kindly contributed by Mark Wilson. Added a research paper which looks at the use of Scratch as a computer programming application in the wider curriculum in primary schools. Kindly contributed by Stamati Crook from Redware Research Ltd. (paper available from contributor's section)
03/02/10	Added a new mini-website to cover the OCR AS ICT, module 3.1.3 g theory on why organisations need a consistent house style Added a task and answer sheet for the OCR AS ICT, module 3.1.3 g theory on why organisations need a consistent house style (subscription only)
02/02/10	Added a new mini-website to cover the OCR AS ICT, module 3.1.3 e theory on buttons, forms, form controls, menus and templates Added a task and answer sheet for the OCR AS ICT, module 3.1.3 e theory on buttons, forms, form controls, menus and templates (subscription only) Added a link to the following news video stories: - Fans give verdict on Sky's first 3D football match - World War II computer Collusus that cracked Nazi code - Deciphering the Tunny message code used by Nazi Germany - UK's 'oldest' computer, the Witch or Harwell, rebuilt - Cancel out unwanted noise - Has the promise of the internet gone sour?
01/02/10	Added a new 5 week KS3 SoW for year 8 or 9 on Graphics Editing, called 'Faking it!' SoW includes: 23 individual resources including all lesson plans, starters, plenaries, lesson tasks and 14 video tutorials which take students through all of the techniques they need to know for this unit of work The SoW also includes the images needed by students in order to follow the tutorials. This SoW is only available to those with a resource subscription licence.