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	ICT Skills You will develop your skills and understanding in all of these skill areas during the first term. In the second term you will begin a major project that will extend your skills (in the yellow sections below) and give you the freedom to develop a complete product or system. What happens when in Year 10 file Overview of the whole course file Video Tutorials file

1	Using the Internet Internet Quiz Interactive Poster Resource x Different search engines Resource Wikipedia survives research test (BBC News) file Market share statistics (browser software & search engines) file Websites that use multimedia file At a glance: The Byron Review (bbc.co.uk) file Online Spellchecker (better than Word's?) file Online Readability score file

2	Spreadsheets Interactive Poster Resource Calculations, budgeting and systems Excel tutorials file IF function tutorial file Budgeting rightmove.co.uk file USwitch.com file UpMystreet - information on where you live file

3	Logo Design Logo design resources Retail alphabet game file Example logo design (with variations) file Does the 2014 Olympic logo work? file

4	Desktop Publishing (DTP) Page design (newspapers, magazines) Example magazine designs 1 (exacteditions.com) file Example magazine designs 2 (zinio.com) file Evolution of a magazine file How has the magazine's design evolved over the years? Use the 'number links' in the text. How to write great headlines file Advert & poster design Best adverts appearing in newspapers and magazines file A constantly updated list of the best current print adverts in the media How does this advert cleverly use two pages? file Adverts with an 'environment' theme file Smokefree England advertising campaign file The Economist magazine advertising campaign file

5	Design General resources related to design work RealDraw manual file iStockPhoto file DaFont.com file The skill designers lack and other small tips (Before & After magazine) file Colour ColourSchemer file ColourBlender file Colour wheel diagram file Palette Generator: Automatically create a colour palette from a photograph text file Colours and printing explained (RBG & CMYK) Resource RGB and CMYK explained in detail (MezzoBlue) file Printing How printing works on a big scale file login: redhill password: hymngill21 Videos of how printing used to happen file Offset printing - Wikipedia file Colour printing - Wikipedia file How offset printing works - Howstuffworks.com file

6	Multimedia Interactive screen-based products and systems Design company portfolios file Multimedia examples file Navigation button examples file Navigation tab examples file How to get your graphics out of RealDraw ('export') Resource Examples of multimedia IDI Multimedia file Creative Software multimedia example file Example of a website using 'thumbnail images' file

7	Databases Storing information, searching and systems Database words Hot Potatoes Quiz Home and Leisure Accident statistics - RoSPA file Relationships demo file

8	Word Processing Letter writing (what goes where) file Agenda items Hot Potatoes Quiz How to do a right tab file Mail merge (animation) file

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Contact your teachers about any issues or queries regarding your work, lessons or absence.

Mr West

c.west@redhill.notts.sch.uk

Mrs Morris

h.morris@redhill.notts.sch.uk

Mrs Holman

s.holman@redhill.notts.sch.uk

Or TXT 07766 40 41 42 and begin your message with ICTHELP (automatic service that sends an email to your ICT teacher)