SOW+8th+Grade

= = = = = Cal 1 = ||||||||~ =** Scheme of Work for ICT: Grade 8 – Academic Year 09-10 **=

= = ||~  ||~   ||~   || ** Students will update their files and settings on the ABC Intranet and ABC-Net Gmail and Docs, They will research, take notes and cite their work, using NoodleBib while socially bookmarking digital resources, using Diigo. Students will create and present slideshow presentations which adhere to the ABC Presentation Guidelines. They will learn how to use PageFlakes, choosing and adding flakes/widgets/gadgets and RSS feeds. They will use Jing to create screen cast tutorials and create basic programs utilising //Scratch programing language.
 * ~ **Starters for Cal 1:** * Demo gadgets
 * Discuss the value of Reader
 * Search results and boolean demo
 * Elluminate demo
 * Tell me about our presentation guidelines: What makes a good presentation?
 * How could we best demo how to use PageFlakes using ICT? ||
 * ** Topic:
 * ABC Intranet, Gadgets, Google Reader,Research, social bookmarking, citations, presentation skills ** |||||||| ** 11 lessons ** ||  || **Start of Cal 1: 20/Aug/2009**
 * Ends of Cal 1: Nov.12 2009** ||  ||
 * ** Learning Outcomes **

Vocab: Intranet, iabc,Delicious, social bookmark, citations,presentation,slides, gadgets,reader,rss, feed, jing screencast boolean noodlebib citation cite, embed hyperlink, flakes, pageflakes || Learning Outcomes and Content ** || ** Time ** || ** Resources/ Activities ** ||  ||   || ** Methodology ** || ** Differentiation/Type of Thinking Skills ** || ** ICT/Cross Curricular/ ** New folders in school network and in google docs Meet Mac refresher
 * Key Words**//
 * Local Culture etc ** ||
 * **Personal Documents**
 * Keeping it Organsed****(6)**

Setting up and searching for feeds, reading feeds include Ning main page
 * Personal Google Accounts**
 * Google Reader(2)(3)(6)**

Create accounts, search and add rss feeds, add pages, add flakes/widgets/gadgets for each subject including Anything Flakes
 * PageFlakes(6)**

Students to use Jing to create a screencast tutorial explaining how to work with gadgets.
 * Jing** **Screencasts**
 * 2 Lessons**

Basic boolean revision and advanced(enrichment) ,social bookmarking with Diigo:sticky notes, highlighting,sharing to groups, and note taking and citations using Noodlebib
 * Research (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)**

Revise guidelines for good presentations and guidelines for delivering it. Prezi- Adding and deleting,editing, formatting text, Adding Images, Embedding videos in presentations, Adding a Chart to a Slide, Hyperlinks on a Slide
 * Presentations****(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)**

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 * 2 lessons**

lesson**s
 * 2


 * 1 lesson**


 * 2 lessons**


 * 2 lessons**


 * 2 lessons** |||||| abc intranet

PageFlakes Reader a broad collection of good feeds for students

PageFlakes, widgetbox, Delicious and Noodlebib

jing

Review presentation guidelines NeoOffice Impress ||

Use the pathfinder to determine feeds of interest.

Demo and discuss Search for applicable gadgets online

Creation of a screencast

Practical construction of a presentation ||

Evaluate rss sources Personalise Pages and themes. Search for and Evaluate flakes for use on personal and subject pages
 * Extension:** Search out and utilise feeds of their own
 * Extension:** go outside of Pageflakes and experiment with a broader range of gadgets and widgets.

paired work

Evaluate the content and structure of a presentation || **Spanish(1)(2)(6)** **First week of September** Podcast Radio Show

Brasil-Rain forests:tribes, regions, deforestation. Role play and presentation construction
 * Mid October Elluminate?**
 * Geography**
 * Presentations (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)**

Delivering the presentation and peer assessment based on rubric Topics: //**// Scratch-programming:games and presentations, Research-NoodleBib:citatations notecards,Social Bookmarks-Delicious and SimplyBox, Desktop Publishing-NeoOffice: brochures, Twitter or Today's Meet // || basic programing, game/presentation construction
 * 1 lesson** ||
 * ~ =CAL 2=
 * Starters for Cal 2:
 * Brochure Introduction
 * Questions and summary about the previous topics ** ||~  ||~   ||
 * ** Topic: Desktop Publishing-NeoOffice ** || ** 11 lessons ** |||||| || **Start of Cal 2: 13/Nov/2009**
 * End of Cal 2: 25/Feb/2010** ||  ||
 * **Learning Outcomes:** Students will create basic programs utilising Scratch programing language. Students will research online and bookmark socially/collaborate/pairing Delicious and Simplybox. They will use either Twitter or Today's meet for collaborative discussions during research. Students will cite their work and take notes in NoodleBib. Students will produce professional looking brochures using NeoOffice Text or Draw, adding text boxes and backgrounds, formatting fonts, insertinggraphics, charts and tables, editing photos as needed using Picasa and Gimp. **//
 * **Key Words and Language** **Issues**: Social bookmark,research, notecards, paraphrase,pdf, upload, Delicious,Bookmark,Tag,Search,Network,NoodleBib,Bibliography,Works Cited,Citation,Source, Today's Meet, Twitter, Collaboration. ||
 * **Learning Outcomes or Content** || **Time** |||||| **Resources/ Activities** || **Methodology** || **Differentiation/Type of Thinking Skills** || **ICT/Cross Curricular/**
 * Local Culture etc** ||
 * **Scratch(1)(4)(6)**

basic boolean review, social bookmarking Diigo, bibliography or citations and Note cards,Back channel collaboration- Twitter, hashtags, social networks
 * Research(2)(3)(6)**

NeoOffice Text, creating text documents, text boxes,editing text in a document,selecting text, Cut, Copy, and Paste, Formatting Characters
 * Desktop Publishing(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)**

finding and replacing text, spelling and grammar checking, using a thesaurus, previewing a document,

paragraph alignment, columns, line spacing, bullet points-how to deactivate them

adding Images, cropping, Fontworks (view, tool bar, drawing, font work gallery)

using tables, formatting cell contents styles.

pagination, headers and footers, creating a table of contents, creating a hyperlink to a heading, creating footnotes. export as a PDF. Uploading work to GDocs || **5lessons**


 * 3 lessons**


 * 2-3lessons** |||||| Research on a given topic(Rainforests?)

Bookmark useful sites in delicious

Practice taking notes and create notecards and citations in Noodlebib.

Demo and discuss publications from last year.

Construction and editing of the presentation || Questioning, review and practice.

Show Presentations.

Demonstration and discussion and pracice

Demonstration and practice || Evaluate

Cluster tags in delicious

synthesise

evaluate || **A Tourist Brochure** French/Spanish: Un Ville Touristique Working on the brochure research and citations.

Online design app
 * English(1)(2)(6)**
 * Describe a Character's mind as a room**

8th Grade Raps Garage band Riffs and Loops Groups of 4-5
 * Music**

Elluminate La Entrivista || If needed refer to Code of practice in fair use (link) (see email from Jen 10/12/08: (Code of conduct) __[]__ || Spreadsheets,Social Networking,Podcasting, Photo Editing, Digital Portfolios ||||  |||||| ** 2 lessons ** || **Start of Cal 3: 26/Feb/2010** Revise entering data into a worksheet, editing cell contents, formatting cells formatting numeric data, selecting cells, previewing and setting print options. creating graphs, basic formulae
 * Spanish(1)(2)(6)**
 * **Peer Assessment of Presentation Skills using the rubric** ||
 * ~ =CAL 3= |||| ||
 * ~ **Starters**
 * ~ **Starters**
 * **Learning Outcomes:** Students will be able transfer data collected to spreadsheets in NeoOffice Calc, which they will format, create graphs for and apply functions to. They will expand on their work with Ning social networks and create groups, post and respond to forums, upload their podcasts which they will write and produce collaboratively in Google Docs. Students will reflect on their learning this year and add elements with reflections to their Mahara views,create groups and share certain views. ||
 * **Key Words and Language** **Issues:** Mind map, Social Networking, Ning, Forum, Discussion, Post, Podcast, Garageband, audio, export, upload, download, mp3, Pathfinder, edit, crop, embed, tune, reflect,Mahara Digital Portfolio ||
 * **Topics**
 * End of Cal 3: 9/June/2010** ||
 * **Learning Outcomes or Content** || **Lessons** |||||| **Resources/ Activities** || **Methodology** || ** Differentiation/Type of Thinking Skills ** || **ICT/Cross Curricular/**
 * Local Culture etc** ||
 * **Spreadsheet basics(4)(6)**

**Social Networking(2)(5)(6)** Ning Uploading work, forums, groups

Google docs collaborative scripts, GarageBand recording and editing,uploading podcasts to the Ning
 * Podcasting (1)(2)(6)**

Picasa photo editor, gimp for extension
 * Photo Editing(2)(6)**

**Digital porfolios(2)(5)(6)** http://www.abc.edu.sv/mahara/ Revise the importance of an e-portfolio, Update skills and goals, Discuss KS3 Views. What activities may go in it?

Work with different views within the E-portfolio Understand what should go into an E-portfolio and add to it.

Use the Social Networking feature, create groups How to share aspects of E-portfolio.


 * Robot Design:** Incredibots ,joints,motors,design features || **2**

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 * 4**

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**4** |||||| Work with data from Maths to create spreadsheets

Students to create groups, post forums for their groups and carry on the discussion. They will later upload their podcasts.

WW1 Podcast on the spot report. Students to choose an event to report on. Collaborative script in GDocs and Podcast with sound effects using GarageBand

Edit photos using picasa and upload them their personal gmail accounts. Embed presentations in the Ning.

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Brainstorm:Use [|mindmiester] concept maps in small groups...kids will need to create an account and work in pairs.

Demo taking a screenshot on the mac and saving the pics in their documents. They should also gmail them to members of their pair or trio.

Create your E-portfolio Profile add icon, goals and skills

[|Views]

Demo how My Portfolio Works and discuss views.

Students to create a view for one aspect of their learning and begin adding evidence after a discussion of criteria.

Demo sharing and creating a social network Editing the view: adding more evidence. [|Intro video] to Majara || Demonstrate, create spreadsheets using maths concepts

Demonstrate, review and hands on work

Listen to examples from last year, collaborate on scripts, produce podcasts

practical work after brief review.

Review and practical work || transfer understanding of tables and graphs, and functions from maths to ict

evaluate and respond

evaluate and collaborate, apply understanding

evaluate and apply understanding, share

reflect and evaluate || **Podcasting****(1)(2)(6)** History: WW1 on the spot News report


 * Digital porfolio** **(2)(4)(6)**

iMovie Report
 * Spanish(1)(2)(3)(6)**

Voicethread Art Gallery
 * Art(1)(2)(6)**

Learning Intention: To understand what cyberbullying is, empathise with the plight of those who are bullied and learn to avoid such behaviour ||
 * 8a Cyberbullying(5)**