The ICT programme provided for our students is
primarily skills based. Students attend approximately six 80 minute sessions
over a term. During this time they are taught skills that they can apply when carrying out work on their classroom
computer.
The ICT room has 18 networked computers, 1 scanner, 2 digital cameras, 1 laser and
1 colour inkjet printers.
Each student who attends this room is able to work individually on their projects.
One computer is permanently set up to cater for our visually impaired students allowing equity for all students in ICT.
The Year 7 students use MS Publisher 2000. They plan and produce a colour brochure about themselves, their
family, pets, friends, recreational activities, hobbies, likes & dislikes etc. They must include at least three scanned
images and at least one digital photograph in their brochure.
The Year 8 students plan a class trip to a location outside New Zealand.
They carry out the following
activities:
- download weather information from the place they plan to travel to.
- Open MS Excel 2000 and enter the average temperature and average rainfall information into a spreadsheet
- manipulating columns, fonts, borders, text colour and cell fill colours in the worksheet.
- Select data and graph the average temperature & rainfall figures individually. Adding colour, texture and
manipulating fonts.
- Download and print out airline flight information from Auckland to their destination.
- Print off a destination map.
- Design a poster using MS Word 2000.
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