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=Technology Department=

HOD: Mrs I Holland
**Food Technology** **- Mrs A Fowkes (click and this will link to the Food page)** **Fabric Technology** **- Ms H Roy ICT Technology** - **Mrs I Holland** During term 3 the Senior computer classes are working on the following topics etc and during your own time students are encouraged to work through the following topics/ activities. Slideshow presentations and speeches will be held during class time September 1st to 5th.
 * TIM (Text and Information Management/ Senior Computing)**
 * Year 13 - **The students have been working on Unit Standard 5940 which is due in during week 6. Students have been given instructions on planning, design and preparation for this assessment. It is advisable that students spend some time at home organising work and ensuring that the finished assessment is completed by the set deadline. The main purpose of this unit standard is to plan, prepare and create a presentation using powerpoint. The work covered in class will include the different features of this program. The students will be given a workbook to work from in class and extra work can be covered at home.

Year 12 -** There are also some useful websites which you can look at to reinforce the proceedure of mail merge, spreadsheets, graphs etc. [] [] In Term three the year 12 will be working towards a Unit Standard on Health and Safety in the Workplace and how it relates to computers. The assessment for this unit standard will involve some practical and theoretical work. The students have a Computing workbook and this topic is covered in Chapter 3 (Ergonomics) which the girls should be working through at home. The unit standard outline is 6743 and can be found on the NZQA website.

Term 3 - Some year 12 students may be attempting an Achievement Standard for ICT. You can look through the suggested activity on the NCEA website. This achievement standard number is 90349 - [] also [|www.technlink.org.nz] - this site is useful for looking at samples of student work, portfolios and giving definitions of technological terms. The following files can be used as a reference for AS90349. They give definitions and examples of some of the things the students will need to do for this Achievement Standard. To open the file you will need to know the password, save and download the file. Students who have access to view this file have been given the password to use. Word Files for AS90349. At this stage only TWO students have expressed an interest in attempting this Achievement Standard and have already made a start working towards the assessment. US2788 - The last assessment for the year is using Publisher to create pages of a Magazine or Newspaper. Various design skills and planning work is required for this assessment.

Students will be asked to research, draw sketches on a particular topic and come up with a conceptual design. The planning, process and investigation of different ideas will be important to the finished product. If students wish to do some work at home towards this assessment. They too have a workbook and can work through these pages 62, 63 (design work), Pg 33, Pg 31 and 32 (design work) and Pg 19 and 20 on autoshapes. The work on these pages will help to give them practice towards work which will be completed in Term 3. Other things that can be attempted or covered at home include: - looking at various CD designs, colour, fonts etc - looking at examples of advertisments etc - practice in basic skills of Microsoft Word and Publisher - drawing and creating adverts, images, logos etc. In class the students will be given a good basic grounding of the knowledge required to ensure that they can produce an effective end product. This assessment is due in on friday september 4th.
 * Year 11 ** - This class have just completed an assessment and will be working towards an Achievement Standard in term 3 based on the Design process.

** Year 10 ** - Term 3 - The year 10 classes have started work in Microsoft Excel which is a spreadsheet program and can be used for calculations, graphs, etc.