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Award in Digital Applications (AiDA) – single GCSE

What will I learn?

ICT Digital media now play an increasingly important part in our everyday lives and in the world of work. Most of us are users of this media. We use mobile phones and send texts. We browse websites, and send e-mails. We take digital photos, listen to CDs, play computer games and may even keep an electronic diary. You’ll learn how to manage and present your work in an eportfolio. You’ll learn how to use a variety of software and will learn about: scanners; databases; internet and intranet; e-mail; presentations; spreadsheets; and word processing, as well as managing the whole process effectively. The Award in Digital Applications will give you a solid grounding in all of these, enabling you to go on to further study or to go into the workplace.

What sort of homework will I be set?

Most homework will be practically-based ICT work, to save your coursework onto a USB drive, develop it at home, and bring an electronic copy back for next lesson. Other homeworks will involve research, but again the work produced will saved and brought in on USB drive.

What coursework will I need to do?

Using ICT. You will be given a web-based research task and produce a series of electronc documents based on a common theme e.g. teenage youth clubs. Examples of work produced include Plans, Surveys, Reports, Databases, Leaflets, Newsletters, Graphics, Presentations. You will collate all your work and present it in an electronic portfolio or e-book, designed to be read on-screen.

How will my work be assessed?

This course is 100% coursework. Marks are awarded for both the quality of the electronic documents and for the e-book.

What qualification will I gain?

GCSE: Award in Digital Applications (Edexcel) – single award GCSE

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION–ASK MR BROUGH

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Certificate in Digital Applications (CiDA) – double GCSE


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What will I learn?

Digital media now play an increasingly important part in our everyday lives and in the world of work. Most of us are users of this media. We use mobile phones and send texts. We browse websites, download music files and send e-mails. We take digital photos, listen to CDs, play computer games and may even keep an electronic diary. You'll learn how to manage and present your work in an eportfolio. You'll learn how to use a variety of software and will learn about: scanners; databases; internet and intranet; e-mail; presentations; spreadsheets; and word processing, as well as managing the whole process effectively. The Certificate in Digital Applications will give you a solid grounding in all of these, enabling you to go on to further study or to go into the workplace. It expands on the single-GCSE Award in Digital Applications to cover the world of Multmedia. When you browse a website, play a video game, send a text message, download an MP3 file or watch a DVD, you’re using multimedia.This course will help you to design and produce your own multimedia applications, as well as take a critical look at multimedia in the world around you.

What sort of homework will I be set?

Most homework will be practically-based ICT work, to save your coursework onto a USB drive, develop it at home, and bring an electronic copy back for next lesson. Other homeworks will involve research, but again the work produced will saved and brought in on USB drive.

What coursework will I need to do?

  1. Using ICT. You will be given a web-based research task and produce a series of electronc documents based on a common theme e.g. teenage youth clubs. Examples of work produced include Plans, Surveys, Reports, Databases, Leaflets, Newsletters, Graphics, Presentations. You will collate all your work and present it in an electronic portfolio or e-book, designed to be read on-screen.
  2. Multimedia. You will design and produce your own multimedia applications, as well as take a critical look at multimedia in the world around you. You’ll learn how to collect your own multimedia products – music, images or photographs, for example - and then manage the process of putting them together to create something new in an electronic portflio or e-book.

How will my work be assessed?

This course is 100% coursework. Marks are awarded for both the quality of the electronic documents and for the e-book.

What qualification will I gain?

Certificate in Digital Applications (Edexcel) – double award GCSE

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION–ASK MR BROUGH