A summary overview of the syllabus for this academic year

Autumn Term

ICT at school, home ... mobile

Internet & web: key figures and events

Reading the social web: browsers, RSS and search

Communicating & collaborating, on- and off-line I: Office(s); webmail, IM, chat, VoIP

Spring Term

Communicating & collaborating, on- and off-line II: blogs & wikis; video- and photo-sharing; social bookmarking and tagging; maps

Summer Term

Responsibility and Identity:Wikipedia (critical reading, responsible writing); social software (privacy, safety, digital identity)

The Law: copyright (links, permissions, problems); music (file-sharing, DRM); defamation and abuse (rights and responsibilities)

Games

Virtual Worlds