10ELT Course Overview

Why this subject?

Electronic devices are a vital part of modern life and there are tremendous opportunities for people who have an understanding of how these devices work and who can design and make innovative solutions to everyday problems.

This course is for students who like to turn ideas into real, working products.

 Cost/Contribution:

Approximately $50.00 covers the cost of the components for the take home projects during the year. Students must supply their own stationery items and batteries.

 Resources:

Below is a list of resources you are expected to use in this class:

• Batteries: Own 9V and/or AA batteries or other depending on your project

• Headphones: At every class so you can watch the required videos for the tasks

• Working files: Any files you are working on must be available in class at all times

• E-Portfolio: Any format (Could be a notebook) but you need to keep a record of your learning including tips techniques you used in the process of developing your electronic systems

• Schoology: All course information and tasks will be distributed through Schoology and the Digital Technologies Website

• Tools: Although we supply some tools it may be better to have your set

• Multimeter: Multimeters are provided but you are encouraged to buy your own especially if electronics is your "thing"

• Components: Standard ones are provided but if you want to do something different you may need to buy your own

Your H drive

You should be familiar with your H Drive. 

Any work you do on a school computer that needs to be saved on the computer should be save in your H drive. This means you can access these files anywhere in the school and also at home. If you download images or other files they will be in your downloads and you either need to move the original (cut and paste as you can't drag and drop) or make sure when you open and save you save in your H drive.

File Management

• Do a tidy up of your H Drive, open up file explorer, Windows + E is the shortcut

• Create a 2025 folder and put all last years work in there (drag and drop) 

• Create your folders for 2026 e.g 10DGT

• within each folder you should have sub folders. To start with in DT you should have:

• • • Image Creation

• make sure you place your files in the relevant folder

• make sure you are naming your files appropriately to reflect what it it so you don't have a million 'untitled'

• know where your work is (especially on your own device)

Now go and do the same thing in your Google Drive!!!

Good folder and file management should be seen on your H drive, google drive and your own computer. In DT you will mainly save in your H drive as everything else is via schoology. For other subjects you may only use your google drive and so you should have a structure in place. 

HOT TIP: Use google drive to manage all your google suite files e.g docs, forms, sheets etc

Just like in Year 9, at the start of each lesson you'll do 5min of typing. A 5-minute typing warm-up at the start of each lesson is a small habit that pays off in a big way. Strong typing skills help you work faster, communicate more clearly, and keep your focus on the quality of your thinking rather than the effort of getting it onto the screen. It also supports assessment conditions where time matters, and it builds confidence for longer writing tasks across your subjects. Five minutes now saves you time all year, and makes your digital work feel a lot more fluent.

Join typing.com, log in using your google account. Your teacher will give you the class code. 

Linewize

If your internet is not working and you are connected to the network you may need to login to Linewize (sometimes you have logged in and the connection drops and you will need to do again)