Year 8 Digital Technology
In year 8, we look to engage our students with a variety of exciting topics. We pride ourselves on offering opportunities to develop students’ computational thinking, ability to apply and evaluate information technology to solve problems as well as gaining practical experience of writing computer programs. Students will use both visual and text-based programming languages, complete activities that model business practice and develop skills in animation and video editing. In addition students will follow courses on Computer Science, Games programming and Web Design using code.org.
We look to embed IT skills and routines and develop concepts of computing, computational thinking and problem solving by covering the following topics:
01:Introduction to the Network, Classroom and, Code of conduct.
02: IDEA.org Digital enterprise award.
03: Pupil Centred Profile
04: CODE.ORG introduction to Computer Science
05: Spreadsheet model – planning a party
06: Animation Skills in Wick editor
07: Database Design
08: Health Survey and GDPR
09: Review of term 1 and iDEA Review
10: Web Graphics - Research and Banners
11: Eisteddfod Video Editing (Cyber Security)
12: CODE.ORG Animation and games
13: Photo Collage T-shirt design
14: Mail merge letter - Template and merge
15: Spreadsheet data analysis - Health survey
16: Animation challenge in Wick editor
17: Review of term 2 and iDEA Review
18: CODE.ORG HTML web page design
19: Interactive story writing
20: Programming Games project Microbit
21: Multimedia Web Site using Google sites: Smart Cities
22: Band Lab - Audio creation.
23: Review of term 3 and iDEA Review