Stage 1 Information Processing and Publications

Students apply practical skills and design principles to provide creative solutions to text-based communication tasks. They create both hard copy and electronic text-based publications, and evaluate the development process.

Students use technology to design and implement information processing solutions, and identify, choose, and use the appropriate computer hardware and software to process, manage and communicate information in a range of contexts.

CONCEPTS

Information Processing and Publishing is a 10 credit subject or a 20 credit subject at Stage 1. It consists of the following five topics:

·         Business Publishing

·         Digital Presentations

·         Digital Publishing

·         Personal Publishing

·         Data Input.

The Design Process

Students are encouraged to adopt an enterprising approach to design. This involves developing innovative and creative design solutions that can be used to communicate information or develop promotional options for products and services.

The use of a four-part design process is recommended: investigating, devising, producing, and evaluating. The process is not necessarily linear, and students are evaluating and critiquing throughout.

·         Investigating the Processing or Publishing Task

·         Devising or Planning to Complete the Task

·         Producing the Task

·         Evaluating the Process and the Product

Assessment

Assessment Type 1: Practical Skills                                                    (30%)

Assessment Type 2: Product and Documentation                         (40%)

Assessment Type 3: Issues Analysis                                                  (30%)